introduction

thatgooner · Post by **thatgooner** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:36 pm

hey, just thought i'd introduce myself!
names james,
live in s.e. england,
im in the canon club, an im a regular at the grove.
lookin forward to chattin.
TG

Post by **REB** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:37 pm

welcom 2 the forum mate,, enjoy the craic here

ARSENAL4EVER · Post by **ARSENAL4EVER** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:39 pm

hi and massive warm welcome

stats · Post by **stats** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:14 pm

Watcha matey

All_Arsenal_1886 · Post by **All_Arsenal_1886** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:23 pm

Hi and wellcome to thatGooner, enjoy the forum mate

Ben-gooner14 · Post by **Ben-gooner14** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 8:29 pm

Welcome abord mate.

Chunky The Gooner · Post by **Chunky The Gooner** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:47 pm

Hello James ,

You get a mixed bunch on here! But its a laugh and as I say to everybody who joins even though we may have the odd debate and arguement in the end we all want the same thing which is the best for Arsenal !

Chunky

All_Arsenal_1886 · Post by **All_Arsenal_1886** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:50 pm

Chunky The Gooner wrote:Hello James ,

You get a mixed bunch on here! But its a laugh and as I say to everybody who joins even though we may have the odd debate and arguement in the end we all want the same thing which is the best for Arsenal !

Chunky

Hello James

And i 2nd that Chunky

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:46 am

Hi mate - welcome aboard!

When you say you're in The Cannon Club, do you mean the boozer across from The Gunners? I used to drink in there on match days until we moved up to The Rocket.

Is Andy and his missus still running the place? Had some blinding nights in there!!

Anyway, enjoy the craic!!

Galasso · Post by **Galasso** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:02 am

DB10GOONER wrote:Hi mate - welcome aboard!

When you say you're in The Cannon Club, do you mean the boozer across from The Gunners? I used to drink in there on match days until we moved up to The Rocket.

Is Andy and his missus still running the place? Had some blinding nights in there!!

Anyway, enjoy the craic!!

I assume he means - Cannon Club - 16 to 18 year old membership scheme at Arsenal. Ddin't know this was still going. I was a member and use to get in for Â£2.50 or Â£3!

If he means boozer, then I'll buy you a drink of your choice DB10 (as long as you fly me over to Dublin!)

Of course, I can't buy a drink for "thatgooner" because it looks like he is under age!

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:12 am

Galasso wrote: If he means boozer, then I'll buy you a drink of your choice DB10 (as long as you fly me over to Dublin!)

I think you're confusing me with the millionaire DB10GOONER.

Easy mistake to make, Galasso...

Galasso · Post by **Galasso** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:23 am

DB10GOONER wrote:
Galasso wrote: If he means boozer, then I'll buy you a drink of your choice DB10 (as long as you fly me over to Dublin!)

I think you're confusing me with the millionaire DB10GOONER.

Easy mistake to make, Galasso...

Nice one...

Which leads to another question...do you take the boat over to watch the Arsenal because you also, in honour of the great man, have a fear of flying??

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:52 pm

Galasso wrote:
DB10GOONER wrote:
Galasso wrote: If he means boozer, then I'll buy you a drink of your choice DB10 (as long as you fly me over to Dublin!)

I think you're confusing me with the millionaire DB10GOONER.

Easy mistake to make, Galasso...

Nice one...

Which leads to another question...do you take the boat over to watch the Arsenal because you also, in honour of the great man, have a fear of flying??

Ha!

No way - the whole Socio-economic and culteral ramifications of being an Irishman taking the boat to England is too much!!!!

I actually did take the boat and coach to my first match in 1991 for financial reasons. 8 hours sober on a coach full of drunk, bitter, angry people is not fun!!

My younger bro and myself made the trip and it was awful. It became like a pilgrimage or something.

NEVER again.

I've flown all over the world since childhood and always enjoyed it, but I'm not a good flier any more.

I had a bad experience flying out of Brussels the afternoon after the BarcaWhores

robbed us in Paris. So, while I used to moan about DB10 not flying, I now fully understand why he doesn't

. This next bit is the story of my nightmare flight so just skip it if you want...

On take off, the Ryanair (no surprise there, then

) plane suddenly started making weird grinding noises at about 3000 feet and then started descending pretty damned quickly....towards the empty fields below

. The pilot got on the mic and said something like "Crew position one!" or "Crew to first positions!" and an air hostess went running up the ailse like her ass was on fire, and with a look of absolute terror on her face. People were screaming and crying.

My stomach was in my mouth and I've never been so afraid in my whole life. Real, honest, pure fear. I honestly thought, this is it, I'm gonna die on this poxy f*cking plane. It was like in the movies too; everything went into slow motion and my senses felt really heightened. It was bizarre. And then the fear just went and I felt just complete and utter sadness that I'd never see my wife and kids again. I just sat there staring out the window as the fields rushed up to meet us and I kept thinking "Aw, f*ck this. F*ck this, man - this ain't right."

And then there was a sudden lurch and we started to ascend again and the grinding noise was gone. The stunned silence on that plane was total. The captain got on his mic again and (in a truly mad, surreal Dutch accent) said "Er, ladiesh and gentlemensh, yah, we had a little bit of the excitementsh there. But we are fine and will be ashending to 34000 feetsh. Yah, for shure. Thank yoush for flying with the Ryanairsh."

The air hostess came walking back down the aisle and she looked sick. I asked her how close we had just come and she shook her head and walked by. When she came round with the drinks her hands were shaking like a nokia up Cashley's bung hole. I promptly ordered 8 of those vodka baggies and two cokes and whammed those bad boys down in two quadruple vodkas. Followed by five beers and another quadruple vodka just before landing.

And I was topping up - I'd been on the batter more or less solidly since one pm the day before and had only stopped drinking at 8am that morning...

We hit some of the worst turblance I've ever experienced all the way home too. The plane was all over the place on final approach and just slammed into the runway. I was goodly p*ssed and just sat there, MP3 on full volume, beer and vodka in hand, and I didn't give a sh*t what happened anymore, if we were going out, I was going listening to some full on Metallica and drunk as a monkey with a drink problem, a workable grasp of the English language and unlimited funds...

I haven't flown sober since...

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:51 pm

WOAH!!! WHAT A FANTASTIC - AND A LITTLE FRIGHTENING - STORY DB10GOONER!!

HAVE TO ADMIT, RATHER IT HAPPENED TO YOU THAN TO ME MATEY!!

I DON'T THINK MY TICKER WOULD HAVE STOOD UP TO SUCH A HORRIFYING EXPERIENCE AS WELL AS YOURS DID!!

READING YOUR POST, I FELT LIKE I WAS ALMOST ON THAT PLANE WITH YOU AND EXPERIENCING THE SAME THINGS!!

(PITY THEY HAVEN'T GOT AN EMOTION FOR 'SHITTING YOUR SELF!

) AS FOR THE DUTCH PILOT - WHAT A HERO!!

BY THE WAY, DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW THE DUTCH MANAGE TO GIVE THE APPEARANCE OF BEING SO COOL ALL THE TIME? IT CAN'T JUST BE DOWN TO THE DRUGS, SURELY?

Post by **Belfast Boy** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:52 pm

'sup youngster