Sorry guys, I should have used more smileys. I don't actually have any tattoos, and I'm expecting depot to be bloody hard.

Banch wrote:You would be funny if I thought for one minute that you were gen!!

How do you mean?

There was a lad in depot who had a tattoo saying - "Pain is the feeling of weakness leaving the body" :o


He failed. :lol:

What a nobber!

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