No Mr T, I fear he is real and genuine.
Look at his history and read his posts elsewhere.

While I’m very sorry for the small children killed and the others too, my view is this.
If you’re daft enough to permit laws where you can buy an assault rifle in a corner shop, tolerate an education system where someone like the contributor above can call himself educated and still reckon that you’re a superpower–then you deserve everything you get.

I like America, I know some of them and have been there much in the past, but come on.
The second amendment was framed back in 1700 & something.
Do you really think this women (the boy’s Mother) really needed to own an assault rifle because she might called when they raise a state militia..?

In the same way, I keep a man trap and some manacles, in case one of my slaves tries to escape and I always keep some handy kindling in the house in case the five year old boy I employ to sweep the chimneys gets stuck up there and I need to shift him.

It’s archaic crap.

Andy.

Al–Thanks.
That was quite wonderful.
Andy

Adrian, yes, that’s me.
I must say I do look a bit severe in that picture.
Andy

Might I suggest a coathanger inserted into the gob (pointing the right way, of course) may allow your face to assume the “smile” position.

I can smile. it’s just that I tend towards smiling at what others find odd–or in perhaps bad taste.

On an associated point, the recent SVAS news item refers to progress with the Sopwith Camel reproduction and the winding down of the Northern Aeroplane Workshop, responsible for the M.1c and Triplane reproductions in the Collection, as well as the Camel.
I think it only right that we collectively pay tribute to, and thank them for, what they have achieved, don’t you?

Jeepman.
I’m not sure that Robert or Trevor (or any of the Yorks contingent) frequent this site but I’ll pass on your tribute when I next see them.

It’ll be a while but I don’t think you’ll be dissapointed when the Wildcat is eventually completed to Shuttleworth standards.

As an aside, those of us who are working quite hard to raise the profile of the vehicle collection at Old Warden will be there on the 30th to answer questions and smile sweetly.

Andy.

Why is humanity so obsessed with extinction events?

Probably because life is so sh*t here.
It’s something mildly diverting to look forward to.

Andy, I will ignore the unnecessary ‘Get over yourself’ bit as the rest was well argued.

Yes, sorry, I was a bit ‘to the point’.

However, being a regular advertiser in specialist magazines myself, I know how greedy they are for advertising revenue.

The readership barely enters into it.

Andy

A Russian astrophysicist has theorised that the solar system is entering an area of space with a much higher energetic level and this will cause the sun to start producing huge sun-spots (promenences) which might cause our technology problems; maybe even rip away our planet’s radiation protection. This is the sort of predictable and repeatable disaster that could cause a regular planetary disruption, as predicted in the Long Count calendar. No sun spots so far though, in fact a dearth of them, surprisingly.

Do you think any of that will be sufficient to finally finish off X-factor, Strictly or Big Brother–or even television or the mass media in general..?
We can only live in hope I suppose.

Personally, I can’t wait, it’ll save buying presents and I hate December.
Sadly I suspect we’ll all be here in January.

Oh, and you can’t melt things down into gold–they were gold things already. The Dons just made the gold into bars, you can pack it into ship much more easily that way.