Without wanting to put words in his mouth or necessarily speaking on Moggy’s behalf, I wonder if he’s allowed himself a bit of irony here–seeing as Labour are bleating about wanting an independent enquiry.
Who knows what it may unearth?–Who knew??–Who turned a blind eye???
And before you think it, say it, or write it.
I hate Blair, Brown, Nu-Labour–nearly as much as the present bunch of public school educated w*nkers.
So I’m not making a party political point.
A.
Yes, may well be a different person.
It was the mention of the scouts that made me wonder–and the badge too.
I tell you what I think. I think Dan Buster had guts even then, when he wrote that.
If he’s out there somewhere, I hope maybe in some small way, he feels vindicated.
Funnily enough, of all the millions of threads that I’ve read and the hundreds where I’ve put the boot in on this forum, that one stayed with me.
He only posted 39 times, and non of them had much of an aviation feel–then he went.
I wish him well.
Yes, may well be a different person.
It was the mention of the scouts that made me wonder–and the badge too.
I tell you what I think. I think Dan Buster had guts even then, when he wrote that.
If he’s out there somewhere, I hope maybe in some small way, he feels vindicated.
Funnily enough, of all the millions of threads that I’ve read and the hundreds where I’ve put the boot in on this forum, that one stayed with me.
He only posted 39 times, and non of them had much of an aviation feel–then he went.
I wish him well.
Interestingly after what Dan Buster had to say.
I wonder if he’s one and the same with this bloke.
A.
Interestingly after what Dan Buster had to say.
I wonder if he’s one and the same with this bloke.
A.
I’m glad I’m getting back there now, even if just as an airshow visitor.
And I’m glad you’re back, even if I did nearly run you over with the quad the other Saturday.
My current personal project is identifying and learning about the 200 names inscribed on the wall of my local Church. All lost in the Great War, from all three Services and from a huge array of different, individual units. I’ve positively identified all but seven so far but they will come in time. The task now is to put flesh on the bones of people who have been dead for a minimum of 92 years and with no-one now in living memory I expect it to be a bit of a challenge. But what else am I going to do with my time?
And I trust you’ll be publishing this somewhere when complete.
:):confused::)
Andy
I’m glad I’m getting back there now, even if just as an airshow visitor.
And I’m glad you’re back, even if I did nearly run you over with the quad the other Saturday.
My current personal project is identifying and learning about the 200 names inscribed on the wall of my local Church. All lost in the Great War, from all three Services and from a huge array of different, individual units. I’ve positively identified all but seven so far but they will come in time. The task now is to put flesh on the bones of people who have been dead for a minimum of 92 years and with no-one now in living memory I expect it to be a bit of a challenge. But what else am I going to do with my time?
And I trust you’ll be publishing this somewhere when complete.
:):confused::)
Andy
Good News–excellent stuff.
Good News–excellent stuff.
One day, probably many years from now, I will be able to bring my currently derelict ’26 Model 9 Sunbeam to an event at Old Warden.
You’re a lucky man.
I’m very fond of old ‘Beams’.
If you got her going she’d be eligible for the Banbury run.
visit OW anytime and I’ll happily chat.
Jim.
Where you live you could build a lighthouse in your garden and the ships in The Wash would see it..!
Isn’t there an old lighthouse near Sutton Bridge..?
Andy
One day, probably many years from now, I will be able to bring my currently derelict ’26 Model 9 Sunbeam to an event at Old Warden.
You’re a lucky man.
I’m very fond of old ‘Beams’.
If you got her going she’d be eligible for the Banbury run.
visit OW anytime and I’ll happily chat.
Jim.
Where you live you could build a lighthouse in your garden and the ships in The Wash would see it..!
Isn’t there an old lighthouse near Sutton Bridge..?
Andy
Hi John.
Yes, the fat middle aged bloke in the pictures is me.
It’s both a great joy and a great honour to be able to ride/drive the vehicles.
Yesterday there was a meeting of vintage Rolls Royce cars and owners at the collection and for no other reason than purely entertainment (theirs–and a little of mine) I rode the Triumph around for a while.
I soon had the usual small crowd around me whenever I stopped.
It’s always wise to have one’s facts straight about the machine you’re riding because the depth of knowledge about ancient machines that some members of the public have is staggering.
Old motorbikes are always a great opener for conversations.
People love to talk and it seems to me that there’s a wealth of really good knowledge just wasting away with the older generation–outside the efforts of places like the collection, no one is recording it or seemingly caring much about it.
Hi John.
Yes, the fat middle aged bloke in the pictures is me.
It’s both a great joy and a great honour to be able to ride/drive the vehicles.
Yesterday there was a meeting of vintage Rolls Royce cars and owners at the collection and for no other reason than purely entertainment (theirs–and a little of mine) I rode the Triumph around for a while.
I soon had the usual small crowd around me whenever I stopped.
It’s always wise to have one’s facts straight about the machine you’re riding because the depth of knowledge about ancient machines that some members of the public have is staggering.
Old motorbikes are always a great opener for conversations.
People love to talk and it seems to me that there’s a wealth of really good knowledge just wasting away with the older generation–outside the efforts of places like the collection, no one is recording it or seemingly caring much about it.
Andy Jones has made some chilling points. Perhaps he’s right and these are the new ‘good old days.’ Then again, perhaps this is just all a sign of far worse to come. Like others, I think the revelations, repercussions and recriminations have hardly begun.
Well Kev, I hope not.
I do like you think that much else of a very unsavoury nature will come out.
However, it may be somwhat cathartic for society as a whole to realise a few things–and perhaps how things really are.
I do think that for too long, too many people in positions of power have easily been able to abuse the system, whether it be sexually or financially or in some other way.
The one common denominator being that the ‘little people’ on the bottom of the heap got screwed–one way or another.
I once read in a book, written no doubt by some clever b*stard (well, much cleverer than me anyway), that the original seed of doubt planted in the British public mind about the veracity of many of their so called masters claims on power and their right to exercise it was placed there in that long ago Summer of 1916, when ordinary folk were dieing in droves to protect an elite minority and their vested financial interests.
I don’t think it’s too outlandish to claim that the process of doubting what we are led to believe, has been ongoing ever since.
Perhaps we’ll live long enough to see where it leads–eventually.
A.
Andy Jones has made some chilling points. Perhaps he’s right and these are the new ‘good old days.’ Then again, perhaps this is just all a sign of far worse to come. Like others, I think the revelations, repercussions and recriminations have hardly begun.
Well Kev, I hope not.
I do like you think that much else of a very unsavoury nature will come out.
However, it may be somwhat cathartic for society as a whole to realise a few things–and perhaps how things really are.
I do think that for too long, too many people in positions of power have easily been able to abuse the system, whether it be sexually or financially or in some other way.
The one common denominator being that the ‘little people’ on the bottom of the heap got screwed–one way or another.
I once read in a book, written no doubt by some clever b*stard (well, much cleverer than me anyway), that the original seed of doubt planted in the British public mind about the veracity of many of their so called masters claims on power and their right to exercise it was placed there in that long ago Summer of 1916, when ordinary folk were dieing in droves to protect an elite minority and their vested financial interests.
I don’t think it’s too outlandish to claim that the process of doubting what we are led to believe, has been ongoing ever since.
Perhaps we’ll live long enough to see where it leads–eventually.
A.