Why do we have rank 5 registered users with 0 posts or very few posts! I think that only the duration of your membership is important for this. I became a rank 4 registered user exactly one year after joining this site.
So I think Texan Tomcat will be a rank 4 registered user tomorrow!

I think it is silly that members with 0 posts (and so didn’t participate on this board and may not even have visited this place for more than once) also can get the highest rank. :rolleyes:

What do you guys think?

J.V.

Oh I agree Stieglitz – it’s absolutely dreadful – demeans the whole meaning of reputation. Why when I was a young gnome in Yorkshire I had to earn my reputation – lick roads …

Wow – man I’d love to see one of those suckers. Anyone got any history on that aircraft?

dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Don
while I’m far from being a John Terraine type Haig apologist. What you say about infantry tactics isn’t strictly true in the context of the Commonwealth forces. I do admit that the French army in 1914 had a philosophy of the bayonet would always prevail but that didn’t survive too long.
The volunteer ‘New Army’ of 1916 used fatally flawed tactics on the Somme in 1916 but this was because it was perceived by GHQ that they were not sufficiently trained to work in any other way.
By the end of 1917 the Commonwealth armies were becoming a fully integrated force combining artillery, infantry, armour and air power.
It worked quite well in the last months of the war.
Sadly it was all forgotten between the wars.

Discuss???
Andy

Andy

I was of course taking the p!ss with my cunning plan remark – I think you are right. It seems to me in my post-modern perspective :rolleyes: that in some way the value of a human life was cheaper then. “Over the top lads.” And not a hell of a lot better in WWII. “5% loss rate tonight sir?, that’d be pretty good?” Or the Dams raid!

At school I studied Wilfred Owen …

Now of course we try ever so hard to be more careful, with our cruise missiles and laser guided bombs and heaven forbid (and not stated lightly), 767s and suicide bombers; all are much more accurate.

But does this actually mean we value human life more? Perhaps it’s just a trend to more accurate targeting and efficiencies of destruction.

That Spit HAS to be some modeller’s subject – where’s Snapper’s mate?

Sounds reasonable to me. Issue is the rental price of a garage. I’d expect “mates rates” to rule so if you’re getting it for say half price or less it’s a win-win deal all round. Only issue with doing any sort of transaction with a friend is that you don’t want to argue about it later. I would recommend the briefest of notes (a contract) that agrees (a) that you WILL do the door fix and (b) that the garage is yours for a defined period – not a “few months”. NIKE

I actually meant it’s rather silly to accuse the Spanish of being disinterested in their referendum when US Presidential voters care even less – but you’re right Sauron, the point I made is that an unbiased approach in these matters is appropriate.

And perhaps there is a wider point here – something along the lines of democratic apathy – often enough democratic voters don’t value their right to vote enough to exercise it. So is it worth fighting for? I guess. It’s one of those things we value if it’s taken away, like a child with a toy.

No idea Dave – an interesting bit of info.

Wow – very well done. Can’t wait till the film’s out on DVD (LOL :p )
And if you’ve no idea what I’m going on about, you haven’t read that other film thread :rolleyes: