lmisbtnGiven dire economic conditions in Argentina, we might as well be debating equipping Ireland’s Air Force with F-22s.
3 Squadrons – FACT! :eagerness:
lmisbtnThe only surprise is that this didn’t happen a lot sooner – a prime target for the mindless, the ‘brain’-washed and the uninformed.
Can’t safely put a guard on it lest they themselves become the next target.
My answer – sculpt a monolithic airman large enough to cast a shadow over the Albert Hall and let these d*cks knock themselves out trying to put a dent in it.
lmisbtnPlease, if calories in > calories out, you gain weight. Yes, some people require more effort to burn calories, but you can’t tell me that even with a “clinical reason” if you ate nothing but salad, you’d get obese!
Yes many people are fat because they eat too much – or more likely exercise too little.
People with psychiatric ‘conditions’ such as alcoholism or depression can tend towards obesity as overindulging in food and/or drink goes hand in hand with their ‘clinical’ condition – good luck to the airline that starts discriminating against ‘valued’ customers who happen to have psychological disorders.
lmisbtnSounds like a minefield/unworkable – there’d have to be exemptions for pregnant women (or women claiming pregnancy – an obese former colleague told me she has used the ‘pregnant’ line to get on the planes first) and those with clinical reasons for their obesity.
Plus people have different frame sizes – I’m no Geoff Capes but I’m the same height as my mate and his frame is substantially less substantial than mine yet I’m not obese – his frame is that of a long distance runner (snappy).
And at 6’4″ I’m probably heavier than most 5’4″ people but don’t want to pay a tall tax so it would have to be done on Body mass index.
You can’t discriminate based on genetics – it’s been tried before and is generally frowned upon.
And I’m pretty sure that the first airline to start grilling pregnant or ‘pregnant’ women at the check-in counter is going to get some fairly bad press.
lmisbtnWell, I’d like to pop along if I’m in the country. Spent hours/days on those terraces back in the day – looking at Argosys (amongst others)… happy days.
Are tickets to be purchased in advance?
lmisbtnAnd drop-tank racers popular in the US after the war…
I learnt of them from a programme about Salt Flat racing on BBC2 the other night.
lmisbtnThe PC brigade certainly do take things too far but I am still surprised at what people say out loud in work (not the kind of joshing that was going on here but serious opinions)
Not entirely apposite but, in 2009 I worked in a Network Ops centre in Johannesburg… the nights were long, boring and (thanks to the aircon) very, very cold.
One night I was puzzled to see a gaggle of black South African co-workers huddled around a laptop laughing uncontrollably.
I wandered over to A. stretch my legs and B. find out what the cause of the uncontainable mirth was – and was gobsmacked to find them watching a DVD of ‘Mind your Language’.
(for those not in the know ‘MyL’ was a seventies British sitcom that pulled every racial and national stereotype out of the bag for humorous intent)
I liked the show as a kid – being 8 or 9 I was blissfully unaware that I was supposed to find it appalling & offensive.
Looking at it as an adult, I can see that the show has had it’s day and would not be commissioned now but I don’t find it any more offensive than the Carry-on movies or stand-up comedians having a go at ‘thieving’ Scousers (of which I am one) – in fact, the show poked fun at all of its characters as you all poked fun at each other in the office – no harm done and no offence taken – until someone else stuck their oar in.
It may offend some but it wasn’t made with that intent. I’m glad that it’s still enjoyed for what it is – by people of all colours and creeds – it’s one in the eye for the PC brigade.
Good luck with your proceedings.
lmisbtnThe PC brigade certainly do take things too far but I am still surprised at what people say out loud in work (not the kind of joshing that was going on here but serious opinions)
Not entirely apposite but, in 2009 I worked in a Network Ops centre in Johannesburg… the nights were long, boring and (thanks to the aircon) very, very cold.
One night I was puzzled to see a gaggle of black South African co-workers huddled around a laptop laughing uncontrollably.
I wandered over to A. stretch my legs and B. find out what the cause of the uncontainable mirth was – and was gobsmacked to find them watching a DVD of ‘Mind your Language’.
(for those not in the know ‘MyL’ was a seventies British sitcom that pulled every racial and national stereotype out of the bag for humorous intent)
I liked the show as a kid – being 8 or 9 I was blissfully unaware that I was supposed to find it appalling & offensive.
Looking at it as an adult, I can see that the show has had it’s day and would not be commissioned now but I don’t find it any more offensive than the Carry-on movies or stand-up comedians having a go at ‘thieving’ Scousers (of which I am one) – in fact, the show poked fun at all of its characters as you all poked fun at each other in the office – no harm done and no offence taken – until someone else stuck their oar in.
It may offend some but it wasn’t made with that intent. I’m glad that it’s still enjoyed for what it is – by people of all colours and creeds – it’s one in the eye for the PC brigade.
Good luck with your proceedings.
lmisbtnCompare the size of people.
61 is “small”.Actually a bit surprised myself, always imagined it a bit bigger.
What is also interesting, the only 2 twin-boomed allied aircraft in war next to each other!
People were generally smaller back then as well.
Interesting pic of a P-61 ‘ALCM Carrier’ here….
lmisbtnJust seen and read this thread, and without wanting to add to the sheetstorm I would say that I do not care for ‘closure’ either, but…….. having read and watched many veteran accounts of long ago events there still seem to be a lot of old soldiers (and their relatives) in need of ‘closure’ – just because there wasn’t a word for it 70 years ago doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.
I doubt many of these people can really put their nightmares to bed, but 9 times out of 10, visiting a marked grave certainly seems to bring them some comfort & understanding if not peace of mind. standing next to the cold, dead body of my Father certainly brought some comfort to me though I am still sad (he was ‘lucky’ enough to die of natural causes btw).
As for Brady, he’s far from unique. I think the capacity for inflicting hurt is in all of us ‘animals’ (we are animals). If I actually acted on half of the homicidal thoughts that drift into my head I’d probably be sharing a block with him – and quite a few PL referees would be pushing up the daisies!
What is beyond my comprehension is that people cross the threshold between everyday fantasy to the most grotesque of violations – the capacity to switch off the ‘civilised’ and just tear away at another human being – there but for the grace of (insert your belief system here) go I…
Is he to be pitied? No. Is he to be helped? Maybe, in as much as it’s possible. I think there is something missing – hugs, a gene, a hormone, guidance, discipline, upbringing, education – God knows what the trigger(s) really are but Phil Dowd is still alive and most people that I know (all hopefully) are not murderers.
The Bulger murder is another case in point – those lads killed JB before they even knew what life meant and I don’t think they were born killers – just had the potential like everyone else.
I do think life imprisonment is a cruel and unusual punishment. Are prisons for punishment, rehabilitation or both and what’s the line or tariff for each crime? When is enough enough – when does punishment become sadism? And when do you decide that someone just needs to be quietly taken round the back of the exercise yard and slotted?
If it’s just about the punishment, let’s take a leaf from Tojo’s book and cram them 15 to a room, starve them and have them out for 12 hours every day fixing broken Britain.
I think the death penalty can be less cruel in some cases but not something that should be used as a blanket punishment. I would think that habitual, repeat offenders with no conscience, who are at the top of their food chains and do it for profit (eg: mafia dons, drug dealers etc…) would be ideal candidates for loading into torpedo tubes & subsequent burial at sea. People like Brady – are just broken, really really broken – should society try and fix them on the basis that it may only be successful 1 time in a 1000??
Sorry, I don’t know the answers but just offing these nutbags or keeping them in a cage for sixty years doesn’t seem like it will deter others or fix society – which is surely, at least, part of the point behind the penal system?
lmisbtnJust seen and read this thread, and without wanting to add to the sheetstorm I would say that I do not care for ‘closure’ either, but…….. having read and watched many veteran accounts of long ago events there still seem to be a lot of old soldiers (and their relatives) in need of ‘closure’ – just because there wasn’t a word for it 70 years ago doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.
I doubt many of these people can really put their nightmares to bed, but 9 times out of 10, visiting a marked grave certainly seems to bring them some comfort & understanding if not peace of mind. standing next to the cold, dead body of my Father certainly brought some comfort to me though I am still sad (he was ‘lucky’ enough to die of natural causes btw).
As for Brady, he’s far from unique. I think the capacity for inflicting hurt is in all of us ‘animals’ (we are animals). If I actually acted on half of the homicidal thoughts that drift into my head I’d probably be sharing a block with him – and quite a few PL referees would be pushing up the daisies!
What is beyond my comprehension is that people cross the threshold between everyday fantasy to the most grotesque of violations – the capacity to switch off the ‘civilised’ and just tear away at another human being – there but for the grace of (insert your belief system here) go I…
Is he to be pitied? No. Is he to be helped? Maybe, in as much as it’s possible. I think there is something missing – hugs, a gene, a hormone, guidance, discipline, upbringing, education – God knows what the trigger(s) really are but Phil Dowd is still alive and most people that I know (all hopefully) are not murderers.
The Bulger murder is another case in point – those lads killed JB before they even knew what life meant and I don’t think they were born killers – just had the potential like everyone else.
I do think life imprisonment is a cruel and unusual punishment. Are prisons for punishment, rehabilitation or both and what’s the line or tariff for each crime? When is enough enough – when does punishment become sadism? And when do you decide that someone just needs to be quietly taken round the back of the exercise yard and slotted?
If it’s just about the punishment, let’s take a leaf from Tojo’s book and cram them 15 to a room, starve them and have them out for 12 hours every day fixing broken Britain.
I think the death penalty can be less cruel in some cases but not something that should be used as a blanket punishment. I would think that habitual, repeat offenders with no conscience, who are at the top of their food chains and do it for profit (eg: mafia dons, drug dealers etc…) would be ideal candidates for loading into torpedo tubes & subsequent burial at sea. People like Brady – are just broken, really really broken – should society try and fix them on the basis that it may only be successful 1 time in a 1000??
Sorry, I don’t know the answers but just offing these nutbags or keeping them in a cage for sixty years doesn’t seem like it will deter others or fix society – which is surely, at least, part of the point behind the penal system?
lmisbtnSurely the validity of VTOL was proven in the Falklands?
The Harriers could, and did, operate in weather which would have kept conventional carrier aircraft chained to the decks.
lmisbtnNot totally up to speed with the value of models but I really think someone got a bargain here, think about it, this has to be a one off and probably no other like this exsists
John.
Hate to say this, but I think the buyer paid well over the asking price. I believe this is a common item, they’ve been lingering around on ebay for a good few years at this point – and available from several different sellers. I also believe they’re modern-made – wonder how many have actually been sold..
There also appears to be a Trimotor, a Ju-52 & Clipper from the same manufacturer…
lmisbtnLooks more a scheme for Gulf Air to me… :confused:
About as interesting to me as the Olympics themselves – bah, humbug etc…
lmisbtnIn the vastness of the New Guinea Jungle, it would not be unusual for the local people not to know every nook and cranny within their local area. We have seen things in there that the local people have not seen because we have been to areas that they have never been. They did not know of a 150 foot waterfall for instance. They did not know of some species of animals for instance, which we think are “new”. A frog with claws on its digits for one (which I am told by an academic ‘learned’ expert on frogs is, “…..an impossibility”, yet it exists in an old volcano), a 12-inch tail-less “glider” mammal, a 9-inch mollusc which is totally transparent except for its’ organs and a 7-8 foot long variety of snake which appears to be a very large tree snake with a bright yellow colour around it’s mouth and a pale electric blue body. None of these things have been seen by the local people.
(Off Topic)
Cool – and no doubt worth an expedition in themselves! Got any pics?
Sign In
