I’m having a look at the MAM site on Google Earth. There appears to be a bit of a scrap yard to the East of the site. The Phantom is visible against the Northern perimeter wall, next to a Vampire(?) minus tail (??). There seems to be a lot of stuff slowly disappearing into the undergrowth as you track East of the Phantom. Is this still the case? Also, who owns the two Canberras over next to the Shackleton to the West of the museum? There is a red C47 as well. Is this all part of the museum?

Hopefully the French will deal with this accordingly. Treading tired ground here, but if you don’t like a country’s attitude towards free speech then leave that country. This is common sense.

My father gave me a copy of The Spitfire Story by Alfred Price, and I picked up a copy of German Aircraft of World War 2 in colour by Kenneth Munson.

Another air frame languishing in the Weeks collection as ‘being restored to airworthy condition’ I take it? What a waste!

Mental illness ? Really ? Well, that must be correct because the professionals say it is.

I like to think of it as more an attitude – an attitude of mental self image and indulgence.

Spoken like somebody with zero medical credentials. You honestly think eating disorders are the result of an ‘attitude’ of mental self image and indulgence? Lord help us all.

I admire the tenacious attitude of stubborn old right whingers like yourself; where you regard professionals as being wrong because they express views that weren’t understood held 50+ years ago when you were receiving an education. For this reason you value your gut reaction over that of people who have actually carried out research in the field and actually have an education in the field. Is this a foregone conclusion of getting old? At what point do you stop learning and start to fall back on what you trust to be true, even in the shakiest of circumstances? Is there a clear line in the sand or a gradual fade between the two? You become an expert in every field based purely on conjecture and gut feeling? Sounds excellent, though it is a shame that nobody listens to old farts like yourself.

I don’t see why a forum as small and as niche as this one requires anything above minimal moderation. Was this forum much busier in the past? Seems like there is fewer than twenty unique users on here on any given day. :confused:

Time for a stupid question; can you get those three points added back, or do they reappear after a set length of time? Can you get a back to a clean licence eventually? The idea of sitting in a portakabin for hours with a group of middle aged ‘naughty boys’, car park brimming with BMWs of various types, being shown endless Powerpoint slides on stuff I already know, with a bit of morality-thru-shock-factor thrown in, does not sound like fun to me.

A firearm is a tool…

By that logic all joiners should be proudly displaying their Black & Deckers when they go out at night. Yes, at the most basic and/or academic level you can argue that a firearm is a tool, but to the crowd in your original link I think it means an awful lot more than that.

As for chefs, the best ones do tend to err on the corpulent. :eagerness: