But the members of one forum are seemingly preoccupied with the chance of much reduced photo opportunities and the eradication of their beloved naughty fields…

If we are talking about the same forum, I found it hilarious that posters there were complaining about a pikey family turning up at the naughty and ruining their kip the night prior. If you drag £1000s of pounds of camera equipment around with you, but duck out of paying the entrance fees and instead view the airshow from adjacent agricultural land to save a few bob and drag your extended family along and expect them to sleep in tents then you are pretty much a pikey yourself. :highly_amused:

And then they complain about poor airshow attendance and dull display line-ups… from the stubble field beyond the perimeter fence.

Forums are in decline generally. You have to give them your email address, think up a user name, fill out a captcha and then wait patiently for an email with a new link if your account is ‘approved’ by a moderator? What a convoluted workflow, when you are competing with Facebook, Twitter et al for members and content.

This forum seems somewhat infamous. I’ve stumbled upon posts on other websites from ex members. There must be a reason so many valued posters have left over the years! Perhaps we should take a look at who is left. 😎

The Venoms went to Ireland and are in external store. I don’t see a good future for them.

I thought they were sold for parts etc? Did they all end up in Shannon?

I don’t understand why some endlessly fantasise about what may go on in prison showers.

It seems that the railway equivalent of ‘The Naughty Field’ is to simply wander onto the tracks when a noteworthy locomotive approaches:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35661445

As for the debacle about the chord surely an easy fix build a bridge instead of severing the line not rocket science is it?

Stephenson’s?

Now calling himself Robert Fitzgerald from New Jersey on Hyperscale! Same post different name

Why does his posts bother folk so much?

Look at it now – superficially if you like – complete with female ‘facilitators’ with voluminous skirts and dangling earings.

I’m too young to understand this stereotype. I thought the big moral dilemma of the ’80s was women beginning to wear trousers in the workplace? When were ‘voluminous skirts’ a source of contention?