MeddleI didn’t know Short Brothers built Spitfires. :stupid:
MeddleVery sad to hear. Classic FM were playing some of his compositions.
I cannot help but be reminded of Private Eye’s Malgorithms section when I visited the link in the first post. Without clicking on anything I was taken to a full page video advertising some sort of Honda bizjet. Poor timing perhaps?
MeddleA Navy Sea King passed by close Edinburgh Airport whilst I was at the Highland Show on Sunday, 21/06.
There have also been several twin-engined aerial survey aircraft over Edinburgh in the last week.
Meddle“Parents are clueless narcissists” Discuss
Yes. Parents beyond a certain social strata seem to, in my opinion, treat children as an interesting project in need of some project management, and more simply as a flagpole from which to broadcast their own vicarious achievements. I think this starts with parents that detail their infant child’s every bowel movement on Facebook. I encounter many parents who imagine that I am little more than an extra in a film about their child’s life, as said child barges in front of me, or runs into me on a bicycle, or generally cannot sit still and ruins an otherwise peaceful meal for myself and my partner. The Gaelic school down the road from me seems to attract these ‘Sanctimommies’ whose precocious brats have their every need and want catered to. Ironically something like 33% of the pupils at this school have English parents… make of that what you will.
What do you mean your child doesn’t study Italian on Monday evening, go to Jiu jitsu on Tuesday, Yoga on Wednesday, Rugby on Thursday and runs a half marathon before breakfast on Friday? Do you even love your child?
At the same time the world has to be endlessly sanitised because, god forbid, these children don’t win everything they take part in or happen to hurt themselves doing something stupid and reckless. When I hear about parents moving house to wangle their kids into the catchment area of a ‘better’ school (John Green would remind us that they are all crap) you do wonder if it is because the parents love that child or just wish to get a higher scoring Top Trumps kiddo. It used to be rare for parents to be as readily involved with their child’s progress as a human being, but I’ve heard in recent years of parents phoning up universities to complain about their child’s marks and to insist on sitting in on job interviews their child is undertaking. My father has encountered the latter in person, and that child (age 23) never got the job. In my workplace I heard about the mother of an unsuccessful candidate phoning to ask for feedback (which they didn’t get) and then bitterly complain about my place of work discriminating against her daughter. In turn the daughter had submitted a rambling 20+ page covering letter detailing everything they had done from infancy onward (and perhaps was written by the mother).
Meddle“Parents are clueless narcissists” Discuss
Yes. Parents beyond a certain social strata seem to, in my opinion, treat children as an interesting project in need of some project management, and more simply as a flagpole from which to broadcast their own vicarious achievements. I think this starts with parents that detail their infant child’s every bowel movement on Facebook. I encounter many parents who imagine that I am little more than an extra in a film about their child’s life, as said child barges in front of me, or runs into me on a bicycle, or generally cannot sit still and ruins an otherwise peaceful meal for myself and my partner. The Gaelic school down the road from me seems to attract these ‘Sanctimommies’ whose precocious brats have their every need and want catered to. Ironically something like 33% of the pupils at this school have English parents… make of that what you will.
What do you mean your child doesn’t study Italian on Monday evening, go to Jiu jitsu on Tuesday, Yoga on Wednesday, Rugby on Thursday and runs a half marathon before breakfast on Friday? Do you even love your child?
At the same time the world has to be endlessly sanitised because, god forbid, these children don’t win everything they take part in or happen to hurt themselves doing something stupid and reckless. When I hear about parents moving house to wangle their kids into the catchment area of a ‘better’ school (John Green would remind us that they are all crap) you do wonder if it is because the parents love that child or just wish to get a higher scoring Top Trumps kiddo. It used to be rare for parents to be as readily involved with their child’s progress as a human being, but I’ve heard in recent years of parents phoning up universities to complain about their child’s marks and to insist on sitting in on job interviews their child is undertaking. My father has encountered the latter in person, and that child (age 23) never got the job. In my workplace I heard about the mother of an unsuccessful candidate phoning to ask for feedback (which they didn’t get) and then bitterly complain about my place of work discriminating against her daughter. In turn the daughter had submitted a rambling 20+ page covering letter detailing everything they had done from infancy onward (and perhaps was written by the mother).
MeddleSome of the best tilt-shift I’ve ever seen. I especially like shots 1, 3, 4 and 8. The lighting in the first shot makes it look like a small model lit from a low angle.
MeddleSome of the best tilt-shift I’ve ever seen. I especially like shots 1, 3, 4 and 8. The lighting in the first shot makes it look like a small model lit from a low angle.
MeddleI fear you have got the wrong end of the stick there Meddle. It never was intended as a ‘museum’ in itself as such, but an outstation of the Science Museum for large object storage. It was opened up for public viewing on a couple of weekends each year, in the same way that the Cobham Hall at Yeovilton and MBCC at Cosford are. It should not, therefore, be judged by the same curatorial standards as major collections open all year round.
This much I do understand, hence the use of ‘museum’ in quotation mars The Museum of Scotland has a similar, though much smaller, store down in Granton in Edinburgh. I’ve tried to access it in the past, and been told I have to first specify the objects I wish to see and then be lead directly to them in the stores, having been buzzed in. They used to be open on ‘Doors Open Day’ and similar events, from what I’ve heard.
The ropes and information boards at Wroughton suggest that it fancies itself as a museum at least part of the time. It hardly appears to be a climatically controlled and perfectly sealed storage facility. It is a shame that such an interesting collection is kept nominally off limits. It rather begs the question why bother storing them?
MeddleI’ve not visited Wroughton, so I can only comment based on what I see online. This format of museum is, sadly, well out of fashion in this day and age. I base this opinion on the direction the Museum of Scotland, and to a lesser extent East Fortune, as gone as of late (museums in London appear to have gone down this route earlier). From the images I see it looks like nothing more than a large dimly lit shed with many exhibits crammed in with minimal interpretation. Everything is studiously roped off and its rural location ensures it isn’t something you would just happen to stumble across unless you sought it out, though it is at least on a bus route apparently.
All of this is bad for business really. The reported water ingress makes it sound even more dismal. I would personally love to see this collection in person, but looking at it objectively it is quite clearly a boring museum to all but a relatively select few. As I’ve said before, if your only draw is men of a certain age (I’m an outlier in this regard) and you can only afford to keep a skeleton staff to watch over a gargantuan collection across several gargantuan buildings then you can see why it might be going wrong.
The ‘museum’ doesn’t have any presence on Trip Advisor, Google hasn’t clocked any reviews and even the sympathetic ‘Aeroflight’ page gives it a mere 3 out of 5 stars. I would be somewhat concerned about the long term welfare of the contents rather than postulate endlessly bitter ‘what if’ scenarios about the museum’s leadership. Health and Safety and Security might be contributing factors here, I agree. I imagine there is a lot of metal for people to steal from the site, and the prospect of a leaky hangar slowly crumbling would probably raise a few eyebrows as well. You need only look at the smaller, better staffed museums that have had items stolen in the last year. I’m not sure about political correctness in this context. Who would be offended by a collection of random vehicles exactly? Cyclists? Austerity is probably the biggest single cause here, but then again what does the museum actually offer? A chance to view a Connie in a dingy hangar whilst water drips around you? It is a store, not a proper museum, and you can see why it is slowly being run into the ground. To save costs you cut staff, so the exhibits suffer. You then limit access to the site and therefore gather less money. You then cannot afford the repair bill when the roof starts leaking, which in turn means you have to limit access further. You then have to justify the importance of this museum back to the same public you exclude, which in this day and age means very little.
MeddleAs far as I can make out if it is not immediately obvious what the PC brigade are offended by then it’s their fault not mine.
The phrase ‘PC Brigade’ suggests that it is a somewhat homogenised group of people. Again I think this oversimplifies it slightly. In many cases ‘PC Brigade’ tends to mean nothing more than ‘somebody with an opinion I dislike whose stance I cannot be bothered to research but whose beliefs superficially reinforce my own jaded opinions on subject matter X’.
MeddleAs far as I can make out if it is not immediately obvious what the PC brigade are offended by then it’s their fault not mine.
The phrase ‘PC Brigade’ suggests that it is a somewhat homogenised group of people. Again I think this oversimplifies it slightly. In many cases ‘PC Brigade’ tends to mean nothing more than ‘somebody with an opinion I dislike whose stance I cannot be bothered to research but whose beliefs superficially reinforce my own jaded opinions on subject matter X’.
MeddleI almost thought I was in Delhi,they were all Asians!!
I would have asked for my money back.
MeddleI almost thought I was in Delhi,they were all Asians!!
I would have asked for my money back.
MeddleThe present Mrs. G…
How many past Mrs Greens are we talking about here? Five? Six?
MeddleThe present Mrs. G…
How many past Mrs Greens are we talking about here? Five? Six?
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