So much fuss – anyone would think humans were an endangered species…

What always amazes me with these domestic massacres is how many individuals die or are injured given the huge number of rounds usually expended…

Funny how many firms were anxious to have ‘Investors in People’ accreditation, when the real intention was to simply abandon any pretence of caring for staff or treating them with even a token amount of respect.
Also, ‘Champion’ is a title which makes me squirm. It’s usually foisted on some poor unsuspecting bod who has to take on a bigger workload and much more responsibility for little or no increase in pay…

“we have to all get on board with this new idea”
“there’s no ‘I’ in team”
“you will have to be flexible”
“you need to see the big picture”
“right-sizing exercise” (redundancies…)
“hit the ground running”
“touching base”

Happy birthday Jim!
Keep ruffling those self-righteous moderators…:cool:

Since you specifically mention military aviation, Germany was usually at the forefront of new technology in both World Wars.
In the first, they introduced the prop-synchronised machine gun, and the first monoplane fighter.
In WW2 they were the first to introduce jets, intercontinental ballistic missiles, smart bombs, and cruise missiles, and some of their designs were years ahead of the allies, to the extent a lot of their captured technology and experimental work was put to use in the Korean and Cold Wars.
This was the case in the fields of submarines and battle tanks too.
In contrast, the USA contributed very little to new military aviation technology until the 1950s…

The primary role of any government should be to cater for the needs of its own people first, and by that I’m not speaking about economic immigrants or asylum seekers. If we can’t afford to look after our own sick and elderly, then why should the UK taxpayers fork out to aid other countries?

As for UK armed forces numbers, it’s fair that we should only have the services we can afford – but at the same time they shouldn’t be asked to police the world just because of the prestige factor of ‘sitting at the top table’.

Couldn’t the vast sum of money spent on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have been better spent on improving the UK populations lot? What the hell are we doing there in the first place?

It’s a modern malaise, but the government wants it both ways – much more work for much less investment…

Absolutely fascinating!
I must say, after scrutinising hundreds of images the RAF took in 1946 of my local area, everything looks so much more uncluttered and picturesque – with well trimmed trees, and broad open avenues devoid of motor vehicles.
Something else that is noticable in photos taken before the advent of TV is how many people turned out in public for various things. Some local photos taken of, say, public parks during the Victorian era have zillions of well-dressed people milling around, when actually the population was a tiny fraction of present day levels…