Interesting pic that L&S, are the two refuelling hoses suspended from a single cable?

IMO there a load of rubbish. Just another (expensive) thing to go in the cuboard with the `ab master`, exercise bike and all the other fitness gimmiks.
I have had a go with the Kinect as well, and although it is a lot better at picking up movement, I dont think its worth the extra money.
The truth is a after ten minutes of jummping around like a wolly, you think if I realy wanted to be this active, I would be outside 🙂

No the Wii will be out being used long aafter the superior kit is gathering dust or outdated. I think you’ve missed the point of it, the Wii dosen’t need brilliant graphics or be anywhere near as capable as other consoles, it is just good fun and a great fitness system.
My Mrs still uses most of the fitness programmes after three years of ownership, not only do the excercises actually work but you can also keep a very accurate record of how you’re progressing.
As for picking up movement I am staggered at just what the wii does pick up, the wii balance board (highly recommended Mr Creosote!) always amazes me at how it picks up even the slightest movements and chages in balance made even high up in the body.
Its strong suit however is that absolutely all the family can actually understand it and all join in.
Anyway, name me somewhere outdoors where I can go down a river in a bubble, just using my balance to guide it, or be a chicken landing on targets!:D

The choice of a replacement will be very tricky, Lance’s moderation will be a hard act to follow.

One person I think would be a suitable candidate would be Pagen 01.

Blimey Kev, that’s genuinely nice of you to say, but I really don’t have the patience and my views are too forthright for me to consider moderating this area of the forum!

Absolutely. A flounce like that is not normally the best way to get your point across. Having said that, aren’t the “offenders” entitled to their opinion as well?

Wouldn’t call it a flounce, that is when you sit about talking about it before making a grand exit, or not as is often the case.
Also the offenders made their opinions known alright, one of them so much so that personally I’m amazed he hasn’t been banned, even members wouldn’t consider talking to each other like that.
Being a mod dosen’t automatically give a member the right to talk to them offensively, even in General Disscussion areas!

Edit, sorry Laviticus, if any mods wants to modify my posts here as not being in the spirit of the thread please do so.

Hi Rob, there is a thread on Merryfield at AIX here, http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?98-Merryfield.
I can’t view pics at the mo so not sure how useful it is.

I thought it ended up caricaturing grumpiness. And the thought of actually being as miserable as that most of the time would make life intolerable, wouldn’t it? In any event Richard Wilson is still amused by fans who greet him with the inevitable catchphrase – ” I doooon’t believe it!!!!”

I kind of agree with Jim about One Foot In The Grave, but the age thing is completely immaterial.
I wasn’t into it at the time as I thought it was just about being old, watching again I realise just how wrong I was.
It is surely all about most things in the world being wrong or slightly crazy, or people having complete disregard for others, but Victor Meldrew is actually generally right and doesn’t feel settled with all this, or fails to understand it.
Some of the actions he takes are surely things we wish we could do at times in real life, for example locking the completely unreliable and smarmy locksmith in his own porch, and then sends the key back to him in the post!

BTW Richard Wilson famously hates being greeted by the catchphrase, and that was the whole joke in his appearance in Father Ted.

“Who was it that said hell is other people?”
“Mrs smedley at number 68 I think!”

A very sad outcome for what was in part a disgusting moment for the forum.
I hope he reconsiders this decision, but if not look forward to his posts again.:)

You didn’t find an effeminate and short godfather figure dressed in pink, and in a pink caddy funny? 😮

Victor’s funny, hilariously so! Especialy his cameo on Father Ted.

No, my humour works on a far superior level for that to entertain it!

Absolutely agree about Victor on Ted though, comedy gold and goes to prove that Richard Wilson can send himself up.

Waiting For God and keeping Up Apearances are interesting ones, they are probably not regarded as classics because they are lets face it, middle class and quite gentle, but there are some great laughs in both of them.

My personal dislikes as not being funny to me at all are Allo Allo, Last Of The Summer Wine, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Absolutely Fabulous, and Gimme Gimme Gimme.
Allo Allo is just like a really bad and farcical stage panto which accidently got on to telly, though covering the same basic subject it is the extreme opposite of Dads Army.

… hints at doubt on Spraying Mantis

Excellent!:D

The Cierva W.11 strikes me as one of those aircraft that appeared ahead of its time but probably wasn’t in reality.
A turboshaft engined version would have been far superior, and may have been more desireable back then if it was available, but smaller and far less complex designs were about only a few years later which could carry not far of the same weights.
As Ken suggests the CAOR.3/46 requirement, on behalf of the the MoCA and Colonial Office, seems to be another justification for the E.19/46 eperimental military project, which was brave attempt by a small company.
VZ724s crash in June 1950 sadly killed the test-pilots Sqn Ldr ‘Jeep’ Cable and Alan Marsh, aswel as FTO H.J.Unsworth.
WA555 lingered on for more flight tests and was later stored at MoS Chelford before scrapping by Staravia in Feb 1958.

The aforementioned W.9, now that was ahead of its time, a true forerunner of todays NOTAR helicopters, except that it was Gipsy Six piston powered and needed a driven fan and exhaust gas mixing system (thus added weight/complexity) to produce the anti-torque eflux.