Originally posted by EN830
Second time I’ve seen it, very well done

Mr Clarkson say’s today we have no comprehension of what a hero is if all we can find is David Beckham for scoring a goal.

…he’s not far wrong is he?

Everyday we read about the yob culture in this country, about gangs of youths who think they’re tough beating up old people and anyone who looks at em the wrong way…..I wonder how they would react in Major Cains shoes.

Perhaps we should bring back National Service and teach em some discipline and respect, but the trouble is we might be contravening their human rights if the nice corporal shouted at them to loud!

If this post sounds cynical it supposed to be, ‘cos that’s the kind of society we now live in, a society where we’d walk past some one who was being beaten up cos we dont wanna get involved, if Major Robert Cain adopted that attitude a lot of soldiers wouldnt have got home alive.

All those guys deserved their VCs, they showed bravery, spirit, and selflessness in the face of enormous adversity.

*Im sure I can hear “Land of hope and Glory” playing somewhere*

dave

Originally posted by SOFTLAD
Yeah that sounds good to me. I also like the moderator idea too.

…yeah me to, afterall this is an “Aviation” forum so lets keep it to that and get rid of som of those totally pointless posts, especially in the “General Discussions”, where there’s a lot of cynical bickering.

dave

Good site A380, regardless of what that pedantic tw*t Snapper thinks of your vocab.

Ive got two non-aircraft related sites using Freeserve.

HERE

AND HERE

…I wonder just how many grammar and spelling mistakes he can find on these!

dave

Originally posted by MINIDOH
The bus system that I use to travel to college and home again is a disgrace:
By car it takes half an hour one way, by bus it takes an hour and a half.
The bus is at least 20 minutes late picking me up in the morning.
The bus arrives at colleges at 20 past 9, when it is meant to be there at twenty to nine. And thats if it even turns up. In the past three weeks the bus has not arrived 6 times and been more than an hour late 4 times.

So this epitomises every British Bus company does it? sounds like a minimal underfunded country service to me!

The public transport system in UK is down to several things, not just PRIVATISATION (although that is to blame for most of the problems).
It seems that the railways problem is down to gross mismanagement.
The buses problem, especially in metropolitan areas, is down to overpopulation and just to many cars. TFL has introduced dozens of new routes over the years and rescheduled many existing ones in the London area, but the increase in other road vehicles is gradually bringing some areas to a grinding halt making quite a few bus routes appear unreliable when they shouldnt be

Mayor Livingstone and his henchmen are responsible for most inner London congestion (where does the traffic that bypasses the Congestion charge go to?), narrowing roads, installing speed ramps, more traffic lights and pedestrian crossings, relocating bus stops so when buses stop they cause a traffic hold up! why? so the motorist thinks to himself, “Bugger! to many hold ups better use public transport!”….Come down to earth Mr. L, if someone pays 20k for his car he wants to use it,and he will.

All the TFL will do is succeed in bringing London to a halt…BIG TIME!!

The same for the Tube, there’s just to many people using it and not enough money being spent to modernise it.

All the best Ian.

dave

4 min 38 secs.

dave

Hi Wombat and Kev……well, if its done nothing else, this thread has got a lot of people talking.

Kev, Ill see what I can come up with in the way of a decent debate.

dave

9/11 was hardly an “accident” was it?

dave