scroggs, Rob et al,
I don't mind rules, I don't mind principles, I don't mind that it's not my train set, so I'm not about to go off in the huff but how about some consistency then?
Pprune is for discussing aviation, and Mil Aircrew is for discussing military aviation. Not JPA. Not Saddam Hussain's death. Not housing stock.
If these are the rules the mods want to apply, then fine, lock those threads, or as happens in other situations, move them to a more appropriate place - Jet Blast for Saddam and houses, T&C for JPA. And get rid of some of the noise like "Over familiarization". Like Whirls said about schoolboys, if you go to the effort of closing a thread, why not take a couple of extra seconds to post a message saying why. The hint will be taken, communication being a 2-way thing, and you will even get the last word
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