You can have a seat at my table any time Mr.Idler - your investigative work in unearthing Pontious's rose-tinted warble is very topical and should serve as a warning to all those hopeful "inbounds" who really do believe that the grass is greener on this side.
For someone to go from the positive, buoyant outlook that Pontious had in his '04 post to banging out shortly afterwards, back to (I'll use his words)
crappy weather, tax, crappy promotion prospects, tax, a crappy government, tax, crappy services, tax, miserable b******s on late trains, tax, road rage,tax, the whordes of juvenile delinquents of a jilted generation, tax, same old Med and Caribbean routes, tax, same old routine, tax, whinging b******s, tax oh and dwindling pensions is a statement in itself.
Your perception is astute - let me make a small announcement that you have alluded to -
Crinklstein & bigusdicus are the same guy - remind you of someone else we haven't heard from recently? Nope it's not the tartanguy (unless he's using a new IP address) but he's displaying the same ethos.
4HP