titan, you are about as stable as a drunk on shaky ground (thought id rip out the old cheesy sayings since you started it). One minute you saying the standards are quite low and next minute your saying its hard to get in.
Let me give you some more advice
You like giving advice don't you, its almost a reflex action isn't it with your 2000+ posts. This figure alone suggests something is not quite right. Yes yes you have been around for years but even so. You are a highly paid cathay pilot, go out and enjoy your life dont sit on pprune all day conversing/telling guys 10+ years your junior what to do.
Sanctimonious is still a very befitting description of you
I guess a description of a 32yr old joining cathay and 12 years later a proud ppruner with more than 2000 posts is very befitting of you.