The Old Fat One is spot on. It's all banter now.
As for the Nimrod, except for only two occasions, I always felt safe flying in it. One was when my P1 nearly flew us into rising ground when taking off in poor vis in Canada. Fortunately P2 saved the day when he grabbed the controls, hauled back on the yoke and we popped out the top of stratus in a near vertical climb (followed by a perfect wing-over and transition to level flight).The other, many years later, was during a landing at Gib when we crossed the Gib access road and passed the Lipton's Supermarket doing circa 100kts while the pilots were arguing about who was P1, who was P2 and who's job it was to apply the brakes.
No doubt, at some time in the future, the powers that be will buy into the P8 and the Kipper Fleet will rule the sky above the waves once more. I only wish I could have my life over again so that I could join them.