Media Boss to GT: Geoff, maaate, everyone keeps telling me you're a bloody drongo! I'm beginning to think that you're a little under-qualified - a little bag-chucking doesn't actually make you "the world's greatest aviation expert" - even if you've been (self-)awarded more than anyone else on the planet!
GT: Maaaate! If you're going to accuse me of just stealing it all off pprune again...
Media boss: Well, we know how you love to cut-n-paste...
GT:Yeah, but,
Media Boss: ...and I could probably get a real pilot for a tenth of what we pay you!
GT: Yeah, but ... just look at pprune - they'll hijack threads over petty semantics, get caught up in endless "mine's-bigger-than-yours" arguments...
Media Boss: Sure, it seems like that, but...
GT: And no-one, but no-one can compete with my formula:
20% reality
20% off-the-planet "how much is GT putting up his nose these days" unfathomable BS
20% cut-n-paste from pprune
40% churnalism, press-release-spewing, freebies, junkets...
Boss: Okay, okay ... have another glass of champers. I was going to give you the fright of your life...
GT: Allowing me back on the controls of my unique, mighty 777 sim?
Boss: Sending you economy class...