Mix of correspondents??

[Vfrpilotpb]

Here on Rotorheads we seem to get a fine group of people and ladies, from all over the Western world and possibly 50% of those are from the Australia's,

Why no Froggys or Italians or Germans,

Does their skill and or humour not stretch to the same limits, as us Western thinking types.:ouch:

[Matelot B'stard]

Frogs, wops and krauts... shining wits??

Lets face it they don't do funny, do they? nor do they do technical or skillful

examples funny? Marcel Marceau?? No.
Skillfull? Italian Rugby Union 15...No.
Technical? Fiat.. nuff said, No.

Funny.. Froggy Lorry Drivers.. No.
Skillful.. Donatella Versace.. No.
Technical.. Big smelly frankfurter sausages.. no.


Funny.. Jim Carey, American pornography.. Damn right!
Skillful.. David Beckham, The Red Arrows. you'd better believe it!!
Technical.. The internal combustion engine, the telephone, breast enhancement surgery.. oohh yeesss!!:p

[rotordk]

If the Brits could deep fry orange juice for their breakfast, they would !

Now that's funny to the rest of us in mainland Europe !

[Bright-Ling]

rotordk

you surely mean the "Sweaty socks!" (as we are on the subject of slagging other nations off!!)

:cool:

[misterbonkers]

urm, maybe its a language thing.

aussies, yanks, brits we all speak english (in some form)

[rotordk]

I do prefer Italian food, and sweaty socks I tried and choked.
I do believe that IF they ( UK cooks ) could deep fry Orange juice or any liquid, they would. They do it with anything else that's for human consumption.
What's wrong with my English ?

;-)

[Hilico]

I think they see posts like Matelot's, repress a shudder and pass on. "Don't do technical or skilful"? Mot much, they don't - Ferrari, Daimler-Benz, Rudolf Diesel, Eurocopter, most of Airbus, cordon bleu cookery, Renault F1 power in the 80s/90s, Porsche, numerous gliders...and if you've ever watched a German comedy program, even without subtitles, you'll realise how fall-down funny they can be.

And no, Rotordk, there's absolutely nothing wrong with your English - many foreigners (and all of them in this forum) write it indistinguishably from the natives.

[rotordk]

Glad about my english being cultivated enough.
Over here in Europe main land we call fall-down funny for slapstick !! Or is that falling down THEN it's funny ?
Beside the point. My main objection to your post is:

Why would anyone ever want to watch a German comedy program ?

[Hilico]

We were shown German TV programs when I was learning German at night school.

I suppose I should admit that the serious programs were also very very funny.

I should also admit that I'm still terrible at speaking German.

[Matelot B'stard]

Chaps, Chaps, really..

Ferrari = Red Fiat = Junk, sexy, but Junk.

Porsche = too much focus on build quality, not enough on exhaust note, Boring!

Airbus = Toulouse should have a british post code

Diesel = should have been sent to siberia along with his infernal contraption, only tree hugging, single parent, save the whale, Green party extremists drive diesels.

German comedy??????? Contradiction in terms.

And as for cookery, if you haven't tried deep fried Mars bars then you haven't lived at all!!
:ok:

[rotordk]

Thinking of German comedy........Siegfried and Roy are Germans !!

[Happy Landing !]

Matelot,

Are you the script writer for Jeremy Clarkson:ok:

[Woolf]

Hey Matelot,

Maybe I should let you testdrive my Audi A6 2.5l Turbo Diesel - could be quite an eye opener for you ......

I do appreciate your humour but it has to be said: The Empire died long ago mate ......

:D

Woolf

[Matelot B'stard]

Rotordk: Didn't their Tigers try and munch them last week?? I rest my case;)

Woolf: No I don't do scripts for Clarkson, I don't do Audi A6 turbo diesels either, thanks for the offer but I'll continue to live in the dark ages:ok:

As for the Empire.. no wonder the country's going to the dogs:E

Come on lads, we Brits have got it sorted, English Rugby team, Aston Martin, David Beckham, Bacon butties, decent beef (Are you paying attention France??) real beer, none of your "Eurofizz" girls shandy, Helena Bonham-Carter, Robbie Williams, Liz Hurley, McLaren F1, in fact F1 complete.

In short, Cars, beer, women, food.. oh and Concorde was our idea!! GREAT Britain:p

[rotordk]

Wasn't that part of their show ? This comedy thing is more difficult than I thought.

[Matelot B'stard]

Rotordk:

Re: my last post, if you are danish, then obviously you can ignore my comments about women and beer.. Danes appear to be up to speed on those issues, and if you are german, again I'll afford you the same concession old boy;)

[Woolf]

Matelot, yeah looks like you've got it all sorted ........ Why is it then that ......



- the "Great" English Rugby team has never won the Rugby World Cup since it was introduced in 1987? (I actually looked this up on the official RWC website ;) )

- most other British car manufacturers are owned by the GERMANS? (apart from those that really can't be saved)

- David Beckham plays for Real?

- you have the highest heart related death rate? (see bacon butties)

- we have to go back to 1996 to find the last British F1 Champion? (and that was on a french car) Needles to say that "the German" together with his Italian mates domiate the F1 since 2000 .....

..... and I won't even mention beef, Helen Carter and especially not Robbie Williams .......




That just leaves Liz Hurley and Beer ....... sad really ...... God safe the Queen!

Woolf :D


(No offence to all the other Brits on this Forum! This is just in response to one individuals *edit* mild sense of humour *edit* :ok: )

[Matelot B'stard]

Nasty Sense of patriotism or just mild humour in a business where too many people take themselves (And others!!) way too seriously;)

Incidentally, the German dominator's mates.. would that be Ross Brawn then? or the french car that won Damon the title, owned by Sir Frank and designed by Patrick Head and Adrian Newey?:ok:

As one journalist pointed out during one of Schuey's (Albeit rare)retirements... that smoking bit was designed by Fiat, the shiney Red bit was designed by Ross Brawn....

[rotordk]

Highest heart related death rate !!
Somebody finally managed to deep fry Orange juice !!!

Dane alllll the way, but I do actually like German beer....come to think of it, I like Dutch beer too.... Japanese and Mexican beer seems rather good also......then there's Austrian beer....and wait....Australian beer.....American....Venezuelan... ...

[Matelot B'stard]

Rotordk

Your knowledge of the world's beers for a pilot is alarming:O

Glad somebody out there isn't taking life too seriously:ok:

[rotordk]

Beer is very, very, very serious.....

On the bright side, every Dane loves Germany ( we buy all our danish beer there for 20-25% less ).

[Spunk]

Why would you do that rotordk? Why would you want to buy danish beer once you arrive in Germany and can have some real beer?

For the others... yes, it's true. Those danish folks arrive in Flensburg (close to the danish border) and take home all our beer in trucks.:D Now that's alarming... We Germans are running out of beer... :=

[rotordk]

I actually buy Fosters in Germany.....!!

[Spunk]

... ain't that australian beer ;)

[Woolf]

.... no offence mate, all spoken in jest! :ok:

[John Eacott]

That's just as well, since no one will touch the stuff Down Here ;)

[Heliport]

On the matter of Mix of correspondents, it's worth browsing through the Who's Who thread some time. We have an amazing cross-section of members who do a wide variety of different types of flying all over the world. It makes interesting reading.

[LOOSE NUT]

Matey Basterd,

Leave the Ferrari's alone you dont know what you are talking about (obviously).

Rotordk,

way to go (hicup).

Spunk !!!

What the hell does that mean in German?

and lastly, GOD SAVE THE QUEEN AND ALL THINGS ENGLISH.

LOOSE NUT. QGM :ok:

[Matelot B'stard]

loose nut.. former owner, well in the know:yuk:

[Whirlybird]

Here on Rotorheads we seem to get a fine group of people and ladies,

People AND ladies! And all these years, for ages and ages and ages, I'd been under the strange illusion that despite being a lady - well, female anyway - I was a person too!!! :{ :{ :{

[Matelot B'stard]

Whirlybird... this is no time to burn your bra babe:p

Maybe the original post was paying you a compliment, instead of tarring you with the same brush as us "People". After all you ladies would never stoop to such depths as posting juvenile humour on these threads, maintain your standards, and rise above us all:ok:

Alternatively.. do your worst:E

[Whirlybird]

Matelot,

Paying me a compliment? On Rotorheads!!!!! Well, a nice thought anyway; perhaps I'll take it that way. :)

As for burning my bra, there are those of us of a certain...er...shape, who always thought that bras were very liberating, and wouldn't dream of burning them. :ok:

[Flytest]

Flirting on Rotorheads ?? Now that IS a first, but all this talk of underwear in making some of us blush :O

Brits eh?:ok:

[Spunk]

@ Loose Nut:

Well, "Spunk" would be the name of my favorite licorice (and I have to admit that it is danish (at least I think so)).
The german translation would be.... argh... one moment...I have to look it up....

Spunk: der Feuerschwamm or Courage... now what the hell is a "Feuerschwamm" :O

Hold on to your Jewels LOOSE NUT...:D

[Robbo Jock]

You know, as a kid it _always_ used to crack me up when I was watching an American film and someone would say something like: "I like a gal that's full of spunk!!"

Now I'm older and wiser, it only occasionally cracks me up.

[rotordk]

Yup, it's danish allright...Spunk that's is.......will trade for beer !!

[john du'pruyting]

Hmm, I've nothing to do for 5 minutes, I'll trade some of mine for beer as well!!:O :O :p :eek: :ok:

[RDRickster]

No offense intended, but in the U.S. I've heard "spunk" defined as that substance derived from flagellating the perky chicken (if you know what I mean). :oh: :hmm: :O

[rotordk]

RDRickster....and I thought you could always spot a pilot by the way he speaks with his hands............boy was I wrong :-)

[LOOSE NUT]

Vfrpilotpb
have you reached a verdict on your posted topic ?

Spunk
just needed to know as the wife might look over my shoulder and see your post and start wondering why I spend so much time on this forum (and the FOC forum Matelot). I wont eat licorice ever again, sounds worse than red bull.:yuk: :yuk:

LN:ok:

[Lu Zuckerman]

Definition: \Spunk\ (sp[u^][ng]k), n. [Gael. spong, or Ir. sponc,
tinder, sponge; cf. AS. sponge a sponge (L. spongia), sp[=o]n
a chip. Cf. {Sponge}, {Punk}.] [Written also {sponk}.]
1. Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of
tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou. --Sir
T. Browne.

2. An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of
spunk. [Colloq.]

A lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk, and
spirit, and power, both of mind and body.


Just thought you might wonder the meaning of spunk.

:E :E

One of the greatest lines in a TV program was on the Mary Tyler Moore program. Lou Grant asked Mary to come into his office and he told her that she had a lot of spunk.

Marys' face lit up and then Lou said" I hate spunk".

[Spunk]

@ rotordk: Let's share the transportation costs for the truck... beer one way, licorice the other way

@ LOOSE NUT: there is nothing worse in the world than Red Bull

to the rest of you guys... now, does that mean that I better log in with a different nickname :(

[Matelot B'stard]

Interesting the way this thread has gone.. we started off with an innocent observation about the boys and girls who post on here, which I admittedly hijacked somewhat for a quick lighthearted swipe at Johnny Foreigner:p No ofence intended fellas;)

So now we are on to bodily fluids (My definition of the word "spunk") was this brought on by whirlybirds liberal references to her figure / underwear?? I dread to think where its going to go next:E

[Vfrpilotpb]

Whirly, I realy was keeping you female types, in a separate catagory, simple because your (female) logic is not tuned into the male waves, Males always, as can be clearly seen in this thread have a sexual undertone to whatever they consider, or think.

It is very interesting to see how quickly a pretty sensible question with a little accelerant can bring out the ability to call another person( a Forigner) for their lack of National Humour.

:p

[rotordk]

I hate being called a Forigner. My main objection is :
1. I don't know what it is
2. Why did you have to bring my sister into this ?
3. Where do you know my sister from ?
4. She's already married to some foreigner, so seek somewhere else, pal !

[Matelot B'stard]

VFRpilotpb

Is it just me, or has our whole point about European humour just been highlighted??:)

[Vfrpilotpb]

RotorDk,

hey you Johnny foriegners always go on about us Brits, but we saw how your lot did things, and decided we could do it better, and lo, most of the educated world speaks,... what was that, yes thats right ENGLISH!

Matey,

Yes, you are so right! seems that humour is somthing that most of the western world have naturally, but once across the channel it seems that all the serious folk live over there,

I suppose thats why we are here, and most other people want to come here!

[Matelot B'stard]

VFR

A bit touchy about the relatives as well...

maybe we ought to start a new thread, "The best European jokes in the world... ever!" or "Europe, you can smile, it won't hurt"

I predict no hits and no replies:ok:

[rotordk]

Vfrpilotpb : A bit paranoid, are we ? I never said anything negative about the virtues of the english langauge.....
With regards to British history, need I remind you of the takeover of your country by a bunch of farmboys.......vikings :-)
Not need to argue of things in the past, and we did give it back to you !!

So your welcome !!

[Vfrpilotpb]

Rotordk,

Nothing wrong with a bit of R**pe and pillage, the problem was your farm boys were just that, no manners, didn't ever say Thankyou!:ouch: