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Having actually noticed what you posted I reply for the record:
!. been married several times
2. qualified as an ESF ski instructor
3. qualified as a Guide du Montagne.
Basically lived life to the full, and you?
Now, va te fait enculer
Having actually noticed what you posted I reply for the record:
!. been married several times
2. qualified as an ESF ski instructor
3. qualified as a Guide du Montagne.
Basically lived life to the full, and you?
Now, va te fait enculer
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ATCOs being superior personages (!), you don't give a fcuk:
As you said yourself...too much of a good thing the ole theakstones!!
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VERCI - YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNN!!!
You made your point a million times and try to keep nailing the same people. You are BORING and noone cares about what you say. Go get a life man or get laid or something!
You made your point a million times and try to keep nailing the same people. You are BORING and noone cares about what you say. Go get a life man or get laid or something!
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2. qualified as an ESF ski instructor
3. qualified as a Guide du Montagne.
3. qualified as a Guide du Montagne.
!. been married several times
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Me thinks I may have touched a nerve pointing out the similarities of the mudslinging 'ole Verci does to a unit that doesn't want, know or remember him to stalking.
Turds to me I guess.
Old man, I wasn't even BORN when the PATCO boys took their break. But I was sure there when they came rushing back!
Turds to me I guess.
Old man, I wasn't even BORN when the PATCO boys took their break. But I was sure there when they came rushing back!
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Stockholm syndrome
Psychological explanations
One theory to explain the Stockholm syndrome is cognitive dissonance. (n.b. already mentioned in a previous post with reference to the MATCO). Specifically, people don't like being unhappy for long periods of time, but when people are kidnapped for a long period of time, they will be unhappy for that time, unless they come to love their captors. Thus, to resolve the cognitive dissonance, the victim may begin to identify with the captors.
Psychoanalytic explanations
The Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological shift that occurs in captives when they are threatened gravely but are shown acts of kindness by their captors. i.e Stromboli & El Stupido. Captives who exhibit the syndrome tend to sympathize with and think highly of their captors, at times believing that the captors are showing them favor stemming from inherent kindness. Such captives fail to recognize that their captors' choices are essentially self-serving. When subjected to prolonged captivity, these captives can develop a strong bond with their captors, in some cases including a sexual interest!!!
According to the psychoanalytic view of the syndrome, this tendency might be the result of employing the strategy evolved by newborn babies to form an emotional attachment to the nearest powerful adult in order to maximize the probability that this adult will enable — at the very least — the survival of the child, if not also prove to be a good parental figure. This syndrome is considered a prime example for the defence mechanism of identification.
Re the unit, it is not run as per ICAO Standards and Practices but the above should highlight why this is so.
Re the personal plaudits.
Blueskye
yep, at the ESF in Chamonix, then in Meribel, Courchevel and Val d'isère. You should try the Haute Route sometime, if you're up to it.
1sadrightturd.
Not too many PATCO got rehired. I like your euphemism "took their break". Neat, when the old cowboy fired over 11000 of them and turned american aviation overnight to the status of the 3rd world. A status it hasn't really recovered from. I'll be dining with a few ex PATCO guys this week and will let them know that they needn't worry as the FAA is (was) full of hotshots like yourself?
Falcon.
Refer you to Jors Trullie's earlier post re button pushing.
To infinity and beyond and, hopefully, back in time for a pint of Theakstones Old Peculiar.
ROFL
Psychological explanations
One theory to explain the Stockholm syndrome is cognitive dissonance. (n.b. already mentioned in a previous post with reference to the MATCO). Specifically, people don't like being unhappy for long periods of time, but when people are kidnapped for a long period of time, they will be unhappy for that time, unless they come to love their captors. Thus, to resolve the cognitive dissonance, the victim may begin to identify with the captors.
Psychoanalytic explanations
The Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological shift that occurs in captives when they are threatened gravely but are shown acts of kindness by their captors. i.e Stromboli & El Stupido. Captives who exhibit the syndrome tend to sympathize with and think highly of their captors, at times believing that the captors are showing them favor stemming from inherent kindness. Such captives fail to recognize that their captors' choices are essentially self-serving. When subjected to prolonged captivity, these captives can develop a strong bond with their captors, in some cases including a sexual interest!!!
According to the psychoanalytic view of the syndrome, this tendency might be the result of employing the strategy evolved by newborn babies to form an emotional attachment to the nearest powerful adult in order to maximize the probability that this adult will enable — at the very least — the survival of the child, if not also prove to be a good parental figure. This syndrome is considered a prime example for the defence mechanism of identification.
Re the unit, it is not run as per ICAO Standards and Practices but the above should highlight why this is so.
Re the personal plaudits.
Blueskye
yep, at the ESF in Chamonix, then in Meribel, Courchevel and Val d'isère. You should try the Haute Route sometime, if you're up to it.
1sadrightturd.
Not too many PATCO got rehired. I like your euphemism "took their break". Neat, when the old cowboy fired over 11000 of them and turned american aviation overnight to the status of the 3rd world. A status it hasn't really recovered from. I'll be dining with a few ex PATCO guys this week and will let them know that they needn't worry as the FAA is (was) full of hotshots like yourself?
Falcon.
Refer you to Jors Trullie's earlier post re button pushing.
To infinity and beyond and, hopefully, back in time for a pint of Theakstones Old Peculiar.
ROFL
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Superiority Complex
The term "superiority complex", in everyday usage, refers to an overly high opinion of oneself; in psychology, it refers to the unrealistic and exaggerated belief that one is better than others. In Verci, this develops as a way to compensate for unconscious feelings of low self-esteem or inadequacy.
The socially awkward children may convince themselves that the reason they cannot connect with more forward individuals is because they are more intelligent and sophisticated than them. In adults, even business executives may put on a tough facade and try to make others think well of them, but inside they feel inadequate and do not respect themselves. Therefore, those exhibiting the superiority complex may project their feelings of inferiority onto others whom they perceive as 'lessers', possibly for the same reasons for which they themselves may have been ostracized.
Behaviors related to this mechanism may include an exaggerated opinion of one’s worth and abilities, unrealistically high expectations in goals and achievements for oneself and others, persistent attempts to correct others (regardless of whether or not they are actually correct), vanity, extravagant dressing (intent on drawing attention), excessive need for competition, pride, over-sentimentality and affected exaltation, snobbishness, a tendency to discredit others' opinions and over-forcefulness aimed at dominating those considered as weaker or less important. The conscious awareness of one's delusion typically results in a temporal phenomenen called cognitive dissonance, which may or may not serve the purpose of bringing that person back "down to earth".
Which of these do you display Verci?
PS: I can also Wiki.
The term "superiority complex", in everyday usage, refers to an overly high opinion of oneself; in psychology, it refers to the unrealistic and exaggerated belief that one is better than others. In Verci, this develops as a way to compensate for unconscious feelings of low self-esteem or inadequacy.
The socially awkward children may convince themselves that the reason they cannot connect with more forward individuals is because they are more intelligent and sophisticated than them. In adults, even business executives may put on a tough facade and try to make others think well of them, but inside they feel inadequate and do not respect themselves. Therefore, those exhibiting the superiority complex may project their feelings of inferiority onto others whom they perceive as 'lessers', possibly for the same reasons for which they themselves may have been ostracized.
Behaviors related to this mechanism may include an exaggerated opinion of one’s worth and abilities, unrealistically high expectations in goals and achievements for oneself and others, persistent attempts to correct others (regardless of whether or not they are actually correct), vanity, extravagant dressing (intent on drawing attention), excessive need for competition, pride, over-sentimentality and affected exaltation, snobbishness, a tendency to discredit others' opinions and over-forcefulness aimed at dominating those considered as weaker or less important. The conscious awareness of one's delusion typically results in a temporal phenomenen called cognitive dissonance, which may or may not serve the purpose of bringing that person back "down to earth".
Which of these do you display Verci?
PS: I can also Wiki.
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Verci,
I'm sure this has already been suggested, but in a vain attempt to put a stop to this thread and prevent it descending further into more back-stabbing and intellectual one-upmanship...
You no longer have a genuine vested interest in what goes on in the UAE. Get off your soap box in the Philippines, grab yourself a cold one and forget all about it, once and for all. The people here are big enough and ugly enough to know what (and who) the problems are. You don't need to keep telling everyone what's going on here....they already know.
Your relentless rants and drivel do you no favours and it is not what these forums were designed for.
RD
I'm sure this has already been suggested, but in a vain attempt to put a stop to this thread and prevent it descending further into more back-stabbing and intellectual one-upmanship...
You no longer have a genuine vested interest in what goes on in the UAE. Get off your soap box in the Philippines, grab yourself a cold one and forget all about it, once and for all. The people here are big enough and ugly enough to know what (and who) the problems are. You don't need to keep telling everyone what's going on here....they already know.
Your relentless rants and drivel do you no favours and it is not what these forums were designed for.
RD
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GAL?
Sorry everyone
I know this is likely to be seen as a bone question but I have searched through the thread to no avail. What are GAL like as a company? What sort of starting salary/package for ATCOs are they offering?
Rgds
Grabbers
I know this is likely to be seen as a bone question but I have searched through the thread to no avail. What are GAL like as a company? What sort of starting salary/package for ATCOs are they offering?
Rgds
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Grabbers - I strongly suggest you start a new thread! GAL are a contractor, I think from the UK but I could be wrong, and they provide ATCOs and assistants to at least one UAE military airfield (TWR only). You'll probably find more on www.flightglobal.com and serious Google search.
To everyone else........Red Dragon is spot on. This thread started about Dubai with UAE ACC as an adjunct question. It's turned into a mixture of political intrigue and jockeying for position, ALL about UAE ACC. The mods should shut it down.
To everyone else........Red Dragon is spot on. This thread started about Dubai with UAE ACC as an adjunct question. It's turned into a mixture of political intrigue and jockeying for position, ALL about UAE ACC. The mods should shut it down.
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Awesome! We are at page 17 and still nothing remotely constructive on the thread...gotta be a record unless you try and take on the Ozzy '89 ers' threads and then we still have a long way to go!! 
I might ask at this point to refrain from using words that are longer than 5 letters, hyphenated or Latin.....none of which I can readily comprehend or more importantly, could be bothered to! (Please note I used spell checker for that hyphenated word!)
Now back to your corners and let's see a fair fight....Verci you sit this one out you must be exhausted having taken so many hits on these last few rounds...or are you going to do a Rocky on us and come out swing'n yer zimmer frame !!
I might ask at this point to refrain from using words that are longer than 5 letters, hyphenated or Latin.....none of which I can readily comprehend or more importantly, could be bothered to! (Please note I used spell checker for that hyphenated word!)
Now back to your corners and let's see a fair fight....Verci you sit this one out you must be exhausted having taken so many hits on these last few rounds...or are you going to do a Rocky on us and come out swing'n yer zimmer frame !!
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hmmm
Not really sure if I agree, in some strange way, I find this thread sort of amusing. Keep up the good work all of you... Sort of miss the desert country. A lot of good people working there... I almost miss the desdi madness, hehehhehe
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Scooby...didn't you lot start some boring thread called "Dubai without the baggage" some time back......?? Obviously wasn't half as interesting as his one......!!
Grabbers...GAL, as far as I know employ controllers for Al Dhafra. I wouldn't bother starting a new thread, Scooby would be boring if ya did that!!
Maybe if we all keep ur this malarky, we might just get to 20 pages!!
Grabbers...GAL, as far as I know employ controllers for Al Dhafra. I wouldn't bother starting a new thread, Scooby would be boring if ya did that!!
Maybe if we all keep ur this malarky, we might just get to 20 pages!!
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I suppose when Jolly Roger says "you lot" to Scooby, he means "those of you who aren't UAE ACC controllers with an axe to grind".
You don't get much more boring than a thread in which only 3 or 4 posters have a vague clue what those 3 or 4 are talking about, and then bore the hind legs of anyone who wants to know about Dubai (the original subject) rather than the UAE ACC. Then one of them get pi*sy when someone suggests that since the thread has suffered a 7500, a new thread for enquiries about GAL might be handy.
This thread brings to mind the experience of being in a crowd with a few Big Brother fans from a few years back. No matter what the rest of the crowd wanted, they felt the need to talk endlessly about nonentities the rest of us hadn't heard of, and cared less about.
You don't get much more boring than a thread in which only 3 or 4 posters have a vague clue what those 3 or 4 are talking about, and then bore the hind legs of anyone who wants to know about Dubai (the original subject) rather than the UAE ACC. Then one of them get pi*sy when someone suggests that since the thread has suffered a 7500, a new thread for enquiries about GAL might be handy.
This thread brings to mind the experience of being in a crowd with a few Big Brother fans from a few years back. No matter what the rest of the crowd wanted, they felt the need to talk endlessly about nonentities the rest of us hadn't heard of, and cared less about.
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This thread brings to mind the experience of being in a crowd with a few Big Brother fans from a few years back. No matter what the rest of the crowd wanted, they felt the need to talk endlessly about nonentities the rest of us hadn't heard of, and cared less about.
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Good God, Hootin', who doesn't enjoy chatting about fillies!!! Barbour jackets, not to so much admittedly, though shooting talk is always fun for squicking out them that don't realise how tasty Bambi's mum is.
Anyway, I'm very well thanks. How's the Auld country these days?
Anyway, I'm very well thanks. How's the Auld country these days?