Thanks Woomera

[James4th]

Thanks Woomera, that needs to be said and done! Be ruthless and cut these childlike idiots out of our forum and maybe we will get back some more intelligent readers with more to offer than the slag masters we have on now.

I for one, and there are many like me, do not visit these pages any more because we cry at the petty vindicitivness and usless fatuous comments that we find here that do no good to anyone. AND a good deal of harm to our name as pilots world wide.

So go to it man, slash and cut and thrust a swath through the unholy and the un-devote............. sorry getting carried away there..........

James

[Keg]

Sanctimonious crawler!

[Chris Higgins]

Awghh c'mon, can't anyone take a joke anymore?! It's all in jest. If we can't take a joke we shouldn't be in this industry!

[Animalclub]

Trouble is Chris that too many people get emotional (sometimes tired too) and let their fingers run away with themselves. (Be nice - I meant on the keyboards)

[Enema Bandit's Dad]

James, if you don't visit these pages anymore, how can you have made your posting?

[Buster Hyman]

Hear, hear! I think fatuous is a silly word.

[Atlas Shrugged]

Chris,

Congratulations on your 400th post

[Binoculars]

Chris Higgins, you can't honestly believe the people referred to are speaking even remotely in jest?

I think I've mentioned before that had I never met a pilot of any kind and had formed my opinions of them from what I read in D&G, I would be convinced that as a body they are generally semi-literate, thin-skinned, envious, gleeful at others' misfortunes, quick to launch into personal abuse at the slightest perceived provocation, and above all, self-absorbed to the point of being utterly incapable of seeing themselves as anything but the centre of the universe.

Fortunately I have met many pilots, am friends with many pilots and enjoy the company of pilots generally, so I know these generalisations to be false. Perhaps it's just that none of the pilots I've known ever post to Dunnunda? No, I don't think so. So we have to look elsewhere for the answer, and the truth may be unpalatable when found.

I have basically given up visiting Dunnunda beyond a weekly check, and I rarely feel like posting anything. No loss, some might opine with justification. But the reputation of the Dunnunda forum is woeful, and IMO makes the whole of Australian aviation a laughing stock, hardly the desired reason for its existence. I think it's easy to understand why the Woomeri may want to clean up the act, and I wish them well.

[James4th]

The defense rests

James

[Keg]

Woomera should bring back the 10 thingies.....geez, how long ago was that now!

[Woomera]

About 4 or 5 years ago.

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[BHMvictim]

I am guessing that this thread has something to do with my banning for 5 days.

Now that I am allowed back, I may be allowed to put things straight.

My post, for which I was banned, was simply an analogy. Nothing more. Nobody, that I have spoken to, could interpret my post as anything but an analogy. I realise that it was probably a bad analogy to choose, however.

I sent several emails to pprune clarifying this and requesting permission to edit the post, however I recieved absolutely no feedback.

To the person who found this post offensive, my apologies.

[victor two]

Yes yes. But when we need to read and acknowledge twenty pages of pre-amble before we can come on line and express an opinion that is not entirely politically correct or factually perfect then it really starts to become something like hard work. I feel that D&G has become a bit too serious over the last few months. Let's be honest, if I come online and rip it into someone who I feel desreves it or debate an emotive issue then I certainly expect to get fully hammered back and takle it in good faith. That's ( or that was) half he fun.

I hope that pprune and it's team on mods don't let the feel good, politically correct whingers and legal squeezers spoil what remains of a decent forum of wholesome but light-hearted debate. I notice that there are quite a few absentee posters these days, probably banned forever over a throw-away comment that was deemed by someone too be too inflamatory ...but was laughed off by the target itself. To me, that doesn't make any sense but you do have your ten things to consider I guess .....

[gaunty]

victor two Fair comment and what D & G was famous for, very robust and clever, but basically polite well at least in the manner that Australians call polite anyway.

I learnt many many moons ago what we find normal or clever in the form of Oz ribaldry is either offensive or at the best very confusing to our American cousins. There are even places there, where it can get you killed.

Unfortunately we are losing it bigtime in Oz as well as Peter Costello very accurately pointed out today.

Of late there has been a tendency by posters to cross that line.

It's called balance and it is a hard one to, well, balance.

[Gnadenburg]

This political correctness will be the downfall of the Western world.....


Lets take it all full circle and start again.


So what happend in 1989?

[Keg]

Geez Woomerii....the more things change, the more they stay the same!

[Woomera]

The above sticky is NOT about turning D&G into a PC knitting circle...it IS about reclaiming it for the grownups...PPrune used well is a powerfull tool for good...witness the airspace debacles that I believe Pprune helped avert.

Used in the manner we see here far to often it is a rod for our own backs...a conduit direct to management giving them aid and comfort in their ongoing efforts to devide the pilot body and run roughshod over one group or another.

I have just deleted a thread titled 'JPC spineless' before anyone had a chance to reply...and we will continue to do so until ppruners realise that rational, reasoned, adult discourse is welcomed....childish bs like the above will not be.

[Shitsu_Tonka]

I endorse the spirit - but I wish you a great deal of good luck.

[Pinky the pilot]

Jeez Gnadenburg, You wanna get us all banned??
Suggest you open another good Eden Valley red!

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[The Voice]

awww Pinky .. when I got to Gnaden's post I damn near fell off my chair laughing! Given the spirit of this thread, it was funny!