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I do love it when the gullible fall for the lighthouse story. I guess when you want so dearly for it to be true, it makes it easier to be fooled.
Likely the same lot who heard about McDonalds funding IRA's and thought it was about northern Ireland.
Likely the same lot who heard about McDonalds funding IRA's and thought it was about northern Ireland.
Westie Dear Lad,
It is easy to be fooled when one wishes it to be true.
No need for a carrier young'un....they got nothing to land on them but helicopters.
It is easy to be fooled when one wishes it to be true.
No need for a carrier young'un....they got nothing to land on them but helicopters.
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Originally Posted by West Coast
I do love it when the gullible fall for the lighthouse story. I guess when you want so dearly for it to be true, it makes it easier to be fooled.
Likely the same lot who heard about McDonalds funding IRA's and thought it was about northern Ireland.
Likely the same lot who heard about McDonalds funding IRA's and thought it was about northern Ireland.
As you say, when you want it to be true that you are the best fighting force the world has ever seen, it's that little bit easier to be fooled by the illiterate leader of the country when he proffers his "hell yeahs".
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Originally Posted by Reach
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Originally Posted by West Coast
I do love it when the gullible fall for the lighthouse story. I guess when you want so dearly for it to be true, it makes it easier to be fooled.
Likely the same lot who heard about McDonalds funding IRA's and thought it was about northern Ireland.
Likely the same lot who heard about McDonalds funding IRA's and thought it was about northern Ireland.
Not taken in by that one, no need to be when funding was so openly given for so many years. 'nuf said.
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Someone in good faith posted an aviation related picture featuring 3 CVNs, a B2 and a load of F18s. It was a nice photo. I liked it. But unfortunately this brought the post-imperial penis envy of several UK posters to the surface and the thread turned into Yank-bashing session.
It's funny, the US posters generally take this in good heart but whenever they have a go back, the UK posters get really offended and serious. Have a read back over the thread and you'll see what I mean.
Really quite pathetic, guys. Especially you, PompeySailor.
It's funny, the US posters generally take this in good heart but whenever they have a go back, the UK posters get really offended and serious. Have a read back over the thread and you'll see what I mean.
Really quite pathetic, guys. Especially you, PompeySailor.
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Originally Posted by Lazer-Hound
Someone in good faith posted an aviation related picture featuring 3 CVNs, a B2 and a load of F18s. It was a nice photo. I liked it. But unfortunately this brought the post-imperial penis envy of several UK posters to the surface and the thread turned into Yank-bashing session.
It's funny, the US posters generally take this in good heart but whenever they have a go back, the UK posters get really offended and serious. Have a read back over the thread and you'll see what I mean.
Really quite pathetic, guys. Especially you, PompeySailor.
It's funny, the US posters generally take this in good heart but whenever they have a go back, the UK posters get really offended and serious. Have a read back over the thread and you'll see what I mean.
Really quite pathetic, guys. Especially you, PompeySailor.
I hope you are not complaining about my lack of taste, when I cannot challenge your http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...53#post2549953
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Originally Posted by Always_broken_in_wilts
Come on then, own up, whose been windin the septic's up
Can't believe you two twits fall for it every time
all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol induced
Can't believe you two twits fall for it every time
all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol induced
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Originally Posted by PompeySailor
Thank you. I am flattered. However, you might want to read the thread again and see at which point I entered the fray. Not 1st in by quite some way.
I hope you are not complaining about my lack of taste, when I cannot challenge your http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...53#post2549953
I hope you are not complaining about my lack of taste, when I cannot challenge your http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...53#post2549953
I enjoy banter, it's no different to the rivalries between our own forces or individual units. What a lot of folks don't always appreciate about our secret weapon (humour) is that we mostly direct it at ourselves. I can recall a night when I had a choice between laughing at some dark humour exopressed in response to the news that a colleague had been killed, or crying. We laughed and got on with the job. However, the comment about McDonalds fund raisding will have reminded people here of bounteous funds flowing across the pond for P.I.R.A : Too close to home, not funny. Particularly in the light of how a certain country has decided to be the leader in the global fight against terrorism, some of us here were already engaged in the war on terrorism 10, 20 & 30 years ago.
I have no probs with our colonial cousins, not so sure about their politicians but that goes for Blighty as well. I live right next to an old airfield with a memorial to the many brave crews of USAAF Liberators who never came back. I also fly from an ex USAAF airfield. I have nothing but respect, gratitude and admiration for those men.
My comment about McDonalds and IRA funding wasn't meant to be funny. It was meant to show how some will use any info to Yank bash. To the point of being gullible enough to believe from the title of a news article a burger joint gives to the Irish Repub Army. A simple read of the articles contents would show it spoke of Independent Retirement Accounts, quickly becoming the primary means in which Americans fund their retirement.
Front line combat aircraft in combat squadrons....how's that compare to the RAF lineup?
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I think this looks like the real deal, though. What force, what projection. Could be positioned anywhere in the world by FedEx within 24 hours 
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I think this looks like the real deal, though. What force, what projection. Could be positioned anywhere in the world by FedEx within 24 hours
Gay is the new ethnic....
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The photo at the start of this thread was taken during exercise Valiant Shield 2006.
See here for more piccies.
http://www.pacom.mil/exercises/vs2006/index.shtml
See here for more piccies.
http://www.pacom.mil/exercises/vs2006/index.shtml
Westie is entirely correct - some very stupid rumours concerning MacD's supporting PIRA did indeed circulate many years ago. Whereas the truth was as he says - independent retirement accounts! I think that the UK equivalent was Additional Voluntary Contributions....
Mind you, we did find ourselves in a certain bar in Boston some years ago. All sorts of Irish Republican stuff was painted on the walls - heroes of the Easter rising etc - so, as Ascoteers do, we stuffed ourselves for free on the Happy Hour food and cheap beer, then legged it before the begging bowl came round!
Mind you, we did find ourselves in a certain bar in Boston some years ago. All sorts of Irish Republican stuff was painted on the walls - heroes of the Easter rising etc - so, as Ascoteers do, we stuffed ourselves for free on the Happy Hour food and cheap beer, then legged it before the begging bowl came round!