Thank you families!!! No thanks NOTW!!!
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Just got that through and was going to post it, you beat me to it.
Most excellent, and a salient reminder to our mutual friend, never to get on the wrong side of his woman
The pen may not be mightier than the sword, but it's a lot sharper
Just got that through and was going to post it, you beat me to it.
Most excellent, and a salient reminder to our mutual friend, never to get on the wrong side of his woman
The pen may not be mightier than the sword, but it's a lot sharper
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For reasons best known to themselves the News of the World declined to publish my views on the article
I wonder how many others have had their views censored.
I wonder how many others have had their views censored.
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Well said spannermonkey. Perhaps you should post more often-it's good to read balanced adult comments.
ps. I've just reread your first post and recommend it to others. Who said gingerbeers were thick?
ps. I've just reread your first post and recommend it to others. Who said gingerbeers were thick?
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You can teach a monkey to ride a bike.....but have you ever seen a monkey fix one?
Now who is thick...hahaha
BTW the The rag did not publish my comments either
You can teach a monkey to ride a bike.....but have you ever seen a monkey fix one?
Now who is thick...hahaha
BTW the The rag did not publish my comments either
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A salient reminder that whenever a journalist is being generous to you, it's simply a recce for the knife in the back. This is the same vitriol spewing, tit showing gutter press that sanctioned phone tapping and electronic eavesdropping to find stories, and is run by the offspring of the original antipodean mental pygmy. Be outraged by all means, but surely not surprised.
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My fear is the most likely outcome is the banning of families being given these flights.
As a Nimrod operator we were never permitted to fly family members, never knew why, insurance was always quoted, we never questioned it. (You could fly ATC though.)
Anyway, my son, a rigger, arranged a flight on a VC10 K1 for his mum, (and me before I was put out to grass). She had a smile on her face for months after that. You cannot put a value on that kind of action.
So if someone who is important enough to influence such actions is reading this thread and is of a mind to stop such flights can I say PLEASE DON'T, the benefit to the families of such flights far outweighs any negative publicity such rags produce, most will forget in a day anyway.
As a Nimrod operator we were never permitted to fly family members, never knew why, insurance was always quoted, we never questioned it. (You could fly ATC though.)
Anyway, my son, a rigger, arranged a flight on a VC10 K1 for his mum, (and me before I was put out to grass). She had a smile on her face for months after that. You cannot put a value on that kind of action.
So if someone who is important enough to influence such actions is reading this thread and is of a mind to stop such flights can I say PLEASE DON'T, the benefit to the families of such flights far outweighs any negative publicity such rags produce, most will forget in a day anyway.
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For reasons best known to themselves the News of the World declined to publish my views on the article
I wonder how many others have had their views censored.
I wonder how many others have had their views censored.
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I live in a village also regularly used by Chinooks for unlit night flights; a Top Tip, don't buy cheap Russian Youkon NVG's, mine packed up after 11.9 months !
I'm happy to hear or maybe see Chinooks or others training, but the local NIMBY parish rag mentioned ' menacing ' Chinooks at night; I've put Odiham ( who were very helpful ) onto them, with a bit of luck they are going to hold a presentation at the local hall.
I'm happy to hear or maybe see Chinooks or others training, but the local NIMBY parish rag mentioned ' menacing ' Chinooks at night; I've put Odiham ( who were very helpful ) onto them, with a bit of luck they are going to hold a presentation at the local hall.
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I doubt my comment about 'not pissing on Mr Drake if he were on fire' will get published either.
On another note. Why has PPrune become more secure than my online banking?!?
On another note. Why has PPrune become more secure than my online banking?!?
What do you expect from the News of the World?
It's a filthy little rag, produced for the lowest levels of society - the unintelligent, non-achieving no-hopers with no intellect and the merest whiff of literacy, and catering to their taste for salacious scandal, their misbegotten envy and their prurient need to tut at what they can't understand.
And their journos are the kind of hacks who give the profession the stereotype that is otherwise unfair and unearned.
This is not: "A salient reminder that whenever a journalist is being generous to you, it's simply a recce for the knife in the back."
Many of us are your friends, and your strongest supporters, and are as tired as you are of the kind of pointless shi.te that the red tops produce.
It's a filthy little rag, produced for the lowest levels of society - the unintelligent, non-achieving no-hopers with no intellect and the merest whiff of literacy, and catering to their taste for salacious scandal, their misbegotten envy and their prurient need to tut at what they can't understand.
And their journos are the kind of hacks who give the profession the stereotype that is otherwise unfair and unearned.
This is not: "A salient reminder that whenever a journalist is being generous to you, it's simply a recce for the knife in the back."
Many of us are your friends, and your strongest supporters, and are as tired as you are of the kind of pointless shi.te that the red tops produce.
Below the Glidepath - not correcting
This is not: "A salient reminder that whenever a journalist is being generous to you, it's simply a recce for the knife in the back."
The Sun's "scoop" a few years back from some socially dysfunctional blunty about how Harrier pilots were pissing it up in Spain on the taxpayer's dime is exactly how Murdoch's rags should be remembered. The current "Our Boys" farrago is no more than a marketing promotion designed to ride in on the emotional bandwagon of the current operations and sell more papers. I don't have a problem with that - but recognise it for what it is. The British media believe they have a God-given right to discover, build, exploit and then discard any form of newsworthy item. They don't give a fat rat's arse whether it is a vertically challenged Scottish housewife or a limbless squaddie rotting in an NHS hell-hole, as long as it sells papers or has big tits.
I admire you for trying to maintain the last vestiges of any moral standards in your trade, but it must be a losing battle.
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Jacko,
Well said.
Newspapers are like politicians - we get the ones we deserve. On the rare occasions I have looked at the lower end of the newspaper range in the UK, I have been more in despair of the intellect of those that buy them, than the professionalism of those that sell them.
Well said.
Newspapers are like politicians - we get the ones we deserve. On the rare occasions I have looked at the lower end of the newspaper range in the UK, I have been more in despair of the intellect of those that buy them, than the professionalism of those that sell them.
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NOTW is not listening
In a scruffy article today called "Army trucks lie idle", one of Drake's fellow oiks, a Jamie Lyons, attempts to link parked up vehicles at Ashchurch from the huge recovery of equipment from Op TELIC with the air move of kit to Afghanistan.
Nothing new there from the NOTW, until it adds a lazy link to:
On 19 Jul 09, Lyons was rated as the NOTW Deputy Political Editor. Journalisted can find no email address known for Jamie Lyons and suggests that he could be found at the NOTW (Telephone: 0207 782 4000).
Based on the standard email format for NOTW, the email address might be [email protected].
If I get through, I will be sure to pass it on.
Nothing new there from the NOTW, until it adds a lazy link to:
There is also a shortage of Chinook helicopters, needed to safely transport men and equipment. Yet, as the News of the World revealed last week, some are being used to give JOYRIDES to RAF families at a base in Odiham, Hants.
Based on the standard email format for NOTW, the email address might be [email protected].
If I get through, I will be sure to pass it on.
