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Biggles Flies Undone 17th Jun 2005 10:09

Why NOT to join the RAF
 
My local TV Weathergirl has spilled the beans on the real reason.

I knew there had to be a reason other than the T&C.... :hmm:

JessTheDog 17th Jun 2005 10:34


Initially wanting to be a fighter pilot she decided she disliked the blue jumper/wool skirt uniform
It never bothered me! ;)

Hueymeister 17th Jun 2005 10:45

I like the skirt...shows off my cycling pins just right..and if I go commando my tackle gets a good airing.....oooohh ok matron just coming...time for my medication again.......

ShyTorque 17th Jun 2005 11:08

"a rather disturbing obsession with goats?"

Say no more...... :suspect:

Onan the Clumsy 17th Jun 2005 13:59

I think THIS bit's a little disturbing myself...

excited about setting up ... home in Tunbridge Wells!




Maybe she should have joined the Luftwaffe. Aren't their jumpers and skirts a fetching shade of grey?

tablet_eraser 17th Jun 2005 22:38

Though not one of the two-winged master race, I think I'd be accurate if I said that few (if any) fighter pilots often wear blue jumpers and wool skirts. In the cockpit, at any rate. Who wears wool skirts anyway (apart from the Scots)?

Bizarre... :bored:

Though not as pretty as Biggles' weather-girl, this forecaster has more solid RAF credentials: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweat...ylor_faq.shtml

Always_broken_in_wilts 17th Jun 2005 23:19

Wot about cos it's going down hill rapidly:}

all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol induced

TOPBUNKER 17th Jun 2005 23:40

"she disliked the blue jumper/wool skirt uniform and so fell back"

Hmmm... 'FELL BACK'

OR...

Did she just have the integrity not to "fall back" on her own back.

Then "fall" 'with-child'.

And claim squillions from HMG for being 'wrongly' sacked for not adhering to her 'contract'. And waste a couple of million quids of dosh during wasted flying training.

On the other hand, the idiots who so love following the RAC or any other uniform 'trend-setter' may be wholly responsible for the RAF not getting this particular lady recruited. Are the uniform deciders about to be moved out of Innsworth BTW or are they already buried within the corporate HQ?

Oh, and by the way.

[On- theme - she quotes being evacuated to Egypt.]

If President Tony firmly belived that there was a clear and immediate danger (45 minutes) to the Brits in Cyprus, why did he not order their evacuation or order appropriate self-protection (NBC) kit to be isssued to them all?!

A2QFI 19th Jun 2005 18:48

The top weather totty on the BBC is East Midland's appropriately named Sara Blizzard. http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweat...blizzard.shtml

Metman 20th Jun 2005 13:58

Hell, I wanted to be a fighter pilot, but had the much more convincing excuse having 4 eyes, and an unyeilding attraction to kipper ties and sandals with socks....

:cool:

Mind you, shes worried about the skirts being itchy (must have been a cadet in a former life to know that!), and then went into a profession where everyone has a beard....?

:=

ORAC 20th Jun 2005 15:27

where everyone has a beard... :E

Onan the Clumsy 20th Jun 2005 15:38


The top weather totty on the BBC is East Midland's appropriately named Sara Blizzard.
:ooh: Have you been in prison? She looks like someone carved a haloween pumpkin.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/images/...rablizzard.jpg

reynoldsno1 21st Jun 2005 01:00


Kaddy Lee Preston
....Yorkshire lass?, this sounds more like a Texan serial killer ......:ooh:

Aeronut 21st Jun 2005 07:21

Stand aside,


I consider myself something of an expert in these matters:


Lara Lewington Channel 5 Weather girl:8

http://www.victorianpages.freeola.com/llewington.html



Joanna Rice Sky News Weather girl "The Weather in Leather" :8

http://skynewscentre.co.uk/viewpictu...ery=joannarice

Only problem is, I am always left wondering what the weather will be!

Matt Skrossa 21st Jun 2005 07:47

Join the Met Office and see the world!!

Extract from Matt Taylor's Met Office Career:

'The bulk of the next three and a half years were spent working at RAF Cranwell, in Lincolnshire, but he also got to the opportunity to undertake detachments as far a field as Aberdeen and Hemsby, near Great Yarmouth'.

Keep it up son and one day you'll make it to Exeter, or even Inverness!

Metman 21st Jun 2005 09:40

You know, Met. Office people actually volunteer to go Mount Pleasant, and even enjoy it.....

Circuit Basher 21st Jun 2005 09:47

Aeronut - not a Channel 5 / Sky weather viewer, but thanks for those links! Lara Lewington appears to be, errmmmm, endowed with some good assets (despite the mole on the left one!! ;)), but the nasal profile appears a bit hooky (not that I'm much of a one to talk!!).

Joanna Rice - looks a bit 'jolly hockey sticks' - presenting in a cricket jumper and buttoned-up sailors blazer indeed!

Andrea McLean from GMTV could do the job for me, if she begged for long enough! ;) :E

Wycombe 21st Jun 2005 11:06

I'm sorry, but it's Helen Willetts that does it for me.

I'd get my coat, but it's a bit warm out!

neilmac 21st Jun 2005 11:34

Why NOT join the RAF???
 
Being only a mere RAF Traffic Controller and a lowly PPL holder I was enticed into this site by the headline 'Why NOT join the RAF'.........what was the original reason for this headline?? Or is it I just don't understand Mil Aircrew and Ill poke of back to the safe enviroment of ATC sites.

Yours confused from Basrah

Fg Off Bloggs 21st Jun 2005 11:56

Neilmac,

You wouldn't pass the eye sight test! It's called 'Why NOT to join the RAF'. It's a statement not a question!

Sharpen up!

C130 Techie 21st Jun 2005 12:01

Metman

You sound surprised

As its the only place in the world where you regularly get all four seasons in one day I imagine it would be a must for any budding metman.:ok:

Aeronut 21st Jun 2005 12:35

Circuit Basher - a fair critique. I never actually noticed that Lara has a nose :8

Joanna Rice shakes of the Jolly Hockey Sticks image in a tight black leather catsuit, or a tight leopard skin top thing, but alas I cannot find pics. Ironically the "meteorologist" actually dresses as a cloud at the bottom page 2:

http://skynewscentre.co.uk/viewpictu...nnarice&page=2

Metman 21st Jun 2005 12:54

C130 Techie - quite the opposite... I was one of those who absolutely loved it, and would go back in a shot if I could. Amazing place!

I guess the difference between the Met. Office and the RAF in this case is that the Met. Office ask for volunteers (my fanancial situation at the time kind of forced me to volunteer but hey!), whereas the RAF send you there....

To be honest, for me it really was a choice between the Met. Office and the RAF at the time. Met. Office was the first choice (cos I like the weather - awww) and was the job I ended up with, but on a front-line RAF station - best of both worlds! And now I'm not in the Met Office, I'm a VRT Officer!

I really should hand this username over to someone who deserves it now..!

Talking Radalt 21st Jun 2005 15:56


Ironically the "meteorologist" actually dresses as a cloud at the bottom page 2
...or it was Abba Tribute Night on Sky.

Either way I want her to wear that red leather number and then tell me I've been a very naughty boy. :E

Onan the Clumsy 21st Jun 2005 16:16

I think you need to visit the R/T Discipline thread :}

Canary Boy 22nd Jun 2005 07:59

A young lass that could make an old man very happy…

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/midland.../shefali.shtml]

Edited to cater for my inability to get to grips with modern technology...

vecvechookattack 22nd Jun 2005 08:10

What ever happened to Suzzane Charlton. Now there was a girl who would get onto myu Xmas card list. Not only was she gorgeous but her Dad could have sneaked me into OT on a Saturday afternoon.

Biggles Flies Undone 22nd Jun 2005 09:00

:rolleyes: Suzanne Charlton was so skinny she'd have to run around in the shower to get wet :uhoh:

Czech TV station Nova have a weather girl who wears less clothes the hotter the forecast and in a heatwave reads the wx completely naked. Don't really get much for our BBC licence fee, do we? :mad:

Circuit Basher 22nd Jun 2005 10:11

From the BBC Web site, looks like she left them in 1999.

Found what she's doing now - looks like she's working for Warwickshire Police as a community poilce officer!! ;) :D Oooohhhh - Suzanne Charlton in black stockings and webbing :-))~~~ :D

Talking Radalt 22nd Jun 2005 14:40

...and let's not forget the handcuffs Basher. :E

Onan the Clumsy 22nd Jun 2005 15:20


Found what she's doing now - looks like she's working for Warwickshire Police as a community poilce officer!!
The Warwickshire Police? :confused:

Shouldn't she be working for the Met?



:}

neilmac 22nd Jun 2005 16:40

Well done Bloggs!
 
U found the mistake , nowt gets past u guys!


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