Any Good Stories?
 

What a 'Rum' sort of story.

Apologies to Captain Morgan. My last post was a cheap crack.





Oh. Has anyone any Coke?

Any good stories?

Good question....certainly not in that article!! Perhaps Jet2 can't afford newspapers in the current climate!

Plus you don't need a degree to join the RAF (or do you now?).

Yeah, right.

I believe he has had quite a career; SAS in the Falklands, played International rugby for Wales etc etc - or so he has said.

I was on the same Vulcan squadron in 1977......
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...rnet/zxzxz.jpg

A pleasant enough fellow and his crew obtained the squadron's best bombing scores.

But, as regards to some of his other claims, sadly the words Mitty and Walter spring to mind.

Knowing the chap concerned . . .
 

. . . what brought all this on then?

DD

Because I am a contract pilot and work in various parts of the world with a handfull of licences I spend a lot of time as SLF with most major airlines in this world. All of them have in-flight magazines and most of them have similar articles about what various members of the company do. This is just another one.

So what did he do wrong?

The article is perfectly straightforward and gives a rundown of how he has ended up doing what he does and how he does it. Somebody posts it on prune and the vultures start picking it over introducing statements that are pure imagination.

How could he be a SAS trooper in the Falklands and a Vulcan captain in the throes of the end of the aircraft's service at the same time? If he had been any good at rugby the last place the RAF would have posted him would be to 1 Group. How could he claim to be either? He obviously didn't.

Banter is banter and ragging is ragging but to accuse people of being a Walter Mitty when they are just doing their job to make a buck is pure malice.

Thank God I work in parts of the World where success is admired and congratulated and not sneered at by jealous failures.

WTF - over?
 

Fareastdriver:
I think you and I are sitting on the outside of this little group of peeps who know this guy a bit. I must confess I haven't seen any ref. to his being in the SAS in the article in the original p*st. There seems to be a tone of "snidery" in a few of the above p8sts which demeans the people who sent them. I feel rather sad sometimes, reading this section of Pprune, as I had a wonderful time in the RAF for 37 years as aircrew; and the rapidity and frequency with which subjects descend in to "bitch-fests" with often obscene ad hominem attacks is quite unlike the service as I remember it.
The Ancient Mariner
PS I had only one page showed up from the link _ were there more?

Once again, I fear that anonymous and unannounced deletion of posts by unidentified Mods has rendered a thread unintelligible to readers.

Fine, not my trainset.

It happened a year ago on a 'gay' discussion where things were written which were of an opposing view but but not 'in the spirit' of inclusion. We shall never know. They were deleted, and consequently the discussion appeared quite random with references to deleted posts.

You couldn't tell your arse from your armpit.

I thought that was the aim?

Nothing has been deleted from this thread. Continue to play with your trainset uninhibited by fear.

Well said Monty:ok:

I agree with Rossian; there are people out there who know this person from his past lives. As Beagle intimates, a WM character, which is amusing, there sometimes has been a deeper problem that has had a major detrimental affect on other peoples' lives. Overall, I suppose, it is better left 'out of mind out of sight' - he obviously does.

WRU Player Archive
 

Wayne Morgan does not show up on the Welsh Rugby Union player archive?

WRU: Searchable Wales Player Archive

Dendmar
 

Check your PM's

3P:ok:

Ahh come on, a little embellishment on the CV never harmed anybody. Mind you if my boss ever finds out there is no tail gunner on a Harrier, i'm up sh*t creek.

OK.

Just back after a few days away to see a MOD has inserted his/her input to assure me that nothing has been deleted and the trainset is fine, continue playing.

Thanks, Mum/Dad.

Like I say, it's not my trainset, and I do like to watch and sometimes join in.

Dear Mod.

Is there any way I can see your profile? Are you ex-mil? Or Ryanair?

I'm not being arrsey, but some stuff has been deleted over the years and one suspects an agenda or two.

A few years ago, in the spirit of banter you get on a squadron, I described a Scottish poster of being a 'porridge wog', in response to being described as a 'limp-wristed sassenach poof house'.

There was no offence intended on either side, none was taken. This is, after all the mil section of an aircrew rumour site.

I appreciate name-calling can be considered a bit play ground in the cold light of day, but you only banter people you like, you take the p*ss out of those you don't, and there's a difference.

When you delete a post, or add to it, please put in a quick, 'Deleted for racist nonsense'/ 'Deleted because I disagree'.

It makes it easier for people to keep track of what's going on.

Or don't. I have no say in the matter.

Great site despite all the above.:ok:

Monty,

That was one of the simplest, yet most effective posts I've seen in a few years on here. MODs, a response would be appreciated, as this is a very valid point. Mind you, as Monty says, if you don't want to, then it is your train set, after all! :sad::sad:

I visit this site, but,

Who is the Mod who wrote:

Nothing has been deleted from this thread. Continue to play with your trainset uninhibited by fear.

Dear Mod.

I have no fear. It's not my trainset, it's yours.
Posts HAVE been deleted from this and other threads by you, and others with the ability to do so.

It's not unreasonable to ask why.

When you delete posts you totally cock up (if that's OK with you) the THREAD of the discussion.

Is it not the case that posters can delete their own posts? I'm sure I've done it when I've written real b*ll*cks. I would like to see the post numbering sequence maintained when a post is deleted so that it is obvious to all that something has gone; and than we could understand why a thread has suddenly lost all logic.

This is Post #20, BTW.