RAF Club Thread: Not in Good Health
 

What happened to the RAF Club thread? It appears to have been chopped, just as it was getting interesting. Perhaps the mods considered it blatant spamming or perhaps the Club itself did not welcome such open discussion of its membership practices.

I was enjoying it too - if you can't take a joke you shouldn't have joined? :}

It was a good thread and that there was a bit of to-ing and fro-ing is the sign of a good grown up discussion.

But it went past that and descended into what was frankly more like a bunch of old women with handbags at dawn by the end.

Sorry this is just to good to pass up....

Broadsword call Danny Boy..


He's a mod

Not so much a lifestyle choice as a fashion-statement.

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And that never got boring in Basrah where we did have a CP / FOB called Danny Boy.

I thought it was quite amusing actually. A couple of stereotypes were reinforced, intentionally by the antagonist and unintentionally by those who where "sucked in". Top quality entertainment.

So that's two RAF Club threads gone in a matter of weeks. The OP of the earlier one pulled it himself as he wasnt keen on the thread drift (pretty forlorn hope, trying to avoid thread drift on PPRuNe, I'd have thought), so maybe the same has happened this time (can't remember who started the later thread).

Any guesses how long this one will last?

I believe SOSL started the latest one, but I stand ready to be corrected.

Quite right' Avionker. I started the latest one and, regretfully, I pulled it.

It was one of the few threads on this board in which every single post was totally on topic, but it had become too dull for words.

Rgds SOS

The RAF has a club?


:E

Teeheehee.

Rgds SOS

Welcome to democracy, "the land of the free".

Thank god we're not like North Korea. Where people can not say what they want. Cough cough.

Ooo thats a nice blacked out helicopter thats suddenly started hovering above the cafe I'm sat in.

No, a minority part of the RAF has a club.

Not quite true. What about a minority part of the RAF's sons, daughters, mothers, fathers and sundry associates?

The RAF consists of more than just officers and their families period.... So the name of the club is a bit of a misnomer, so I think we should just call it a draw and agree to disagree :)

No disagreement here. I am of the opinion it should be open to more of the RAF.

I would rather see it open to more of the RAF than opening up to contractors, defence industry salesmen and others viewed as being "useful" to some members who can use it as a part of their RAF job and future networking. As long as the ex-techies can manage to refrain from "that" song in the dining room, I say come on in. Can you? :E

In all the posts in these recurring threads, many here need to remember that the RAF Club isn't part of the RAF. It's a completely separate enterprise. That's why VSOs don't get priority room bookings or the like.

Anyway, I've been paying my dues since 1977 and I love it. Walk in any time I'm there and present your PPRuNe ID card and I'll buy you a pint. Of course, I'll be in the Running Hourse Saloon and Whore House to evade the opressive dress regulations.

Is that "their aunts and their cousins that they reckon up by dozens"

Carrying on the Sir Joseph Porter theme, wander 00, I'm not sure about never having gone to sea, but I'll wager there are quite a few current members who have never been in the air!