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downsizer 12th Sep 2023 18:20


Originally Posted by beardy (Post 11501649)
Isn't this about the Air Cadets and Gliding?

Yep. And the commandant of the Air Cadets loves this stuff. Just look at his twatter feed.

langleybaston 12th Sep 2023 19:11

MANure.

RoMAN

MANipulate

Other than reading about such bollocks gonads* I am happy to record that my life thus far has been untroubled by any of this awakened stuff, although I did struggle to work out which Crapper to use in a nearby city recently. Such was the need , I made the decision rapidly, seemingly correctly.

* ovaries are included by some authorities as gonads, but I stopped theoretical Biology when I discovered practical.

Dufo 12th Sep 2023 20:05

There are two genders. The rest are psychiatric disorders and should be assessed as unfit to work/fly as with other similar conditions.

langleybaston 12th Sep 2023 20:10

Stand by, stand by!

Rigga 12th Sep 2023 20:50

Genetics don’t lie….so why should we?

Out Of Trim 12th Sep 2023 21:12

I find it incredibly sad that the leaders of the few.(RAF) Devote so much time, effort and waste into this woke campaign nonsense instead of working through the things that really matter! I despair 😞. :ugh:

bugged on the right 13th Sep 2023 01:02

As an ex serviceman, I read about this crap and can only roar laughing.

megan 13th Sep 2023 04:10

We learnt all this stuff about words back in kindergarten, 76 years ago for me. ;) I dispare also least there be any doubt..

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

Stationair8 13th Sep 2023 04:35

What about the term airscrew?

What about the term grease nipple?

Just don't want to offend anybody!

Stitchbitch 13th Sep 2023 05:29

Surely this is air cadets only and not the ‘real RAF’.

Either way, does it really make a difference to the organisation’s output or will it encourage/discourage young people from joining?

Rebus 13th Sep 2023 06:04


Originally Posted by Bob Viking (Post 11501585)
It amazes me how quickly after leaving the RAF that I stopped caring about cr@p like this. Bearing in mind that people currently serving either don’t post on here or aren’t especially bothered and just get on with their jobs, it’s incredible that a bunch of people who left long before I did can still allow their knickers to get knotted over something that doesn’t affect them.

I find life is much easier if you see stories like this and just adopt a ‘ho hum’ attitude. If it doesn’t affect you, move on.

It’s fair to say that my current work location does not hinder itself with such concern over pronouns. Neither do I expect they will in my lifetime. Ho hum.

BV

But, if you aren't bothered by it and you want to move on and want to have a ho hum, couldn't care less attitude, why are you bothered by this thread. Surely, ho hum, you should just move on.

Bob Viking 13th Sep 2023 06:58

Rebus
 
I’m more bothered by why people get so annoyed by all this cr@p. If it doesn’t directly affect you, why get annoyed by it?

Yes I realise my statement is a direct contradiction. Are you now getting annoyed by the fact that I’m getting annoyed about people getting annoyed about stuff?

BV


Saintsman 13th Sep 2023 07:10

No Sir or Ma’am either I suppose?

NutLoose 13th Sep 2023 10:04

I feel for the poor bugger that has had to trawl through QR's to convert them into KR's to be told to start again and check for wokeiness lol.

NutLoose 13th Sep 2023 10:14


Originally Posted by Bob Viking (Post 11501955)
I’m more bothered by why people get so annoyed by all this cr@p. If it doesn’t directly affect you, why get annoyed by it?

Yes I realise my statement is a direct contradiction. Are you now getting annoyed by the fact that I’m getting annoyed about people getting annoyed about stuff?

BV

Not annoyed, more aghast at the whole farce of it all, and the what or where do you stop in it all, as it can open up a complete and utter sh*tshow, after we have put the world to rights on sexes, colour, race, religion etc, what do we then start on to pander to the minority in life that see the need to jump onto the next bandwagon...

We have managed to survive alright with Man and Women since the dawn of our species, but in a scant few years we have attempted to throw all that we know out of the window to appease a minority..

History is just that, history, it is an ever evolving timeline, and just because a few object to what our fathers did in the past, you cannot erase that, you can disagree with it and learn from it, but it happened rightly or wrongly. Trying to erase that past can mean "Man" can never learn from their mistakes and move on.

Martin the Martian 13th Sep 2023 12:38


Originally Posted by Dufo (Post 11501750)
There are two genders. The rest are psychiatric disorders and should be assessed as unfit to work/fly as with other similar conditions.

Ppruner sets out to prove that dinosaurs are not extinct.

pilotmike 13th Sep 2023 13:29


Originally Posted by NutLoose (Post 11501589)
Tut Tut, by infering we wear knickers, you are designating us all as either cross dressers or female... ;) :}:p

… yet from your username, I had you down a bloke / man / male / non-vagina'd / be-testicle'd (maybe just half castrated! - the 'nut' is singular after all!) person that WASN'T wearing any knickers!

NutLoose 13th Sep 2023 13:29

We could of course just call everyone knobs, as I have worked with knobs from all sexes.

pilotmike 13th Sep 2023 13:31


Originally Posted by NutLoose (Post 11502196)
We could of course just call everyone knobs, as I have worked with knobs from all sexes.

True, though I find I'm usually surrounded by twats!

langleybaston 13th Sep 2023 15:10

Or wankers?

99% of the population say they do it / did it, and 1% are liars.
One size fits all.


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