People have suggested I grow up in the past.

[Sir C]

If growing up means being a curmudgeonly old fart I can see the attraction of not doing so, tbf. Nothing more absurd and childish than 22 blokes chasing a pigs bladder around a field, after all.

Nonsense. Football is a game of endeavour, skill, strength, speed, courage, dedication, power, subtelty, balletic grace. To watch a football match is to see men at the peak of physical, moral and mental exertion.

Fiddling with the buttons to make pretendy people move on a screen is, well, a bit silly.

[Ash]

To watch a football match is to see men at the peak of physical, moral and mental exertion.

You didn't see Arsenal much then last season.

Did you find that Flight Sim in the end btw? The one for your friend.

[Sir C]

You didn't see Arsenal much then last season.

Did you find that Flight Sim in the end btw? The one for your friend.

Ha! No, you see, there's the thing. I never went anywhere near such a flight sim, for I am not a child (Although there are professional flight simulator packages which are useful for practising instrument procedures, but that's work, not play.)

[redgunamo]

Ha! No, you see, there's the thing. I never went anywhere near such a flight sim, for I am not a child (Although there are professional flight simulator packages which are useful for practising instrument procedures, but that's work, not play.)

Oh, no. I'm not having that. It's all the same thing nowadays. Or anyway, work is play, in that it is not serious and involves no real sacrifice.

[Sir C]

Oh, no. I'm not having that. It's all the same thing nowadays. Or anyway, work is play, in that it is not serious and involves no real sacrifice.

Well flying a non-precision approach down to minima with 300 people down the back is probably quite serious, no?

[redgunamo]

Well flying a non-precision approach down to minima with 300 people down the back is probably quite serious, no?

Surely not, if you enjoy flying and they pay you for it?

[Sir C]

Surely not, if you enjoy flying and they pay you for it?

You can enjoy it as much as you like, whilst banking your money, but that's not going to reduce the misery of the relatives left behind after you've forgotten to set QFE and piled into the ILS.