Sir Lenny Henry? Clearly not getting it for his service to comedy.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Classic Jorge]

They go down even further if they then insist on being addressed by their pathetic bauble.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Ashberto]

who is literally worse than Hitler.

[Jake]

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/06/13/c9f55432-8a91-43ad-955f-b1f63d879146/thumbnail/620x350/0db2b2b84cc9d81fe4c7528122c5ef02/kkk86085408.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

http://sniffpetrol.com/2015/06/08/concern-grows-for-whitmars h/#.VXbhz1LRY3g (http://sniffpetrol.com/2015/06/08/concern-grows-for-whitmarsh/#.VXbhz1LRY3g)

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Honda have completely f**ked up. This season is a write off anyway because they've now used almost all their engines so there will be grid penalties and drive throughs between now and November.

20kph slower than the top speed car in Canada :hehe: A bit of a farce really.

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

So only correct then that one is referred to as such.

Worse for me is the retired Army Officer who still retains his title.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

:hehe:

[Berni]

And they give those to Lollipop ladies, ffs!

[Berni]

However, insisting on your rank below that level is considered very poor form. Majors themselves are a bit of a grey area, though, I think.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

To ask or insist on being referred to as such is surely the hallmark of a complete c**t.

It is a meaningless title outside their world. I know many Doctors and Professors for example but would never dream of referring to them as such outside of if I ever addressed them in a professional sense.

Thankfully I don't move in Military circles else it would cause me huge issues.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

like they hadn't even started shaving.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

do you get any cash or some sort of droit de seigneur-type privileges or anything?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

That is exactly what you should address them as if they insist on this ridiculous charade.

[Berni]

from the Muppets. This was not reassuring.

[Classic Jorge]

MORNING FAWLTY!!!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/23/1358954841839/Major-Gowen-Fawlty-Towers-011.jpg

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.abload.de/img/terry89x2h.gif

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

of an A320. These guys can be 20 years old with a grand total of 250 hours flying experience.

:-(

Unfortunately the growth in air travel is so great and the pressure for pilots so high, there is no way they are going to go back to proper training.

There is no way I'm going on a budget airline ever again.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

There I was, shooting the breeze with a trolley dolly as I was stuck behind the drinks wagon. She mentioned in passing it was a female captain and I voiced my astonishment at which point the conversation kind of died.

:-

f**ked if I would let a bint fly a plane.

[Berni]

Firstname Second-Name', which I find awfully cumbersome.

I mean obviously no-one in their right mind would insist on being called Dr or Professor rather than 'Steve', but you would always give them their honorific if you were addressing them formally, surely? I agree that insisting on being called 'Sir Steve' does make you a c**t, though. Mind you, it's only polite to address them first as that and give them the opportunity to ask you just call them Steve, I'd have thought.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

There is no place for such rudeness. In fact, this behaviour would make one much more of an arsehole than the arsehole in question. IMO.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

about 19 or 20.

[Berni]

Surely if there were any crashes due to inexperience, this would cause people to go back to proper training, wouldn't it?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They know how to train a peeloh, do BA. He's unlikely to kill you.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=4028 646&rid=173&S=f3df426884f640b120e36662dc278e74 (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=4028646&rid=173&S=f3df426884f640b120e36662dc278e74)

[Berni]

Can you imagine? :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Those chapos also weren't operating incredibly complex machinery. A WWII aircraft, whilst not easy to fly, is incredibly simple as far as systems management is concerned.

It will happen, mark my words.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Sir William Clark, ex-Tory financial type in the days of Thatcher.

I kept my mouth fully shut just in case he thought I was going to blow him up.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Some of the tales I hear from skippers about FOs these days would make your skin crawl.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

And now I accept this apology also.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The two best pilots I ever knew were both women.

[Ashberto]

Button won't have forgotten that Honda ****ness caused him many years of misery until a designer came up with the double diffuser in the car that became the Brawn.

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

She popped out of the cockpit at one point and I clocked her. The uniform suggested Pilot or Stripper and given the circumstances I went with the former.

She *seemed* to fly the thing perfectly well but then we both know a computer does most of the work.

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

That said, imagine pulling the Vicar of Dibley's keys out of the punch bowl

[Ashberto]

What was the occasion?

He probably used to regale his dinner-guests with the story of the day he met one of the Undertones but didn't know what to say to him.

[Berni]

I do wonder about the etiquette there, tbh. If your wife is a stunner, but you find yourself in a situation where some other bloke gets a go on her and you're stuck with his dog of a wife, can you object on the grounds that it's not a fair swap? Or is that just the rub of the green? Surely there should be some sort of seeding system (as it were)?

[Ashberto]

You may be a learned fellow, Sir Bernard, but you know little of data definition conventions. I, for my sins, know too much. http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

His son was the MD and Sir William on the board so he would be in every few months for board meetings.

He was brought round to meet the staff once.

Security outside and all that. Late 80s / early 90s, so different times.

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Light and military aircraft have cockpits. Airliners have flight decks.

[Ashberto]

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/6/12/1339528033242/John-Major-arrives-at-Lev-008.jpg

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

WH Smith, Finchley Road - 1987, released after about 6 months as "not suitable for retail".

:-|

I then built Sainsburys on Green Lanes, 3-4 months.

City boy Nov 1988 - 2002. Champagne and cocaine in Corney & Barrow*


*never actually occured. Pints of beer in the Fox instead.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Cockpit / flight deck.

Tomato / Tomato*.




*Doesn't work so well when written down

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's the only thing that will free you from the shackles of your mundane existence, sw.

[Classic Jorge]

Shame old Hezza didnt get a call up, mind

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

Speaking of harpies, I'm was a bit disappointed in Dany's security detail last night. What's the point in having the best army in the world if they're never there when you need them?

Oh, and Hezza was a complete c**t, I'm afraid. He only hated Thatch because he was an aristo and she was a jumped-up oik.

[Berni]

furniture', which, as withering put-downs of the nouveau riche go, I always thought was pretty good. :hehe:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

What if he clips a wing tip in a crosswind, though, and you end up being pulled from the flames and spend the rest of your miserable life suspended in a saline bath watching your melted skin slough off? Eh?

There's cause for worry.

[Classic Jorge]

JUST LOOK AT THE f**kER! http://www.streetphotography.uk.com/LBarge/D_POL_1193.jpg

[Berni]

changed imo.

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

so yes, I was wrong. At least he was a proper jumped-up capitalist and not a ghastly little shopkeeper though.

And yes, funny line from old Clark.

[Classic Jorge]

And Westland, obvs

[Berni]