Low flying military aircraft
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Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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According to some of the scare story guff one gets up here, apparently if Scotland gets Independence then the first thing that will happen is that Russia will invade....
Yeah, I'll have whatever these people are smoking!!
Yeah, I'll have whatever these people are smoking!!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
According to some of the scare story guff one gets up here, apparently if Scotland gets Independence then the first thing that will happen is that Russia will invade....
Yeah, I'll have whatever these people are smoking!!
There are always a few people who are a few sandwiches short of a picnic, who are willing to believe anything.
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
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- Back up north
[QUOTE 3034646, member: 1314"]It's just money for the boys (their girls tag along behind). It's that observation I've made that CC Café has been taken over by retired / semi-retired White Male peeps of a conservative type. And they hate being challenged. 'cos they have no brains.[/QUOTE]
A tad sexist, don't you think?
A tad sexist, don't you think?
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Why don't you start a new thread in CAD ? Then you can discuss sexism to your hearts content. This is a thread merely about low flying aircraft, and it could of course be any aircraft, not just jets. Microlites have been mentioned, and they're are plenty, of women who fly them
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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[QUOTE 3035283, member: 1314"]An observation on sexism is not sexist. Remind me again, in 2014, how many women are fighter pilots?
There is a bedrock of unreconstructed 70s attitudes that still harks back to a world of warrior myth-making, patronising colonialism and an arrogant assumption of the UK's position in the world.
Fighter jets and bombers aren't sexy exciting things. They're sordid killing machines which aren't there to stop us being invaded by Ivan the Terrible from the Eastern Wastelands where the cannibals live; they're designed to be sold to tyrants and dictators in shady back-hander deals to keep their peeps in line. They're as sexy as napalm cluster bombs.
However the peeps here may want to reinvent them as instruments of peace, they're not - they're instruments of war and blood, made and used by men, with women who support the thing standing on the touchlines waving and cheering the noble macho warrior. I think the increasing militarisation of the UK is to be decried, not encouraged.[/QUOTE]
+1!
There is a bedrock of unreconstructed 70s attitudes that still harks back to a world of warrior myth-making, patronising colonialism and an arrogant assumption of the UK's position in the world.
Fighter jets and bombers aren't sexy exciting things. They're sordid killing machines which aren't there to stop us being invaded by Ivan the Terrible from the Eastern Wastelands where the cannibals live; they're designed to be sold to tyrants and dictators in shady back-hander deals to keep their peeps in line. They're as sexy as napalm cluster bombs.
However the peeps here may want to reinvent them as instruments of peace, they're not - they're instruments of war and blood, made and used by men, with women who support the thing standing on the touchlines waving and cheering the noble macho warrior. I think the increasing militarisation of the UK is to be decried, not encouraged.[/QUOTE]
+1!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
That's one hell of a takeaway delivery service. What's the delivery charge? - a tad more than the £5 for orders under £20 that our takeaways impose.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
SHHHHH!! Don't be a spoil sport!
Now lets sit and watch
Where's me helmet . I'll just read my newspaper
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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- Craggy Island
£5?? Daylight robbery there mister!!
Anyway, it sounds like Amazon have thought the same with their drone service!
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Why don't we give the knee-jerk anti-military, left wing hippy-dippy shoot a miss for a change? Some people don't half want cyclists to live up to their image as lentil weaving beardie douchebags.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Unlike you. You just make sarcastic comments to and about people then bugger off. I have seen many threads where that is exactly what you do, and the people of which there are quite a few who tell you what they think of you, which by the way, isn't much.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Yes. And funnily enough women fly them as well. They are seen here quite a lot at the weekends
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Point of order, the cycling forums are elsewhere. This is the cafe forum, a shared space accomodating
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
No. I think they are clubs. Welshpool airport is only about 35 miles away from here. We get paragliders here as well. And light aircraft at weekends all or most I suspect come from welshpool.
