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  • The only reason why this magnificent schoolboy thread is still alive is thanks to the derails, politics, great piss taking and of course the usual "Look, i have a point better than yours, I'm not a geek!", without all that it would have already been buried under tons of boredom.

  • What Marcom said.

  • It's not just armed forces that get to fly fast jets. No. You're right. But they do tend to be the only ones who get to fly warplanes.

    Other than on simulators or in novels you might read. Or weekly magazines you buy that build into a collection. First two weeks come with a binder and a free ekite forces magazine.

    Lol. Why not actually do some research on something you have such vitriol for?

    I love how this is all being brought back down to something to do with pre-pubescent kids.

    Hang on, let me ring up all my ex-colleagues and let them know that some people on the internet think they're kids.

    NO. Hang on. Put down that guidance system design. Don't you know designing avionic systems is for kids?

    You! Put down that landing gear and grow up!

  • The only reason why this magnificent schoolboy thread is still alive is thanks to the derails, politics, great piss taking and of course the usual "Look, i have a point better than yours, I'm not a geek!", without all that it would have already been buried under tons of boredom.

    I am a geek and I know it. Big deal.

    Let me just start trolling the various IT threads to let them know the computer languages they know and love are used in aircraft design and missile guidance.

  • Put down that landing gear and grow up!

    this is humours because this is a thread about aircraft.

    i like to explain jokes to defuse tension.

  • ^^Be my guest, can't wait.

  • That's not really what he's saying though, is it?

    Maybe I'm still struggling to see the point then.

    We all know war planes are designed to kill people.

    You don't agree with war so you have decided that it's wrong to like war planes.

    I don't like killing people but I fucking love planes. I love the design, I love how much work goes into creating something that can fly so fast and be so manoeuvrable. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have spent 5 years of my life learning how to do it and subsequently working in that field.

    Your personal opinions mean that you feel it's OK to insult people and belittle people contributing to this thread.

    My point was that I have never seen anything achieved by people who troll and talk shit on an internet forum.

    If you have a problem with war planes you're going to get the far side of fucking nowhere by continuing to do that. Why not get up and go out and do something about it.

    My reason for saying I'm spending my money is because unlike the people who are trolling this thread, I want to fly, so I'm doing something about it. Just like I wanted to learn how to design planes, so I did something about it. I also wanted to work in aircraft design, so I did something about it.

  • "would it be cliched to post the nazis in jackboots?"

    Godwin's Law invoked and I claim my £5 from the internet gate keeper.

  • Fair enough, everyone is allowed their own opinion, if you have a problem with this thread, great, I am not stopping you having an opinion.

    However I am not going out and ruining other people's threads when they post about stuff I don't agree with.

    I'm done talking about it, I'll just start posting more photos of planes I like.

  • NH

    Stepping aside from the fact that there must be specialist sites were you can indulge yourself with like minded individuals over your fighterplanefetish :^]

    You're inevitably going to take a bit of flak [pun intended] on a thread dedicated to killing machines

    You: Oh listen to the hum and pitch of a perfectly designed jet turbine
    A N Other: that's the noise I heard before I lost my home and family

    Course people are going to get a bit more vexed than if you were talking about lacing patterns

  • Which nation has the largest airforce in europe?

    Most fast jet fighter/bombers?

    It's the peaceloving Swedes, famously neutral and unwilling to take sides.

    Therefore, fighter jets must have some other purpose than aggression- or, they are dead handy for getting flat pack furniture home fast.

  • B-2 "Spirit" stealth bomber, these things are just incredible.
    Cost around $1 Billion each! :S

  • Why not rename the thread:

    "Aircraft appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc"

    It's fine to have a cars thread, why not an aircraft thread?

  • Lol... this thread is so dumb.

    I couldn't give two shits if these machines you war-mongers are wanking over kill thousands of poor little women and children and kittens and puppies and bunny rabbits every day. That aint none of my concearn.

    This thread is so dumb because its a thread about fucking warplanes on a goddamn cycling forum!
    It's just as dumb as the car thread, the footbal thread, the tractor thread, the fucking dumb-as-shit i'm depressed and want your sympathy thread, the even more fucking dumb-as-shit i just got dumped and want your sympathy thread, and pretty much every other thread that has abso-fucking-loutley nothing to do with riding a motherfucking bike.

    LOL WAC FFS FML ROFL etc etc...

  • Cycling forum, yes. Online community also. Is it wrong that people in a community that may be formed around one particular thing would want to discuss other areas that may have a shared interest?

    You could always ignore the thread?

    #justsayin

  • Yes, very fucking wrong.
    Music, films etc etc... fair enough.... But warplanes, tractors and hovercrafts?!!??

    A line, we must have.

  • Cycling forum, yes. Online community also. Is it wrong that people in a community that may be formed around one particular thing would want to discuss other areas that may have a shared interest?

    You could always ignore the thread?

    #justsayin

    So other members of this community should just mind their own business if they disagree with what you're doing in the communal space? Some community...

  • Yes, very fucking wrong.

    Well your idea of a community doesn't strike me as a particularly good one. Sounds like a walled "paradise" or something.

    Music, films etc etc... fair enough.... But warplanes, tractors and hovercrafts?!!??

    Photography? Sport? Design? Fashion? Humor? Etc...

  • Good to see pack animal behaviour in action.

  • What if I said I liked the bare, bleak, minimal construction of gulags and concentration camps?

    Then you'd be Brian Ferry and not Damo...

  • Photography? Sport? Design? Fashion? Humor? Etc...

    Yes... these are also dumb threads to have on a cycling forum.... I even post in some of them, and I'll admit that they have no place here!

    Add the architecture thread to that list too.... What a load of shit.

  • Either you can have 'just bicycles', or you can have 'we're a community, we can choose what we like' and accept the argument that is part of the process of choosing what we like.

  • I've never seen Top Gun, btw, was it any good?

  • Cocktail was pretty good though...

  • Risky Business is where its at!

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