ForumHostPB

Well now it seems that, in spite of voting for a “strike”, the simpleton BA aircrews didn’t realise that this meant 12 days of industrial action and over Christmas as well.

Meanwhile on tonight’s news – apparently a cheap airline based in Edinburgh has just been put into Administration.…[Read more]

Oh and while I’m at it …. here’s one for Martin “The Hoff” Reed >>>>>>>>>

They still knock ….. but nowadays it’s twice on the pipe.

WOW !!! That takes me back a bit. Even Hughie Green looks young ….. and did anybody spot the ‘8 track stereo cassete’??? Ah, those were the days !!!

That’s an odd shaped mains driven vibrator she’s holding !

Mind you, it was the April 2002 edition so maybe they looked like that back then.

Hello ‘effed off’ from Dundee. The thing that intrigues me about all this is the fact that females are responsible for these attacks.

Maybe its because we are all reluctant to believe…[Read more]

Pete, to the extent that somebody else didn’t introduce BA’s pay structure for them, then I guess you’re right.

However, again to put this issue into context, it has to be remembered that BA was originally a “state sponsored” airline and was run along traditional civil service lines for decades. Their current situation has come about by all the…[Read more]

@jen_jen wrote:

@ForumHostPB wrote:

be flat chested (the bra having been previously burnt)

Does burning your bra make you flat-chested then?

Apparently so. It seems that setting fire to bras – and thus not wearing them – removes all possibility of support and over time the breasts sag lower and lower (towards the navel) thus giving a ‘flat chested’…[Read more]

Thank goodness I didn’t ever fancy her …… look how badly she’s aged.

Some interesting (and perhaps predictable) points – but consider the following figures which appeared in today’s Daily Telegraph and were sourced from the Civil Aviation Authority;

Airline

Total flight crew cost/flight—- Average income

BA …………… £15,051 ……………………………. £29,900

easy Jet…….. £3,016 ..…[Read more]

Yes Bas, that would go down well with the male train spotting fraternity – but not with ‘wimmin’ visitors from Lesbos, who seem to make up the majority of the ‘Wimmin’s Lib’ fascists.

I suspect that the archetypal feminist would DEMAND that the female depiction of the Fat Controller’s deputy should be: a) not the deputy at all but the ‘boss’…[Read more]

Pete, you can downsize staff by ‘natural wastage’ and voluntary redundancy, but this generally takes quite a long time. Also, in the depths of a recession, few people will seek ‘voluntary’ redundancy as the chances of employment elsewhere are remote.

I’ve been at the decision making end of this process and I can tell you it really isn’t easy.…[Read more]

I think, Pete, that BA have managed to turn a reasonable profit into a stonking great loss over a period of 18 months or so. This is what is causing the current issue.

Several reasons, but heavy competition from the ‘no frills’ airlines; a collapse of business travel (we hate bankers etc don’t we?); increasingly high “green” taxes imposed by…[Read more]

This strike – carefully, and indeed cynically, timed for Christmas and to cause the maximum disruption to all of BA’s dwindling band of customers – is a classic example of the street thug who beats you up, puts you in hospital, and then claims that it was all your fault for being on the street in the first place.

Given that BA is currently making…[Read more]

I suspect Cath that no right minded person (including me BTW) could possibly disagree with you. But this is to miss the point.

The Human Rights Act was conceived by well meaning folks who were intent on correcting what they saw as ‘injustice’ and ‘discrimination’ in society. However, it has become a text book example of the law of unintended…[Read more]

@cath 55 wrote:

@ForumHostPB wrote:

Still wondering?????

well done for rising above the chat board ‘rivalry’ PB one of the things you have always said is that there is room enough for all the boards and chat on the net……good call for leaving it there!!!

a bit worried tho that PB might be a grown up after all…… :wink:

Well thank you cath…[Read more]

Still wondering?????

Taking on board minim’s point (and yes even that of Gazlan) … let’s agree that the war against Saddam was ‘wrong’. Call it ‘regime change’; call it a war to remove WMDs; call it what you like…… but so what anyway??

What’s done is done. Kindly old Uncle Saddam is no more; his henchmen (or most of them) are either in hiding or have been…[Read more]

@thistLe-fem-1964 wrote:

…….I think the one good bowel movement is good one for our over 60 pensioner grumps lol
yea i know im prob gonna die slow painful death , but does this look like a face that cares lol

It would also be an ideal Christmas wish for members of the gay community !!!

It is said that, after some time has passed, a prisoner gets used to having his food pissed in and spat in every day. Apparently they also get used to daily forcible sodomy.

Still never mind, expensive lawyers will always be on hand to defend his…[Read more]