Johnny Bognor

Diagree there Hypo. Being a good stewardess requires more than just competency. You have to be able to take control of situations, think on your feet and deal effectively with situations. My mrs is in charge of the flight and has to deal with Medical emergencies (not always help at hand at 35,000 feet mid atlantic) and Violent situations (not disimilar to those faced by the police sometimes, except for the fact there is no back up, body armour or batons at 35,000 feet). Granted that these don't happen all the time, but nevertheless you need to be able to deal with it effectively and in my experience, not many people can. There are many other examples I could give. I personally don't think it is that easy to be a good stewardess (certainly good senior cabin crew) and you need an element of natural ability/charisma to do the job well (which most people don't have).

My mrs is an air stewardess for Virgin. She finds trolley dolly offensive, whilst she finds flight attendent too americanised. I have to say, I prefer "air stewardess" personally.

Especially his med cruise on the Grand Princess. They clearly did the Rome for a day and Livorno (Florence & Pisa) excursions. He also has some great pictures from his day out at Marwell Zoo.

Ah, but you're different to the rest on here BTF.

Completely agree with your last comment. None of the party leaders are inspirational and they all come from the same mould. Great leaders inspire people...... and that is what this country needs right now.

To be fair, I didn't say that you didn't 'care' so to speak. I guess the point I was trying to make was that in the world of the SWF Lounge, there was little out pouring of grief. I brought this subject up last year before the election on numerous occasions. Lefties generally bang on about the public sector, whilst they do not pay too much credence to the 1m+ that have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. It's just an observation and it doesn't seem fair to me.

...but I thought socialism was about everyone, not just public sector workers.

Hi SuperDuper Mikey, Your concern is really touching. Shame you didn't give a toss when 1 million private sector workers (many of them the lowest paid in society) lost their jobs between 2007 and 2009. I didn't hear any of the lefties on here protesting about the increase in employers NI which is a direct taxation on job creation at a time when jobs needed to be created. A million people lose their jobs and not a murmour from the lefties. As some consolation, many of the public sector workers losing their jobs will get favourable terms compared to someone in the private sector, losing their job when a company folds where they is no redundancy and unpaid salary. It seems to me that lefties only care about public sector workers, who are far better paid and far better protected than their private sector counterparts, but I suppose it is a case of "look after your own".

Not quite sure about that: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5097706.stm Remember that this was over a year before the financial crisis. In their early tenure, they didn't overspend. For the first two years, Brown adopted tory spending plans, however once Brown started to believe his own hype, he went on a spending spree.

I think he meant being hard behind the keyboard and after reading the election thread, he's not wrong.

I just checked the thread title and it definately said "if there was an election tomorrow". Anyway, I am honoured as I don't ever recall Cameron, Clegg or Miliband turning you on. Those with errectile disfunction will be turning to my party on mass and we will no longer be known as a nation of softies.

As it happens, you can be intelligent with little common sense. Intelligence is great for academia and certificates, but does not guarantee success. A party with common sense, drive, ambition, guts and a bit of nous will make this country great again. For the academics amongst us, who don't buy into my vision, they are welcome to be university lecturers, in order that they can feel secure in their closeted world, intellectualising to their hearts content. My party is a party for all (including Film Studies graduates. oh, and intellectuals too), and you are either on the bus or at the bus stop. A vote for Johnny B, is a vote for a great future. It is as simple as that.

If there was an election tomorrow, I'd vote for.........., **** it, me. I have had enough, all politicians of all parties are ****s and with me at the helm, I would put the great back into Britain. Common sense would prevail and we would ALL be better off for it. If I can get Fuengirola Saint, VFTT and Dune to agree with me, it is clear that I would be the party of all persuasions. If there was an election tomorrow, I would stand as a common sense independent. Vote Johnny B

I would suggest that the vast majority are Left of centre on here....that showed on the SWF political compass. However, it is the most vocal from both sides that get noticed. Thankfully there are balanced posters like me around to keep the peace and fly the flag for logic.

I pay my fair share as I'm a caring kind of guy

Agreed, but needed to get the **** in the chant and front fits quite nicely. OK, we could have: We've got Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, playing out wide, He is better than Gareth Bale, who's boss is snide When he scores in his red sash He makes theo look gash We've got Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, playing out wide

I think you're right Deppo. How silly of me. Obviously having two kids in the education system, employing the end product of the education system and paying my taxes which goes towards funding the system gives me no right to form, hold and express an opinion. Now, can you go on the main board and tell everyone that unless they are / have been a professional footballer / manager / coach, that they have to sign up for a professional club before spouting off on the internet?

How about this (to the tune of she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes) We've got Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, playing up front, He is better than Gareth Bale, the judas **** When he scores in his red sash He makes theo look gash We've got Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, playing up front

I prefer mine as it has **** in it. In general, there are not enough chants with the **** word in it if you ask me. West Ham have a great chant that goes aong the lines of: Redknapp, you're a *** Redkapp, Redknap, you're a **** Redknapp, you're a *** Redkapp, Redknap, you're a **** It is now my ring tone

In the globalised world in which we live, foreign languages are more important than ever, once the basics of English have been grasped. I did Latin at school and whilst it is not widely spoken, it teaches you the basic structures of all languages (incuding IT/software) and instills a sense of logic which can be cleary seen in my posting style. I would rather see mandarin and cantonese (even Hindi and Russia) taught over French and German as these are the languages of the future. This kind looks forward, as you suggest. As to pursuing subjects you enjoy, I personally believe that this can come down to the teacher of that given subject in a school - an inspirational teacher can make any subject sound interesting. I wouldn't compare yourself to Gove, unless you could have been an extra in Thunderbirds Michael Gove Um Pahars

I am glad you sort of agree. The caller into the Gove phone in (Not a fan of Gove, he is wooden, looks like a thunderbird puppet and is arrogant) tried to make the point that all subjects are the same. I would prefer that youngsters were more profficient in maths and english (the basics to get on in life) than breed a nation of Richard Cladymans. By all means we should have options for non critical subjects, but the focus should be on these core subjects. You really shouldn't be teaching adults maths and English as this should have been done properly during schooling. From my personal experience, I found the most interesting subjects at school were down to the quality of the teachers. Some had the natural ability to engage pupils and make the most boring of subjects interesting and even fun. Whilst others, made fun and interesting subjects seem boring. So for me, the teachers were far more important than the subject matter in itself. I would like to see more vocational courses at school and college, whilst seeing a return to apprentiships. Whilst the liberals amongst us view that education is about expanding the mind, I prefer to view it as preparing people for work (whilst they are still free to expand their minds in their own time, should they wish).

We need Brighton and P'boro to draw. P'boro have a game in hand, so if they beat Brighton and win their game in hand, they'd be 1 point behind us - too close for comfort. A draw for them would mean that if we won, we would extend our lead over them by 2 points, whilst closing the gap on Brighton by 2 points. A good days work. With Brighton playing bournemouth next week, another draw would be required, so if we win against Tranmere, we gain another 2 points on Brighton and extend our lead over b'mouth by two points. Wednesday play Charlton today, so another draw here please.

Great, lets have a nation of pianists. Kiss goodbye to your NHS, free eductation and welfare state.

To be fair to Michael Gove, all subjects are not equal. The basics of English and Maths are far more important than playing the piano. If we want to compete as a nation on a global scale, core subjects will enable us to do that.

That's quite an acheivement considering he has been PM for only 8 months