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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #120 on: November 07, 2024, 04:44:48 AM »
Put the bottle down Yarbles your acting like a typical stateless Southerner.

For you Yanks the Southern part of England is no longer representative of the English majority.

If you ever visit England the North is now where the real English reside.

Yarbles blathering in about Dylan Thomas a drunk degenerate academic and quoting Shakespeare is the norm for those individuals who have no country or culture.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cartoonstock.com%2Fdirectory%2Fn%2Fnortherners.asp&psig=AOvVaw281KzBmoiTkHvMLFgkmXQM&ust=1731062457379000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBQQjRxqFwoTCLi5rrWEyokDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE


Zack is probably right though. The south is overcrowded with people banging on about how much better it is where they came from 20 years ago  :D
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #121 on: November 07, 2024, 08:52:47 AM »
Yarbles blathering in about Dylan Thomas a drunk degenerate academic and quoting Shakespeare is the norm for those individuals who have no country or culture.

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #122 on: November 07, 2024, 11:59:16 AM »
Bruv, you need to get your arse back . Nobody today knows what the REAL cheats are...and you HID them so well! While you're at it, get in touch with Middy and drag him back too. You two were my absolute heydey in terms of fun <S>

I am working on getting back,  Youngest is nearly 2 and she is   :t :cool: :devil :ahand.   The motivation to get off the sofa when they are all in bed has kept me grounded but things are getting easier.   Jobs that need doing around the house since we moved have pretty much been done.    I built a supercomputer to enable VR so once i've copied across some user files from the old PC I'll be all set.    That machine spends more time looking at girly makeup routines on Youtube than shooting down germans.   Maybe I can convince my eldest to run troops  :aok

unbelievable I know but I do not have any contact details for middy,  he was never part of the squadron or anything to do with me.
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #123 on: November 07, 2024, 12:18:50 PM »
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cartoonstock.com%2Fdirectory%2Fn%2Fnortherners.asp&psig=AOvVaw281KzBmoiTkHvMLFgkmXQM&ust=1731062457379000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBQQjRxqFwoTCLi5rrWEyokDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE


Zack is probably right though. The south is overcrowded with people banging on about how much better it is where they came from 20 years ago  :D

Careful, Starmer might throw you in prison for saying that.

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #124 on: November 07, 2024, 12:28:38 PM »
Careful, Starmer might throw you in prison for saying that.

There isn't room  :D

Its not racist but London is full of people from other parts of the Uk particularly King Zacks domain wanking on about how great it is where they come from which does beg a certain question  :D :D

For Zack:

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon Englands mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!
 
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
 
Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
 
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #125 on: November 07, 2024, 12:34:47 PM »
Bruv, you need to get your arse back . Nobody today knows what the REAL cheats are...and you HID them so well! While you're at it, get in touch with Middy and drag him back too. You two were my absolute heydey in terms of fun <S>

I know this is tongue in cheek  :aok

However the 80:20 rule applied in the RAF and certainly here. Talent is not evenly distributed. I think at best I am an ordinary sergeant pilot in the battle of Britain doing ok. I can still have a good time in here without accusing everyone else of picking and running while I pick and run myself. I just pick and run and keep quiet about it  :old:

Mostly  :o 

AH can be very  :ahand

But people can always whinge on here and feel better.

If people get frustrated they used to get some training.

Something more Northern and authentic for Zack's taste:

Far from crazy pavements –
The taste of silver spoons
A clinical arrangement
On a dirty afternoon
Where the fecal germs of Mr Freud
Are rendered obsolete
The legal term is null and void
In the case of Beasley Street

In the cheap seats where murder breeds
Somebody is out of breath
Sleep is a luxury they don’t need
– a sneak preview of death
Belladonna is your flower
Manslaughter your meat
Spend a year in a couple of hours
On the edge of Beasley Street

Where the action isn’t
That’s where it is
State your position
Vacancies exist
In an X-certificate exercise
Ex-servicemen excrete
Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies
In a box on Beasley Street

From the boarding houses and the bedsits
Full of accidents and fleas
Somebody gets it
Where the missing persons freeze
Wearing dead men’s overcoats
You can’t see their feet
A riff joint shuts – opens up
Right down on Beasley Street

Cars collide, colours clash
Disaster movie stuff
For a man with a Fu Manchu moustache
Revenge is not enough
There’s a dead canary on a swivel seat
There’s a rainbow in the road
Meanwhile on Beasley Street
Silence is the code

Hot beneath the collar
An inspector calls
Where the perishing stink of squalor
Impregnates the walls
The rats have all got rickets
They spit through broken teeth
The name of the game is not cricket
Caught out on Beasley Street

The hipster and his hired hat
Drive a borrowed car
Yellow socks and a pink cravat
Nothing La-di-dah
OAP, mother to be
Watch the three-piece suite
When toejam-stoppered drains
And crocodile skis
Are seen on Beasley Street

The kingdom of the blind
A one-eyed man is king
Beauty problems are redefined
The doorbells do not ring
A lightbulb bursts like a blister
The only form of heat
Here a fellow sells his sister
Down the river on Beasley Street

The boys are on the wagon
The girls are on the shelf
Their common problem is
That they’re not someone else
The dirt blows out
The dust blows in
You can’t keep it neat
It’s a fully furnished dustbin,
Sixteen Beasley Street

Vince the ageing savage
Betrays no kind of life
But the smell of yesterday’s cabbage
And the ghost of last year’s wife
Through a constant haze
Of deodorant sprays
He says retreat
Alsations dog the dirty days
Down the middle of Beasley Street

People turn to poison
Quick as lager turns to piss
Sweethearts are physically sick
Every time they kiss.
It’s a sociologist’s paradise
Each day repeats
On easy, cheesy, greasy, queasy
Beastly Beasley Street

Eyes dead as vicious fish
Look around for laughs
If I could have just one wish
I would be a photograph
On a permanent Monday morning
Get lost or fall asleep
When the yellow cats are yawning
Around the back of Beasley Street   :ahand

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #126 on: November 07, 2024, 01:03:42 PM »
I have spent the years perfecting drop tanks that do not leak under hard maneuvering. This ensures that no tequila and no triple-sec are lost to drips and dribbles. I have perfected a small efficient ice maker/blender combo that is near bullit proof. I have mug hangers that allow dangling in all angles of flight. I even developed a salt dispenser that automatically salts the rim. Frozen margaritas always help when being jumped by multiple enemy fighters.
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #127 on: November 07, 2024, 01:14:32 PM »
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #128 on: November 07, 2024, 02:47:31 PM »
Thinking back to when the main arena was full might offer a clue.  The number of newbies was in balance with the number of veteran players.  As a newbie, with luck, you could be battling another newbie with a reasonable chance of winning the fight in the air or on the ground..  Now a newbie is most likely to encounter a veteran player over and over again with bad results in short order.  Not much fun in that.  Little chance to climb that learning curve.

The only way I can figure to do beat that is offering a newbie a low cost, 6 or 12  month deal paid upfront.  The hope is the newbie sticks around long enough to climb that learning curve.  The six months upfront should offer some incentive to keep playing sense it is prepaid.  It would have to be cheap.

Iracing has been very successful with annual fees and newbie deals.  Iracing annual fee wise is less than AH.

Just my best guess.


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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #129 on: November 08, 2024, 04:08:27 AM »
Some of us are still here, we just grew up over the last 20-25 years  :D

 :rofl :aok Well 'grew up' is an optional path and a tall-order for some AH-players  :rofl

Iracing annual fee wise is less than AH.

Not when you factor in a FFB steering wheel, racing pedals, racing shoes, racing gloves and a Rolex watch which are requisite for making you competitive. :old:

That machine spends more time looking at girly makeup routines on Youtube than shooting down germans.

Zack and I think it's marvellous that you live your life in the open. Zack was also asking for eyeliner tips recently so perhaps you can help. A Paramedic friend was telling me recently about a British schoolgirl who identifies as a cat. Her school even bought her a litter tray into which she goes potty-time when needed. In an NHS Political Correctness Correction Retraining Facility he was instructed - if he had to medically treat her - to approach her in accord with her expectations on a human-to-cat. Level. So he fastened her securely in a potato sack with a few bricks but was stopped before he could reach the bridge over the River Severn.

I identify as Steve McQueen yet my University has so-far failed to supply me with a 1960s Porsche 911s. It's an outrage  :old:

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #130 on: November 08, 2024, 09:19:41 AM »
The only way I can figure to do beat that is offering a newbie a low cost, 6 or 12  month deal paid upfront.  The hope is the newbie sticks around long enough to climb that learning curve.

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #131 on: November 08, 2024, 11:10:54 AM »

Zack and I think it's marvellous that you live your life in the open. Zack was also asking for eyeliner tips recently so perhaps you can help. A Paramedic friend was telling me recently about a British schoolgirl who identifies as a cat. Her school even bought her a litter tray into which she goes potty-time when needed. In an NHS Political Correctness Correction Retraining Facility he was instructed - if he had to medically treat her - to approach her in accord with her expectations on a human-to-cat. Level. So he fastened her securely in a potato sack with a few bricks but was stopped before he could reach the bridge over the River Severn.

I identify as Steve McQueen yet my University has so-far failed to supply me with a 1960s Porsche 911s. It's an outrage  :old:

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100+ in the MA last night  :aok :aok :aok I was  as rusty as a very rusty thing that has been left out in the rain by the ocean for a month.  Its that or I have forgotten how rubbish I am. When I got a wee bit frustrated I got on the 8 inchers and blew up someones town  :banana:

No excessive running and people were willing to take on a Spit 9 in a 47 and I got reversed twice.

 I can now run all the features on my PC.  It all looks good and I have played Cliffs and DCS.
8 incher woop woop  :o

People need to know how good AH is  :rock
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« Reply #132 on: November 08, 2024, 11:29:11 AM »

I just Googled WW2 PC games and 42 came up and none of them were AH !!

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« Reply #133 on: November 08, 2024, 02:40:05 PM »
I just Googled WW2 PC games and 42 came up and none of them were AH !!

 :bhead

Where can I find a multi player ww2 video game. I know I will Google it like the young folk do  :D   :old: :old: :old:

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« Reply #134 on: November 08, 2024, 03:10:34 PM »
In the UK you goto jail for three years for writing a email…fact
In the UK a pervert BBC journalist news reader was caught being a nonce…two years suspended jail sentence and £300k pension…fact
The UK Prime minister is a former human rights lawyer.
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