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PostPosted: 09:52 - 15 May 2013    Post subject: I raise a glass to this fella. Reply with quote
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Don't know if posted elsewhere, but :-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/motorsport/22265878

Now that is what I call a man. Thumbs Up


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PostPosted: 10:12 - 15 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's ace
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PostPosted: 10:21 - 15 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I saw him at Brands, I'm not gonna lie he wasn't remotely competitive in the series BUT he finished both races, (last by some way)Which I think is a fair achievement for any new racer let alone someone that has had his legs blown off. I really hope he does well, he's never gonna be on the rostrum but after a few races I'd hope he can mix it up with the riders in the back of the grid. I'd say he was probably quicker than I could have gone on my first race! Good luck to him.
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PostPosted: 11:54 - 15 May 2013    Post subject: Re: I raise a glass to this fella. Reply with quote
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Hero too, I'd wager. Rolling Eyes


That's "Bloomin' 'ero" to you, civvy scum.

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I don't consider myself a hero at all. If anything, I was stupid enough to get blown up.

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PostPosted: 12:31 - 15 May 2013    Post subject: Re: I raise a glass to this fella. Reply with quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=327TWrFnnvU

Skip to 6:19

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PostPosted: 13:03 - 15 May 2013    Post subject: Re: I raise a glass to this fella. Reply with quote
Kris wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=327TWrFnnvU

Skip to 6:19

Cool


Based on your previous youtube recommendations I probably won't CBA.
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PostPosted: 13:09 - 15 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 13:16 - 15 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah he is an absolute legend! He races with a chap I know in the TTC and I was up at Oulton Park watching last weekend. He was at the back by a long way but good on him!

Not sure if he would get more enjoyment racing at club level though where he would actually be fairing competitive?
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PostPosted: 19:53 - 15 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Not sure if he would get more enjoyment racing at club level though where he would actually be fairing competitive?


I see the point you are making. - But the 'easy route' does not seem to be this guy's style.

Douglas Bader type spirit.! - It's people like this guy that put the 'Great' in to Great Britain. ............ They are the few against the many that seem to want to throw it all away. We need more MEN like this. (again) Thumbs Up


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PostPosted: 00:03 - 16 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
great stuff, and the triumph triple challenge is damned good racing as a rule as well, i wish him all the best Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 01:08 - 16 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Have you seen this bloke ---> https://rideapart.com/2013/02/left-side-story/

Alan Kempster racing number 1/2...

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PostPosted: 10:41 - 16 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hmm. Unfair power-to-weight advantage in my opinion. Wink Smile
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PostPosted: 11:06 - 16 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nick_Giles wrote:
Red Devil wrote:


Not sure if he would get more enjoyment racing at club level though where he would actually be fairing competitive?


I see the point you are making. - But the 'easy route' does not seem to be this guy's style.

Douglas Bader type spirit.! - It's people like this guy that put the 'Great' in to Great Britain. ............ They are the few against the many that seem to want to throw it all away. We need more MEN like this. (again) Thumbs Up


Nick.


Of course, but I don’t really think it is the ‘easy route’. Thundersport GB offers some of the closest and most competitive club racing in the UK, at least he would be able to have some battles with people and not be stuck at the back of every race.
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PostPosted: 11:41 - 16 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nick_Giles wrote:


Douglas Bader type spirit.! - It's people like this guy that put the 'Great' in to Great Britain. ............ They are the few against the many that seem to want to throw it all away. We need more MEN like this. (again) Thumbs Up


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The same Douglas Bader who conspired with Leigh-Mallory over the useless and ineffective 'Big Wing', and whose subsequent intrigues pretty much cost Dowding his job?
The way Dowding was treated was shameful, absolutely shameful.

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PostPosted: 09:06 - 18 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The same Douglas Bader who conspired with Leigh-Mallory over the useless and ineffective 'Big Wing', and whose subsequent intrigues pretty much cost Dowding his job?
The way Dowding was treated was shameful, absolutely shameful.

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Well yes the 'big wing' was not a success. But then again that style of aerial combat was all relativity new and new ideas and concepts were being constantly tried out. Some worked, some did not from both sides who had improvements and failures. e.g. the RAF adopting the same formation of flying as the Germans and dropping the 'V' formation. The Germans favoring the tactic of switching from bombing airfields to London and ordering their fighters to stay in VERY close proximity to their bombers. Bad if you were a Londoner but a massive mistake that assisted the RAF.

Besides, I was referring to his 'spirit' not his ability as a tactician.

And yes I agree, on the face of it Dowdings treatment was diabolical. I have however wondered in the past if there was something else that we don't know about that may have caused this. It is well known that he became very 'strange'. (though nobody has defined his 'strangeness') But there has often been a fine line between genius and insanity.

Take Alan Turing. Incredible mind combined with nut-nut eccentricity. Also turned out he was gay so they chucked him in jail for a time. Released him and he topped himself.!!


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PostPosted: 09:27 - 18 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Take Alan Turing. Incredible mind combined with nut-nut eccentricity. Also turned out he was gay so they chucked him in jail for a time. Released him and he topped himself.!!
Have some fucking respect.

Turing was not a nutter, he was a singularly focused genius (and responsible for much of the digital age); his only real failing was in being naive to people's machinations. When he was released from prison, he was offered the choice between further jail time, or chemical castration. Thanks to the fact that the British government still thought that homosexuality was dangerous, he lost his job, his status, any recognition for the work he'd done (which had pretty much won us WW2), and the respect of his peers.

He died a broken man, because of some really stupid legislation, and because the bloke he was seeing at the time sought to turn him over.
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PostPosted: 09:43 - 18 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
nowhere.elysium wrote:
Have some fucking respect.

Turing was not a nutter,



'I' am not saying he was.!

But the establishment circa late 40's / early 50's would certainly have thought him so.

His incredible achievement at that time was still top secret of the highest degree. (and remained so for many years)

As a homosexual at that time he would rightly or wrongly most defiantly have been considered a high security risk. In jail or dead would have suited them very well. ............... Suicide.????

Go figure. Shocked


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PostPosted: 09:48 - 18 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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As a homosexual at that time he would rightly or wrongly most defiantly have been considered a high security risk. In jail or dead would have suited them very well. ............... Suicide.????


Forcible injection of hormones that induced gynecomastia or prison time. For being screwed over by someone that you had thought trustworthy. This was the choice that he had been presented with, after breaking the back of the problem that won the largest conflict in history, as well as changing the world, thanks to his work on cryptography and logic theory.

Personally, I'm surprised he didn't leave a note that said something along the lines of "You ungrateful cunts don't deserve my intellect". Just goes to show that he was a better man than I.
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PostPosted: 09:52 - 18 May 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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and because the bloke he was seeing at the time sought to turn him over.


Well yeahh.!!

He would do wouldn't he.! Shocked Laughing


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I don't understand how his partner didn't also get the same ultimatum?

"Yeah that Turing guy is gay you know"
"How did you find out?"
"Well I was shagging him up the arse... and well, he didn't complain."

Is this prison rules, you're only gay if you take?
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I don't understand how his partner didn't also get the same ultimatum?

"Yeah that Turing guy is gay you know"
"How did you find out?"
"Well I was shagging him up the arse... and well, he didn't complain."

Is this prison rules, you're only gay if you take?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3adBTp8LSr0
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awesome Karma gave me goosebumps reading it!
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yen_powell wrote:
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I don't understand how his partner didn't also get the same ultimatum?

"Yeah that Turing guy is gay you know"
"How did you find out?"
"Well I was shagging him up the arse... and well, he didn't complain."

Is this prison rules, you're only gay if you take?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3adBTp8LSr0


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