Who's who on WIX - a group of accidental insults

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:46 am

A primer for the confused:

Pilots: The ones unable to use the 'quote' function correctly. It's a worry.

Engineers: The ones testing the expletive correction facility. They don't %#^&$# care about the quote function.

Enthusiasts: We have any?

Anoraks: Ambulatory outerwear with notebooks and without personality.

Experts: No one is one, but apparently there's a lot around. Somewhere.

Photographers: 25 photos and one line of text, that their wife helped them write.

Journalists: 2,500 words and no photos. Sheesh.

Current military pilots: We are expected to recognise them by their lowered smoked visor.

Not currently military pilots: As above, but with old aircraft cockpit surrounding the smoked visor.

Fire-bomber pilots: You were going to put that out in the ash, tray, weren't you?

Restorers: The ones regretting starting a thread a couple of years ago about their 'project'. Often single, with more barn space than housing.

Museum staff: The ones pretending to be Amish airshow groupies, so everyone thinks they're contributing to aircraft preservation.

Jet crew: The ones who smell of lamp oil and talk to the chicks about their engine only having one moving part...

W.W.I crew: The ones who smell of Castor oil and talk to the chicks about their engine being one moving part...

The ones who've never made a mistake on the forum: Mythical.

Or by region:

Chino residents: The ones annoyed by all this Duxford talk.

Americans: The ones unable to deal with serial numbers and registrations, or even aircraft type names, but who keep using overcomplex alpha-numeric designation systems rather than names for types and personal aircraft names rather than serials. Confused? You will be...

Duxford residents: The ones annoyed by all this Chino talk.

Brits: The ones unable to deal with the American designation system correctly and keep using the wrong names for American types, or even aircraft type names, but who keep using overcomplex alpha-numeric designation systems to identify particular aircraft rather their easy to remember names. Confused? You will be...

Aussies: Hot. Just take perfectly good American aircraft and put British stuff in it and wonder why it costs more and doesn't work as well. Talk funny.

Canadians: Cold. Like the other colonials, but with bigger cars and aircraft engines. They talk funny, eh? Some do it in French, non?

New Zealanders: Different to the Aussies. No, really. What do you mean you can't tell?

The Europeans: The ones that apologise for their impeccable English.

The Russians: Don't post, just provide warbirds with Mafia surcharges.

The Latin Americans: The other bilingual Americanos, hombre?

Over to you - If you'd like to insult a WIX 'group' fire away.

Craig59 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:55 am

[quote="JDK"]
Pilots: The ones unable to use the 'quote' function correctly. It's a worry.

I resemble that remark. :wink:

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:06 am

JDK wrote:

Pilots: The ones unable to use the 'quote' function correctly. It's a worry.

Well, I thought I knew how to use the quote function correctly... italics, too!

Glad to see you missed my nationality - Texan! Still waiting to see what rubbish of an idea you come up with for us ya miscreant.

:lol:

Fun post James. Quite funny.

Ryan

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:15 am

Now do it by person! I dare ya :!:

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:16 am

Jack Cook wrote:

Now do it by person! I dare ya :!:

Hey, I'm not even touching Texas.

The floor is yours, I'm done. :shock:

Manonthefence · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:16 am

Quote:

Photographers: 25 photos and one line of text, that their wife helped them write.

ONLY 25!! I didnt know we had a limit.

You know me too well James :lol:

lestweforget · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:28 am

Quote:

Brits: The ones unable to deal with the American designation system correctly and keep using the wrong names for American types, or even aircraft type names, but who keep using overcomplex alpha-numeric designation systems to identify particular aircraft rather their easy to remember names. Confused? You will be...

What Ho! Don't know what your on about old bean, but firstly, I would like to put you on the straight and narrow by pointing out that the proper nomenclature is Aeroplane , and not the simply ghastly vulgarity "aircraft."
Would also like to point out what a spiffing kite the Martlet Mk.I at the Fleet Air Arm Museum is (F4F-3 indeed, just isn't cricket old sport.) Oh well, Tally Ho chaps, wizard show, bread crates over the briny and all that.

retroaviation · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:43 am

Nicely done James. I think perhaps at least one of those descriptions may even, somehow, possibly, apply to me.

Thanks for the laugh...I needed one today.

Gary

hahnej · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:14 am

Now that was funny

Randy Wilson · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:23 am

Craig59 wrote:

JDK wrote:

Pilots: The ones unable to use the 'quote' function correctly. It's a worry.

I resemble that remark. :wink:

Umm...me three!

Randy

Mudge · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:28 am

Call in sick today, did we James?
Or yesterday, or tomorrow, or whatever the %^&# time it is there.

Mudge the horologically challenged :shock:

The ones who've never made a mistake on the forum: Mythical.

MYTHICAL???? EXCUSE ME :butthead:

Bluedharma · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:35 am

JDK wrote:

A primer for the confused:
Photographers: 25 photos and one line of text, that their wife helped them write.

It only twevle photos... and I kan rite fine thank you. I dont need my wifes help.

TAdan · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:36 am

What about me? The WIX addict?

Desk Jockey: Sits at work for 8 hours at a clip staring blankly at the computer monitor. Hitting the "refresh" button every 30 seconds in order to attempt to live vicariously through those that actually work on these aircraft...

Swiss Mustangs · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:38 am

JDK = Bonza Bloke !

:wink:

Martin

Bill Walker · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:49 am

JDK wrote:

Canadians: Cold. Like the other colonials, but with bigger cars and aircraft engines. They talk funny, eh? Some do it in French, non?

You left out the fact that we are very polite. Thank you.

BTW, if anybody needs Brit-talk translated into Yankee-speak, or vice versa, we Canucks can do it. We've been stuck in the middle for a long time now...

And before anybody from Canuckistan gets upset about "Canuck", just let me say I'm proud to be known as a Canuck, eh. Thanks again.
http://www.captaincanuck.com/

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