| Msg ID: 2732499 |
Tip of the spear…… +5/-2
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| Author:Sparrow 2
6/15/2022 7:04:55 PM |
So, very very extended and familiar and whatever family reunion, I get asked what I 'did' for a living. Said I can't remember, I've been retired forever, at which someone exclaims I flew helicopters. Sooooooooooooo.............................all the head nodding and typical 'helicopter pilots suck and don't make much money to afford a family' and aaaaaalllllllllllll the rest of the ignorance. Sooooooooooooo..............................I inquire if anyone likes drone footage, and, everyone lightens up and exclaimed yes, oh yes, yes (almost like you know what) at which point I tell them that is what flying helicopters for half a century was like - the silence was, er, again, deafening. I failed to entertain conversations. Loved it. Something to be remembered when everyone is talking about the virtues of being trapped at 35,000 ft looking at the same color out the wind screen and the same instrument panel, and the same................. Point being, long live helicopter flying! |
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| Msg ID: 2732502 |
Tip of the spear…… +1/-1
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| Author::-)
6/15/2022 7:16:05 PM Reply to: 2732499 |
It's alright to love and enjoy both, homey. :-) |
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| Msg ID: 2732505 |
Tip of the spear…… +0/-1
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| Author:Yep
6/15/2022 7:39:24 PM Reply to: 2732502 |
dude, ur right. |
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| Msg ID: 2732581 |
You gotta stop going to those (NT) +0/-0
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| Author:The Reuniter
6/16/2022 11:37:16 AM Reply to: 2732499 |
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| Msg ID: 2732601 |
You gotta stop going to those +0/-0
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| Author:Yeup
6/16/2022 12:49:00 PM Reply to: 2732581 |
This one was a post 40 year absence of such gatherings. Won't be attending any others. Good advice! |
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| Msg ID: 2732688 |
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $100 +3/-3
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| Author:Trebek
6/17/2022 12:03:50 AM Reply to: 2732601 |
Nobody besides those in the helicopter industry knows anything about it. They don't say it is low pay because they think you make a lot of money and they think the job must be amazing and super cool. So unless your family are all members of HAI, just enjoy being a helicopter pilot and stop trying to invent a story. |
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| Msg ID: 2732727 |
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $100 (NT) +0/-1
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| Author:Your Drivel Is Unconvincing
6/17/2022 10:45:26 AM Reply to: 2732688 |
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| Msg ID: 2732776 |
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $100 +1/-2
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| Author:nobody jumps up and down
6/17/2022 7:12:51 PM Reply to: 2732727 |
with excitement over drone footage. most people think helicopter pilots make big bucks. I agree, story happened only in sombody's imagination. |
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| Msg ID: 2732854 |
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $100 +1/-1
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| Author:Most
6/18/2022 3:07:24 PM Reply to: 2732776 |
people? Pure BS. |
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| Msg ID: 2732855 |
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $100 +1/-1
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| Author:Ur
6/18/2022 3:10:47 PM Reply to: 2732688 |
the one doing the inventing. U've no clue. |
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| Msg ID: 2732906 |
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $100 +1/-0
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| Author:Wankah
6/19/2022 2:18:39 AM Reply to: 2732688 |
"Invent a story?" News flash - oh, never mind. Hello copter a-whole, we forgot. |
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| Msg ID: 2732976 |
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $100 +0/-0
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| Author:Oh dearie
6/19/2022 4:04:03 PM Reply to: 2732688 |
a liberal thought police lady again. What to do? Oh, yeah, nothing, just like last time and the time before and the time before that. Got it. |
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