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IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:47 am ....

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 7:13 pm I hope no one gives ZRX access to the secret "Readers' Wives" sub form.

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 7:43 pm

ZRX61 wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 7:27 pm

Felix wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 7:23 pm In the 80's we had Eazyrider bike magazine from America. That had an interesting readers wife section. Its all watered down now as the delicate people get upset easily. I am sure Back Street Heroes was a tad naughty as well but more a Sun page 3 kind of Naughty.

Wasn't it BSH that had the lonely hearts section too? That was a target rich environment.

Bike had one, it was all a bit chaps and taches

Pirahna wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:11 am

IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:47 am ....

What you could have said was airline pilots looking down their noses at people they, and you, regard as being beneath them.

IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:47 am.

Outside of this little goldfish bowl (and you'll say I'm making it up) I told a group of airline pilots at a trackday about this forum and they laughed at me when I saw them the weekend after, words like "it's like labourers on a building site" and "political morons" were used.
Those were real people from the outside world, professional people, not taxi drivers or aged bigots posting and calling for the death of political leaders.

IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:41 am

Pirahna wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:11 am

IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:47 am ....

What you could have said was airline pilots looking down their noses at people they, and you, regard as being beneath them.

I could but it wouldn't have been true.
Yes they looked down their noses at it without doubt, but because of the shocking behaviour they saw, not because airline pilots are naturally above anyone, even at 40,000ft.

It's like watching clips of drunken idiots outside a pub fighting with bouncers, most people would look down on them because of what they're doing, they might be Chartered Accountants, but that's got nothing to do with it.

MingtheMerciless wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:05 am The ISS crew might have a word or two to say about that

IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:26 am

MingtheMerciless wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:05 am The ISS crew might have a word or two to say about that

I don't know what astronauts get paid but pilots get paid a lot less than I thought they would, a First Officers take-home pay is less than an average electrician would earn at our place and even a Captain with a decade of experience wouldn't get close to a Directors pay.
It was a surprise when they were telling me, it's a job you need to love rather than doing it to get rich.

IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:47 am I don't get the poll? What is happening has always been the case and obviously suits you, you won't change anything.
It's a left-wing echo chamber and through biased moderation it's now stinking like a very old corpse.

You've got people cheering for the death of politicians, members wishing other forum members dead, accusations of being a Nazi happy to put Jews on trains to concentration camps. I have to applaud Taipan for pointing out the really outrageously stupid stuff, like the incredible (and lifetime ban-worthy) comment about Nazis/Jews that was allowed to fly, it's staggering that not a single moderator called it out.
But then that's fairly tame when you're actually posting that you wish another forum member dead!
How toxic does it need to get?

Most forums these days are quite PC and the above stuff would get you banned even from places like Pistonheads.

Outside of this little goldfish bowl (and you'll say I'm making it up) I told a group of airline pilots at a trackday about this forum and they laughed at me when I saw them the weekend after, words like "it's like labourers on a building site" and "political morons" were used.
Those were real people from the outside world, professional people, not taxi drivers or aged bigots posting and calling for the death of political leaders.

Next year the same thread will go up, hopefully no one is bullied and helped into suicide or chased in their real lives in the meantime.
FWIW it doesn't need closing, these are grown adults, it just needs moderating by someone who isn't very biased.

IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:47 am
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Most forums these days are quite PC and the above stuff would get you banned even from places like Pistonheads.
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................FWIW it doesn't need closing, these are grown adults, it just needs moderating by someone who isn't very biased.

weeksy wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:50 am
I’m impressed they’d even heard of it

IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 12:36 pm

weeksy wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:50 am
I’m impressed they’d even heard of it

They hadn't, I told them about it.
We've got a forum we use and I told them about this place, but you've seen my comments on what they thought.

Cousin Jack wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 12:35 pm

IccyV2 wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:47 am
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Most forums these days are quite PC and the above stuff would get you banned even from places like Pistonheads.
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................FWIW it doesn't need closing, these are grown adults, it just needs moderating by someone who isn't very biased.

And that is why most forums are boring as shite.

weeksy wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:50 am
I’m impressed they’d even heard of it

weeksy wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 1:13 pm Let’s just go back a step here.

Moderators are doing this for free and unless people report the threads they are potentially not even looked at.

Very few reports come out way. So not everything gets looked at.

I still don’t actually know what post you keep referring to