The Ranting Room

I've got an Airfix kit of a standard Bulleid Pacific.  It's supposed to be Battle of Britian Class Winston Churchill, but I changed it (I found a company that made brass plaques for them).  Think I made 257 Squadron, I can't quite remember.

That's what I thought.  The Midhants Merchant Navy is British India Line, but apparently they have another.  My knowledge has gotten rusty.

So you don't have a logbook of trains you've driven then?

Oh, the Canadian one... that's not a Bulleid... is that the Blue painted one in LMR colours?

British India Line?

I used to go to the Midhants Railway (The Watercress Line) many years ago, by they kept getting rid of stuff and the stuff they still had took forever to get restored, but I don't blame them, they had (and probably still don't) much money.  Do you know if their situation has improved?  I was also a great fanatic of the Bulleid Pacific and the Midhants had about 3 or 4 at one point.

mystic fred wrote: Heavyfreight wrote: [QUOTE=mystic fred] the answer to the movement of "heavy freight" is indeed the railways       That's fine. I quite like railways as you may have guessed.     [COLOR=#000000">Heavyfreight[/COLOR"> Senior Member

Don't laugh. I was driving Thomas the other day at our Thomas and friends weekend.

Please hurry up and sort the IE7 issues.
    
     

Edited by Heavyfreight - November 28 2006 at 05:07

johnobvious wrote: Glad I found this thread.  I have two daughters 7 and 5.  I am inundated with thoughts of everything that they are going to navigate when they become teenagers due to this world being the sewage hole that most of it is.  Let me count the ways: 1. Eating disorders-if anyone has seen the new special on HBO called Thin, it will seriously screw with you.  The women in this treatment center are absolutely insane. 2. Crystal Meth-it is everywhere in the states and even in the middle of the country where I live.  How right thinking people can get involved with this stuff is unbelievable. 3. Internet predators - These people who pray on underage people are the scum of the earth.  NBC here in the states seems to be running a undercover sting continually and putting these freaks right on TV caught red handed all the time.  Yet does it abate?  No. 4. Bullying 5. Teenage pregnancy. 6. Identity theft. I could go on but just thinking about this is enough to put me over the edge.  Why is there a never ending string of landmines that people have to negotiate just to survive in this so-called civilization.  People's greed, animal instincts and lack of intelligence is all a part of it and young minds are so suceptible that I just want to go live in a cave.

Perhaps if the wearing of football shirts were to be made a capital offense unless worn on the field of play (or being worn whilst reading a copy of The Sun), such problems would eventually go away...

...just a thought

John / James - well said

James - I never went to university, but when I left school in 1979, those who did go had to work bloody hard to get there & even harder to stay there; nowadays, it seems that universities are full of those who see the institutions as a natural extension of school and/or a way of avoiding 'real life' for another few years (evidenced by the huge numbers of people taking "nothing" subjects like media studies or sociology) - many universities are now having to offer remedial reading/writing courses for those who go on to higher education without basic literacy skills.

Whilst I'm in full ranting mode I have to get off my chest something which has been bothering me for some time - am I alone in thinking there is now a new (and I hate to use the expression) "underclass" developing...? Don't get me wrong, I am not putting down the working classes, far from it (it's where I was born, for God's sake), the working class has always had its share of low-lifes (as have all classes in society), but there was always a strong sense of moral value and a strong work ethic. There now seems to be a new class of those who see the state as a parental substitute, drifting from school to benefit state with no effort on their part to improve their lot; the scary part of this is their children are brought up to believe this is the norm and perfectly acceptable - growing up without discipline, direction or any sense of purpose...

These are the adults of tomorrow!

Now that's scary...
    
    

Edited by Jim Garten - November 28 2006 at 03:38

Glad I found this thread.  I have two daughters 7 and 5.  I am inundated with thoughts of everything that they are going to navigate when they become teenagers due to this world being the sewage hole that most of it is.  Let me count the ways:

1. Eating disorders-if anyone has seen the new special on HBO called Thin, it will seriously screw with you.  The women in this treatment center are absolutely insane.
2. Crystal Meth-it is everywhere in the states and even in the middle of the country where I live.  How right thinking people can get involved with this stuff is unbelievable.
3. Internet predators - These people who pray on underage people are the scum of the earth.  NBC here in the states seems to be running a undercover sting continually and putting these freaks right on TV caught red handed all the time.  Yet does it abate?  No.
4. Bullying
5. Teenage pregnancy.
6. Identity theft.

I could go on but just thinking about this is enough to put me over the edge.  Why is there a never ending string of landmines that people have to negotiate just to survive in this so-called civilization.  People's greed, animal instincts and lack of intelligence is all a part of it and young minds are so suceptible that I just want to go live in a cave.


Edited by johnobvious - November 27 2006 at 19:03