Is white wine better than red wine..... discuss

[2scoops0406]

And those who don't worry too much live a lot longer!

 

[AdamW]

Bu**er.

 

[2scoops0406]

I wouldn't worry about it

 

[2scoops0406]

actually I think it's healthier (in that you live longer) if you drink a small amount of alcohol. It lowers your risk of coronary heart disease. Obviously increases your risk of liver damage but on balance all other things being equal those that drink a little probably live longer than those that don't drink at all.

As a wise old fool once said to me, if you don't drink and don't smoke, you don't live longer, it just seems longer. (I don't smoke BTW, gives me a sore throat )

 

[pipme]

Many the man, lying under the wheels of a bus ... Must have had final thoughts 'If only I had thrown caution to the wind just a little more ... I may have enjoyed living 'til I die' ....... Guess we'll never know. ... Until !

Wonder which we would rather be ... deep inside, where maybe we do not like to look ..... A seat polisher, or a test-pilot ? .... A statistician playing the odds or a 'mover and shaker' blazing his own trail, risk taking with great aplomb ?

Um, "I say ! Move the bus forward a yard or so drive, if you would be so kind !"

P

 

[AdamW]

My ambition was to be a fighter pilot, then hopefully progress to become one of the first astronauts on an ESA launch. Luckily I never took it too far as I'm now too tall to fly a fast jet.

Could be worse, a guy I work with spent 4 years in his university air corp, then it turned out he couldn't reach all the controls in a Tornado because his arms are too short.

 

[securespark]

Memo to self

Must measure arm-span before joining uni....

Actually, I'm OK, it's 6' 5 1/2 "!

 

[ninebob]

I always wanted to be a pilot but got told very early it wasn't going to happen as I wear glasses. Apperently 20:20 vision (unaided) is mandatory. Still, maybe joining the forces wouldn't have been too happy for me anyway as I "bat for the other side". Although the regs have changed, apparently attitudes haven't....

 

[AdamW]

I believe they are considering letting in people who have had laser surgery... Colour blindness is the real b*tch, in the UK you can only get the most basic of pilot's licences if you have any colour deficiency (a thorn in the side of a flying-mad colleague of mine, who isn't allowed to fly outside the UK on his licence).

I dunno if riding the pink bus to the barracks would be much of a problem, homosexuality isn't a post-1945 invention. Obviously it might get the wrong attention if you minced in with your cap at a jaunty angle and proclaimed "I'm free! Hellooooooo sailor!"

I read that the post-war fire service had large numbers of gentlemen's gentlemen (not in the PG Wodehouse sense ), mainly from the navy because they were able to climb ladders and rigging all day and therefore good for the job. Yes, even WW2 ships had rigging.

 

[2scoops0406]

I always wanted to be a pilot but got told very early it wasn't going to happen as I wear glasses. Apperently 20:20 vision (unaided) is mandatory.

You don't have to have unaided "20:20" vision anymore (it's now called 6:6) contact lenses are ok. Applied for RAF at 17 accepted eyes went at 18 (had to be "20:20" then ) Re orientation, yep, I think you're probably right still a long way to go in the armed forces.

 

[AdamW]

Can you be a fast jet pilot and wear contacts though? I would think that pulling 9g+ could make the lenses slide about all over the eyeball, or wrinkle the lense.

The transport pilots do a tremendous job; wars would last a lot longer and be a lot more bloody without them. However very few people say "when I grow up, I want to fly Hercs!". They want to fly fighters.

 

[2scoops0406]

You ever tried pulling an obstinate contact out, requires more than 9g!!