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Minor malfunction--the boffins at Rolls-Royce will sort it after lunch. http://www.column5.us/images/Temp/Trent900FBO.mpg

I only feel old when I see a bunch of teenage girls cavorting around the pool at the gym. Then I realize that I'm not old...I'm experienced.

I just got back from working out with my trainer. Towards the end I hallucinated that I was in a dark tunnel and there was a real bright light up ahead...

Run msconfig and disable UAC. 90% of Vista frustrations are eliminated.

Definitely Manatee...love it.

Just having fun!

My understanding is that "boffin" is England-slang for what we think of as a "mad scientist."

I am surrounded by people like that!

Yeah, in all seriousness I can understand the frustration of having your work messed up by someone else. But on the other hand, when it happens to most of us we don't throw a tantrum, threaten to quit and threaten to beat the guy up. My problem I guess is that he is making several million dollars per film...so just shut up and do another take.

He was born in the back seat of a clown car?

NEVER!

There's no excuse for it. You can rationalize it and blame technology or society, but its a matter of individual self-respect more than anything.

That's definitely a 21st century attitude. Look at people like John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Bogart, Steve McQueen, etc. All more famous in their time than Bale, and all far more gracious and careful about their image. That isn't to say they were saints, but they had enough respect for their fans and the public not to engage in these hissy fits when there was a possibility it might get out.

I'm amazed at the amount of support these guys get. I guess its always been that way with the Hollywood elites though. If I did something like that at work I would be fired, period. And if I left a message like that on someone's phone I would probably be in some legal trouble at a minimum.

Here is another huge wanker, Alec Baldwin: http://www.tmz.com/2007/04/19/alec-baldwin...ge-to-daughter/

I like how when he gets mad his English accent starts to come back!

Uhm, ok, whatever--he's still a wanker.

Yeah, Russell Crowe. One of my favs but definitely a wanker.

Overpaid primadonna needs to get over it and move on. It'd be one thing to bust on the guy but he just goes on and on.

Just send a PM.

True, but from about 1957 to 1975 the Navy also had one of the world's premier fighters on its decks--the F-8--with only a token attack capability. Then the F-14 came online which until the late 1980s was also a pure fighter. So there was a pretty long period where the Navy could show up at a fight with an indigenous air superiority capability.

Some marks received an IFR probe at some point...think the FAW.9 was one of them.

Too bad we allowed our defense industry to merge and then crumble to the point where Grum--er, Northrop-Grumman can no longer design and build aircraft from the ground up, and Boeing and Lockheed are the only players left.

That's what bothers me: the Hornet (A and C models) was a great light strike aircraft with good self-defense capability. The Supa Hornet is a bomb truck and I guess there will always be a place for that, but it seems that the Navy has ceeded responsibility for obtaining and maintaining air superiority to the USAF, which is the only American service with true fighter aircraft anymore (F-15, F-22 and even F-16 to a lesser extent are all superior in the pure A2A arena to the Hornet). I assume this is by design, but it seems shortsighted with the rooskies actively arming our potential enemies with their latest fighters.

If ever there was a plane I don't want my name associated with! (Just kidding, just kidding)