What is the point of TIW, kill it off!

[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

If theres one way to leave the mob then thats gotta be one at the top. I think i had heard that actually before on one of many drunken nights. if im not mistaken, aren't you also of Bargain Hunt fame????????

Yep, that was me.
The fattest man in TG14.
I suppose it was all bad things you heard about me. DT_Xtremez_31:

 

[Who?]

You should have put TIW and Jurassic Park up for sale, the Yanks would have bought them! DT_Xtremez_31:

Billy you need to speak to some of the older plotters they'll give you lots of stories about Sam amongst others!

 

[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

You should have put TIW and Jurassic Park up for sale, the Yanks would have bought them! DT_Xtremez_31:

Hahaha, yeah, that might have got me and the missus another all expenses paid day-trip to Gloucestershire again.

Billy you need to speak to some of the older plotters they'll give you lots of stories about Sam amongst others!

If they tell you bad things about me, or anything that's potentially embarassing, they're lying.
Especially if it's about Amstedam or Italy.

 

[Who?]

If they tell you bad things about me, or anything that's potentially embarassing, they're lying.
Especially if it's about Amstedam or Italy.

I've heard of those trips they might have embellished them a bit but knowing you Sam probably not.... DT_Xtremez_21:

 

[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

I've heard of those trips they might have embellished them a bit but knowing you Sam probably not.... DT_Xtremez_21:

Damn.
I hang my head in shame of my past deeds.DT_Xtremez_07:

 

[Inch High PI]

Fatwa Sam, I have heard some cracking det stories about you from a Mr browntrout and a little angry ginger Kilmarnock fan (I went through training with browntrout). How is civvie life treating you?

 

[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

Fatwa Sam, I have heard some cracking det stories about you from a Mr browntrout and a little angry ginger Kilmarnock fan (I went through training with browntrout). How is civvie life treating you?

Aaaah. I know them both well.
Has Mr Browntrout sobered up yet? And has our diminutive ginger Killie fan stopped kicking the sh!t out of everything that looks at him a bit funny?
Both great guys. Tell them I said hi if you run into them.

I must say Inch High, civvy life is even better than I remember it before joining up.
No idiots with over-inflated opinions of their own self importance building empires and throwing bull**** and beaurocracy all around them, to the detriment of the small people. (okay, I know, someone is going to reply by saying I was never small, but y'awll know what I mean)

So come on then mate. What are these stories that poeple are telling about my exploits? I'm intrigued now. Just give us a few subject headlines so I can place the incidents involved.

 

[Inch High PI]

Both are doing well fatwa, Browntrout is in the Land of Cheap beer, tax free cars and laderhossen (so i doubt he is sober) and the ginger ninja is at the home of TIW I think, been ages since I saw them both.

 

[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

Both are doing well fatwa, Browntrout is in the Land of Cheap beer, tax free cars and laderhossen (so i doubt he is sober) and the ginger ninja is at the home of TIW I think, been ages since I saw them both.

Aaaah. The phychotic Scotsman is just up the road from me then?
Next time you're speaking to Browntrout, ask him about the time we all went into Lynn to play "spot the inbred freaks", when we looked over to an adjacent doorway to see a group of the local inbred freaks all pointing at Browntrout and laughing at him.
They turned th etables on him.
He was most upset by it all.
We laughed about it for weeks afterwards which upset him even more.

 

[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

Sounds like theres a story behind that.........

Billy,
I just discovered this evening. Even though I took Fatwa Sams offline a few years ago, a web-developer coleague of mine had archived the entire site on his server, and it's running and available on the internet all this time.
If you want to see what it was all about, you can view it by clicking here
A lot of the jokes are a bit dated now as it was last updated around the time of Saddam Husseins downfall, but you get the general idea.

 

[POB]

Fatwah Sam, forgive the intrusion onto a trade specific page...

I have just had a look at your Fatwah Sam site, very funny indeed. Is the shop still selling? I would try the links but I am at work at the moment...Just fancy a mug for work.


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[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

Fatwah Sam, forgive the intrusion onto a trade specific page...
I have just had a look at your Fatwah Sam site, very funny indeed. Is the shop still selling? I would try the links but I am at work at the moment...Just fancy a mug for work.
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Hi Pob,
You can still order the genuine merchandise like mugs and tee-shirts etc. That was all handled through Cafe Press, a third party company and my account with them is still live.
That wil be the first sale they've had on my account in over 2 years now, LOL.

 

[Ricit XIII]

Website

Website

Even though I was on the Sqn at the other end of the runway, Fatwa's Website was amusing and kept us entertained when we were on nights, well lates. Interesting to see the site rise from the ashes and to see if some of the 'goods' are still in the mob or have joined the plain clothes punters. I know a few of the airman/women who were XIII have gone.DT_Xtremez_28:

And yes Browntrout likes his ale/pilsner.

 

[Grey_Man]

TIW in theory has loads of potential. Tac Recce could be a great asset to a lot of people in terms of the support it could provide. (Those in the trade know what we used to do). As it is, the kit doesn't work and the Sqns are more interested in blowing things up than taking photos so all the IA/Plotter teams are experiencing a skill fade. TIW/Raptor is just a place where Officers can change things enough to get promoted before moving on. The other ranks (everyone below senior Sgt) are losing morale by the day.

The answer (in my humble opinion), is to move the entire Imagery trade to the big J, have a deployed element within it and get the Sqns to fly for us on a rotation basis so that everyone can get some practice in. Pilots/Navs learn how to image what they're aiming for and we can analyse the pics when they get the results.

The other optrion would be to bring back the RICs so that people can have an identity and feel proud to be a part of something instead of getting ****ed around being little more than removals men/women or sitting around on the Internet all day instead of providing valuable support to the Royal Air Force that we were all once so proud to be a part of.

Rant over. I've had a **** day. (Can you tell?).

 

[The Hooded Claw]

RIC's, now theres a novel idea lol

Lets not forget that it's not just the IA's that are suffering skill fade, its the GR4/7/9 crews as well. Most of them barely get a chance to play with a pod before shipping overseas where recce is a fairly hefty chunk of their det time. Means that the first few weeks of their operational flying is effectively on the job training

 

[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

Lets not forget that it's not just the IA's that are suffering skill fade, its the GR4/7/9 crews as well. Most of them barely get a chance to play with a pod

Oh come now. I'm not having that.
Those guys spend all night, every night playing with their pods in their greasy little beds in the officers mess while watching a dodgy German porno video that was copied on the editing suite at work.

 

[The Hooded Claw]

Oh come now. I'm not having that.
Those guys spend all night, every night playing with their pods in their greasy little beds in the officers mess while watching a dodgy German porno video that was copied on the editing suite at work.

See, thats how far out of touch you are Sam, the days of the tapes, editing suites & night shifts copying porn onto red-spined videos are long gone my friend

 

[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

See, thats how far out of touch you are Sam, the days of the tapes, editing suites & night shifts copying porn onto red-spined videos are long gone my friend

What?!?!?!
No more red spined tapes?!?!?!?!
This is an outrage!
So you're saying the tonker sqns aren't using IRLS and SLIR anymore?
So that must mean all the degausing machines are gone now too.
The demise of the degausers will also herald the death of the greatest gag ever in the entire world. Running your mates wallet, credit cards, and watch through the degauser, rendering them 100% useless.

I suppose it's all been moved over to DVD, or instant download or some other whiz-bang high tech solution.

God, I hated those TREF workstations. Tempramental pieces of cold-war crap.

 

[Inch High PI]

Red Spined Videos, I had a clear out last week and found 4 red spined "recce" videos. I put them to a charity shop!

 

[The Almighty Fatwa Sam]

Red Spined Videos, I had a clear out last week and found 4 red spined "recce" videos. I put them to a charity shop!

I still have a stack of them.
Some have dodgy porn on them. Some have gigs that my old band played at Aldergrove (yes RICNI used them too). One has DRT's chronological re-edit of Pulp Fiction on it, and many others have random films rented from the naafi and copied on night shift.
If the Naafi knew what was going on, they'd have closed down their video club, LOL.

Problem is, I no longer own a VCR on which to play them.

Sadly, the 500 blank CDRoms which TIW gave me as a gift the week before I was leaving have all been used, and are no longer traceable.
Well, I assume they were meant as a gift to me. They had been left abandoned in a big box in the back corridor at TIW, beside the fire doors where I always parked my car (much to **** ****** annoyance).