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Red Arrows at London Olympics - A Petition

Don't see any harm in having the Red Arrows as part of some opening ceremony. They're hardly the Condor Legion.

Mind you, there's not much point in having the Olympics, cos it's just a lot of people on drugs running around. Hackney is like that already.
 
cliche guevara said:
It would appear that I may be the only person that thinks that having a military display at an international event that encourages such wholesome values as "togetherness" and "setting aside our differences" is blatantly wrong.
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Is there much call for formation flying with coloured plumes in a war situation?
 
It is not true to suggest that the Government has banned the Red Arrows from celebrations to mark the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The organising committee of London 2012 will decide what to include in the celebrations - but with five years to go, decisions are yet to be made on what the celebrations will look like, although you can be assured that they will be a spectacular showcase of Britain's best.
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government reply for what it's worth;)
 
"Is there much call for formation flying with coloured plumes in a war situation?"


Prob more call for that than military aircraft - or any aircraft - at athletics meetings.

Just becasue it was, doesn't mean it was ever sensible or right in the first place; it always was daft, incongruous, anachronistic nonsense.
 
Crispy said:
Who, apart from the brits in the stadium, would have a clue that the pretty planes had anything to do with the military. They're bright red, not camo or grey. Fuck, make them do rainbow smoke instead of red white and blue if they must.
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They'd get accused of being too gay and not cool enough :cool:
 
Paint them in glitter, make the smoke in rainbow colours, and have them make heart shapes with it.
 
And the athletes are gonna be offended by an aerobatic display team rather than the legions of armed police and army that are gonna descend on East London for a few months in 2012? Bag searches everywhere , id checks every few feet?

I know what would piss me off more?

.p.
 
I love the Red Arrows.

I love the fact anyone can book them.

I think I may book them for my brithday.

<smashes open piggy bank and starts counting pennies>
 
cliche guevara said:
I just recieved this email from a co-worker:



Now, the thing that astonishes me is that the majority of people in my office seem to be completely for having the Arrows at the Olympics, stating that it's "political correctness gone mad" that they've been banned.

It would appear that I may be the only person that thinks that having a military display at an international event that encourages such wholesome values as "togetherness" and "setting aside our differences" is blatantly wrong.
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Fuck, I would have a proper military display! Call some serious hardware and have loads of jingolistic and imperlistic music to piss off the self haters! Oh yeah, sprinklings of army/navy/air force recruitment stalls decked out in red white and blue that stalls that say

"Oy! You! Johnny Tourist! Do you want to live in the best fuck off country on the planet? Well stop facking about and join the best armed forces on the planet! "
 
I think this is horseshit - the red arrows are not overtly militaristic, our corrupt government-supported defence industry is, start with them!
 
Ae589 said:
I think this is horseshit - the red arrows are not overtly militaristic, our corrupt government-supported defence industry is, start with them!
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How can this story be true? It's bullshit. Don't worry about it. It doesn't matter who the source is, or what you read. The important thing, is that someone said "It's PC gone mad.", invoking powerfull magic which makes the whole story untrue. :cool:
 
cliche guevara said:
I just recieved this email from a co-worker:



Now, the thing that astonishes me is that the majority of people in my office seem to be completely for having the Arrows at the Olympics, stating that it's "political correctness gone mad" that they've been banned.

It would appear that I may be the only person that thinks that having a military display at an international event that encourages such wholesome values as "togetherness" and "setting aside our differences" is blatantly wrong.
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Its not a millitary display, red aircraft would be easier to see and therefore easier to shoot down Comprende.

Acrobatics.....The Supermarine Spitfire was developed from Racing Planes dontcha know?

Its not PC gone mad, just more of the same middle class guilt as always.

If we banned all the middle class "think tanks" & Quangos from travelling we could offset the carbon on a cool air display.

I'd bring back Concorde tomorrow

Besides if the Environmental arguement was really true, the government could already set proper 24 hour bus timetables in place using buses running on vegetable oil and eliminate much of the use of private taxis. But it doesn't and until that happens I wont believe the environmental lobby. If what there saying is true then theres loads of things they can enforce that are not fashionable, such as improving inter urban & suburban bus services and making them cheaper and more widespread. The real inconvinient truth methinks. But those people going to my bottle bank always drive down in Volkswagen Golf's and I always use public transport, so why isn't my income tax lower than theirs???
 
STFC said:
Thanks for posting the link. Petition signed.

Does anyone know if there's any truth in this story?
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Try googling it before signing up. I got this one last week and when I checked it seems their press officer didn't know anything about it. Probably just an invention of the Sun's.

Anyone who's signed up has been had.
 
A national newspaper and numerous websites have reported that event
organisers believe the Lincolnshire-based team's military background
"might offend other nations".
...

It is alleged that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport ruled
last week that the RAF Scampton squad is "unsuitable" and "not in
keeping with the event as they were too militaristically British".

But team spokesman Rachel Huxford said: "We have had no discussions
about the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics whatsoever.

"We are still planning our 2008 season at this stage and that is a
long way off. We understand that no decision has yet been made about
the ceremony."
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http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk...me=yes&more_nodeId1=156139&contentPK=18407510
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
PErosnally i can't see why anyone would want the needlessl poluting of zero significance massively co2 producing war planes to puzz around for no descerable gain it's shit like this which needs to be stopped as well as the supposedly pointless (argueably far more benifical to people) holiday flights...

unless they can make them Eco friendly then all aerobatic teams military or not should be ground forthwidth..
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Miserable Cunt.
 
:mad: At those Red Arrows. The millions of human lives they've taken by flying in formation whilst releasing coloured smoke. Oh the humanity!

They should be disbanded and made to fly those harmless planes equipped with guns and misiles bringing joy to the world through entertaining precision bombing.

Wouldn't the world be a better place if all military pilots only flew acrobatic aircraft?
 
PacificOcean said:
Making a heart shape seems like a very complex thing to do in a plane.
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There is more than one plane, and they can turn the smoke on and off. think about it...
 
I'd imagine the Red Arrows would be as much good in a combat situation as the Harlem Globetrotters are in competition basketball. Militaristic my arse.

"Charlie Tango One, bogeys sighted, releasing red smoke..... now" :rolleyes: :D
 
The Red Arrows pilots are all active pilots ready to go to a theatre of war. If they are required for action at any time the displays are cancelled. They tend to leave their red aircraft back in the hangars though and use grey armed ones in combat.

E2A That heart display has been part of their routine for a few years now. I think it started when one of the pilots was about to get married and they were flying over his home town.
 
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