I agree, Stu. I've known Tom Ryan for several years and, yes, he is a bit abrasive when he posts in Forums - his emails and PMs are often completely different though. Although Irish, he was a career soldier in the British Army and served in the Yemen and other hot spots. He was wounded, has great difficulty in standing and walking and is unable to drive, his wife, Tex, drives him everywhere - and they are a very devoted couple. He is in pain or suffers severe discomfort almost all the time. I do know this: there is absolutely no malice in him or in what he says - very likely he posted tongue-in-cheek - there isn't a bad bone in that man's body. What is really strange though, is Kuya's reaction: an immediate banning with no prior warning whatsoever. Yet he chose to take no action at all when I was subjected to a string of far worse (IMO) personal attacks. Personal attacks can be quite hurtful, can't they Kuya?
My late friend Ian Wright, a very fine man, was in the Yemen and the Radfan. He was just able to sail the boat he had built, singlehanded, round Britain, but was in constant pain. I believe I have made my feelings sufficiently clear.
Purely for C&C (comments and critique), perhaps the portraits would have been better if the first head would be fully in the yellow background and the light was not coming out of the man's head in the second. Just a little movement by you would have made them better, Sean. On the positive side, excellent candid expressions from both men and great depth of field/bokeh.
I took a few more as well. With these shots I was testing the bokah mainly, so I wanted something of a distance between the background and the subject. But today I plan to have some pictures of Joy whilst we travel round the place on this Good Friday.
Those weren't abrasive forum posts, those were attacks. And I hadn't provoked it, we hadn't clashed in an earlier thread or post, he just decided to have a pop at me. That is the key difference with what happened there and what happened with you and John over the past year. With you two, there is a pattern that we see, arguments getting more heated until it suddenly goes off.. His first post would have met a snotty response, but the second one was clearly set to provoke a response. Although we've never made a big deal of it, when other people have come onto the forum just to have a pop at people, they've had their access heavily restricted, but those have been new sign ups - trolls. However, upon reflection I do agree that a warning should have been issued to SINGERS that such behavior won't be tolerated. Therefore, the ban will expire after a week. Whether or not he then chooses to rejoin the forum is entirely up to him.
Cheers mate. Yes : Tongue in cheeky The reaction was what I expected... sadly ... proving my point. Tom
Radfan IS in The Yemen. It was part of The Biitsh Dhala Protectorate. I flew in there in Beverleys from Khormaksar. Just like this "old Truck". Tom
Poles apart. Polish War Memorial - Ruislip, London. Polish Pilots SAVED London in WW11 Battle of Britian. "Lest We foret". Tom
Thank you. Yer Sir. & Dem Paddy Basket BogTrotters.... Non-British personnel in the RAF during the Battle of Britain Poland 145 New Zealand 135 Canada 112 Czechoslovakia 88 Australia 32 Belgium 30 South Africa 25 Ireland 15 France 13 United States 11 Southern Rhodesia 3 British Ceylon 1 Jamaica 1 Unknown 7 ? Tom
I do know that: as a boy I lived in Mogadishu. I missed out the word "campaign". Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
