btw, back to the original topic for a moment, is this Humberside place some rough region?

 

Humberside is a large region with many nice villages and towns, but the main city Hull is not the nicest and friendliest of placest I have to say ;-)

I thought in New Zealand, they mainly settled their differences in bar fights.

That's a very insensitive thing to say KingGidorah   *Wooden spoon out stirring it up*    I kid i kid. 

 

Never heard that as a stereo that type though.  Would love to visit Newzealand sometime,  America is on my list as well,  yellow cabs and steam coming from the shores,  Im watching way to much movies.   Ive only ever been to the UK and Spain.

 

 

 

Sleeping is not a problem In New Zealand, this is because we have 70 million sheep. This is the highest density of sheep per unit area in the world

That there is a darn lot of sheep Matthew  :wub:

I think that most all of American stereotypes about Australia (and New Zealand, where they have a different accent, but that is mostly indistinguishable to Americans) come from the Crocodile Dundee movies and the Crocodile Hunter show, or even the Road Warrior (and poor Mel only seems to ever make the headlines these days for his drinking). We obviouly know that it isn't really like that, just as they know that Americans aren't all cowboys, but that is how they are mostly portrayed on American television screens!

 

Trying somewhat to address the original topic: I haven't met anyone in person who expressed the slightest interest in flight simulation, and very few in aviation at all. Around the time when MH370 went missing, we happened to have an outdoor dinner party and one of the guests asked me what I thought, knowing that I did flight simulation. I then started boring them to tears about LNAV and VNAV and transponders, until they glazed over and asked me to pass the salt. People just aren't into that kind of thing.

 

I happened to flip past the game show Jeopardy the other week. Now these contestants are the kind of people who can tell you the 13th Earl of Humperdinckt or the year that the Boogies defeated the Andorians, but when forced to come up with the answer to "this iconic Boeing airliner begin passenger service in 1958", not one of them even bothered to hit their buzzer. That is just the way it is.

 

 

Humberside is a large region

 

It doesn't really exist anymore, it was separated sometime ago into distinct county's and a metropolitan area (Hull).    

 

 

It doesn't really exist anymore, it was separated sometime ago into distinct county's and a metropolitan area (Hull).    

That's good to hear. I used to live in "Humberside" many years ago (The East Yorkshire part), and there was some sort of identity crisis going on. Officially (according to the post office) we were placed into Humberside, but almost nobody would use it and continued to use East Yorkshire (Maybe some sort of snobbery, I don't know, but the address change did affect how much we paid for car insurance). 

I sent a PM to the OP, but he hasn't responded. He has probably already left the building. Either that, or the Hull vigilantes are busy storming the southern beaches of the Humber.

If I could for a moment...

 

Sleeping is not a problem In New Zealand, this is because we have 70 million sheep. This is the highest density of sheep per unit area in the world.

Stereotypes do tend to stick around: this might have been true in 1982, but we are virtually sheepless now, at under 30 million.

What we do have is more cows, and the world's biggest dairy exporter: something like 17 billion litres of milk is processed annually.

So start working on the Moo jokes; the sheep variety more rightfully belongs to our cousins across the ditch on our West Island, they are down to 70 million now  :blink:

 

EDIT: They are about to play cricket with us in the Cricket World Cup Final at Melbourne! 

This has caused us, if not sleeplessness, at least some Great Excitement!  

Yes, the hell with Sydney or some other tourist destination-if I ever get down to the Antipodes, I'm heading straight for Piddle Brook! Getting my a$$ kicked by a combination of Rugby players and Croc hunters in boonie hats has always been high on my bucket list of cultural experiences!

 

btw, back to the original topic for a moment, is this Humberside place some rough region? I understand that the poster wished that flight simulation provided more social opportunities, but I didn't quite follow all of what he was getting at.

 

Piddle Brook is in the UK, so easier for you to get there than I. But I know the area reasonably well and try to get back there every two years minimum to see family and friends (if only for a decent beer).

WingZie!!!!

Are you knocking us aussies? What have we ever done to you guys?

Jon, I am sorry, we generally love you.

But today: you are The Enemy!

And if we win, we will love you again.

They are about to play cricket with us in the Cricket World Cup Final at Melbourne! 

This has caused us, if not sleeplessness, at least some Great Excitement!  

 

It's going to be a sleepless night for many tonight and that's fore sure.....My prediction, New Zealand is going to win  

 

I will attempt to watch it but I find Cricket about as exciting as watching paint dry 

What was this thread about again....??

haha, I am waiting to see an underarm bowl  :ph34r:

I live in East Yorkshire, a stone's throw from Hull and Humberside airport. The area is my go-to flying area. Not sure what could be bettered by online communications though, sharing problems, screenshots and links is all best done via forums I would have thought.