ICAO English requirements changing in 2008?

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

If I understand correctly, the ICAO is putting more stringent
requirements for English for pilots and crew into effect on the first
of the year. Is that true? If so, does anyone know where I can find
an official description of the new requirements? Searching the ICAO
site pointed me to a zillion different pages.


Why, you think of learning English? Probably a wise move since I don't
think Crap is going to become an ICAO language anytime soon.

Bertie

Goddamn it Bertie, the man is a jerk, no doubt about it. But when he
doesn't come off as a pompous ass, and the question is phrased in good form,
either answer the man directly, but if you are ignorant of the answer as you
appear to be, just let it drop. Giving him grief for a well thought out
question is a sure way to make it indistinguishable to him the difference
between honest questions and most of his postings. Remember Psych 1? Or
the Fundamentals Of Learning?

It vaguely reminds me of the English Lord High Judge that passed a beggar
who had been in his court a few times for minor offenses. He pointed his
cane at him and said, "There is a rogue at the end of my cane." The beggar
said, "And at which end would that be, m'lord?"

Jim

--
"If you think you can, or think you can't, you're right."
--Henry Ford

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote in
:

If I understand correctly, the ICAO is putting more stringent
requirements for English for pilots and crew into effect on the first
of the year. Is that true? If so, does anyone know where I can find
an official description of the new requirements? Searching the ICAO
site pointed me to a zillion different pages.


Why, you think of learning English? Probably a wise move since I don't
think Crap is going to become an ICAO language anytime soon.

Bertie

"RST Engineering" wrote in
:

Goddamn it Bertie, the man is a jerk, no doubt about it. But when he
doesn't come off as a pompous ass, and the question is phrased in good
form, either answer the man directly, but if you are ignorant of the
answer as you appear to be, just let it drop.


Actuaslly, I know he answer.

Giving him grief for a
well thought out question is a sure way to make it indistinguishable
to him the difference between honest questions and most of his
postings. Remember Psych 1? Or the Fundamentals Of Learning?


Yep.



It vaguely reminds me of the English Lord High Judge that passed a
beggar who had been in his court a few times for minor offenses. He
pointed his cane at him and said, "There is a rogue at the end of my
cane." The beggar said, "And at which end would that be, m'lord?"


Mmm, yes, Good story.

Bertie

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
Goddamn it Bertie, the man is a jerk, no doubt about it. But when he
doesn't come off as a pompous ass, and the question is phrased in good
form, either answer the man directly, but if you are ignorant of the
answer as you appear to be, just let it drop.

Every one of the trolls threads start this way. A simple 'honest' question.
She's very predictable.

Bertie's actually performing a public service, letting anyone who may be
tempted to answer her that they are inviting a flame war.

RST Engineering wrote:
Goddamn it Bertie, the man is a jerk, no doubt about it. But when he
doesn't come off as a pompous ass, and the question is phrased in good form,
either answer the man directly, but if you are ignorant of the answer as you
appear to be, just let it drop. Giving him grief for a well thought out
question is a sure way to make it indistinguishable to him the difference
between honest questions and most of his postings. Remember Psych 1? Or
the Fundamentals Of Learning?

Jim,

I solved this problem by kill filtering Bertie shortly after filtering
MX. With MX filtered I was still seeing virtually all of his posts
since Bertie lacks the self-control to refrain from responding it every
single post MX makes. Once I filtered them both, things returned almost
to normal ... at least as normal as r.a.p gets these days.

Matt

Matt Whiting wrote in
:

RST Engineering wrote:
Goddamn it Bertie, the man is a jerk, no doubt about it. But when he
doesn't come off as a pompous ass, and the question is phrased in
good form, either answer the man directly, but if you are ignorant of
the answer as you appear to be, just let it drop. Giving him grief
for a well thought out question is a sure way to make it
indistinguishable to him the difference between honest questions and
most of his postings. Remember Psych 1? Or the Fundamentals Of
Learning?

Jim,

I solved this problem by kill filtering Bertie shortly after filtering
MX. With MX filtered I was still seeing virtually all of his posts
since Bertie lacks the self-control to refrain from responding it
every single post MX makes. Once I filtered them both, things
returned almost to normal ... at least as normal as r.a.p gets these
days.


Why would I want to restrain myself? I only came here to troll him in the
first place..




Bertie

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:02:00 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote in :

I solved this problem by kill filtering Bertie shortly after filtering
MX. With MX filtered I was still seeing virtually all of his posts
since Bertie lacks the self-control to refrain from responding it
every single post MX makes. Once I filtered them both, things
returned almost to normal ... at least as normal as r.a.p gets these
days.


Why would I want to restrain myself? I only came here to troll him in the
first place..

Bertie

How does your trolling Mr. A. contribute to improving the newsgroup's
signal to noise ratio?

Larry Dighera wrote in
:

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:02:00 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote in :

I solved this problem by kill filtering Bertie shortly after
filtering MX. With MX filtered I was still seeing virtually all of
his posts since Bertie lacks the self-control to refrain from
responding it every single post MX makes. Once I filtered them
both, things returned almost to normal ... at least as normal as
r.a.p gets these days.


Why would I want to restrain myself? I only came here to troll him in
the first place..

Bertie

How does your trolling Mr. A. contribute to improving the newsgroup's
signal to noise ratio?



It doesn't. Why would you imagine it would?

You;re not to smart, are you Larry?


Bertie

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:04:22 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote in :

Larry Dighera wrote in
:

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:02:00 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote in :

I solved this problem by kill filtering Bertie shortly after
filtering MX. With MX filtered I was still seeing virtually all of
his posts since Bertie lacks the self-control to refrain from
responding it every single post MX makes. Once I filtered them
both, things returned almost to normal ... at least as normal as
r.a.p gets these days.


Why would I want to restrain myself? I only came here to troll him in
the first place..

Bertie

How does your trolling Mr. A. contribute to improving the newsgroup's
signal to noise ratio?



It doesn't.

So you publicly admit that your intent in stalking Mr. A. is to
negatively impact the quality of the newsgroup by lowering the
newsgroup's signal-to-noise ratio?

Why would you imagine it would?

Because a good netizen worthy of participation in this
world's-most-egalitarian-forum strives to improve Usenet as part of
the implicit licence granted to Usenet participants by the computer
system owners who freely donate their valuable labor and computing
resources for the noble cause that is Usenet. Usenet provides an
opportunity for mankind to demonstrate our capacity for
self-governance, the foundation of democracy. If instead we embrace
anarchy and devolution, we pathetically, publicly, parade our low,
uncivilized, brutish, feral and undignified ignobility before the
world, and shame those praiseworthy creators of Usenet upon whose
faith in the honorable capacity of mankind to act responsibly and
enlightened it rests.

You;re not to smart, are you Larry?


My head may stuffed with straw, but fortunately I am smart enough not
to resort to insults in a feeble attempt to demean those who expose my
faults, for personal attacks only serve to reveal a lack of expressive
ability and cognitive resources.


Bertie

Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:
Why would I want to restrain myself? I only came here to troll him in the
first place..

And to go Brit Bashing

Andy