Ah, Concorde.
Now that WAS an upgrade worthy of the title King of the Blag.
My M-i-Lâs first ever flight was on Concorde to NY
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When I worked in Sharjah/Dubai, executives would sometimes come over from London for a jolly, flying Concorde. I, being phobic about flying anyway, was never tempted to try it, as descriptions of turbulence at the speed of sound was just not encouraging!
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Bit before my time there, but we did see the Pepsi Concorde come in to land there. It was cool and obv noisy as hell.
I got asked to give a ppt at a Cisco gig in Vegas I knew nothing about the relationship but there wasnât anyone else around. It was over 8 hours so classed as being allowed to fly Business Class. Told the Travel Agent to book me and he said you have to go Economy from New York to Vegas. I was like why?
Then he explained that BA had a Dxb- JFK special promotion - book Business Class upgrade 1 leg to Concorde. So I did.
I remember having to bend backwards to get in the bathroom & pee, and bruising my knees when the tray table came down so they could serve me âBrunch & Bollingerâ.
It was mega cool, and being post Air France crash, bloody brave tbh, but had to be done
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So he went in with a broken leg and came out with a clubfoot.
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You won the internet.
Well done
My last but one boss in the sandpit played golf with one of thoseâŚ
Though from seeing him in action I would recommend the toe wedge above the foot driver every time
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With all the sand and what not, was that a camel toe wedge?
(Response dedicated to @PhilippineSaint âŚagain 
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Took the nippers to see the one at Brooklands a while back.
Fuckin tiny.
Kids still think is was big, understandable given it was quite a few years ago.
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How did you lot come to this opinion of me?
I have standards you know.
They are low but they are still standards 
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You lot know the standing joke. Phil & Golfers & name drops.
But the thing is, in the words of Garry Player, the more I practiced the luckier i got.
worked my butt off as a volunteer and so got to meet my sporting heroes. Then I got to the moments when they would turn round and thank me (as part of the team) for our help as they won hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To shake hands with Rory or Tiger is one thing, for them to say thanks while they do it is something else.
I watched that man at his peak, I saw how he would mentally switch into the zone and it was a huge influence on me and my work took me down the NLP and Psychology of sales route.
On his first return from âthe dark daysâ he was a delight, he is the only man in the world to have slapped Mrs P-Fâs ass in my presence and caused me to 
, we were heart broken when he had to pullout of his last trip to Dubai.
I cried tears of real joy when he won The Masters. Still a better comeback than Tom Brady imho.
And then to hear the news this week, to wonder about meds, and booze, to worry his leg could be amputated ffs.
Now. I just hope he recovers and can live a normal life with his kids. Anything more will be another miracle in a miraculous life.
This is the most ungainly yet favourite of my photos. This was a moment when all the âinternsâ process plans had fallen to rat shit and the reality had set in -kids & TIger. We werenât supposed to be there our âjobâ was done, but one of the "VIP Protocol Cops asked me to stay because what was going to happen next was so obvious.
We got him to his car, every kid got their autograph, every drunk adult got âbulldozedâ and as he sat in the car he leaned out, shook my hand and simply said.
Thanks Phil.
Jesus. I still get shivers to this day.
Get well soon GOAT
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And yes. Of course I was wearing a Saints Sash Shirt.
And yes he did ask about it earlier and yes he had heard of us
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Really recommend taking the kids to RAF Duxford.
Brilliant day out. Took my Grandson there about 4 years ago. He now follows the Museum on the internet and bugs his Mum to go to every new exhibition there.
Oneof my fav videos was of him explaining to 2 year old sister on her 1st trip how to tell the difference between the Spitfire & Hurricane and then taking her hand to go into Concorde 002 and explaining everything to her!
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Not gonna happen with 19 & 21 year olds 
I did pull some strings and get a younger YoungAdult#2 to sit in an in-service Harrier prior to take off and watch it after he got out. The look on his face was priceless - as they say
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How dâya think? 
Keeping The Waterside flag flying
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I donât understand this wankathon for Woods, all I see is a drugged up womaniser with a love for strippers, nothing wrong with that per se but when the mdia portray him as this saint it sticks in the craw.
Heâs no character but the media want to be a star so a star he will be.