Richard Branson

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He's a legend. Whenever he takes a Virgin plane, he goes round and shakes everyones hand, I have witnessed this. He's a master of PR.
 
He's one of my heroes - I met him once, when he was training for the mad round-the globe balloon race thing he did with per Lyndstrom many years back. He was up at Cark airfiled in the Lakes, and my mates dad was training them both in accelerated freefall.

He's a bit of an airhead, and one-time they were in descent (AFF is where you have an instructor either side of you). They had only just exited the plane at 12000 ft when my mates dad says check your altimeter, now touch your chute release - now touch your reserve release....He then panics, and pulls his reserve chute at an altitude of just below 11000 ft.

A/ this is a mad thing to do as the reserve jettisons your main chute before deploying - so effectively you lose your main source of survival, and instead are now only on your backup.

B/ deploying a chute at 11000 ft is also a bad thing todo as he actually landed about 20 miles away from the DZ

But he had a good laugh at himself afterwards, and got the ale in all night at the local boozer - he's great, he has a real pioneering spirit about him, and is well and truly a nice guy.
 
He used to give us our birthday off paid, and you get you kids first day at school off paid as well.. silly little things that make sense.

I met him when I worked for Virgin a few years back, he was at one of the parties.

He's ****ing boss to be honest. The rare type of man that you want to hate but just can't, because he talks too much sense and is still thinking of how he can make logical changes to the average Joe's work day.

That one of the parties he used to thru for staff at his gaff in the country? Went to one of those with my mate once. Didn't see him but was pretty ace. Better than any other work do I've ever been to, and none of those were at the founder/CEO's house!!
 
Backstabbing, political leaning, wannabe saint, sore loser, middle man, that shafted the country by buying the liquid part of northern rock and trying to pick up the land associated with its losses stateside. Forget the beard and the smile and the Casino Royale cameo - this serpent is a PR dream and nothing more. Awful and expensive trains, a part of the Laker betrayal, financial bully, and into bed with whichever party are in to push through his requirements for today and tomorrow.

The Russel Brand of billionaires.
 

Backstabbing, political leaning, wannabe saint, sore loser, middle man, that shafted the country by buying the liquid part of northern rock and trying to pick up the land associated with its losses stateside. Forget the beard and the smile and the Casino Royale cameo - this serpent is a PR dream and nothing more. Awful and expensive trains, a part of the Laker betrayal, financial bully, and into bed with whichever party are in to push through his requirements for today and tomorrow.

The Russel Brand of billionaires.

Shall I put you down as a no mate?
 
He is the PR / Advertising.. Do you not see that ? You see Branson on the tele, what do you think ? Virgin Company..
He is that company.
He is a smart fella, so yeah, he do a few snide things.. and make a few bob. No probs here, if he bought Everton tomorrow you would give yourself a blowjob..
 
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