I missed the whole shebang, but piecing together various threads, and some of the comments in this one particularly, once again lead me to simple thoughts ......
One man's (woman's) banter is anothers insult.
An outsider reading the last 1/2 dozen posts in this thread would probably form a totally different mental picture than the one I have .. simply through lack of knowledge of the "participants". This could then lead to all sorts of problems if that outsider joined in, in an attempt to "pacify" what they saw as an escalating problem - that doesn't actually exist.
Trouble is .. the writer knows EXACTLY what they want to say and why ..... the reader hasn't got a clue and tries to interpret the written word .. and the 2 results are often many miles apart !!
Every single member of this forum, past, present and future, has something to offer at some stage. The forum is the loser whan people leave in this way.
Politeness, civility, understanding and tolerance. Are these concepts really that difficult
