"I've become so disillusioned on these sort of threads of late perhaps it's time to take a break."
Lol! I was thinking I aught to do the same last couple days, instead of getting my knickers in a twist all the time! And in response to the joke thing - I do think it can be all too easy to rattle off a mistaken response to something that's been misread on a 'heated' thread.
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