Many thanks, pfr... It was a bit of an ungracious response, eh wot·wot?, whichever way you slice it. Tho mebbe a bit tongue-in-cheek at that... ...but my question does still nag away, as to why 'progress' should always be so much equated with boorishness. Reminded of the 'bearded gentleman' in the bohemian club in Dorothy L Sayers' Strong Poison, who, in response to Lord Peter's mentioning that nervousness can be detrimental to the manners, "suddenly and loudly" exclaims "Manners are for the bourgeois". ≈M≈
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