Is anyone taking this man's vendetta still seríous or are you only in it for the joke that is?

Sometimes I think the most charitable assumption I can make about Shambles is that he is posting tongue in cheek since half a decade. Each other possible assumption is not a benevolent one.

Starting on the charitable assumption I admire his doublespeak messages: Saying please ignore posts that annoy you on the one hand and making sure that it is nearly impüossible to ignore his posts on the other. Posting what seems on the surface to be a genuine offer to a serious discussion of an in principle serious issue and avoiding on the other hand each really serious discussion.

But it always fun to read his newest posts. I only wish that Mudcat would mark the threads haunted by Shambles so that I can avoid them or seek them according to my daily changing preferences. It is unfair that the fire engines thread becomes a lets-laugh-about-Shambles thread without notifying that to the friends of his crooked humour.

Wolfgang