...as yet another thread drifts out to sea...

*sigh* I think a parallel can be drawn between trying to play a session in a pub with a TV blaring and creating a disturbance, and trying to read a Mudcat thread on a particular subject with Mudcatters trading insults and disturbing the discussion.

Not that my temper hasn't flared once in a while, but I've learned from Mudcat-thread experience that putting down the mouse and stepping away from the keyboard keeps me on a more even keel. I don't visit and converse here at Mudcat as much as I used to, or as much as I'd like to; but just as Shaneo demonstrated in the first post of this thread, when the spirit of cooperation and respect is lacking (in pub or thread), it's time to leave (the pub or thread).

So maybe I'll see y'all in another thread...

Sharon