Gee, Cobble -- it was such an interesting conversation, too!! Would you care to expand on your observation?
Because, tell ya what, I don't think it is a load of crap, and I think your impulse to categorize it as one is a big red flag, reflecting more on your own battened-down and welded-shut mental state than on the thread itself.
'Course, maybe you don't think you have a mental state, and maybe you'd be right. But something came up with your enlightening remark.