Well Ted, I can't accept your interpretation of that verse only applying to the boxes not the people they contain — a pronoun like 'they' clearly refers in English grammar to the noun most nearly preceding it — nor your assertion that I seem to have said she should have apologised now,when anyone can see she can't; when you admit I had referred back to the time she accepted she had some regrets.

See my response to Emma B's at 2.20 on 9 Sep, & her subsequent copping out of arguing further — as I feel you have done to my challenge to show whom & where I had 'browbeaten'; when all I had done was maintain the position I had stated in the OP against opposition which had occurred — & I repeat, why shouldn't I? when it's my thread — you haven't, as i asked, provided any precedent for the view that an OP should be a neutral chairman rather than an active participant in the thread he himself has started; or for your view that such participation constitutes 'browbeating'. I thought you were, as I said, being peculiarly prescriptive in your statements as to how i should conduct MY thread.

So, I ask again, who could have felt 'browbeaten', & where, by anything I have said?

And if you find such terms as 'lefty' & 'humourless', in the context of an adult discussion, so offensive 'hereabouts' where you are, I must say you must be such a sensitive lot 'thereabouts' that I can't imagine how you ever get thru the day.