Carol: I honour your coming out and joining in the discussion on this thread which you have provoked. But, as I have said before on another thread, few things are as irritating as being insulted, and then being asked in angry tones by the insulter: "Oh, can't you take a joke. Where's your sense of humour?" Few things, as you are discovering, are more destructive of any SOH than that. I am sure that we all appreciate that you probably meant to be humorous and satirical, and to be restricted in your use of terms like 'scum'; but do not the reactions on this thread demonstrate that you did not succeed in these purposes with enough effectiveness, or with enough people, to make the attempt viable? And would it not now be seemly on your part to admit as much?