Phil Beer made that post in May last year, along with a number of other luminaries fed up to the back teeth of madlizziecornish's interminable, unbelievably misinformed mawkish mumblings. Among them Eliza Carthy who, as EFDSS vice president, thundered at her to keep her hands (and lying tongue) well away. Most heartfelt was this passage:

What I do NOT wish to be portrayed as is a member of some form of geriatric Boy Band. This sort of adulation is utterly embarrassing and I'd really like it to stop now.

Far from "shooting himself in the foot, he's more than likely on the point of putting the bullet through his head right now. I really hope he's not reading this although he does, from time to time, being an incurably masochist. I'd like him to know that his long-awaited box set is much appreciated.