Sorry ~~ I suppose I shouldn't have been so rude in my last post. Apologies to all for bringing down the tone of the thread.

But I am constantly exercised by this compulsion some appear to suffer:

to open threads on topics in which they are not interested, for no purpose except to assert their uninterest in tones of priggish self-satisfied superiority, and thus implicitly to sneer at those low enough to find of interest something so much beneath the notice of their imperious mightinesses;

which is what it seemed to me that Raggy was doing.

Why, though? What is the point? what possible satisfaction does anyone get from any such perverse procedure?

~M~