But my idea of 'scathing', Don is something like "useless idiot" or "unpleasant organism" or "scoundrel" or at worst "swine". I honestly sedulously avoid using the [what are celled sometimes] 'taboo words', which so many thoughtlessly indulge in on this forum. I did when I first joined because it was the idiom, regrettably IMO, in which discourse is carried on here. But then I realised that it actually drags down the whole tone & atmosphere, and the level of argument, and resolved a couple of years ago that I was going to use it no more. So, yes, Don, I can honestly say that, except for that one injudicious lapse when I tried but failed to make a joke of it, I have used no such ~~ not even of or to R Bridge when he was being at his most aggressively & mindlessly doltish.

And that truly is the fact of the matter. I say again, if you don't believe me, SEARCH MY POSTS.

Regards

~M~