Don't read into it. My point is that it is very irritating when people clarify minute points rendering the thrust irrelevant.

When they do it for a purpose, it is pathetic.

I have no view on the kid, except his taunting nick name was Playdo Dogtrop, although I forget his real name. I did bump into him in the pubs as a teenager and he had become one of the lads. I'm not qualified to say whether the bullying had a positive or negative effect, but when I worked down the pit, any new lad with a bit of lip found themselves greased or swarfega'd   If they were lucky. One poor sod got grinding paste.. Me? I had some lip alright and got greased. Some of it ended up in the sandwiches of the main perpetrator, there being plenty around my bollocks, so I'd call that a draw.

100 by the way.