Unlike you, Guest (with a consistent identifier, I'll grant you), for better or worse, I'm a member of the community. I'm known. I have a bit of credit. Ake is too. Admittedly, there's plenty that don't like the daft sod much. But he's known. You aren't. And pretty much all you've done from your first post is carp & moan & cavil & nitpick.

Mudcat threads often meander. Sometimes drunkenly. And Dave is as guilty as anyone (whether under the influence, only he can say!). But the meanderment ought to be entertaining or illuminating. You do neither.

I'm pretty sure Dave won't mind me saying hello to an old friend in public. He knows I'm not trying to hijack things, for a start. I'm also pretty sure he won't mind me talking back to you either. Because he knows I'm trying to achieve something he favours too.

Instead of being a Guest, sign in. Instead of bitching & whining, show us a positive side of you. Any regular here can tell you I can be vicious. But I don't do it often & I don't do it except in retaliation against someone who... (And I'm not doing it now). Joe may say otherwise, but yes there is one law & another law. That's human nature for you. Folk we know something of, we allow a certain of latitude. Random pixels like you... Get a lot less latitude. I can talk back to Dave a bit because we've talked to & across each other before. You are just a random bunch of argumentative pixels. Capisce?

With, of course, apologies to Dave! Something you've not so far offered, I think...