Hi McGrath. I'm not sure if I agree at all with your theories in this post, but I may be the 'straw that broke the camel's back' so I'll try to explain.

I'm the one who reacted so quickly in that "Russian Lass, Irish questions" thread and caused katlaughing's response about "brain drain'.I assure you all the cranial dripping was mine, not hers. I was in a foul mood that day for reasons I won't get into, and when "The bells went off" instead of just ignoring it and going to another thread, I posted a couple of sentences implying that kat was encouraging one of those Irish flame threads that have happened so many times here and always get so bitter. Check out all those old threads and their flash-points if you want to see what got my attention so quickly.

Obviously I was wrong to react in print that quickly, but that's why I'm calling myself 'red faced idiot'

And boy do I want to apologise to kat, and to you McGrath. You're one of the kindest mudguys around here, always involved, and perhaps if you'd known that my reaction had everything to do with a bad mood, and nothing to do with xenophobia, it might have helped.

red-faced idiot.