It is not just the snootiness at sessions that irks me, its that dang gobsh1tery the 'session' dot org perpetuatungthe myth of 'superiority' in Irtrad.

Well said, sorefingers - it was the point I was trying to make in my msg (#2 in the thread) but more specific about what I meant.
I particularly resented (for obvious reasons!) the suggestion that English music sessions were where all the sad no-hopers and nutters went.

In my experience of sessions (not hard core Irish which I gave up years ago) it's unusual for the incompetent, or anyone else for that matter, to try to dominate the session. Maybe I'm lucky living out in the sticks (Herts/Cambs/Suffolk) where life is less of a frenzied competition than London. Been there, done that.

Anahata