Hmm...okay you do get bars where people insult you, but by and large you don't there again. And this is our local. I think the management is quite right to do whatever they can to keep things nice.

Occasionally I find myself retreating from threads were the invective gets a bit too near the knuckle. Its easy to offend sensibilities near election time particularly when people are so fired up about their candidate.

Similarly many people(myself included) consider the way they have gone about their music to be their life's work. What you reject in your influences is almost as important as you take on board .. Its easy to cut deeper than you intend and really insult somebody by just saying what are the basic precepts for your working day.

I will make it my early new years resolution to try not to respond to the playfully snotty and the diametrically opposed to everything I believe about the nature of folk music.