Well I'm buggered if I'm going to go around treading on eggshells for fear of offending someone. If anyone is offended by anything I say or do, I suggest you turn the other cheek and get on with your life, just as I and everyone else has to do just about every day. Life's not perfect, never will be. Tough.

Just as an aside, religious people tend to offend me deeply - religous differences being the root cause of most of the world's ills; will I ever stop them doing it? - not a chance, so I have to put up with it. Doesn't mean to say I like it, but I have to accept that some people still do want to hang on to dangerous nonsense like that.

So if I was to want to pick a bale of cotton and some people didn't like it? As a very great man once said "Tell me all your troubles, I'll tell you who to call".