hmmmmmmm......the real trouble is that we just ain't all the same. some of us DO have strong opinions about this and that. and many of us are a certain age. and the opinions we have, tend to describe the parabola of how our lives screwed up.

of course if your life didn't screw up, then you have NO EXCUSE AT ALL - and you should be generous and nice to all of us who are less fortunate.

Mudcat can't be that bad a place to come - seeing as we all keep coming here.

If a particular thread or contributor is being a vexatious spirit, be of good heart. wish the world in general and your assailant in particular a merry and happy life somewhere else (preferably) and grant him no further incursions into your busy schedule.

as far as I can remember I only ccomplained about one guy ever - and I wouldn't do it again. He felt lonely , isolated and bitter at the time of saying the things that upset me, and he didn't mean what he was saying.

if we can't rub along, what chance the arabs and the jews, the proddy dogs and fenians, the martins and the yamahas, the apple macs and the pcs....god gave noah the rainbow sign and all that malarkey.

better the mudcat that we've got with its occasional fits of pique and footstamping, than a sort of Stepford Wives version thereof.