Isn't it easy to make a typo (which either the 'mudchat' of Gizmo's was, or perhaps it was just incorrect terminolgy)? Easy too to misread something or not understand the humour or serious issues between different cultures? I think it would have been nicer if Shambles could have given 'the benefit of the doubt' to Gizmo's post before posting his own reaction.

Perhaps another improvement could be made on the forum by extra 'proof-reading' and 'previewing' our posts before we send them. Goodness knows I've made enough posting errors myself in this forum, even to the extent of putting an incorrect year in a thread title *grin*

Maybe if we also conciously tried to take a little longer to think out and check our posts we would see less antagonism here. I've been glad to see some very well thought-out posts on this thread which have been able to explain people's thoughts quite clearly. (Oh, and there have been some 'from the hip' too)

But there are also a lot of posts here that do seem to be very repetetive and I find that I can't read them anymore. I guess there are a lot of other Catters who look in occasionally who feel the same way. In a discussion I feel the need to 'move on' and allow the discussion to evolve without pinning it down to one facet in particular.

I'm not brilliant at putting my thoughts into black & white and this post has taken a long time to put together. Just hope there's no typo's... *running away*