"Is it true that Seaman Batchelor cried himself to sleep after the Iranians called him Mr. Bean? Apparently he also complained that they took his ipod. Is this a joke?"

Was it treated as a joke when a thread was started by a miserable whinger who moaned and begged for everyone's sympathy because a kid kicked them on the knee? Far from it, I recollect that sympathy was given in bucketloads.

Words like 'Glasshouses' and 'stones' spring to mind.