"Seems to me that the best way to end threads one doesn't like is Don't Post! Each time we do that thread is extended another 24 hours..." - CamiSu's got it right there.

That's where this thread comes in - you can register dismay and dissent at a thread without autonmatucally extending its life. Sticking a blue clicky to it so other peoiple can see what you are on about would make sense (and death by whisky - the FAQ shows you hiow to do that too - other wise yiu can just copy the address into the thread with a Ctrl+ C and a Ctrl + V)

Thanks for the warm fuzzies about me as a bully - but it wasn't that I'm hurt, just puzzled. I'd probably have asked harpgirl direct, but she's crumbled her cookie.

There's a definition of a gentleman as someone who never insults anybody unintentionally, and though I don't go for the term gentleman too much, I try to keep to that. When I think there's a reason to go after somebody I can be quite cruel. Here is an example.

Escamillo said: "If I recognize to have been a personal attacker, an anonymous or false-identity flamer, or a saboteur to a group of people, I SHOULD identify myself and make my apology PUBLIC." In principle I quite aggree - but recently that happened, and the resulting thread turned quite nasty. So in the interests of not mnessing up this watering hole, it might not always be such a good idea to come clean.