What an excellent thread - well worth boycotting other threads for. I think I'll use it to post all the messages I would otherwise have posted to the threads I intended to boycott. By posting them all here - either separately or together (with no line breaks or punctuation) - I will then have the double satisfaction of both boycotting lots of threads while simultaneously posting long, contentious and turgid replies to all of them in a different place: this thread!

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.