I'll show you mine if you show me yours JC.

I have a problem with collectors, I admit it. Clarice Cliff hoarders, people who want every Allcock rod made, those who seek to cop each Class 37 diesel built. It's wrong on so many levels but basically it's just wrong giving vent to that completist gene. I hope I treat such people with good grace in real life but folk is stuffed with them, absolutely chokka-bloody-block.

Most of the debate here is internal, there's no dialogue, no examination of the absolute fundamental terms of engagement. That's what these eternal folk-is threads are about (very few OP'ed by me incidentally), a desire to put folk through the grinder, leave it to people who know nothing about folk, to those expert in other fields, to real ordinary people who wouldn't know a broadside from a backside. They keep cropping up because there's an itch that has to be scratched, a folk world beyond the folk club, beyond 1954, beyond 'give me three examples of what you just said'.

I disliked card collectors in the playground as I disliked 'name six football clubs with blue shorts', all that stack it up and hide behind it stuff, I ain't going to change now.