In which I took up your challenge & rubricated the Brandenburg Concerti as folk music, that's all: which apparently was sufficient provocation for you to denounce me as "a turd" [to the explicit distress of the American OP], as a "fuckwit folkie retard, jerking [other such] off", with "a pee-hole filled with sand".

The good thing about Mudcat is that we can go through the chronology of posts and establish exactly who said what in response to whom. My response to your Brandenburg post of 23 Nov 09 - 04:51 AM (and your further little snipe at 23 Nov 09 - 05:42 AM) can be read at 23 Nov 09 - 06:12 AM, in which I calmly account why Bach's music can be thought of as being traditional. Your response? A further side-swipe at 23 Nov 09 - 06:44 AM, which I answer in good spirit & humour with my 23 Nov 09 - 07:24 AM. Your response? Another side-swipe at 23 Nov 09 - 07:52 AM.

It is only when John J openly insults me (and tells me to go somewhere else) in his 23 Nov 09 - 09:45 AM post, that I respond in kind with my retard in a sandpit post at 23 Nov 09 - 10:25 AM. At this point you wade in and question my intelligence in your upper-case heavy Voice in the Wilderness post of 23 Nov 09 - 10:39 AM, to which I respond rather wearily at 23 Nov 09 - 11:38 AM, I which I try to clarify my position. Your response? Another prat-post at 23 Nov 09 - 09:45 AM, at which point I lose patience and respond, in the spirit of your little game, with my 23 Nov 09 - 12:30 PM (Google it - you'll find a translation in the in the Urban Dictionary). This leads to my irksome turd post at 23 Nov 09 - 12:32 PM because I'd cross posted with Spleen and didn't want him to think it was meant for him.

This is the point you declare open season with a veritable barrage of insulting posts (boring old fart - 23 Nov 09 - 12:38 PM / still a fucking sight more comprehensible than the arse·over·tit pigshit you more generally post - 23 Nov 09 - 12:52 PM / I can't make heads or tails of what he thinks he is on about - 23 Nov 09 - 01:00 PM / He's ever so sensitive, you know — one has to make allowances - 23 Nov 09 - 01:19 PM). I don't make my fuckwit folkie retard post until 23 Nov 09 - 02:02 PM, which is a direct response to your preceding barrage. And still you go on - calling me Sweaty O'Pigshit in your 23 Nov 09 - 02:18 PM, and SO'C in your 23 Nov 09 - 02:27 PM - and then you come back to call me altogether too vindictive, spiteful, & altogether unpleasant in your 23 Nov 09 - 03:57 PM. Which brings us back to your 23 Nov 09 - 10:56 PM (quoted above) which prompted this.

Now, I don't know why John P and yourself took such emotive exception to me saying what I did, but if you choose to respond to civilised discussion by hurling insults around - as you both have done - then you must allow me to hurl them back. And at least have the quiet dignity to take it all in good spirit without mithering on the way you have here.