""You are also the only person to have used the word "fucking" or anything like it on this thread.""

Not so! There have been a fair number of epithets produced in the course of this thread, and by several posters other than myself.

I was unaware that you had been promoted to the lofty position of profanity watchdog.

However, although I am not obliged to account to you for either my words or my actions, I will point out that after having stated numerous times that I had no sympathy for ObL and was pleased that he was dead, both you and Don Firth continued to ignore that and to categorise me as a terrorist sympathiser.

I decided to emphasise the point by using the F word, which I hardly ever use (please note that I have used the euphemistic form in deference to your delicate sensibilities), but I might as well not have bothered, since the only part of "I'M F**KING GLAD HE'S DEAD!" that you actually saw was the F word.

Which word, incidentally, was not even directed at you or Don Firth, but an adjective qualifying my feelings about his death.

It was established long ago that bad language on this forum would not be barred or moderated except in terms of a direct attack, and Joe Offer has also indicated his abiding dislike of euphemisms.

Don T.