A terrible loss to whom? Why don't you just do your own thing, quit the patronising and give out what you think from the hip? I am very mindful of how your approach, for example, makes pete ten times worse and gives him succour. Every time I see one of your posts full of your flowery embellishments I think you think we're all pete. Like everybody else round here, I pick up on points that I feel I have something to say about. There is nothing more annoying than someone telling me I didn't answer their points. If I've picked up on random things you've said it's because I felt I had something to say. If I don't pick up, it's because I have to do the shopping/cooking/learn tunes/go for a kip. Or have nothing to add or that I agree but don't feel the need to do a me-too post. Get over it.