"even your mate has done another runner when asked to back up his statements."
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I suspect you mean me here, Jim. I have made no statements, except that I take most of your points on board and am much grieved ~~ which, for some reason I have never quite fathomed, is never enough for you as you persist in impugning my sincerity in the matter. Perhaps you suspect my motivations; as you know, there are reasons I have mentioned before that I suspect your attitudes to this question to be somewhat dubiously motivated; but I do not propose to expound on that any further. I have pretty well opted out of the thread because, as I have said before, I find this entire situation all too painful. Is that what you call doing a runner? Last time I said this you agreed to get, and stay, off my back IIRC; but the temptation for a bit of snidery seems to have too much for you to resist.

I keep up with the thread nevertheless. Not sure why. A bit of Mallory on Everest, I suppose: "Because it's there."

~M~