Bejaysus, another deletion. Who will see? Well I'm off to bed as I must be up early to peruse Lidl's wine bargains in the morning, so the night's merriment is over between us, SRS. Let me leave you with an unoriginal thought. So unoriginal that I posted it only a few short hours ago. Just had a quick butcher's at some of the awful, sweary and insulting posts, some replete with dreadful prejudice, that you HAVEN'T deleted in recent weeks. They're easy enough to find. So here's that unoriginal thought. Yours to live with.

I suggest you would do far better to target the multifarious inanities, disgusting prejudices (including misogyny and homophobia), misrepresentations (of self and others) and lies of some of the participants here rather than attack a bloke who merely falls a little short of charming at times by being a little direct. If someone is being a clot on a public forum they deserve to be called a clot. There is a particularly egregious and long-standing example on this board of a religious fundamentalist who has been indulged and who, as a result, takes the piss out of reasonable people here and beyond here all the time. That's what happens if you call a spade a manual digging implement. I've been sworn at and called names and insulted and misrepresented and lied about far more times than vice versa, in particular by the man who I assume you're trying to defend the most by asking me not to call him names, and I do not complain. And I remind you that you will never find me using the F or C words. I don't recall seeing you having a bash at the people who do that. If...you want to clean up this board a bit, you have far more important targets than yours truly. Steve Shaw, or SJS if you like, no p in front of surname, since 1951. Thank YOU.