Musket: "By the way Michael, another way of putting your last point, and perhaps more succinctly, is to say that sometimes you agree with me, sometimes you don't. To say that when you do I am somehow normal and when you don't I exhibit traits you enumerate, (sic) just means you have a rather closed mind."

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Ian knows perfectly well, for all his disingenuously pretending not to take my point, that it is in no way a matter of my agreeing or disagreeing with him; but of the form & tone in which he elects to make his points. Very occasionally, he will state them in a rational & intelligent manner; but much more frequently he affects to take pride & delight in coming across in the persona of an ill-bred foul-mouthed uneducated yobbo. I am much exercised as to what the motivations can be for one of his intellect & antecedence carrying on in such fashion, & what possible satisfaction he can derive from this M.O. It is, apart from anything else, so ballsachingly BORING as to act, as I remarked above, as a strong deterrent to taking the trouble ever actually to read any of his posts at all.

That's all.

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