"Says he who happily babbles on about off topic items"
Like all long threads, this one has meandered on and off topic from the beginning without a word of complaint
The cry "off-topic" is extremely handy as an indication that the complainant has run out of ideas
As kids we had their equivalents - in Liverpool we had "barley or fainites," - the Opies called them TRUCE TERMS

You've been happy to drift off-topic so far - why raise the question now? - (rhetorical question, of course)
Iains is suffering from one of the new diseases on the block - he has a nasty dose of 'The Brexits' - HE HASN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA WHAT TO DO OR SAY NEXT
That's what getting too close to Brexit does to you
Jim Carroll