Yes, it's quite incredible how often you expose yourself (ooo-er, etc). Yet again. total lack of comprehension. It can't be otherwise, can it, Steve, because you have exposed, time & time again, how much you struggle ever to recognise when you're wrong, much less actually admit it.

Well I hope the thread is permitted to stand

I never asked for it to be deleted, did I, O Self-Appointed Master of the English Language? I said it could be closed. Having been polluted by your ignorance & bigotry, I can't see how it's going to serve any useful purpose.

The original post is replete with references to...

So what? The OP is about tolerance, about not demonising people, random bunches of pixels & etc. I've even explicitly told you it's about tolerance & you're still insisting it's about the Tories & trying to insult me. I don't think "too bigoted, too blind, too gob-smackingly fucking stupid" is an amazing litany of insults; it simply fits the "exposed" behaviour. Why are you so bloody stupid at times, Steve? What is the big deal about shoving your hand up & saying "Ooops, I think got this one wrong"?

You'll remember we exchanged a few PM's recently. You assured me you enjoyed our "banter". This isn't banter; I don't enjoy talking to you when you're like this, and there's been at least 3 or 4 occasions when I've taken an extended an extended break from the 'cat because of an unpleasant exchange of views, and either directly or indirectly, it's been you that's been the major party. Are you proud of that? Here's some more words for you that I'm sure you'll find amazing. Pompous, priggish, pedantic, patronising, sneering, bigoted (especially where politics is concerned), arrogant. You can be one, some, or all of those damn things in a single post, yet it never, ever, ever seems to occur to you that it's YOU that is the problem. It's always the other poster, isn't it?

And just so's no-one misunderstands (you will if you want to, because you always do if you want to), both this post & the previous are written with considerable emphasis but, despite any language, without heat. I know you on here for what you are on here & I'm afraid a lot of people (if anyone bothers to read this, of course) will recognise there's a good deal of truth in what I've said. Take your head out of your backside some time. You might see & hear a bit more. You might learn something.

I'm done with this. Thanks for totally fucking up the thread.