To be honest, keb, if you start a thread and just want to get on with it here, just get on with it. Ignore the bloody naysayers. You have been challenged a bit for sure, but no-one has really excoriated you, have they! I know as well as any of the the rest of the below-the-line roughnecks what it's like to be scorned, insulted, decried, ridiculed and demonised, often all at once, it feels. But I'm still here. We get called Usual Suspects and a damn sight worse by biased anti-Brit mods (they're just jealous, cue big eye-winkie emoticon) but we can ride the tide and still enjoy life. You could say that it's not worth being here at all, and I think that sometimes meself, then I get educated all of a sudden by none other than Dick (with whom I have frequently locked horns, eh, Dick?) when he links to an amazing interview with Bertrand Russell. Made my day, that did, but even Dick got a small bollocking for posting the link... You're not the only one who thinks they can't win...

It's only my opinion but I don't think you do yourself any favours when you reopen ancient threads as often as you do. Not saying never, you understand. Start new ones instead, but not too often...