Bravely laid down, Mick, and commendable in the best Big Stick tradition. Sometimes it is not enough to carry a big stick. Sometimes you gotta use it a little! :>)There is nothing taboo about talking about anything on the Cat, by the way; there is a taboo which is mostly voluntary about being anti-social, resorting to excessive use of venom, being underhandedly destructive, or intentionally seeking to upset or destroy the community's spirit of ongoing dialogue. Occasionally this taboo even gets acted on in words (as in Mick's posts above) or in extremis in action, such as by deleting excessive ad hominem vitriol in threads.
If you do not understand that taboo, it is worth some study, I suggest. Ya need to focus, though, on the intention behind the posts which invoke this taboo. THat's the big secret.
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