I'm not exactly losing sleep over people being offended by my remarks to McGrath and katlaughing.

This is a public forum. If people insist upon publicly claiming to have authoritative knowledge on subjects they obviously know little about, then they've no one but themselves to blame when they are caught out making fools of themselves.

Sure, I could have been more polite about it, but McGrath and katlaughing have a long history of being pretty nasty to anon guests. Anon guests they disagree with/dislike often triggers their worst passive aggressive tendencies (the preferred mode of interaction of many here in Mudcat), until finally their anger grows to the point where they just can't control their behavior towards the anon guest anymore. So they start making indirect snide, cutting, critical remarks about anon guest, claiming they aren't communicating directly with them, or give "warnings" to others having a conversation with an anon guest, to try and get others to cooperate with their vendetta game.

Which then leads McGrath and katlaughing to do stupid things like they have here, which is to try and show up/put down the anon guest they love to hate. When it doesn't work, and it is them who ends up with egg on their faces, that inevitably makes a few Mudcatters feel terribly uneasy and embarrassed for them. So then Mudcatters like Amos come rushing in to play the knight in shining amour, defending the Mudcat realm from those who do not share the love for it they do, and who would dare dishonor their friends. So they too decide to go after anon guest. Same old shit, as katlaughing loves to proclaim.

Yawn.