Rickey.....Herbert......Cynthia, whatever you choose to call yourself. As for commenting on my piece about how Blades treat one another, please read it in detail. Not once did I suggest that a poster should passively accept a hostile approach and not comment. Your post #312 didn't begin with a pleasantry, it began by telling me not to put myself in the same bracket as yourself. What bracket would that be Herb? A bracket that supports books? Or was it a clearly defined bracket suggesting that you are so much better, possibly superior? As for Barney, I love this mutual admiration society you two seem to have created where backslapping each other's posts follows as naturally as night follows day? Is it that your hunger for 'likes', and that in Barney you've found the perfect attention seeking dullard to fill up your 'like' card?
I may have a hope that Blades won't sink to clearly demonstrable levels of hostilities towards one another, and I include you and Barney in that, but please don't confuse that wish with another quality I have, where posters such as yourself, who, having taken a step up, feel they're equipped to interpret the posts of other Blades correctly. I am of course referring to my post about Blades treating one another with a little respect. If you'd read it thoroughly you'd have noted I commented on my own fallibility, rather than suggest to other Blades that they aren't in the same bracket as myself. By saying I'm not in the same bracket as yourself you seem to think that you're a cut above myself, a strange assertion given that you know so little about me, but hey ho, if it serves your purpose then yes, you, dear Herb, are so much better, in fact you're about as unique as anyone could be. Does that help Herb? I've made a public proclamation saying as much, can't get much better than that can it bud?
If you can step down from your bracket for a moment, consider what I'm saying, and then decide that it's preferable to be less attritional, then you'll find that makes for a better, more helpful exchange of posts. On the other hand, if you choose to write selectively, take comments out of context, then I'll respond in kind. Over to you big fella, what's it to be? A little wisdom and conciliation on your part, or more of the same tired sabre rattling, where put-downs with the support of your own Ernie, in the guise of Barney, to your own Eric, that manages to maintain the same familiar, but very tired, routine.