Originally Posted by Trollheart

Agreed.
I'm prepared to shoulder my share of the blame for this and move forward, once it's understood that from now on Karen is off-limits, not for discussion, but for crude comments. We agree on that, I reckon we can forget about all this. But it is, and should be, something of a watershed moment and should be marked for the future. This should never have happened.

That said, I'm happy to say it never happened and move into some alternate timeline where Batty and I are still friends. If he's willing.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.