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Just to say, we do drop by your journal on a semi-regular, albeit sporadic, basis. It's always a chuckle; often insightful. The best misuse of an apostrophe we know of is 'Leed's'; which we saw whilst out one time. 'Carrot's' (pertaining to the plural) is another fine error. They do have a kind of charm; but are, in another sense, indicative of a kind of woeful decline; kind of apocalyptic, socially-corrosive; as you seem to think yourself. We admire your get-up-and-go, in pointing these things out. For us, the overwhelming feeling, when confronted with the same, is of lassitude, ennui, rather than outrage, however. *.com is a microcosm of society in general; it cannot help but be. On the whole, we tend to feel sorry for the lost souls here. * Not everyone has sufficient intelligence and sufficient confidence to affect the leap from *. If we are to take your profile at face-value, you appear confident and *. *. From that basis, all else flows; strength and sanity are what one reaps, because the fundamentals are right and are in-place. We do not, though, feel superior in being secure. We feel happy. We attempt, in our own small way, to spread this around, by being such things as 'good company', 'helpful', 'understanding', et al. This is pure Hippydom, we know! With that, though, we are firm in our demand for respect and * a zero-tolerance with rudeness, crassness, etc. We avoid ****/ had several arguments on here; but has never picked a fight. The commitment is to dialectics, rather than seeming to try to solve the world's ills by listing them. At first, we thought you yourself were of this type; using your intelligence, and the fact that you can spell etc., as weapons against those who are less able to present themselves with grace and clarity. But, over time, we see that you are (a) playing it for laughs and (b) there is a will on your part to be constructive, which emerges as one becomes familiar enough with the mock-outrage of your prose. Are you, then, a Will Self-style grumpy old man? Does one tune-into your profile on that basis? You are, to us, a bit of light-relief; from the - let's face it - tedium of viewing the usual *