Seriously folks ....

pantacruelgruel wrote: I've also gone through the experience of having a question  I had posed dismissed out of hand, with various responses quickly descending to a personal level (which I myself added fuel to that fire), to the point of being told that I didn't  have a clue about the subject at hand. THis from a total stranger who managed to come to this conclusion from 2 posts.

Cruelgruel; From those two posts, it was obvious that you were unaware of the enormous amount of french bands that made France the most interesting country for prog in the late seventies. I wasn't being nice, I know. I did however, stick to topic and never made out of context assumtions about you, or your personality. As you did plenty on my behalf. Anyway, I thought we more or less worked this out later in the thread?

Sure, just like you I can be a pompous ass at times, but most of my posts here are friendly, and about loving music of most flavours. And like you, I try add a little humour and irony to my posts. Still I don't find myself laughing over your posts, and you thought I was dead serious when I wrote that I was damned proud of being a senior member here! Its clear that we don't communicate very well in that department.

Once again someone's taking themselves waay too seriously here. And this time I know its not me!

If stuff like this is enough to make you want to leave:

Goodbye Cruel Gruel,
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.