Beeky said: > Absolutely. Trouble is Ada-bating has been seen as a fair sport around > here but it has become tedious. Yesterday's performance reveals the > true animal - as if there was much room for doubt.
I'm not sure that there has been baiting. Sometimes when statements become too contentious people just cannot let those through without responding...........just as you would in a pub, face to face. In a pub though, if a person continually put forward views that were constantly reviled by all the other regulars, the person in question would either shut up (for self-preservation) or shut up because their natural humility would tell them that the whole of the rest of the world cannot be wrong all the time. In this case I believe, and still do, that Dorothy's solution is the very best. If a person became such a bore in a pub, eventually, all the regulars would move away from him at the bar, or would be deep in conversation when he came into the pub. The same applies here. If the antagonist is totally ignored, just as you would a troll, then eventually he will accept that others have a right to their opinions or he will wither on the vine as loneliness sets in. Seems the best solution here. And for Bob's sake that's all I intend (unless severely provoked) to say on the matter. Roger
