Hello!

  I must admit it's with some trepidation that again I stick my beak into this topic. What idiotic, pointless, loveless, heartless, geriatric, patronizing, ignorant, illiterate, paranoid,   (have I missed any there, oh Pinchbeck_Candlelight ) will I next inflict upon the ... innocent ?!
Until now I never suspected the depths of my perfidy (is that term acceptable,oh Gilded_One?).  You'd reckon if I had a shred of decency I'd 'do the right thing': fly full-pelt, smackbang into the nearest wind turbine and end it all now!

Could you have imagined Atomic_Rift, that your cheery "Hello" of two weeks ago would generate such a twisting thread as this?

I sometimes think Chess itself can be a metaphor for Chess.com Topics.(or should that be the other way around?) This one has gone from the conventional 'Opening' posts and we're now well into the wiley strategy of the 'Middle Game' posts. Perhaps.
What then is my 'strategy' with this post ...?  Like my Chess, I've really not  much idea.  I'm still undecided between: "Answer not a fool according to his folly, etc,etc."  And  "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." 
I've always found Proverbs such a comfort....

(You do know you're not the fool Atomic_Rift!)

So CJ...what is your rating?

  I must admit it's with some trepidation that again I stick my beak into this topic. What idiotic, pointless, loveless, heartless, geriatric, patronizing, ignorant, illiterate, paranoid,   (have I missed any there, oh Pinchbeck_Candlelight ) will I next inflict upon the ... innocent ?!
Until now I never suspected the depths of my perfidy (is that term acceptable,oh Gilded_One?).  You'd reckon if I had a shred of decency I'd 'do the right thing': fly full-pelt, smackbang into the nearest wind turbine and end it all now!

Could you have imagined Atomic_Rift, that your cheery "Hello" of two weeks ago would generate such a twisting thread as this?

I sometimes think Chess itself can be a metaphor for Chess.com Topics.(or should that be the other way around?) This one has gone from the conventional 'Opening' posts and we're now well into the wiley strategy of the 'Middle Game' posts. Perhaps.
What then is my 'strategy' with this post ...?  Like my Chess, I've really not  much idea.  I'm still undecided between: "Answer not a fool according to his folly, etc,etc."  And  "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." 
I've always found Proverbs such a comfort....

(You do know you're not the fool Atomic_Rift!)

  I must admit it's with some trepidation that again I stick my beak into this topic. What idiotic, pointless, loveless, heartless, geriatric, patronizing, ignorant, illiterate, paranoid,   (have I missed any there, oh Pinchbeck_Candlelight ) will I next inflict upon the ... innocent ?!
Until now I never suspected the depths of my perfidy (is that term acceptable,oh Gilded_One?).  You'd reckon if I had a shred of decency I'd 'do the right thing': fly full-pelt, smackbang into the nearest wind turbine and end it all now!

Could you have imagined Atomic_Rift, that your cheery "Hello" of two weeks ago would generate such a twisting thread as this?

I sometimes think Chess itself can be a metaphor for Chess.com Topics.(or should that be the other way around?) This one has gone from the conventional 'Opening' posts and we're now well into the wiley strategy of the 'Middle Game' posts. Perhaps.
What then is my 'strategy' with this post ...?  Like my Chess, I've really not  much idea.  I'm still undecided between: "Answer not a fool according to his folly, etc,etc."  And  "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." 
I've always found Proverbs such a comfort....

(You do know you're not the fool Atomic_Rift!)

lol are you just now getting upset about my post from earlier? There should be a statute of limitations on getting upset about forum posts. 
declares the Gilded_One.

1 Why? 
2 What do you mean by "lol" (above).
3 What gives you the idea that I'm upset about your earlier posts?

I notice you've moved ivandh. You certainly don't do things by halves!

Ah, Tim... haven't changed eh mate?

Gilded_Candlenut : humour really isn't your strong point. 

But just in case you genuinely didn't understand my questions...

 1 Why do you think there should there be a "statute of limitations"?
 2 Why did you use "lol" instead of words? 
 3 I would genuinely like to know what made you think I was "upset". Maybe 
    if you used a word more specific than "upset"...?

You know sport, if you hadn't 'blocked' me in such a hysterical fashion we could have this conversation without cluttering-up Atomic_Rifts' topic.