FWIW I'm with TJJ on this one. You and Tiompan are never going to agree. Never. So instead of saying you'll always respond to things that wind you up, how about leaving it? You've put your case across, so if people want to accept your argument they will. Likewise with Tiompan's reasoning, if people want to accept that then they will. There's no halfway point where the two of you are going to meet because there's no sort-of-an-alignment. Otherwise you'll be firing things at each other until the cows come home will you not.
And this thread was supposed to be Bawn's suggestion for a positive Irish thread and that.

I'll butt out now and get my coat.