Hello again Spencer,
I have reflected on some of your post content and would like to say something about forum bullying. When I first started posting here I was ‘bullied’ but in a very subtle way. I had crossed swords on another now defunct forum with some of the people from this forum (there was a bit of personal stuff with one of them which I have no intention of dredging up). They bullied me by blanking everything I posted – just ignoring me as though I didn’t exist. I am grateful to people like Thesweetcheat, Gladman and Tiompan for bothering to interact with me, though they may not have noticed what was going on. Maybe it would have been more dignified to have just disappeared but my Irish mother’s stubborn streak kicked in. Some of those people came around to accept me in the end but to be fair most of them generally don’t post on TMA much anymore.
Be glad that Tiompan enters into discussion with you even if he sometimes challenges you. There is absolutely no malice intended.