[Odd Job]

@ The Reaper and TS

I always start a discussion in a gentlemanly and civil manner. It doesn't matter where I am, that is the way I conduct myself. I didn't ask anybody here for his background, and nobody here knows mine. What I have done in SA and what you have done on the battlefield has got nothing to do with how you deport yourself on a public internet forum. If one of you signs up on a radiology forum that I frequent, he gets the same respect as any other member, I don't tell him that because I am a long standing member I can be condescending and address him however I like. He arrives there with the respect that is due to him, and he retains it until proven otherwise.

Now let me make this quite clear. If I was actually serving in one of your units as a junior, or if I was in a boarding school then I would be subject to this discrepency in how I am treated. But I am not, am I? This is a forum, gentlemen, an internet forum: I am here in London and you have absolutely no say in what I do in life. I have expertise and you have expertise. We have different expertise and we are not each other's masters. How you treat me is how I will treat you.
If you don't like it, tough.