Incidentally, the thread that was rife with the comments on the C14 issue was another thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3001134/posts
Incidentally, your lumping me in with trolls IS uncalled for and I think you would be hard pressed to find examples where I have been unwarranted in my postings. You will find that I am most times polite, even to trolls.
Ok, fair enough. But the Shroud info is still scattered all over 'tarnation. Even things like the debunking of the previous C14 tests can still leave reasonable, lingering doubts. That all hinges on the invisible repairs, doesn't it? That, and declarations the cloth is otherwise all linen. You may have seen enough high magnification photos for comparison...but most have not. What can be found easily enough, is talk concerning these many and combined items, and not all of it first hand, or if first hand, the "work" itself is not that accessible to public, though the commentaries concerning it are oft enough put forward in their place as "proof".
Otherwise it does seem to me;
The closer one looks at what was done, how it was done, how it all came about, almost anywhere one looks concerning the investigations, the more head-scratching bizarre it appears as question after unanswered question come to mind concerning it all. Phhftt. I get sick of it.