Excuse me, but you start in on my country, playing fast and loose with the insults: if a British person said similarly on this board, they'd have their head handed back to them. I respond in kind. Then there is a space of months when I say absolutely nothing to you - and then you drop in on a thread uninvited with your abusive behaviour. As this thread shows, you continue this abusive behaviour towards my country and countrymen. I have noted that generally speaking, unintelligent insults backed up with a supposed "chuckle" appears to be your modus operandi. I don't want to speak to you - you have nothing worthwhile to say. I have not made it a point of crossing your path to continue a "flame war"; you have made a point to insult the UK at every opportunity you spot, and further to that, be extraordinarily abusive to any British person who speaks up, and even be abusive to people like Miss Marple.
I don't know what motivates people like you to behave like you do. I don't care. From my perspective you're just a someone with a chip on your shoulder and a bad attitude and thus best avoided.
Ivan
Cute, but it doesn't wash and is simply another in a long line of semi-slanders you've attempted to push in my direction--only to find, much to your disappointment I note, that some folks push back.
The implication in those three sentences is that, at some misty time in the past, I "started in" on the U.K. and a hero arose to defend her honor: Maddy old boy Ivan.
We both know that that implication is as untrue as the day is long.
Indeed, it's another semi-slander; but my posting history is open to one and all whom wish to retrace those steps and invest the time to read it, as is yours. Suffice it to say (and again, we BOTH know this; you're not kidding anyone but yourself) that you fired a posted, unprovoked shot across my bow in an attempt to impress someone you apparently perceived needed "rescuing" or "help" in that opening sally between us; you got taken to serious task in the subsequent flame war and came out looking somewhat ridiculous in the aftermath; and that's where it ended--at least as far as I was concerned.
Fast forward to now: I post a comment to a thread, not even thinking about you or that past entanglement or anything else, really, and suddenly Maddy old boy is back on the warpath again.
ALL of this--every bit of it--has been initiated by you, for whatever reason (Paging Dr. Freud...). That said, as long as you want to keep it up, I'm game. Pathetic as it continues to make you look with every outing...