Well, that could be because you are so rude: to people, as evidenced above, and about people as demonstrated by your utter certainty you are correct in your world view, particularly your opinions about how other people should educate their children. No-one 'has a go at you' when you write about music which is clearly something you understand and know a lot about.rockfreak wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 7:50 pm Well the reason for that Phil is that when you're my sort of age you're struggling to deal with matters of PC and never quite sure who you're going to offend. Actually I'd rather imagined that any kickback I might get would be from some of the humourless drones who frequent this site and always seem to be taking an opportunity to have ago at me. So maybe I just tread carefully. Does anyone remember the days when the Daily Mirror columnist Cassandra had a go at Liberace and lost the resultant libel case because he'd labelled the exotic, piano playing old queen "fruit flavoured"?
More broadly, your intense dislike of the institution of Christ's Hospital, despite your presence on this forum, may find favour with some contributors but is unlikely to endear you to most of us. As for your use of the term 'fruits' and your subsequent justification of its use, that sounds rather like the 'I'm not homophobic but ...' approach. I would imagine, like so many of your generation, you are not sexist but ..., and you're not racist but ... (actually you did post some fairly negative comments about Jewish conspiracies some time back so may be you are).
I sense that you are utterly confident in the rightness of your views and your right to express them as you will. I suspect that, in your mind, you are one of those people who thinks 'they say it as it is' which, of course, means 'say it as you believe it to be'. We 'humourless drones' unblessed as we are by your all-seeing wisdom will continue to take issue with what you post for as long as you keep on so doing and, quite frankly, we can be @rsed to respond.
Just try and be a bit nicer if you don't like people 'having a go at you'. OTOH, I rather thought you did.