At the risk of sounding like some pretentious, enlightened guru who’s above it all, I find there is quite a lot of humour in the silly little absurdities that people get involved in if you care to look for it. A guy at my old high school used to get beaten up all the time, and whenever he did he’d burst into uncontrollable laughter. It wasn’t out of bravado, it was out of genuine amusement at how patently ridiculous it was that he was being beaten to a pulp just for being different. Nowadays whenever people are rude, whenever they get into petty disagreements, or even whenever they outright insult me, I always think of Dave pinned to the ground by six kids on the school oval, laughing his head off and then all I can do is laugh at how silly we all can be. The moral of the story? Even if people some people occasionally act like twits on the forum, it won’t bother you unless you let it. There are people who act like twits everywhere in life. I can tell you it doesn’t bother me in the slightest; in fact it probably just makes me appreciate the nice people more. Apologies if that sounded like a load of pretentious twaddle – you’re all free to get angry and annoyed by those people if you’d prefer that.

As for Wackymacs – I think he is a mostly amicable person who can be frustrating and abrasive at times. In other words, he is a human being. If any of you know someone who has all the amicability without the irritability, I want to meet them!!