Wow, this is quite a thread.
Am glad to see it has turned out the way it has, what with snotbox staying and Bilko affirming his right to his very British SOH.
Given the unspoken aspects of the bombings, the thread could have ended up being very controversial indeed (or am I just amazed at everyone's self-restraint?!)
Linc summed things up perfectly with the dinner table analogy - the thread and the interaction is really no different to that. We should all be happy that it can happen, and it is an honest reflection of life in general.
Asides the way that things can affect our physical tolerance, is it not also true that because of our individual and collective experiences with pain and debility that we truly KNOW what is important in this life, so seeing such futile death and destruction is maybe more painful for us to witness?
IMHO
J
