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Your comments pretty much illustrate what I was saying. Someone writes something you don't like, (or understand, because it was a response to someone else) and you dismiss it as "blather"---and then wax on (and on) about your own opinions, secure in your knowledge that you would never blather.
I'm sure this will probably earn me another nasty comment from you, but really we should probably just ignore each other. Find someone else's face you can get into.