It has been a real education being on the end of all these anti-me posts. What a sanctimonious bunch you are. The biggest of the lot has to be Dale although he has so much competition that it is a very close thing.
Having lectured me about how it is good to make a profit and how capitalism is fine (thanks for the explanations of these terms too because I have been struggling with their meaning for a while) Dale bristled furiously when I dared to suggest that he set up the list with a view to making a little profit like the good capitalist he undoubtedly is. What's the matter Dale? Why is the suggestion that you are just doing what you so applaud in others so offensive to you? I am sure Dale sells very little to the list, I am sure he spends a lot of time on a labour of love and I am sure that an awful lot more people now know about his shop that ever did before he started the list. Quod erat demonstrandum. You would think the way the rest of you reacted that I had accused Dale of being Bill Gates but I wouldn't do that. Bill Gates is not a hypocrite.
I would love to answer some of the other points made in posts to the list but, even though I am retired, I do not have the time. There are so many more important things to do such as washing my hair and picking the fluff out of my navel. And I also have the neighbour's cat to feed. However, I would like to say something to Tony Zanussi. Not only do I admire your washing machines but you were the only one who had the guts to say what you actually meant. Well done and I mean that sincerely.
My initial complaint, in case you have forgotten, was about professional traders using the list as a marketing tool. That it has broadened into this is partly to do with the 30-plus emails I have received some of which were quite heated. I wish the professional traders good luck because the rest of you deserve to be taken for all you have.
I would be delighted to accept Dale's invitation to resign from the list. I would not want to belong to a "club" which counts so many self-righteous, over-sensitive, humourless and infinitely gullible sycophants among its number. I would, however, far rather be thrown off the list. It would look so much better on my CV.
Freddy in the Lake District where it may be wet and windy but at least the Americans have buggered off for the season.