No offense, GB as I like you. I just find some of your views to be a bit too much in line with how one is supposed to think as seen through the mainstream middle class media. For instance, immigration and the monarchy. The paralympics is another one, but when you actually talk about it, people will seldom disagree with you on the topic. A few raised eyes at first, but once you explain it and show that it is nothing hateful, typically people will agree. Nobody hates the disabled, but most would prefer to watch real football. Yet in this PC age, we must all salute the noble disabled and the media would never say that it's a bit silly. Likewise, but I don't know about you on this issue, the notion that the troops are heroes doing amazing deeds for us all. It just isn't true based on recent illegal wars, but we must all bow.