There was a degree of sarcasm, of course (typing slowly to avoid spelling errors!)
The primary purpose of the post was to highlight what may have been meant as an innocent expression, but I thought could easily be perceived as supremely arrogant and not a particularly savoury impression of how pilots regard themselves (bearing in mind the range of viewers to these forums).
The response:
"these ex-con, Police Academy, Wannabe, Rent-a-Cop nazis and the slightly better-educated white-collar pilots over whom they enjoy holding 30 seconds of power"
did not exactly dispell this impression, further enhanced by a personal insult about my stature, endowment and size of operating type (BTW what's an 'airplane'? is it like an aeroplane but spelt strangely?)
It was meant to try and restore a sense of humility, but obviously that's too tall an order.
Oh well, enjoy yourselves!