Well, Danny, from an ATC point of view this JFK ground guy makes a bit of a mess of it, No ? and frankly he gets away with it because it is JFK , and it is busy.
I perticularly like the remarks to the IBERIA A340-600: " you're unable to do everything with that plane of yours "
, but if a FRA Ground operator ( no controllers in there ) was telling that to a LH crew, he probably will get some problems (The German sense of humor is not extending that far..)
Back to the original thread, the point I disagreed about ( and still do ) is that by bullocking a Controller for following the rules, you do not improve safety, quite the contrary in fact.
That was my point, and God knows I am not an R/T Ayatollah , and miss the good old days when it was not so busy and we had a bit of humor on the R/T.