Thanks Whirls.
There is some fairly firmly expressed criticism of this place from IO540 on pprune. He knows a lot about his type of flying but sometimes tends to give the impression, perhaps inadvertently, that anyone who does not fly IFR in a fast complex using GPS must be a luddite numptoid. He seems also to have an interest in the further flung reaches of aviation law, although as a mere lawyer it sometimes seems to me that he posits a view or poses a question about a scenario which would test the rules in what looks like a rather pointless fashion, but perhaps there's method in it which I can't see.
On the wider subject of banter, aviation and bantering seem to me to be inseparable. Line shooting, spoofing and joshing are as much parts of aviation tradition as bad food and worse coffee. To this heady mix we sometimes add robust debate, participation in which is entirely voluntary, but here we run up against the curious modern concept that we must all be fluffy and huggy all of the time and aren't allowed to respond scornfully to unreasonable statements on serious subjects.
It appears from pprune that Rustle has flounced, which is a pity, but he has seemed to be really grumpy lately, whereas others of us are just pretending.
Is that allowed - cross posting from anothe place?
However, I just loved it as a piece of English.
PS Wished I had known there was something offensive - I could have cross posted that as well - I wonder whether the moderators would have got together.