Good grief! My fellow mods have been busy. The thread has been severely culled to remove the troll trash and the wildly off topic rubbish. I have never known such a load of venting, which was supposed to pass for interesting on topic posts.
Gents. If this thread is to survive you will have to do better than this. It is one helluva mess and no fewer than 40 posts have been deleted, either through being way off topic or the posts that followed had no relevance to anything. It will need to get back on topic.
This is a case of live or let die. Its up to you.