j.t.:
Time to retire to the various corners of the ring and count to ten. Saves me the trouble of wielding the big stick ... far prefer rational thought to return to the fray.
The guiding light remains "play the ball, not the player"
The "ball" in this game was the launch question:
Can you climb above 20,000 feet with Flaps extended?
Even as a hypothetical it was beyond the pale.
It was akin to me asking you, "If I lose an engine below Vmcg can I attempt a takeoff anyway?"