David Strike wrote:

Eh!  I've never fought of meself as an internet geek!  And if i ever did  ..
well!  Nobody ever told me the fuckin' rules - apart from Ding-Dong, who
said that it was rude to call the French "Frogs', the Brits "Poms"; the
Germans "Krauts", and the Yanks "Seppos" etc., etc.

Cite please.  I distinctly remember telling you that I found Septic an offensive term, but otherwise, what I recall is being told by a number of others, all of whom you seem to have forgotten about, that Oriental was offensive to some Asians.  Another case of inconsistent application of the rules?

Ah!  Well ....  You may be right!  On the other hand, it just may be that
we're happy in our own little backwater of the world learning about diving
from folks like Ding-Dong?  :-))

Glad to see you enjoy the lessons, you know, things like minimal wing for your application, retention of the power inflator on the DIR setup and even things like tidal volume and vital capacities.  Imagine that, all these things learned from somebody that knows nothing.

Lee