culminating in a invitation for brand bashing in disguise...
So there it is. That is the your gripe with this thread.
Well, excuse me, but don't judge me by your standards. You decided to see brand bashing where there was none and I made my request abot being civil , which you quoted so cynically, in good faith.
Case in point: There hadn't been
any HK bashing up until your post number 32. And yet:
Folks who have never owned a HK but are here grinding on them based on others opinions?
Still, if you decide to believe I was trolling, so be it. My conscience is clear.
Did you think that naming brands wouldn't draw rebuttals
At least you now admit that is what they were, then.
Let's make something perfectly clear. I never asked
why a brand might be expensive.
You (including a few others) took your posts that way, I gently asked you to return to the question at hand.
You took the topic that way again, I asked again, etc. Progressively I had to get more direct in my requests. To no avail.
It is not unreasonable to want people to stick to the question:
Your HK observations may well be true and interesting to read about but it took you
till post number 65 to answer the OP.
Why could you not have done that in post 22 and then justified your point of view as a result?
That would have been fine as at least you'd have addressed the OP, not ignored it along with requests no to.
No one has really made any comment regarding the actual OP since about the beginning of the second page/end of the first.
Since then its been largely about why HK is worth the extra an so on. This thread is essentially killed off as far as the OP was concerned. On top of that you essentially claim I set out to bash brands. If you knew how indifferent I am to brand names.
So, yes, the off-topic card I think applies rather well.
This has made me feel quite frustrated because now the thread may as well be closed. I am not saying you are solely responsible but all the same, how would you feel?
If you feel I have been unfair to a particularly brand or to you, then that is something I'd never intended and therefore regret but I now note that I have spent quite some time on this response alone, trying to balance how I feel with how I can express it and I don't see it going anywhere.
All that time I could have been playing with my daughter. Not a good trade.
So I think I have made my position clear and I think I have had enough.
The floor is yours. Enjoy.