Thank you everyone for your spirited contributions to the discussion, for your restraint and for your occasionally heated exchange. Thank you, OP, for coming back in at the end of the day and not absenting yourself from our circle.

We hope that weights have been hefted to show strength, pipes have been blown without damage, feet have been stomped and, in the end, calmness, understanding and community prevail.

This thread is now closed.

Rex, for the Moderators