Please do not misunderstand me. I'm not sure how you're interpreting what I said, but I wasn't being sarcastic or anything. (btw, that smiley was my way of saying that I'm grateful you pointed my error out - nothing more, nothing less - I certainly wasn't "trying to be deliberately 'orrid"). If you still find my apology "amusing", well, then I suppose there's nothing more I can say.
Lord above - this is exactly what I'm talking about. Pesky electronic (mis)communication! Quickly then:
- MY smiley, I was referring to. MINE. Not YOURS. You're reading a criticism where there ain't one.
- I did not - NOT! - say you were being deliberately 'orrid. I said I only get narked on forums when people are deliberately 'orrid, thinking that you would realise that this must mean that I am not - NOT! - narked at you (because you clearly weren't being deliberately 'orrid... anyone can see that). You're reading a criticism where there ain't one.
- I did not - NOT! - say I found your apology amusing. I found the fact that we were having a misunderstanding amusing because it's so hopelessly typical on net forums for wires to get crossed. In fact I specifically said I appreciated your apology. You're reading a criticism where there ain't... oh, you get the picture.
Forum posts constitute a running dialogue - you can't take each post in that dialogue as an isolated unit and expect it to make any sense. Read our posts, yours and mine, as a running conversation and you'll soon realise that I'm not pulling you to pieces at all. Geez!