Please don't wind him up. He'll spend the next hour writing a 4 page article about the virtues of such a profession, and will explain why Charlie Oatway would be the best paperboy ever seen. And think we're interested
He has me on his ignore list anyway, I deigned to contradict him once, and because I put in a reasonable contra-argument he went off on one and blocked me, still I do get to him every now and again when someone quotes me in their reply.
He is a very blinkered geezer, it's the Red way or no way.
'a man of true science uses but few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; whereas a smatterer in science thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things'. Herman Mellvile. Not to be confused with my uncle Herman Munster.
I think quite a few 'quality posters' fall into that description.