Wow, you can certainly ascertain a great deal from the flak above what was a tête à tête between myself and one other person, which I'll do the decent thing and avoid eschewing on the other comments, but noted, nonetheless, btw.
However, for the record and to put things into perspective and avoid misconstruing this tiff, compelled to add feedback, if someone can do whatever they want and choose to write in italics then I can do what I want and simply ask why. There's no prerequisite to write in them or not, however......
That evening I was in a loquacious mood in the forum and perturbed by his actions that he pusillanimously retreated to the chat box after my comment, proceeding to input
'Goodbye ACD
'complete with a sad/cry emoticon, immediately following my curiosity at what I had just wrote, at that precise time we were both on line, none of this repugnance would have occurred. If I'm out of order by fastidiously but politely asking about the italics thing, only for that person incapable of replying and posting in chat goodbye ACD directly after, then it's a sorry state of affairs for being the first to ask why, but he did immediately log out after my post, resulting from. I seriously couldn't give a shit if somebody's perfunctory use and inclination to use italics through aesthetics (bless) pleases them, despite this being a complete incorrect use of them, but my latent jocular sardonic approach was evidently beyond his demeanour to either have a joke about it with me or answer why, but to run off was a poor show, hence my knee jerk reaction.
My indignant obloquy regarding the syringe/injecting comments, I fully stand by vehemently. Anyone who decides to make a conscious decision to push a needle into themselves and inject recreationally are skanks in my book, pretty fucking desperate or mixed up to mess around with syringes afaic and what a desperate situation somebody has to be in, to do this. I have less disdain towards drunks, tbh.
My intention is not to be dogmatic in the forum but this has morphed away from the frivolous italics question, however, it does get to a point of treading on egg shells and cajoling with some who lack certain criteria to either joke, piss around or have a good old serious discussion as opposed to those who run off after you ask a question directly to them in a thread, which is what cropped up here. If this member replied to my post none of this would have occurred, simple as, but he went down the road posting a frowning goodbye in chat, logging out without a boo to a goose, knowing damn well we were both on line at the time.
What fun, but back to work for now after an awesome weekend I just had away.