Bendigo - thankyou for your considered reply. I agree with you on certain points, having discovered what a time waster this thread is - and mainly for the reasons you pointed out, but it is also enjoyable.
I have thought about this (well for 1 minute or so) and here are my thoughts You could have started a thread on glucosamine - which is a subject I am sure many on here would be interested in; I am one of those who swallowed those tablets for a year, for no good reason, except everyone seemed to think it was the right thing to do after a certain age, but since I eat a good diet, like basic good foods, even full-cream milk, don't smoke or drink to excess and have no symptoms which would need any 'extras' I have given up on expensive this and that .... But the chatty nature of this thread means, that even when a poster has little to contribute - or does not wish to contribute - or wishes to be somewhat anonymous, but still be part of the general affray of things - they can leave their comments and we, their friends, will at least read what they have to say and give them a 'like' - yes at times it is confusing and time consuming and yessss, NoBoDe's endless postings on cheeeeese - were over the top, even for tolerant me - but - hey - he is the big mover and shaker on this thread so we kow-tow to him and he always comes up with new subjects, insights etc. I won't discuss any other posters, mainly because you tackled NBD in the first instance - but you get my drift; analyse their posts, see the reactions and work out if they keep this topsy-turvy thread alive, or not. time consuming - yess boring? - never! Taurisk