Oh dear. Hope we can move on from the disagreements. As an outsider I don’t see anything offensive here but I’d probably feel different as the object of the comments. You are all trying to help and it is hard to get the balance right as we all need differing levels of help. It is also hard to force oneself to struggle on without looking here when one knows there will be help. Again, we all have different levels of patience for a variety of reasons. What we all have is the option to skim read as necessary to get the level of help we need. Me, I spent a day with pyrotechnics and a few more and nearly came here. I then read the preamble again, which reminded me of the alphabetic order. I must stop skim reading the preamble. That helped but not enough to stop me finally coming here tonight. So, thanks all. I have put the longies in and hope that will do me. Skimming the comments, I sense I will be back.
As for the robots. I work in IT security. It is an evil place but not much is more destructive than the global time wasted looking for traffic lights, shops, buses etc. Especially on a phone. Still, it beats trying to figure out wonky blurred letters. The internet will self destruct soon enough and then we won’t have to worry about who helped who too much and stupid robots. And many of us won’t be able to do the Listener any more. Might be a relief 8-)