Your post got between me and my target, Grapho. Nothing to do with yours!

Yes, I know defensive an adjective. But I was thinking about verbs around defend when I was typing, and a kinraidism slipped in.

Faldage has precious few original thoughts, so all he can usually do to keep up his end of the conversation is to snipe from the sidelines . So, being a basically nice guy, I let him. It's "be kind to bored USns with not enough to do at work" week.