Sue, that is such a wise perspective. Not that we should bury our heads in the sand, but absolutely use the energy we have to change the things we can. 
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Second on my list 
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Can’t see anyone muting a tame Aussi, bit like someone not liking Koala bears 
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Maybe I’m on the list too!
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We’re all on the list. Damn. Cant find a tin foil hat emoji.
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If you can find one pls send it, I may need one
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Yeah 4 of you on my list now
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More frightening bullshit…
Who said that?
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You said something about everyone being muted by someone so I , a bit tongue in cheek, wondered if anyone had muted me!
They won’t be able to tell you because they’ve muted you and so won’t see your question. 
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Sorry, a poor attempt at humour suggesting you were a disembodied voice due to being muted
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Just read this thread and have to laugh at the idea of muting which is surely a tool some use as they have insufficient self control to not ignore what a poster has written. That poster may well irk rhe reader in what they say/believe but at some point they will say something that may well help/appeal to the ignorer.
Surely muting someone is the physical equivalent of stuffing a finger in your ears and shouting la la la la.
I have always said what I feel hopefully with a degree of tact and diplomacy but occasionally with neither😁 and sometimes when re-reading I think did I actually say that but of course it was my feeling/view at that time.
For anyone who cannot read this because I am on their ‘list’, just to say that you are not on mine.
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I think I said that’s exactly why I mute from time to time and I’ll be the first to admit it.
And why should I have to make the effort to ignore what sometimes is an endless stream of new threads that do not interest me, when I can easily bat them out the way?
Like standing next to some loud bore at a party. Do I have to stand there listening? No of course not, I can walk away. Muting on a forum is no more than that.
The post I deleted a little up the thread contained a line from Billy Joel “you can speak your mind but not on my time”.
Muting is a last resort, when the stuff that’s possibly going to be helpful is enormously outweighed by the stuff that isn’t. Also some - though not any of the current forum users - make words a weapon, to goad people into what they use as traps and then set about belittling and humiliating them. I’ve no time for people who want to be bastards, and muting is a harmless way to draw their teeth.
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“A toothless bastard is no risk to anyone” I’ll make that my thought for the day 
The same could be said for many topics but the fact is, there is space made on the forum for debate on a variety of topics and this is but one. Much more in the the public interest than the cyender head gasket on a 1962 Ford Anglia.
Knowing my luck there will be such a topic and I’m now in somebody’s black book