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I believe there is an option in My Settings that lets you jump to the first unread post in a thread Kylie.

You will probably find that the Google bots don't mine Off Topic and even that the Teens can't get at it either. If anyone knows a friendly Teen you might want to check that out. It's the way we work it on the forums for the sports club I belong to - the kids behave childishly in open view of the public and the adults behave childishly in private.

Now all we have to do is convince them that the Off Topic Forum should be allowed to be self-moderating.

I guess it just goes to show that LL can be bullied into doing something they didn't want to do. Does that mean that they, as Pep insists of all attention whores involved in forums, are masochists?

Everybody, not just foreigners, needs to be able to understand "If you can not speak English don't waste my time".

My own perception has always been that American English was the language of the hedgerow and the gutter, where the transatlantic emigrants had been sleeping before their desperate abandonment of their native climes, and that the English of the British Commonwealth (excluding the antipodean convict colonies) was that of the nobility, who took the best of Norse, German, French and AngloSaxon words so that poetic and conceptual nuances could be more finely expressed.