And what is wrong with a few pages of 50% general PC griping? If we were actively arguing about it, yeah, I could see... but this is just good-natured water-cooler talk, and unlike most such chatter, it didn't devolve into virtual cat-calling or chest-beating. Smeesh. It is EXACTLY the same as the above "Shed talk"; in fact it IS just that. It's just venting; everybody needs to do that, and they need to do it in the company of friends for it to help.
Nice string of "P" words there, though. 
Well-played. 
It's just saying "Oh God, do we have to talk about that,
again?" which you
will hear down the pub. Just as pub conversation here in the UK now comes with an implicit "no brexit" rule there are topics that we've all heard too much about.
The problem is that it's not a seed that has been planted, but a tree that has grown through various threads and now creeps into this one. Enough is enough, we don't need the same discussion in 14 threads.
Oh, FFS... that's like saying talking about water or air is an offshoot of discussion from another thread. 
Ontogeny does NOT recapitulate Phylogeny, no matter how many times you read such in dusty old tomes that were wrong. They were STILL all WRONG. 
This subject matter was born here of honest discussion, it belongs here, and getting bent outta shape because you've seen any or all of it in a dozen other threads is really a matter of tuning your personal annoyance filters rather than anything really wrong with the content. If you think that random good-natured venting about OSes should be a "Third Rail" Godwin's Law type thing, then there's something seriously wrong with the SNR in your own perspective matrix.
Don't exaggerate lad, nobody's "bent outta shape", except perhaps the guy who's moved on to "smiley punctuation" and
all bold sentences or sentential clauses (which is pretty much the WYSIWYG version of "all caps").
All one needs to complete the trifecta would be
green ink*.
To change the topic (slightly), the late, great Bill Hicks - a comedian much loved here in the UK but sadly largely ignored in his native America - coined the phrase "tooth to tattoo ratio", whereby he suggested that you could judge a lot about the sanity, ability to hold rational political views and propensity to violence of a person by counting their remaining natural teeth and comparing it to the number of tattoos they had.
May I suggest an online equivalent, which is the ratio of normal, correct punctuation to smilies, tentatively to be called the "Hick's ratio". You all know what (and who) I mean - there's one antipodean contributor whose electronics contribution is vanishingly small, can be seen in every argument and writes without capital letters, commas, full stops, paragraphs and congenitally can't post a single message without at least two smilies for each sentence, or sentence fragment.
* I don't know how well the
green ink phenomenon is known outside the UK, where it's had a fair airing in the popular media over the years. It dates to the time when people would write longhand, real letters to the editors of newspapers. All newspapers get "letters to the editor" from persistent, often monomaniacal, nutters; it was popularly held that these 'contributors' wrote in all capitals and in green ink. From my time as a journo I can say categorically that this is true. I have opened the post and found letters composed longhand, in all capitals and green ink, filled with rambling, unhinged complaints often completely unrelated to the subject matter of the magazine they were sent to. Moreover, not from one person but several different individuals, and this was on an organ with a mere 80k-100k actual physical circulation.
None of this is to be taken to imply that I think mnementh is unhinged, even if he has named himself after a dragon from a series of fantasy books. I, a man who chose the name of a small, drunken, apricot brandy swilling, warlike cartoon aardvark as his nickname, would be skating on very thin ice.
"Skating away-ay,
Skating away-ay,
Skating away-ay,
On the thin ice of a new day-ay-ay-ayay,
Aya-aya-ayay" -
Ian Anderson
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