I’ve never been very good at accommodating “constructive criticism”, but particularly from sources so plainly unqualified to offer it so abruptly. You’ll therefore excuse me if I take this opportunity to make a cup of tea and carry on with my day.
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The Boy Who Could But Didn't by Ben Leto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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By all means, brew away.
I almost deleted this post entirely, originally written in a surge of anger. Ultimately I decided to simply edit it, and take out the bit where I called them a “jumped-up, ignorant, self-righteous little prick”.
I read the first version and immediately became paranoid that I’d said something out of turn and it was aimed at me…IP sniffing or something…I must have a guilty mind… :S