The michael is (gently) taken, insults are (politely) traded and high horses are (occasionally) climbed on but there's never been any real bad blood. Will all this change with the recent huge influx of riff-raff from elsewhere?

I too was dismayed by the crude moderating on that other forum a couple of days ago. I can't speak for all the other threads since my Afrikaans (why was Jaapie corner allowed to remain?) is even worse than my Welsh and I didn't read all of the English ones either. Claymore's original Scots Corner thread however, seemed to me to be a quintessentially SB thread; shipmates chewing the fat about past and future cruising interspersed with demands for more malt whisky! I considered starting a thread entitled "FFS Keith" but bottled out.
I've (nearly) always been a sensible sort of a lad.