>>>>>But then, in those olden days, we used real streets for walking, not machines :).
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>>>>I'll bet no-one walked reading a paper in Sebrenica and Sarajevo during the wars1!
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>>>And I bet reading and walking was a massive sport in all the colonies which was banned by the colonial rulers and that's what actually led the colonies to rebel. Go ask Gandhi.
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>>What are you talking about???
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>And what are you talking about? Mentioning the worst period of my country's history was totally uncalled for, and was pretty much calling me a black pot - by which you implicitly opened the door to be called a kettle. So let's just agree that we are both citizens of former empires which would have a lot to atone for, which doesn't have much to do with you and me personally.

Sorry, it was a bad joke, in poor taste, but that's my sense of humour. But it no way suggested that you had anything to do with the sniping.

But I still don't get the allusion of "reading and walking was a massive sport in all the colonies which was banned by the colonial rulers ...". I know not of any such ban.