>Oh boy! It took a while and intensive usage of Webster's College Dictionary to digest that. I am really sorry that my knowledge of English is not good enough to get it all, and even more that I am unable to express my own thinking.
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The bulk of the message was summarized in two 'graphs, which I'll encapsulate further: I overreacted. There was a reason behind my lapse of rational behavior. That reason doesn't excuse the lapse. But now that the rage - a good term for it, too - is gone, maybe exposing the rationality behind the ongoing annoyance would be useful.

Your English is fine. Infinitely better than my German.

>The trigger for my reply was the idea, that I would have been the initiator of this threat and what would be going on in my mind after being raged by such a hurricane of offensiveness. Something like: 'Jeez - I.. ahm.. just wanted to know.. ahm well.. sorry.. where is the rope to end my inferior form of life...'. Reading further ahead through this thread I saw even more of that rage.
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There's no reason to take extreme measures if more proper, polite and productive methods work. I don't (generally) blow a cork for no reason. I wouldn't like it either.

Corks pop/fuses burn out/Ed loses it and goes ballistic for a reason in most cases.

>After reading your answer I can tell you that your means of signal stream detection (I don't want to qoute the original designation of that appliance) is well adjusted. I like to see that your apology comes out in the same straight manner as your assault.
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No reason to couch the apology to the people who deserve both an apology and an explanation in obscure terminology. Recognizing when I screw up and saying that I did so should not require significant thought, beyond recognizing that I did screw up.

Thanks for reading through the verbiage and continuing the metaphor.

>Keep on going like you did before - maybe a little bit more calm sometimes!

I've taken my virtual Valium...I'll behave.