So, Headwank, I was right, a glorified ditch digger, a journeyman with dirty boots spending the wet weather season mongering in his Soi Buakow billet.

You chaps are so transparent.

Nothing intrinsically wrong with that or your work, it's just that you are so well defined by it, and that goes for your ilk.

Quite why you take such umbrage at being reminded of it is mystifying.

Anyone might think you are secretly ashamed of your crudity and rough ways.