Actually phoenix, there is more than one way to read the OP.
"... there is no-one on Gransnet with the perspicacity and wit of j08."
Very true, but there are plenty of people who have far more perspicacity and far greater wit. And, for that matter, who never told people to fuck off, piss off, wrote offensive insults but crossed them through, etc. I am hugely bored with the breast beating and sackcloth and ashes. No problem if she comes back – as she so often has – but right now, she has gone BECAUSE SHE CHOSE TO DO SO. Okay, I have stopped shouting now.