Yes, nearly every thread on TER seems to have at least one post from you so I read ya all the time...

Post much?

I read all the time, and I know that "Ya" isn't a word. I think you meant "Yeah". You had the high ground until you launched into "Can I assume you are the dickhead ..." You were trying to be helpful to the original poster and I thought that you had some really good suggestions. Be nice to the ladies and make yourself memorable - the gift card is nice. Or if you really feel like you hit it off see her a second time without waiting for another hockey season to roll around. She's more likely to remember someone she's seen more than once. And politely ask if you can use her as a reference. Doctor Jayee's comment about no reputable provider accepting BP providers references is crap because I've used them when I was starting out building a reputation. I've met a number of really nice ladies through BP, you just need to be careful and make sure that they have reviews. If you do your homework you can find ladies on BP with quite a few TER reviews and their own website, which should be sufficient for many providers in deciding whether to accept them as a reference. So up to this point I thought you were doing great, the doctor was the schmuck offering no help just criticism, with an odd little pseudo threat thrown in (Watch out). You started with a reasonable response, it was polite and factual, but then you went juvenile for some reason. And then you followed that by doubling down with the read much sarcasm that was a complete misfire. Honestly, it's really hard to put someone down as not very smart when you're defending your use of a non-word, and seem to think that you really had used the word correctly. You'd have probably done better by calmly hitting the doctor on his snotty little put-down of some very nice ladies who happen to choose to use BP, and just left it at that.

You probably don't care about my opinion, but I think all of us should try to not get our back up so quickly on these forums, it doesn't really serve a purpose. Go back and look at the response that you got to your M&G speculation. They started out calm and factual, and then threw in an emotional response that really should have been worded more along the lines of a polite request to not speculate if you don't know. Now this is coming from someone within a team that had been working very hard as volunteers to pull together a very large event that had a lot of built in stress. Oh the horror, they lost their cool and have now been deemed a dickhead. So what's your excuse? If you're going to offer your opinion on the number of threads you seem to jump in on, you're going to draw fire once in a while. Opinionated and thin skinned isn't very appealing. Just my two cents.