Shadow Minister,

"In modern use, retard is a pejorative term either for someone with a mental disability or for someone who is stupid, slow to understand, or ineffective in some way."

Your prissy hissy fits really don't give you licence for this rubbish. Please desist.

shadyminister,

So you have a household full of vocationally trained people. That's nice.

Too bad none of you are what I regard as highly educated. For that one needs to be a scholar with degrees in the Arts things like history, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, philosophy, etc. All the stuff you - and from what you just said your family too - don't know anything about.

It's good to see that my BA and 2 x MAs make you think I am unhappy and I must let you know that am going to do another MA. There, feel better now?

PS. Are the members of your family also AGW / climate deniers like you?