[bluenikki]

mycroft, on 2025-March-22, 19:03, said:

"yes, and *what else do you need to know*, since *clearly* they haven't guessed from your question?"

Or are you suggesting they are *deliberately* misinforming you?

No, they were simply too ignorant to know that what "everyone" played in the Washington DC area is not the same as what "everyone" played everywhere. And also, of course, they were trying to make me seem ignorant.

[mycroft]

That was aimed at blackshoe, not you, sorry.

But that would probably have been my response as TD to you as well, though not quite as aggressively as you were trying to get help rather than than "reserving your rights"(*) and throwing the resulting problem at the director.

(*) Listen, I'm as big at following the rules (even when they're stupid) as anyone. My self-declared title should be a clue. But there's following the rules, and there's using the language of the rules imperiously to Bridge Lawyer and show off (or, even, to deliberately try to catch the opponents, like the "reserve my rights" "if they didn't agree about the UI, they would have objected, so they have clearly admitted it" game. Which, I am sure, only half the people who do this are actually playing, the other half simply don't understand how anybody doesn't know this. Hmmm, how could that *possibly* apply to "answering a question missing some (obvious to them) information"?)