Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
The OP was looking for someone to disagree and when I made a small joke about the booze and trucker hats, he immediately unloaded with both barrels dumping on me for things I neither said nor implied. The first person who disagreed was going to get that exact blast—if you don't understand that, read it again. Knowing that his response was pre-planned, I then fired back in return.

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He wanted the fight, I gave him the opportunity to get whatever nonsense he had bottled up out and he did.

None of this is actually true. Wild assumptions based on some preconceived notion.

Your "joke" did not sound like a joke to me. It sounded like an insult.
I merely asked who the insult was aimed at.

You could have replied by saying "I did not intend to insult anyone". You chose to do otherwise...