Quote Originally Posted by Mo Britain less Europe View Post
Not at all. There are times when you want to shoot the breeze and there are times when you want to discuss something concrete. There is nothing to stop you ignoring a post which doesn't interest you and then start a new thread to discuss what you actually want to talk about.
When you say 'you', you mean 'I', don't you? Why are you trying to impose your rigid conversational rules on the rest of us? When you're in a conversation with several people, do you get cross and shout at them if they start to go off on a tangent? Or do you accept that that just happens to be how normal human discourse works?