Dunno Haydn, even accepting that sometimes Paul's threads can be seen as boring (I also joked a bit about the endless fuel consumption debates recently), I fail to understand how a pure rant can add to sanity, either in a forum or elsewhere.
Whenever I'm not interested in a thread, or find it utterly useless, i just move on.
I'm not saying that I never posted harsh comments, but I only did in reply to equally unpolite 'attacks'.
In most of your recent gludy-related posts, I often had the impression that the rant was unnecessarily started (can't remember Paul having a go at a post of yours, to start with, but I might be wrong) and at least as useless as the original post you were arguing against.