Originally from: Susan Staunton
                        

Author wrote:
Dear Burkie,
as they say in Yorkshire ( see N.Dakota),
"They're all mad bar thee and me, an' I'm not too sure what day it is."
David in Wimborne.

All things are relative. When you get comments like this hurled at you on Guardian (where the anonimity of a pseudonym is advised, but does give rise to a certain false bravado too) by a barmpot with the dubiously ironic user name of 'Loyalbrit' merely for having the temerity to suggest that whilst the CAP might be iniquitous it does not mean that all farmers are evil:

"MargotMetroland> Feel free to renounce your evil sins and argue against all agricultural subsidies, until that time consider that the decent world will see you as the evil you are"

You tend to get inured against anything which might be levelled at you in the peaceful surroundings of 'Farmtalking' :-)