Originally Posted by
FallenPlat
On another subject, why, oh why, does Gary think it's worth posting about the "37 Rental Cars" trip report ten days after it went up? Ben, too? (Sharp folks like the posters here will notice that my congratulations missed being the first by four minutes.) Maybe the assumption is that readers know nothing?
Personally, I've always taken the position that talking down to people is a mistake. At least some of them are bound not to be idiots and, as Lincoln once observed in a somewhat related context, actions based on any contrary assumption are bound to come to grief sooner or later.
Because it was in the Talkmail email this morning.

They can't even be bothered to read FT anymore, just wait until Talkmail tells them what is important.