interesting thread, highly amusing that OP had 2 fairly off topic posts (Japan = cheap & a karaoke joke) before accusing others of "padding," especially when there are plenty of examples of people spamming, nearly randomly, in various threads while contributing nothing (not even humor) to a discussion. (but no examples to be found in the thread the OP linked..)

and the REAL padding would be the unending OMNI threads

that thanks feature sounds great randy, thanks! ^