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Isn't answering forbidden on this thread?

Isn't the answer always another question?

Isn't answering what you do when you pick up a phone?

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Why should I answer a phone when it never asks me anything?

Not even about whether you have been mis-sold PPI?

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Have you been missold PPI?

Have you ever wanted to slap the person responsible for cold calls (the company boss, not the caller)?

Can I confess to wanting to more than slap them?

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Can you be more specific about what you'd like to do to them?

Would it be taken down and later used as evidence against me?

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Isn't that the very purpose of an inquisitorial process?

Can one reasonably expect truth of inquisitorial assurances?

Why did you ask two questions?

What's that supposed to mean?

Isn't it the norm, even on this thread, to only ask one question at a time?

Who is Norm, and why do we have to follow his example?

Is it possible for a group of people who question everything that is said to actually follow someone's example?

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Should one have to restrict restrict questions to only one of the ways the material one is responding to?

In the inquisitorial vein, doesn't anyone remember the rapid fire questioning technique adopted by HUAC back in the McCarthy era as a device for keeping people bèing 'investigated' in states of emotional shock and emotive confusion?

Ooops! In my post immediately above, insert "may be questionable" after "responding to" and before the question mark....

Are we a gang or a club?

Would you believe 'a loose association of rugged individualists' pursuing their own interests and proclivities?