Well thank you for your prompt reply. You can see now in hindsight how the use of the word "bear" on an investing hub could confuse the readership to your overall message.

Easy tiger, I was asking nicely, and I thought I was being pretty polite and not being trigger-happy. And besides, it's always best that if there is a bit of confusion that the original poster can make himself clear, isn't it?

Hopefully that's as far as we have to go with this thread...