I earlier said I wasn't going to join in childish games with my taunters, but in your case I will make an exception, because you have once again accused me of saying something that you and others implied I did say.
/// you were taken to task for implying that I was *neither* a sir nor a madam but inhabiting some sort of 'other' hinterland by very merit of my sexuality.... ///
You suggest (no actually said) that I implied that "you inhabited some sort of hinterland, because the very merit of your sexuality" ????????
Now where pray have I ever said this?
I did in fact say "Madam (or what the appropriate term is)"
This I explained, (but I will try again), was, taking into my advanced years, and the present political correct climate we now live under, was to try and explain, that I did not know what was the correct PC term to use?
Just as one can insult some females by calling them Mrs or Miss, when one doesn't know their status, one is told one must call them Ms.
Had I had just called you 'Madam', you most likely would have soon attacked me for using the wrong term, hence the words in brackets to prevent you from doing so. It was also in no way intended to be some sort of slight (that you yourself invented), on your homosexuality.
I do not wish this to be an apology to you, because I never apologise to anyone for something I have never said or done, especially to a person such as yourself, who only insults but never apologises.