Pompous Post Poker

One of the Euston Manifesto drafting committee (Damian Counsell of "Pootergeek") has challenged me to a game of Pompous Post Poker. I am at a bit of a disadvantage in terms of familiarity with his material (AFAICS he is kind of the British Steven den Beste) but I think I have decent game anyway and good google skills so it would be a bit poor of me to bottle it. So here we go. He thinks my Darfur post from the Guardian blog a few weeks back was pompous, so the ball is in my court. Fair enough, I think this post of his was more pompous. Your move, Damian. (I am on a freebie to the football the next couple of days but when I come back I will be able to give the nation's second favourite sport, PPP, my full attention.)

btw, he is having "problems with his spam filter" (charitable interpretation) or "a slightly self-serving finger on the delete button" (other possible interpretation), so I would point out that as of 2000 BST today, the posts he is replying to on that comments thread are not (are much easier to argue against) the ones I wrote.