I'd never fully realised it before, but JW's can't stand being laughed at. They take themselves and their tinpot religion so seriously!
Oh, I know that they expect to be mocked and persecuted, they love all that because they think that prophesy is being fulfilled, but they do go bananas at the "What? You cannot be serious, ha ha!" type of reaction.
Take yesterday for example. I strolled into the pub, and, rather to my surprise, who should be there but Dub-in-the pub. He'd told me he was giving up alcohol, so I was surprised to see him at the bar nursing a pint of Guinness.
In asked him how come he was drinking Guinness when he was supposed to be "on the wagon" and he replied that it was for medicinal reasons only, so technically it was not an alcohlic beverage at that point in time. I suggested to him that it must be that new "1914" Guinness, and when he looked at me blankly, I explained that the alcohol part was invisible just as all the events in 1914 were invisible.
Wow, was he ever annoyed, he abandoned his pint and stormed out of the pub with a face like thunder.
What's the matter with these people, are they so thin-skinned they can't take having their leg pulled a bit?
Englishman.
..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.