"Everyone always complains yet they keep going and eventually get used to the site again"

Not this time. Before I've gone on after a redesign and thought it looked 'odd'. This time I just thought it looked shit

< grin > mindwank< \grin > heh heh

I could have a rocket launcher capable of seriously hurting the biggest monsters but I couldn't so much as crease the pages of a book on the bookshelves. Damn it!

... beard, sandles and feels more comfortable hanging around with other guys. Cleary the bible writers got confused between carpenter and programmer - easy done.

For me that's the main reason I comment. I started off as a maintenance programmer and quick often I was looking through the codebase trying to find the procedure (or section of some 600 line behemoth) that I needed to fix. In a case like that I don't want to read 100s of lines of code I have no damn interest in.
The key to these is to keep the comments quite vague.

The other times I comment is to clarify code (quite often you are only allowed to make a specific fix on code that is a clusterf*ck) or to explain why I didn't do something in what seems like the 'obvious' way.

It's still a flawed thought experiment. Parent's key point was

"There are a lot of artists out there whose music I enjoy that I would not have if I had not downloaded their music"

There was no *additional* cost to the manufacturers for the music they 'stole' but there was benefit arising from that in the form of the music and tickets they bought