to disbelieve thread titles that say "(sorry, long)"?

[CoffeeandScones]

Generally such posts have been written by people who are then conscious they don't want to make it overly long, so actually they're quite concise.

The multi-page epics never seem to start with a warning...

(sorry for the length, didn't want to drip feed )

Yes, Coffee. They are normally quite well-written, even if they are sometimes a bit longer than usual

Agree. They are nearly never long when it states that it is.

Unlike that absolutely frighteningly epic thread that guy wrote a few months ago. I kept scrolling down and my eyes were getting wider.

That was the biggest post I've EVER seen in my MN life.

That blokes post was epic.

His post definitely deserved a tl;dr