You actually totally called it! I did text her about your post, though to be fair it was in the middle of another conversation while I was taking a break from power washing everything and was too filthy to go into the house. It made for good conversation and a time killer.
But, I do think you are over estimating your importance if you think it's because it was you who posted it rather than the post(s) themselves (which you might also want to take into account with previous posts). I'm pretty sure I would have pointed it out to her regardless of who it posted it because of her love of labs and I'm pretty sure it would have bothered her just as much. But that's neither here nor there since we can't know for sure, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't believe it and honestly, it was you who posted it.
Honestly, I found your post rather, well for lack of a better and more eloquent word, gross. I understand not meshing with a breed. I understand not liking a breed. I even understand actively disliking a breed. I don't understand writing an entire diatribe against a breed, why they basically shouldn't exist, why they are awful and on, and on, and on. And while you never outright said it, you basically spent an entire two posts explaining why anyone who likes or has a lab are incredibly, again for lack of a more eloquent word, stupid. Along with their dogs, who are also smelly, awful, pointless and pretty much a waste of space.
You don't like labs. We get it. They are obviously, very obviously, not a breed that would fit you. At all. Whatsoever. You have made that abundantly clear in your posts. But, do you think, just maybe, that a good portion of that strong dislike is because you don't fit well with them? They don't fit what you want. That all those traits you listed look a lot different when you aren't looking through a strong haze of dislike?
And that's ok, no one is asking you to go "yay labs!". But they do fit a large group of people, very well might I add. I do get a few families in with a lab that totally didn't know what they were getting into. They were expecting a couch potato, good family dog and really didn't get that. But, for everyone of them I get someone with their fourth lab who loves the breed and wouldn't get anything else again. For everyone one of the overwhelmed I see five happy families with their ideal dog.
Maybe good labs are hard to find if you aren't in the middle of bird dog central, but from the responses other people I know I don't really think so. I know I get quite a few more good labs than I get labs I dislike. I know I get a lot more incredibly happy people, who are thrilled with their labs than unhappy, why did I do this to myself people. And these are not good trainers or people that know what they are doing for the most part. These are average, everyday owners. Who have rockstar labs.
As a side note, Milo, I completely agree about play style. For the most part labs pretty much are unoffensive from what I see to most dogs even if they love to throw themselves into play with the same enthusiasm they show for everything else. Herders on the other hand? Holy inappropriate players.