John - I wasn't going to respond (didn't seem to likely to lead to anything useful), but since the thread has resurfaced, I maintain that you have said somewhere (if I remember correctly, it was in chat & not directly to me (not least because we've never chatted directly) which makes it difficult to produce evidence) that you deliberately mis-spell (or deliberately don't check spelling, it amounts to the same) to annoy people. I'll back my memory against yours any day of the week.

Not unnaturally, I made 2 + 2 = 4. If you've said the above, & never said you were dyslexic (which fact you both admit & contradict after my post), are you really surprised? More to the point, how dare you go raving ape-shit over the fact that someone said you weren't? You concealed the fact, remember? So who's fault is it if someone draws the wrong conclusion, then?

You claim you don't care what anyone thinks of you & then use the best part of a dozen threads to childishly & rather pathetically abuse me, even going so far as to rake through my back posts to find a typo. I never I said I type perfectly. I do try to make the effort, though, which you, despite ample proof that you can spell when you bother, don't. And I will continue to maintain that you have admitted the same.

I've no idea as to the seriousness of your lately disclosed dyslexia, John. I do know that I've got two seriously dyslexic friends. One does very well, the other I only know about because she told me. Make of that what you will, I really don't care. But I still say that you've publicly said that there are times when you deliberately don't try.

No, I really don't care. I reply to you here because you chose to make a public reply to me (I'm not criticising that you did, though I don't think much of the way that you did). I have been told that you are a very nice, friendly, do-anything-for-anyone sort of bloke in real life. I've also been told that you're often/usually pissed as a fart when you post here (chat or thread). I don't know the truth of either statement. I only know that I, personally, find you, on Mudcat, to be a monumental, & frequently incoherent, pain-in-the-ass (I dare say you don't think much of me either, fair enough!). Which is one bloody good reason why I almost never respond to anything you post to! Again, make of that what you well. I'm sure you disagree (well, I would if I were you! ;-) ), I just hope you now have some idea why I posted what I originally did.

Now, if someone can explain why I responded to this thread in the first place... Cos I can't bloody well remember why!!!