Am I like this in real life?
Actually No. (surprisingly!! you might feel. I'm actually an OK guy) (Ralphie)

Can I just say that WAV isn't like that in real life either? He too is an okay guy; in fact, he's one of the most personable coves you could ever have the pleasure to meet. I may well be one of his fiercest ideological opponents, but hopefully my own personal ideology doesn't go so far as to overlook his essential humanity, not yet my admiration of the quiet dignity that typifies his contributions to these threads. So in the spirit of this present armistice, might I suggest we sing a verse or two of Kipling?

And when they bore me over much, I will not shake mine ears,
Recalling many thousand such whom I have bored to tears.
And when they labour to impress, I will not doubt nor scoff;
Since I myself have done no less and sometimes pulled it off.
Yea, as we are and we are not, and we pretend to be,
The people, Lord, Thy people, are good enough for me!

Deliver me from every pride - the Middle, High, and Low -
That bars me from a brother's side, whatever pride he show.
And purge me from all heresies of thought and speech and pen
That bid me judge him otherwise than I am judged. Amen!
That I may sing of Crowd or King or road-borne company,
That I may labour in my day, vocation and degree,
To prove the same in deed and name, and hold unshakenly
(Where'er I go, whate'er I know, whoe'er my neighbor be)
This single faith in Life and Death and to Eternity:
The people, Lord, Thy people, are good enough for me!