All logic is torture and no, it doesn't explain how or why I address you when replying to your latest indignation. I doubt that homophobic insults are or ever were part of my repertoire. It is a term that parrots are traditionally known to learn, which with one of your earlier thread comments was rather fitting, and as it irked you, I couldn't help carrying it on. A bit like Bridge calling me Mither, except in that case, I liked his insult and wore it with pride.

So, for the record;

Hello Sailor!

I have tried to read your comments on many subject and am sometimes amused, often bemused and to be frank, I enjoy your inconsistencies. The main difference is that you are being you and I am being whatever I want to be that day. Only my "above the line" posts relate to the real me. The rest is being, well, British, or taking the piss as our national sport is known.

Dumbfuckistan isn't always an insult. If people laugh at it, (and I certainly did the first time I heard Ian Hislop use it,) then it shows the subject isn't being taken seriously. I have used the term to applause at a conference in LA, because as I rightly guessed, many of our cousins don't take themselves seriously either. if they did, we wouldn't have The Simpsons or M.A.S.H. Gawd bless Americee!