Nigel - it's probably too late in your life,
but you could try to understand the concepts of imagination, irony,
and figurative speaking...
That intelligent highly educated folks can and do engage in loose informal sloppy banter in forum chats..

Not every word in an internet forum must be held to account as though
it is a fact or figure from a PhD thesis, or a Government Report...

If that's what you expect here to meet your pedantic standards,
then you are in the wrong place...!!!

.. and I have always been consistent..
consistent in refraining from absolutist dogma.
I am a skeptic through and through.
When I do make outlandish statements of opinion as fact.
It is intended sascasm / satire..

Taking the piss out of habitually dogmatic zealots,
by aping their favoured form of opinionated biased communication......