For the most part it hasn't been either. I have simply tried to offer information and my POV and give a reasoned response to the contrary arguments presented to me. If I pulled your chain a little it was because you have kept up a constant banter of digs from the start and you passed over a number of points with no substantive response. That's irritating.
But you haven't engaged in outright insults so it hasn't been too big of a deal. Plus you have a great Scots moniker. At least it explains your stubbornness. ;^)
>>...you passed over a number of points with no substantive response.<<
It may because I had already answered them or I didn’t consider them worthy of response. The problem is that I just get tired of typing and I “choose my battles”. Sorry if it is irritating. But I also know what you mean. It fried me when a guy posts two pictures, one of a VERY similar contrail from a year ago that IS accepted as an airliner contrail, and another with a nice blue sky that looks nothing like it, and someone ignores the former and attacks the latter. Sheesh.
And you will notice, if you look at my position on AGW, that Appeal to Authority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority is not at all persuasive to me. Heck, the IPCC was “the authority”, and they were full of sh!!.