Your comments, Moth, inspired me to go and look at Dave's profile. In it I found this shimmering prose:
"DLR appears to have a severe short-term memory problem, to go with his reading comprehension and simple logic difficulties." - Thatcherite, FreeRepublic.com
Dave, I see you are including my words on your profile page. In fact I am delighted, in principal, that you find my words quotable, though I am perplexed by your motivation in demonstrating the fact that so many Freepers and posters on other sites have an extremely low opinion of you. If I attracted as much open contempt as you do I would ponder whether or not the fault lay in me rather than my correspondents.
However, I respectfully request that if you wish to quote me that you include a link to the post where I wrote those words. That will give readers the opportunity to see whether or not the comments I made about your memory, comprehension, and logical skills are warranted by the evidence of your posts that I was replying to. If you do not wish to include such a link then please remove my words from your profile page.
Now a question for you, out of curiosity. :-) I looked at your profile just now, and you have a very nice essay on the purpose of the science threads on FR. I loved it, but I'm curious... you seem to be from the UK... why do you choose to speak from the perspective of an American?