"When I ask geezer for a factual rebuttal to some earlier comments, he ignored that request."

That's pretty rich, coming from you; when I put up an extensive rebuttal of your stuff, you blithely ignore it. But then that's your style, why bother with rebuttal yourself when you know you're right - so you just repeat yourself.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.