I see jock and callmeDaviefornow are reduced to silly insults, pernicious accusations
You could set a good example by desisting from the same yourself.
My insults are well deserved descriptions.
Anyone of any intelligence can see that if someone who uses one set of data to induce a different conclusion, must be distorting the facts. Then to continue that distortion is tantamount to tediously stupid behaviour. That's not an insult, it's a description of the kind of behaviour that I'm observing.
It's like someone using a junior hacksaw to ripsaw timber, and when you point out to them that they're using the wrong tool, they insist that they're using it because it's the best for the job! They repeat themselves time and time again. That's stupidly tedious. It's difficult to imagine how anyone can be so stupid.
When someone makes a ludicrous claim about how many Renault cars are sold outside of Europe, and you provide Renault's own data set for them to peruse, they come up with ridiculous ideas about government subsidies to create infrastructure, despite that government's dedicated objective against that specific country's accession to the EU, that's pernicious and specious!
That's not an insult, it's a description of ill-considered arguments.
Yet these idiots continue with their nonsensical ideas. It's difficult to imagine how anyone can be so stupid to suspect that people would be so gullible.
That's not an insult, it's a description of idiotic behaviour.
They're making silly and ridiculous excuses, arguments and claims. It becomes tedious when they do this over and over and over again.
Play with the idea as much as you like that those two protagonists are not infantile idiots, doesn't remove their infantile, pernicious, specious and ludicrous arguments, nor does it change the stupidity of their arguments, nor does it change the description of their tedious, repetitive, specious, distortion of reality.