Many years ago, when I had knees, I used to play in a Sunday Football league.
Before the game the ref gave us all a lecture on verbal abuse.
I said. "So if I call you a ****...you'll send me off?"
He said. "Yes"
So I said. "What if I only think your a ****?".
He said. "Those are your private thoughts, thats your perogative".
So me being a gobby smartarse at the time said. "I think your a ****!"
He sent me off for ungentlemanly conduct. True story.
There's a point in there somewhere...don't quite know what it is, but it's in there somewhere.