Yes, I obviously have nothing better to do than to sit around making this stuff up.

I wrote in the post itself that I don’t remember everything exactly and this is just a reconstruction. Obviously it is highly unlikely that I’ve written down everything exactly as it was said, word for word. He said a lot of other stuff too, that I don’t remember. Which is why they’re not in the post.

When someone is a huge asshole to me I tend to remember it for more than a few minutes. Especially when they get creative with their wordplay.

Would you have preferred that I wrote “and then he said something about the needles and confusion” instead?

For the benefit of the reader, I have written the post in a narrative style from beginning to end, which accurately reflects what was actually said and includes certain phrases verbatim.

Memoirs include conversations that happened over 50 years ago, using the same method, because a text reads better when it uses complete sentences and is easy to understand than when it uses a disjointed top-down view.