i don't know, i'm not having him followed or anything
i can't be bothered to be brutally honest
So you can't be bothered to be brutally honest but can you be bothered to have Pliny followed?
Oh, you meant that, if you're being brutally honest, the reason you don't have him followed is you can't be bothered.
yes, that's what I meant. It's also what I said, although the wording did allow one to interpret it another way if one really wanted to.
Indeed, there was a lack of clarity in the wording.
i think you're being somewhat disengenous - it wasn't very ambiguous, in that there was an obvious interpretation, and that was what I meant.
'perhaps' in the sense of 'yes, but I can't actually admit you're right and I was wrong because I haven't got much self-esteem left?