restripe, First you labeled yourself a smart-ass by intentionally calling him zap instead of zab, then
you mentioned your stock trading which he, as far as i saw in his post, hadn't mentioned at all.
Then there you made an excuse for yourself which doesn't hold water.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”