....Just making sure I was thinking of the same guy. [ By which Ned means he can't imagine anyone being friends with a guy like that, but then what does he know? He kind of can't get a read on this guy; his affect is so brusque and unusual. Not quite rude, but not quite normal, either. ]

Look, the whole point I was making was that we should ignore what the papers say. We're just giving whoever made them what they want if we start second-guessing ourselves and one another.