Oh, for Rassilon's sake, Tieria Erde, stop wallowing in your self-pity, would you? If you think I'd lie about something like that, you're either just as bad as Donna is, or you're not a very good judge of my character, so which is it?

And as a matter of fact, I wasn't about to give you an ego boost, at least not yet. That virus didn't just make him rude and tactless, if that had been all it had been doing I wouldn't have deadlocked an entire section of the TARDIS with him in it.