Do you stay away from prog-metal?

again, it's 2022...

He said a while ago he doesn't have an e-mail either. 

There are differences between British English and American English. I'm not sure it's ignorance that created these differences. 

You are annoyed by the whole "theater" thing as well. What do you think of the spelling of "def leppard" then. 

I don't think anything ExittheLemming has said comes remotely near worthy of being banned or suspended.

People said far worse about me about 10 years ago and no-one banned them. In fact, I had to leave for a few months to allow things to cool down until they left. I think we all need to be a bit less thin-skinned.

and originally a Greek word. 

Yes. It was part of a campaign by the government in the infancy of the US as a way to further distance itself from the former colonizing power. The "streamlining" of the how English words are spelled (or "spelt" if you like) was a kind of practical justification. Largely performative. I think some of the changes actually make more sense, though others are certainly ancillary and largely redundant.

Honestly, I always thought people were just joking when they make comments about Americans being unable to spell.

The thing with English is, unlike so many other languages across the world, it is a complete mongrel. Just like the English people. Unlike many other countries, I suspect there are very few “truly” English people in England. The people and the language are a crazy mish-mash of Angles, Saxons, Danes, French and more. It’s why English is so hard to learn as a foreign language (and for some, as a native language), because unlike most languages there are so many discrepancies and oddities, due to the way the language has been built upon and changed through the waves of invasion and colonisation.

American spellings often make more sense, or at least, bring a little more consistency, into a pretty bizarre language. I grew up in Aotearoa, where UK English is used, so American English spellings have always been foreign to me, but I don’t look down on them. I understand jokes about them, and if they are made kn good humour, I have no problem with them. But to see people actually take seriously the idea that US English is “wrong” is somewhat disturbing to me.