[Gorzaloon]

Some great humor on these threads. Or is that ‘humour’!

I think it is a healthy mixture of mutual disgust, two sides each convinced of their own moral superiority, equally in love with lecturing the other.

Of course, THEY are wrong! :-)

On my visits there, I received the entire range of envy, horrified fascination, and the ocassional tsunami of feces where the word "Cowboy" was thrown about, to panic.."You have GUNS? What do you DO with them?"

"Anything I want, of course. It's a Colonial Thing, you know."

[tanuki]

“Anything I want, of course. It’s a Colonial Thing, you know.”

Thank God, THAT’s true!

[Mercia]

Keep your guns mate. After you’re done being condescending to we Brits, might I point out that all I need in the US is my English accent and that gets me access to everywhere you’d rather I didn’t.