To rephrase an old joke, "I went to a riot, and a skiing competition broke out."
You know, I've never been able to figure out why "cowboy" has such negatives associations among the senile old men of Old Europe.
Even in the mock-comic old television series about cowboys, usually, generally, most of the time, cowboys were portrayed as they actually were, and are.
Laid-back, mellow, indulgent, tolerant, welcoming of anyone coming their way.....and then fiercely combative when someone tries to cheat, or tries to wrong a woman, or proves himself a dastardly coward.
So I am mystified as to why this is a "negative" stereotype behind the bottle-bottomed myoptic lenses of Old Europe.
This came up when Ronald Reagan was first elected, and then was resurrected when George Bush became president.....and I am always wondering, what is so bad about being a "cowboy"?