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."