We had a thread not long since about the Morris, in which I recollect being something of a lone voice in the face of a whole lot of Morris people who appeared to rejoice in having the piss taken. ~~ I couldn't, and still can't, make out why this was so, and remain unrepentant about regarding it as regrettable.

Which is not to say that folk, like anything else, can never provide a topic for wit or humour. It has its pretentious aspects which I suppose need deflating. But it the tone which is important: it should be affectionately witty, surely, rather than vindictively hostile?

~Michael~