"Bread and Circuses my friend (actually burgers, hotdogs, NASCAR and basketball).

*grin*...this from a country where 'football' (soccer) fans regularly attack other fans.

I see folks from the UK reduced to simplistic insults about our **collective** consciousness... as if there were any such thing!

I realize that MOST folks in the UK don't attack each other over football... and I wish it were easier to explain how this HUGE country is not homogeneous and has a wide variety of cultural areas to try to appease.

If *I* could push a 'sanity button', guns would be uncommon.... but....