Honestly though, no wonder the yanks think us lot are a bunch of snobs.

Why? Where's the snobbery? "I don't get it" isn't fiendish aristocratic code for "be off with you, peasant" - it just means "I don't get it".

Yes, people get their jollies in lots of different ways, most of which look weird and incomprehensible to outsiders. The thing about RenFaires is that they look *almost* like some things that do resonate with me, *but not quite*. Also, quite a lot of the people who are into them seem to be folkies, and hence not outsiders - I feel I ought to have a more intuitive understanding of what's going on there.