But them being ex-pats might be a factor. I remember going on holiday once a fair way from my home patch and I found the natives very confusing. Confusion is said to create psychosomatic disorders and one might expect those who create confusion to seek an explanation elsewhere and what better than boozing with its reputation for wasting money when it could be better spent on frocks, soft furnishings, Black and Decker workmates and boxes of well over designed chocolates at a price at least a thousand times above the cocoa, lard and sugar ingredients when bought by the ton. Ahem! Tonne.
The BBC sold out to the distaff side many years ago when it realised that its main audience consisted of overweight, stupid and lazy couchies addicted to glitzy colour and movement, accompanied by hysterically cheering claques, and bodice ripping melodramas in which women were victimised at the hands of cruel, tough and ruthless men, whilst eating, farting and feeling hard done to.
