Thomas,
I agree with your assessment. It does seem sad that people come in here to create friction for a laugh. However, it is not my job to jolt them out of their sour complacency to look at themselves in the mirror. Especially when nobody has risen to the bait as they hoped. The reaction is annoyance and eye-rolling rather than the anger they desired. I really admire this community. The actions of a few insecure bovver-boys don't really matter so much.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1