Boys and girls, you must be able to take a joke in this business. Yes, we have the standard 3% dick ratio, and yes, they can be insufferable. But suffer them you must. I joined QF after logging an extensive CV elsewhere so I understand and have lived the problem. But as a practical matter, QF, and all airlines really, only care how you fly today.
As far as old mate approaching the hold at Lambourne goes: You get that “not-invented-here” problem everywhere. People who subscribe to that nonsense are phillistines, and to be ignored when safe to do so.