Personally, I feel there's a correlation between this and the 'wearing uniform' thread, which appears to be the ability of the UK to breed more wankers per capita than many other countries, combined with a very unhealthy lack of respect for self or others. Come the World Cup many of the same thieving lager-swillers will be waving the flag and claiming to be patriotic, while undoubtedly believing Hitler to be the 1966 German soccer team manager...and way too many people do think this.