...but then the barbarians always are more numerous. :)

So true, Maverick, so true. Barbarians are lots of things; smelly, couthless, and recalcitrant. But there is one thing that by their very nature barbarians can't possibly be, and that is decadent.

... but it's no good all-y'all snivelling, you can't come back in, we took plenty of care to export all our religious nutters back in the 1600s. :)

And the seed you planted in America in the 1600s, brought forth a bloom that saved a World from Hirohito, Stalin and Hitler. But sadly, the days dwindle down, and now we, with all our virtue, can't save you from yourselves.