Well if you say no then the relevance to your points don't apply.
Reckon what I call humor doesn't seem to travel too well across the pond with some folk. Different outlook on life I suppose.
I have read and agree with most of what you have said, but you seem to be taking things I say a wee bit too seriously and personally. I can only apologise here in public to you if think I'm trying to be elitist or holding other folks view in contempt.
I can only say when you read something I have written here try and take it in the sense in which I mean it, which is, always with a touch of humor in it somewhere.
Simple thing is where I live and the people I know almost all talk to each other in this manner. If we didn't understand that we mean no harm by what we say, then the population of Scotland would be most likely zero as we would all have murdered each other by now.
As I say humor can mean different things to different people, reckon where I come from ours is very different humor and outlook on life to yours.