Welcome to the 'Fire. Thread hi-jacking is a very common occurence. Stick around, you'll see it quite often.
What you won't see (hopefully) is the juvenile and obnoxious behavior of certain types of folks. They normally self-regulate, once no one else pays much attention to them any longer (dftft; "don't feed the f'king trolls").
Your observations about the BR competitions and merits of a certain gentleman gunsmith around here, tongue-in-cheek that they are, are spot on, and funny as hell...
I suspect you'll get along fine 'round here... even for a Kalifornicator.
