I can only guess. It may be that you and I have communication shills which are far more advanced the most others. JPC, Coal and Andy may be similar. When I have an event to attend like the St Patrick's Day Parade, a wedding or a court case where I am a lay litigant, I do wash shave and dress up. When I am taking the sump guard of the van to change the oil, doing the brakes on it, fixing a pipe in the attic, spreading slurry or dung I dress as rough as possible. It is surprising how often I was approached by well wishers and chastised for not being shaved, have a hole in my jumper or oily hands. One neighbour pulled up to exchange news while I was out in the yard pumping up the digger tracks with grease and pointed to my dishevelled appearance. The same man might change a wheel on a car, but could not put a handle in a shovel, fix a bike puncture, change engine oil or weld. 20% of my farming is machinery repair, 20% building upgrades. I do hire held about 25% for simple heavy work and have family help but there are a lot of jobs I can only do myself. I spent all last week working my metal lathe and drilling machine with cutting oil all around.
Many people do not understand that. Auld Lad is one of them. There are others. We are here because we are disgusted at the destruction of our culture but we understand our problem is not understanding what is wrong but getting our country men to change their votes. If we are discussing the elections we don't want unrelated topics like Freemasons etc appearing. That can go elsewhere. We have weak moderation but cannot complain because without Dan we would have no site at all.