Brummie,
It's my experience that brain dead dubs exist in every country, however, they do not seem to be quite as fundamental generally as say, in the US.
At the risk of boring everyone, I can only mention my old Mum once again. She is a rock for JW's, dyed in the wool etc etc, yet she entertains my DF'd kid brother and DF'd little me on regular basis. She also comes to stay in the summer, accompanies me to the pub and drinks double whiskies.
Now I think that the reason that she does this is because, although she takes the scripture about shunning fornicators and drunkards seriously, she does not see Kid bro or myself doing these things now.
One on occasion she fixed me with a gimlet eye and stated that she would continue to associate with me because she had no evidence to suggest that I was an apostate. She was actually telling me not to tell her if I was an apostate!
Englishman.
