Always great to start the new day with a good belly-laugh.
Totally missed the point (again) but thanks for the history lesson mate.
The relevance of the distant ancestry of some Australians to my musing over the character and morals of gamblers v the average American is bound to remain one of life's profound mysteries.
And, for the record, America too was a destination for boatloads of English convicts along with masses of uneducated Negroes, which if, as it seems you think, that if your great great great great grandfather who, when a hungry young orphan, nicked a loaf of bread means you too must be a dumb criminal, would have more relevance to my musing.