And right off the garage he has his own trophy room where he can sort of bask in his accomplishments, which is another sort of important part about a manspace.

They just lay out on the surface of the sea and most people think they're sick or lazy, but that's a typical behavior, they lie out and bask on the surface.

I only found out last year, at a conference on the Isle of Man, just how unusual it is to live somewhere where basking sharks regularly, frequently and predictably come to the surface to bask.

In Europe, meanwhile, there is undeniably less collective hope and probably a little less individual fear. Perhaps because they are older and more cynical, European societies seem to bask in a collective moroseness, from which they have difficulty emerging.

Consider what the Greek Cypriot community has achieved a thriving economy, no one living under conditions of misery and humiliation in camps, membership in the European Union compared to the catastrophe the Palestinian choice has brought to their own people. Perhaps on the level of public relations, the Palestinian leadership sacrificing their own people on the altar of propaganda can bask in their achievement yet it is their own people who suffer.