Has Brum lost its sense of fun?

One person's sense of fun is another's public safety disaster.
I well remember inadvertently causing the type of health and safety nightmare the retailers were possibly hoping to avoid whilst negotiating the escalators at a leading departmental store some years ago.
As I travelled downwards on the moving stairway I noticed an errant lace was flapping around my shoe and not wanting it to snag in the machinery I bent over to re-tie it. Alas there was a knot problem to deal with too and by the time the stairway reached the bottom I was still crouched over.
Those travelling downwards behind me had nowhere to go and I caused an almighty and unseemly tangle of middle-aged shoppers and frightened sales assistants.
It is not a debacle I would want repeated, either by myself or by others, so I wholeheartedly back those that sought to end this flashmob thing.

my lord derek, how many times must you have told that story not to realise that it doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on the question at hand?
this "flashmob thing" is a desperate, Barleyish attempt to create a new world, using only our address books, bodies and mobiles. While we can debate endlessly about the worth of democratic art, let's just cut to the chase. The only people worse than those who do flashmobs are those who stop them.
That'll do as a maxim, for now.
And in answer to your question about a sense of fun, I'm only replying to this stupid question, on your stupid parochial website because it appeals to my sense of humour.
(So the answer's no)