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		ajb 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where is London's most central sheep? Guy knows his audience though. All of his posts are incredibly prone to bikeshedding. If our main journalists knew that their output was going to be subject to much detail-oriented scrutiny, we'd have the best-run country in the world.

jrmg 7 days ago [–]

Much of his bikeshedding is obviously self-deprecating humor to me. It’s simultaneously both genuine and ironic.

I think that people sometimes don’t (can’t?) quite ‘get’ that wry-but-also-sincere style that much of British humor exhibits.

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