[asjir]

I think this was overly self-critical - what would researching fully even mean? They can have however many sheep they want hidden within one-mile distance from Trafalgar square, no-one would expect the author to scour every possible location ensuring that there is no sheep hidden lol just to make a funny post 100% sure to be true

[ajb]

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]

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.