Insane beard, I enjoyed it more for the error.

Funny, but in the recent TV series "life on mars", in which a modern day cop, as a result of being run over by a car, goes back in time to 1974 (or some such), there are many funny observations made, one of which is the white dog shit. Silly it might be, but it has its place.

Warts and all ... an accurate portrayal of culture has to be realistic.

Absurd? well apart from history, a culture is shaped by its environment.

Admittedly white dogshit is unlikely to have affected Englishness that much, but I remember asking about it (we had it in HK too) when I was little. "why does it turn white?" - noone knew.