This is one of those tangential threads that strikes me as peculiarly Brit, if I may say so -- a sort of composite of carefully studied irrelevancies and impenetrable non-sequiturs whose only sense is in its slighty impulsive and rootless nature. It's a kind of humor much appreciated in the UK, but absolutely pointless to others in the English speaking world and therefore vaguely irritating and bewildering.

That's just my opinion.

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