Did you hear about the time David Goodhart went to a bus stop to find someone of a different ethnicity so he could try out a joke? He waited for ages and then three turned up at once! Thank you, thank you. Anyhow, just as he was telling them his joke, an out-of-service bus arrived. No one got it.
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Peter Walker
Among the many oddities is this paragraph. If you try and “share a joke” with a stranger at a bus stop, then *you* are the person who has failed to even remotely integrate into London life. It’s the first rule anyone learns.
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