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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Jesus, man. The Economist is well written and even handed, but "humorous"?
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There is a certain level of snark in many of their articles, and nearly all of their picture captions attempt to include some sort of humor. As do their obits.
Their excessive use of Britishisms sometimes annoys me -- I really think that most of the time that they throw in "tyres" and "petrol" and "lorries" and "queue" just to appeal to Anglophiles here in the US.