Comes across as dry humour to me, but maybe that is just because I'm British like the Author. Injecting mildly sarcastic or "off-coloured" language into a casua

Comes across as dry humour to me, but maybe that is just because I'm British like the Author. Injecting mildly sarcastic or "off-coloured" language into a casual piece of writing is very common. I half get where you're coming from though.