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I used to think Yes Minister was the least humorous comedy on television, and I could not for the life of me understand why my father liked it so much.

He lived under communism, with its dozen+ levels of government bureaucracy, so you can imagine why he thought it was hilarious.

Once I had worked as a consultant for government departments, I suddenly "got" it, and now Yes Minister is one of my favourite TV shows of all time. The bit about hospitals is all too true.

For example, just recently, I had to fill out a stack of paperwork to provision a virtual server for hosting an archived, read-only web site for data that hasn't changed since 2017 and has three (3) users. Literally a stack. As in, a pile. About a hundred pages, or a short novel. That nobody will ever read, except if the time comes to blame me for a shortcoming that they themselves could not have avoided.