[Ads-l] bikeshedding

[Amy West]

New to me. Wiktionary's got it.

Here's a usage with a gloss:

"What struck me the most from that September 24 TLSS meeting, though, 
was that the committee spent ten minutes asking questions about flag 
football and no time asking questions about the proposed gender support 
plan. This is called bikeshedding, which is the tendency of groups to 
spend disproportionate amounts of time debating relatively simple or 
familiar issues while giving far less attention to complicated, 
consequential ones. This was a painful example."

---Aislinn Doyle, 29 Sept. 2026, WPS in Brief (Worcester, MA, USA)

https://www.worcestersucks.email/p/wps-in-brief-september-2026

---Amy West

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