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  • Loccy@feddit.uktoUKCasual@lemmy.worldHow do you pronounce "scone"?
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    1 year ago

    “alright geez, giz a skone”

    “Good evening my good man. My name is Lord Ponsonby Smythe Smythe Smythe. Could I trouble you for one of those skons?”

    Works both ways.

    Edit: my friend, who I am currently drinking pints with, says “skon is more northern but posh and scone is more estuary”.

    And he’s an expert and a cunt (his own description of himself).


  • Loccy@feddit.uktoUKCasual@lemmy.worldHow do you pronounce "scone"?
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    But I am common as muck. I haven’t met an H I haven’t dropped and I’m proper Bermondsey and Millwall. And it’s a “skone”. In fact the only people who call it a “skon” in my experience in deepest darkest Saaaaaaaf Laaaaaaandaaan are posh cnuts.

    Spock has a cat. Your argument is invalid.






  • Loccy@feddit.uktoUKCasual@lemmy.world1000 subscribers!
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    1 year ago

    Maybe we should be a bit more, well, casual?

    I occasionally got frustrated with how trigger happy the mods over at the Place That Shall Not Be Named were on CasualUK. Posts that promoted some fun discussion and were upvoted after the first couple of minutes of them going up were still deleted and deemed as “moaning” or “low effort”.

    Perhaps a clearer definition of “low effort” might be “it took you 10 seconds and everyone ignored it”, and rather than a ban against moaning, perhaps we might ban “boring moaning”. If the moan is entertaining, satirical, prompts engagement it should be left alone.

    Just my 2p’s worth.




  • Loccy@feddit.uktoUKCasual@lemmy.worlddont be a spaz
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    Absolutely. The frustrating thing is that there was no need for it to be like this. If they’d have just said “look, there’s no easy way to cut this, but the third party apps cut into our bottom line and we’ve got to a place where we can’t let that slide any more”, I think people would have grumbled but understood. Have a decent period of transition time (I’m talking 6-12 months) during which they have a big push to bring the official app at least close to feature parity with the third party apps. I wouldn’t call that “everyone’s a winner”, but it would have been something everyone could have lived with, I think.