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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Here's the original that gives credit to funny joke maker and doesn't burn your eyes with the reddit gas

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I fixed the post! Thanks for finding that

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Sure thing, thanks for sharing!

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But that's from twitter (or "X" shudders), and how do we know it is a real original?

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's true, and we code our websites to hand out biscuits instead of cookies

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago

But cookies are a subset of biscuits...

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I assumed Python was unpopular in England, because programmers couldn't spell __init__(). 🤷

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There are some knights who say __ne__()

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

Huh, it really is like spoken English after all.