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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I find it funny that he says "full stop" too which is a British, not American phrase.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

May not be common, but I've heard it in american slang. I think its more an old carry over from telegrams that never quite left our shared language.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I am not one to watch football.
But the crocodile tears I am hearing from US and some BS as well made me pirate the BE vs US game :D

[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

With that 4-1 whipping USA has to change to metric.

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

It was only 1.57-1 in imperial though.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

dump is asking fifa to find some more points.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 26 points 1 day ago (17 children)

I hate this sentiment. I'm never going to let go of the word soccer, and it's irritating to pretend like I would. The Brits have decided they're done saying soccer and they only say football now, and it's irritating to pretend like anything the US does will change it. Let dialects be dialects and let's be done with it.

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Soccer is a British word though, but predominantly southerner / Oxfordian.

Association Football used to get contracted to Assoc or Soc to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

And in Oxford, they historically liked to add -er to the end of things; still in parlance today is calling Rugby “rugger”, £5 note “fiver”, the Bodleian Library “Bodder”.

Assoc became “soccer”.

It’s not an American thing. It’s a posh southern England thing that got exported to the states by American students at Oxford returning stateside and bringing the game back with them, and forgotten by the English because the southern teams pale in comparison to the north’s.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
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