I did as I flew back from Malaysia with a really bad food poisoning. I had to re schedule my flight and whole booking the new seat I made sure it was in sprint reach of the nearest shit...er.
I would love for that to take off, that's what I've been wanting into too. Problem is they have to handle moderation, but I think there are solutions to it
Not quite as fun but my mum works for postal services in Austria and there's a special stamp for mail accidentally sent to Austria instead of Australia
The volume of missent mail has certainly gone down in recent years due to both communication moving online and international post adopting more precise adress systems, but 10-15 years ago you could get parcels with multiple "missent to Austria - missent to Australia" stamps on them due to some incompetent people not realizing where it should actually go.
My wife ordered something from Sweden years ago and apparently there's a city in the US with the same name as ours, so it was sent there. Then to Jamaica, because... Who knows. Then to Germany, where customs wanted to have taxes collected, because it came from the Americas. We told them to send it back to Sweden. Four years later, DHL wrote a letter asking for money for the effort handing it over to customs.
I went to Vienna for a conference for work in 2016. When I got back, I turned in my receipts, and the admin assistant helpfully typed up my reimbursement paperwork, carefully converting to USD from Australian dollars.
It was at that moment that I was glad I'd made my own flight and hotel reservations.
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Why is this the first time I'm hearing X-it? That's pretty good.
You probably haven't heard "X-it" because everyone still calls it Twitter.
I still call it Twitter because it pisses Musk off. Not that he is on Lemmy, but principal of the matter.
I call it X to piss off X users so they quit. Musk doesn't read my posts.
Source on it pissing him off?
Yeah: https://archive.ph/u9GHg
Hmmm, that to me sounds like he's trolling to drive engagement. At least that is the result he got.
As far as I'm concerned, Twitter is dead and X never even existed.
Because a marketing writer just came up with it.
Didn't you hear about the X-odus to Bluesky?
Daily reminder that the X in Xitter is pronounced 'Shi' like in Chinese
It took me 3 tries to realize she wasn't saying "We took a moment to locate our nearest shit."
Well, you never really think about where the nearest shit is to you
I did as I flew back from Malaysia with a really bad food poisoning. I had to re schedule my flight and whole booking the new seat I made sure it was in sprint reach of the nearest shit...er.
That was a fun trip
it might be behind you
It was inside you all along.
music swells
But i do think about where the nearest xitter (shitter) is.
No, She is the current president, Who is the last president of China.
there's a mastodon client by the name of shitter
I hope this leads to many other companies using their abandonment of Xitter as a way to dunk on them in a viral way.
When will the Musk-child sue them?
Can we start saying shxitter now?
xitter is pronounced "shitter"
I've called it zhitter since the original switch.
When you're too fascist for the Austrians...
press X to quit.
I love how both pronunciations work here. Exit or shit.
Uh oh, someone is going to get sued!
I would love for that to take off, that's what I've been wanting into too. Problem is they have to handle moderation, but I think there are solutions to it
Highly based
Austrian Airlines took THE flight!
G’day mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!
It's Austrian
Dude, you've failed your reading comprehension.
My favourite urban legend is that there’s a special desk at the Vienna airport for people who accidentally flew to Austria instead of Australia.
Not quite as fun but my mum works for postal services in Austria and there's a special stamp for mail accidentally sent to Austria instead of Australia
The volume of missent mail has certainly gone down in recent years due to both communication moving online and international post adopting more precise adress systems, but 10-15 years ago you could get parcels with multiple "missent to Austria - missent to Australia" stamps on them due to some incompetent people not realizing where it should actually go.
Talking about incompetence...
My wife ordered something from Sweden years ago and apparently there's a city in the US with the same name as ours, so it was sent there. Then to Jamaica, because... Who knows. Then to Germany, where customs wanted to have taxes collected, because it came from the Americas. We told them to send it back to Sweden. Four years later, DHL wrote a letter asking for money for the effort handing it over to customs.
Same the other way around. And for the Koreas
I've had 'missent to Australia; try Austria' hand written on a parcel, so I didn't know that!
I went to Vienna for a conference for work in 2016. When I got back, I turned in my receipts, and the admin assistant helpfully typed up my reimbursement paperwork, carefully converting to USD from Australian dollars.
It was at that moment that I was glad I'd made my own flight and hotel reservations.
Autocorrect.