Good point. But rationing continued in the UK until 1954 so it did affect them.

Boomers made that bland war time food linger. They were children during and just after WW2 so it was part of their childhood nostalgia and they fed it to their own kids. Also we've had Indian/ Chinese restaurants in the UK for a while but they were mostly just in major cities at first so the average person still had little exposure to foreign or exotic food until the late 1970s/ early 1980s.

Came here when the Reddit 3rd party app threat started looming, loved it and never went back.

Sure, Lemmy doesn't have the same variety and amount of content that's on Reddit but that's because it's a smaller and newer platform along with the fact that not all instances federate with each other (which is great).

I still get my scrolling urge fulfilled and presented with random memes and news that I'm interested in without the data harvesting factor which is perfect for me.

For the lord sayeth, thou shalt grab them by the pussy.

Yup I'm British and I can't stand the whole concept. I'm a republican (don't freak out Americans, that just means I want Britain to be a republic without a monarchy).

Can't tell if GIF that's not moving or meme without text.

I don’t understand how they talked the court down from rape to sexual abuse.

Money

I'm from the UK and thought these had to be fake til I saw Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

Nope, all real.

Hitler 2: Facist Bugaloo?

Nose! Is that antisemitism?

I sir am a Linux engineer and resent your insinuation that I'm a programmer.

Debian with XFCE. Lightweight, clean and stable.