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Austrian airlines leaves Xitter (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

When you're too fascist for the Austrians...

[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is this the first time I'm hearing X-it? That's pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You probably haven't heard "X-it" because everyone still calls it Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I still call it Twitter because it pisses Musk off. Not that he is on Lemmy, but principal of the matter.

[–] explodicle 2 points 23 hours ago

I call it X to piss off X users so they quit. Musk doesn't read my posts.

[–] Klear 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Source on it pissing him off?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Klear 1 points 3 hours ago

Hmmm, that to me sounds like he's trolling to drive engagement. At least that is the result he got.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

As far as I'm concerned, Twitter is dead and X never even existed.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Daily reminder that the X in Xitter is pronounced 'Shi' like in Chinese

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It took me 3 tries to realize she wasn't saying "We took a moment to locate our nearest shit."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Well, you never really think about where the nearest shit is to you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was inside you all along.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

music swells

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

But i do think about where the nearest xitter (shitter) is.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago

I hope this leads to many other companies using their abandonment of Xitter as a way to dunk on them in a viral way.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can we start saying shxitter now?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

xitter is pronounced "shitter"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I've called it zhitter since the original switch.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

When will the Musk-child sue them?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Are they on another platform like BlueSky or Mastodon?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dude, you've failed your reading comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same the other way around. And for the Koreas

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I've had 'missent to Australia; try Austria' hand written on a parcel, so I didn't know that!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Imagine the shenanigans if a small town in Australia with a small airport was named Vienna

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Autocorrect.