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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 20 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I guess highlanders just starve?

[–] Klear@quokk.au 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There can be only one, and he doesn't call it anything.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

It's a kind of magic

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They asked multiple people but couldn't understand a word they were saying

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fuck this shite xenophobic bigoted patter

[–] Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Ironically at least some of the Highland accents are often cited as the clearest English and the easiest to understand for non-native speakers.

I went to Madagascar 20 years ago. I turned on the radio in my cabin and it was tuned to BBC World Service. It was a bit of a trip hearing another tuechter's voice in the south Malagasy desert.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

No wonder Orkney and Shetland have left altogether. Maybe they moved back in with Norway

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

As a sometimes highlander: dinner far more common, but tea is the same thing

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Who wants to live forever?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

They eat as and when they catch something, with their bare teeth.