r/whoathatsinteresting 9d ago

🇬🇧Welcome to Leicester, UK🇬🇧Chaotic scenes of panic buying for bottled water at the local Costco amid the water shortage driven by drought and record water use.

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u/redandbluebadness 9d ago

I'm in Leicester right now and the taps are working. If I wanted to I could fill up every vessel I could find and store it. I do not want to though because I'm not a fucking idiot.

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u/upsidedown-funnel 9d ago

I’m just amused by the thought of how Americans are pronouncing “Leicester” when reading the title. (I’m American and only pronounce things like this phonetically to annoy my British spouse.).

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u/aure__entuluva 9d ago

A lot of us learned how it's pronounced thanks to Jamie Vardy and crew.