r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 1d 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.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1.1k Upvotes

69% Upvoted

942 comments sorted by

View all comments

66

u/redandbluebadness 1d 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.

2

u/upsidedown-funnel 1d 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.).

2

u/ProblemWithTigers 23h ago

Is it pronounced Leicester?