Not true. The only study I could find has it at 50-50 with Muslim countries, Israel and the US being clear outliers. This is US-centric thinking.

Woops! Ty!

…not everyone gets circumcised at birth. I got circumcised in my 30s due to phymosis. No one undergoes FGM at any age for any medical reason. Conflating the two is deeply unhelpful to both the stigma around medical circumcision and to protect people from the brutality of FGM. Not every country is America.

This is a false comparison. Circumcision has actual medical uses (e.g. phymosis, cancer, balanitis). FGM does not.

My joint account with my partner is with a local building society, but branches are shutting left and right in the UK…

Yep. Monzo implemented an emergency-use website about 5 years ago, Revolut shortly after (and I think they have a desktop app now). I’m with neither (though I can SEE my accounts online, I cannot DO anything with them).

Nope, it is FCA/Prudential registered bank. These fintech solutions are very common in the UK.

I’ve discovered I can access my account online, but cannot send money from there (Zopa).

Monzo and Revolut now have some barebones web implimentation (over a decade after launched).

Atom has no web access at all.

Chase UK doesn’t have web access as far as I can tell.

All of the above are registered banks.

It’s literally ONLY got an app. No web, no branches. They’ve become quite common and popular in the UK (like Revolut).

So true. I’m loathed to lose the interest rate, but needs must when the devil drives, and boy is he driving right now.

This is what I’m struggling with. I use an app-only challenger bank, so I feel a bit stuck unless I change everything…

I like to get some scratchies every now and then - it’s one of the major funding sources for museums and sports in the UK, so I see it as a little donation with a dopamine hit rather than an attempt at winning big!

How true is this or are we doing the same thing “generation killed industry/way of doing things” that the boomer media is so fond of?

It is. The meme has four glottel stops, this has three. The meme has the “el” removed, this doesn’t. Weirdly, the meme has the “o” sound removed for for “of” as well.

It’s an entirely fictitious way of pronouncing something, it equates a very, very small subset of the country with “Britain” and is a great example of “fake American British accent” becoming the “norm” to the extent where British voice actors are training to put on voices to sound “more British” (such as Tracer in Overwatch).

The meme might as well say “burdle der wurder” and claim it’s how American’s say it - kinda close, but also really far 🤷

THAT’S how Americans think British people pronounce it? I was looking at the image for ages trying to sound it out.

Please tell me no one seriously thinks this?

“Worst” case I can think of is “Bo’el o’ wa’er” and even that is incredibly limited to like…four boroughs of London.