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Seppo: Personal Social Web (seppo.social)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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#Seppo empowers you to publish short texts (and images yet to come) and to network in the Social Web. By renting commodity web space and dropping a single file. Without being subject to terms and conditions. Without having to fret about small print or tech lore. And without the need for an IT-consultant. But rather having a life.

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[–] sanguinepar 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Would that be about equivalent to calling British people Poms?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It comes from rhyming slang "septic tank = yank".

[–] sanguinepar 1 points 9 months ago

Cheers :-)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not quite. Yank would be a closer comparison to Pom.

Seppo is closer to "Pommy bastard" in terms of severity. It can be used in a good natured way, but it's slightly derogatory.

[–] sanguinepar 1 points 9 months ago

Got you, thanks :-)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Sort of, although Pom is at least a century older as Seppo was coined during world war 2. It comes from the rhyming slang Yank to Septic Tank to Seppo.

It came from the swagger of the US service men in Aus during the war and the implication that many of them are full of shit.

[–] sanguinepar 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, that's great, ha ha. Thanks :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s a bit harsher than “Pom” and is rarely used in a positive way, unlike Pom which can be an insult or a term of endearment. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Seppo used in a positive way, now that I think of it.

[–] sanguinepar 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks :-)