• Sabre363
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    22 days ago

    Maybe somebody should’ve thought through calling people ‘things’

  • IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 days ago

    I suspect that they were trying to reference the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s. I doubt anyone at M&S even considered that:

    (a) that reference wouldn’t be obvious to everyone, or

    (b) what it may seem like without the context.