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The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

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  1. hmokiguess · · focus · HN ↗
    Awwwww pspspspsps kitty kitty ^_^
    1. YeGoblynQueenne · · focus · HN ↗
      Wait, "pspspsps"? Where are you from? I thought only Greeks do "pspspsps".
      1. msephton · · focus · HN ↗
        We do it on the United Kingdom
        1. YeGoblynQueenne · · focus · HN ↗
          Where in the UK? I've lived in the UK, in the Southeast, for 21 years and I never heard anyone say "pspsps".

          I mean I don't doubt you, I just thought Brits just say "here kitty kitty" because that's what I usually see in movies and TV shows and so on.

          It's funny what you miss when you're not embedded in the culture of a place since birth...

          1. nephihaha · · focus · HN ↗
            It's common. But I tend to find people in the south east of England barely talk to one another. :)
            1. YeGoblynQueenne · · focus · HN ↗
              Oh yeah, that. But I'm a bloody foreigner so I get to speak to other bloody foreigners :)
          2. msephton · · focus · HN ↗
            I'm from Liverpool (70s/80s/90s), and of course I've heard "here kitty" but "pspsps" equally as common during my time in London (90s/00s), Cornwall(10s/20s), etc.

            I always thought "pspsps" was a shortened form of "here pussy, pussy, pussy".

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