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Horrified children look on as lollipop man in his 70s struck by car on school crossing
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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2026
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Come on British people.... "Lollipop Man"?
I get it, carries the street sign. But like, give the old timer volunteers some semblance of dignity and say "Crossing Guard" or something.....
Edit: downvotes don't make it sound any less dumb. And you're all very silly.
Lollipop man or lady is what's its always be known as. It is dignified as people are very grateful to the people who do these jobs and its an affectionate name.
Crossing Guard sounds american, and a bit hostile to be honest. Lollipop man sounds warm and kind, which is also nice for children. The official UK government name is "School Crossing Patrol Officer" - no thanks.
Edit: also Lollipop lady/man is also used in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand apparently.
Can confirm, that is correct
I guess... to me "Lollipop Man" sounds pejorative. It's normalized to you, because, as you said, that what you grew up with. The thing my mind immediately connects it to is "Lollipop Guild", Wizard of Oz. Makes it sound belittling/emasculating to call a grown man that.
Stfu yank
Looks like you got scared and tried to remove all the spam downvotes and pretend you didn't do that.... but ooops you missed one. And here this time I'll cap it too
https://lemmy.world/comment/25893085
That's you... stalking me in a completely different, unrelated community, blindly downvoting to be toxic.....
And this is you pretending none of that happened while continuing to stalk and harass me in completely different communities
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/28198088
"Uh uh, nah-uh, I didn't do that, lmao"
Yea, okaybuddy.....
Just wanna make sure the mod/admin seeing the report gets the full picture here... because it's insane that you're going this length, again, because "lollipop man"
????
acutally, I gotta hand it to you buddy. You actually went through my whole profile and just started to downvote everything. Not even in this thread/community. You got your jimmies in such a twist, you just scrolled my profile downvoting everything.... every comment, ever made, in any community, no matter the context...
https://lemmy.world/comment/25898141
https://lemmy.world/comment/25893085
https://lemmy.world/comment/25885022
https://lemmy.world/comment/25885112
https://lemmy.world/comment/25864890
https://lemmy.world/comment/25861077
the list obviously goes on, you get the picture. Are you satisfied buddy? Pretty sure that's a ToS level violation of toxic vote manipulation. Quite the appropriate response to "that's a pretty silly name isn't it?".....
also, to add..... all this evidence.. and the people upvoting them and downvoting me are just like... endorseing this behavior.... That's also pretty fucking insane... pretty weird yo.
ya know. I've never once said where I'm from. Not in this entire thread. You're guessing. I could be in Canada. Maybe I'm an expat living in the Philippines.... Just saying, making a lot of assumptions.
Oh its worse than that. A lot of us still say "lollipop ladies" even for men. Not intentional misgendering, just habit. In the same way we still call female firefighters "firemen".
This is true, I can say my postman's a woman without experiencing any cognitive dissonance at all
We don't need any more Americanisms in our language.
It's a term that's been used for decades and the people who do the job are proud of the title.
you're taking this wayyyyyy too seriously.
If the name of a person who helps kids cross safely is such an important part of your cultural nationalist identity... that's pretty weird man... strange thing to get defensive over. Didn't even think it was a nationalist thing, but you're making it one.
You're the one escalating here. Nationalism? Really? Are you high?
https://lemmy.world/comment/25891479
I'm escalating? Half the comments are "blahblahblah I'm British and America bad". So, yea, people are making it nationalistic... over a silly name....
What a stupid thing to make a comment about. You know that thing in the picture is known as a Zebra crossing. But I bet you'd say:
🤡
The fun thing is we name all the variations on traffic light crossings too, eg pelican, puffin, toucan crossings. It's bloody lovely.
We call it a crosswalk... because it's where you walk to cross the road....
See how easy it was to reply WITHOUT insulting, condescending and being rude? I know you saw the downvotes and were "hohoho, I can't wait be meanspirited to this guy!!".....
What part of my original post warranted this level of attacks? It says A LOT more about you, than me. And really, at this point, with the brigading downvotes, it say a lot about feddit.uk userbase too.
Edit: Especially @wiccan2@thelemmy.club who keeps post stalking me to downvote every little thing I say regardless of context.... Even when I'm not responding to them, or in a same thread as them, or providing alerts to them... they're actively scanning this thread for any post I make just to downvote it.... unhinged behavior.
We call it a zebra crossing because it looks like a zebra
I'm checking into the thread when I see notifications for it and I'm down voting you because your being an arsehole.
I find it disturbing you think I'm unhinged when you are the one making multiple comments in this thread and devolving to stalking anyone who responds to you to accuse them of having alts or attacking you.
I made one reply to you and it seems to have sent you into a massive tantrum, I never attacked you, called you names or insulted you in any way.
If I'm reading a thread and see a comment that I don't think is a valuable contribution to the conversation it's my right to down vote it. It's not my fault that nothing you have to say in this thread is of any value.
Hopefully you'll calm down and get the help you so clearly need.
yea... that's totally normally behavior.... totally...
continually scouring a thread to check if one person has posted something, not even related to you, just to downvote them... totally normal, not at all obsessive/stalkery behavior.... but bright side, this time it is a direct reply to you, so I get it when you downvote this one. Go ahead, do your thing.
I never said I was continually scouring the thread to check on you, that is a reality you have invented.
I'll be blocking you now as it seems you have nothing to contribute but pointless accusations against anyone you disagree with.
Seek help, you need it.
Bahahaha this cunt can't afford to seek help. Calling an ambulance bankrupts these people so doubt they can seek any decent level of healthcare to help with everything that is wrong with them.
Actually this probably explains why they are so paranoid that they literally accused 3 users of downvoting their stupidity using alts. 🤣
And since they are claiming they maybe an expat in the Philippines: sana nilunok na lang ng nanay mo ang tamod ng tatay mong ulol ka.
okay bye then, so I shouldn't see any more stalking downvotes from you or your bot account "duckseason" right? Since I'm blocked, you're definitely not just saying that and then still using alts to downvote? Because we've already established you're a crazy person stalking this thread for me.... so.... I just want to clarify.
Alts in my walls 1¡¡¡111!!!!!!!!
As a kid, they're a person holding a huge yellow and red lollipop! So all the kids call them that anyway, so the name sticks (much like a dropped lollipop).
More to the point, they're generally beloved by children and parents, and almost everyone really.
hey, thanks for responding respectfully and informatively... instead of, yaknow, the others hurling insults, blaming me for causing the worlds problems and creating a bot account just to downvote everything I said because I asked a question on a harmless issue........ the bar is in hell, and you passed it, thank you.
Why don't you 'people' focus on the bullshit that's in your fucking country instead of sticking your fucking nose in other people's language, terminology and culture. Fucking cunt.
You people elected a literal walking Cheetos and you think you have some sort of authority on criticising cultures. You're a joke.
Australian?
No. A very grumpy British person.
You do seem slightly annoyed at the American. As a fellow Brit I feel it justified if someone goes after a lollipop man/lady
Yea, thats definitely relative and not at all an insane escalation of aggression.
EDIT. Holy shit, you made an alt just upvote yourself and mass downvote me because of the "lollipop" guy? You're insane...
1 day old account
https://lemvotes.org/user/duckseason@lemmy.world
I don't know what you're smoking but cretins like you are not worth making an alt account for 🤣
poor soul, they got you too.
You said "joke" and these people are deadly, deadly serious about their lollipop man....