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by guappa 791 days ago
Just fyi, confetti are candies in italy. Not bits of paper.
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Interesting. It's also cognate with "confection". https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=confetti

> 1815, "small pellets made of lime or soft plaster, used in Italy during carnival by the revelers for pelting one another in the streets," [...] the custom was adopted in England by early 19c. for weddings and other occasions, with symbolic tossing of little bits of paper (which are called confetti by 1846).

Can someone code and make a pull request to properly handle display of those for Italian users? (see https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confetto for what they look like)
Ah, so basically the same thing, but they hit much harder when they land?
I guess they also fall down much more quickly
Not if there is no atmosphere!
Probably not the typical use case, though ;-)