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I said 'lol' in a conversation about six months ago. It was awful. My friend just went completely silent, put down his burger, looked me in the eye and said. "Jesus Christ... don't ever do that again."
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Really? I say 'lol' all the time. It's ironic, or something. But it's also an acknowledgement of the way that the boundaries between the on and offline worlds have pretty much dissolved now. Are you friends not internet users or something? That kind of reaction seems a bit... backward.
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If I'd explained it in terms that I was being ironic or that it was a witty sideswipe at the diminishing boundaries between real life and online, he probably wouldn't have said anything. Just reached across, grabbed my hair and then repeatedly smashed my skull into the table until one or the other cracked in half. And, frankly, he would be right to do it.
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When I first started on the internet, I thought lol meant lots of love, and everyone was just being really nice to everyone else, in a cloyingly cutesy way.
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quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: If I'd explained it in terms that I was being ironic or that it was a witty sideswipe at the diminishing boundaries between real life and online, he probably wouldn't have said anything. Just reached across, grabbed my hair and then repeatedly smashed my skull into the table until one or the other cracked in half. And, frankly, he would be right to do it.
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No, matter what society says about it, I was never ashamed. It's just sometimes... the intensity of something... I just assumed they wouldn't be able to understand.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: When I first started on the internet, I thought lol meant lots of love, and everyone was just being really nice to everyone else, in a cloyingly cutesy way.
Actually, I thought that too. One day I asked a casual aquaintance why they kept on showering me with slightly embarrassing declarations of love and they explained to me. I felt far less nauseated with the expression after that.
Me mum writes LOL as a sign-off to every email she writes, because she used to think it was lots of love. I explained what it really meant.
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sometimes the very words "online" and "internet" just make me... gahh. like I've heard them enough in the last ten years to last the rest of my life.
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My brother asked me on msn the other day what ffs meant. I LOL'd at him and then said "You're going to ask me what the fuck WTF means next, aren't you?". He just replied with "eh?". I gave up at that point.
quote:Originally posted by London: That's a cute joke! Are there any more? I love jokes except for the snailtrails one.
Q. How do you titillate an ocelot? A. You oscillate it's tit a lot.
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I still think NSFW is the coolest of all acronyms. That 98% of everyone understands it can interpret it for themselves just proves... something rambling... mutter... chained to our desks... who decides what we look at and think etc etc. But it's good and still the album title I'd choose if I had any friends who could play instruments in a straight line long enough to make a record. A record rude enough to be not safe for work as well would be fairly important. Has anyone made a record which is not safe for work? See, there's a gap in the market there too.
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Yeah, work is a very prudish kind of place isn't it. There must be sensitive people around who see horrible violence on the telly and adverts for beer, and young people wearing hoods on every street corner and then they get to work and it's just so nice to be in a safe place where no one swears or shows nude bits and the only music you hear is Lemon Jelly songs about ducks and that. No wonder retired people get so stressed out all the time, not having that refuge from disgusting things.
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