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I'm a bit bored at work so I thought I'd start a discussion on the over use of the abbreviation LOL.
I find this really naff and annoying especially when a person writes it after something that is,at best,slightly amusing.
I just know that the person typing it isn't actually lolling,,if they are,they're only lolling because they know I hate the acronym.
Does anyone else feel the same way or am I just showing my age?


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 9:43 am
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😆


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 9:44 am
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I have no idea what you're on about.

Lots of love, aracer.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 9:47 am
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I agree, it's a bit like when people describe colours by other names, when the proper name is more than adequate... oops SOZ! 😉


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 9:53 am
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I'm expecting most people won't even look at this thread due to its title..I wouldn't..


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 9:54 am
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au contraire


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 9:55 am
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roflmao 😆


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 9:55 am
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It's a slow friday, snow flurries outside, I reckon it might be a four pager by mid-day.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 9:57 am
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Rewski,my favourite Slipknot track doesn't have another name,,,,Soz 😀


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 9:58 am
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LOL? WTF!


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:01 am
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vermillion pt2 is better. medical FACT.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:06 am
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Posted : 22/02/2013 10:09 am
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I'm actually laughing at that,,but not out loud


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:11 am
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DSMFMWTBS 🙂


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:12 am
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Lol!


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:13 am
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INAP


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:14 am
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It's the sheer laziness that it's produced that bothers me.

Everyone has a smart phone now. All the women in my family do anyway so when they text, they have absolutely no excuse for typing 'u' instead of you or '4' instead of for. It's pure laziness. In fact, it's just pure stupidity. The phone probably complains every time they try and type 'u'.

My mum, who someone in the phone shop convinced her that she needed an iphone, types things in her texts that she has no idea what they mean.
She types LOL thinking it's how people say goodbye by text because people text it to her so often.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:15 am
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Now if you want some real Friday lol ,look up Danny Dyer’s latest film success. 🙂

[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/lostinshowbiz/2013/feb/21/danny-dyer-depths-run-for-wife ]OMG[/url]


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:16 am
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ICIRQ

I'm Crying Inside Really Quitely

Love that chopper


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:20 am
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LOL (sorry, but I really am) at Samuri.

Reminds me of a story I read about somebody who had the same idea of the true meaning as David Cameron, resulting in the legendary text

"Your Nan just died LOL"


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:20 am
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LOL* at david jey.

*no really, I am. 😆


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:23 am
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It's so overused (largely by halfwits who use it in lieu of a full stop) that "actual LOL" is creeping into the language.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:27 am
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I blame TTFN and SWALK


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:30 am
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NORWICH


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:33 am
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And we're hovering fairly close to Facebook's 'like' but no 'unlike' feature here.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:33 am
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Isn't it partly now that it's used as a signifier of "only joking" as in "<something you might take offence at> LOL"?


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:35 am
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[quote=samuri said]And we're hovering fairly close to Facebook's 'like' but no 'unlike' feature here.

There is an unlike feature BTW.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:39 am
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I struggle with long sentences

LOL

😆

Edit, nice edit Mods.. (I'll let the kids try to figure out what abbreviation I used there)


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:41 am
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Does it really annoy you that much? Wow!

I just see it as punctuation, there wasn't an exclamation or question mark that indicated "I'm joking", now there is. We even had two different ways of saying "the next bit of text is a list", but no "this is supposed to be funny".

People who "hashtag" everything though are a different matter.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:50 am
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Isn't LOL just a consequence of the devaluation of the exclamation mark?!!! You need some way of showing internation in text. LOL


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 10:55 am
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there wasn't an exclamation or question mark that indicated "I'm joking"

:)?


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 11:04 am
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You know, I don't really mind emoticons and stuff like "LOL." Whether the oft-touted 80% figure is accurate or not, a lot of communication is non-verbal and you lose that in text-based media.

For instance, face to face with a mate who's taking the proverbial, going "you set of bastards" with a grin on my face has a whole different meaning to if I'm genuinely pissed off about it. You lose that in text, and emotey acronyms can help fill that gap.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 11:10 am
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lol lol lollage


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 11:20 am
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I remember watching some youtube video commentaries of a guy playing an online computer game and recording his conversations with other players. he said the word 'lol' quite a lot which I thought was really sad. then I realised that I was watching recordings of people playing computer games... 😐


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 11:24 am
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you utter set of bastards 😉 😀 :mrgreen:

and by set, i mean [s]cougar[/s] myself.

lol

EDIT:

almost forgot...

do one, blocked.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 11:25 am
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What abuse of privileges?


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 12:33 pm
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Extra! Extra! Middle aged man in youth slang dislike shocker!


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 12:53 pm
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pull your trousers up!


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 1:00 pm
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FWIW, IMHO, "LOL" just isn't funny. ROFL FTW.


 
Posted : 22/02/2013 2:27 pm
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Lol


 
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