except that a cat wouldn't type lol so often.

Here's the thing about "lol" -- I'd say that at least 50% of the time I see it used, it's used in a context that doesn't make any sense to me. Like, it's supposed to indicate that someone is (at the very least) amused, if not literally laughing out loud, right? So then why do people write things like:

"So then I just put my jim shooz on lol and laced them up and went to the grocery store lol!"

Because -- WHAT THE FUCK IS FUNNY ABOUT THAT?!? I have a good sense of humor, goddammit! But your excessive and a-contextual "lol"s are driving me apeshit!

Ahem. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest.

It's even worse when the posting is "Thier ar Big Sores im my muoth lol."

I'm pretty sure my cats are NEVER loling.

My cats loll an awful lot.

t sits with Teppy on the anti-lol bench

I mean, I don't think I'm humor-deficient, but the number of things that make me actually laugh out loud, as opposed to just grinning or making a sort of muted giggle/chuckle, are fairly limited (and often feature Jon Stewart, John Oliver, or Stephen Colbert).

I want to marry Teppy's lolrant and have its little ranty babies.

And, just to be meta, while reading it I just barely managed to stifle myself from actually LOLing (though shouldn't it more properly be LingOL?).

My cats laugh. . . but usually silently. If they make a sound - it is to mock not laugh.

When I see LOL being used, it's (most of the time) implying that people are laughing at their own jokes, which would be quite obnoxious if it were a F2F conversation.

though shouldn't it more properly be LingOL?

I love that a buffista would debate even this. JZ, don't ever, ever change.

edited to get JZ's name right

See, I thought LOL implied the "-ing" as part of that initial L.