My cats loll an awful lot.
Early: So is it still her room when it's empty? Does the room, the thing, have purpose? Or do we -- what's the word? Simon: I really can't help you. Early: The plan is to take your sister. Get the reward, which is substantial. 'Imbue.' That's the word.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
-t - Feb 28, 2008 8:59:10 am PST #7965 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Susan W. - Feb 28, 2008 9:00:08 am PST #7966 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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).
JZ - Feb 28, 2008 9:00:52 am PST #7967 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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?).
sumi - Feb 28, 2008 9:03:18 am PST #7968 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
My cats laugh. . . but usually silently. If they make a sound - it is to mock not laugh.
Tom Scola - Feb 28, 2008 9:03:18 am PST #7969 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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.
Sparky1 - Feb 28, 2008 9:03:30 am PST #7970 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
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
-t - Feb 28, 2008 9:06:04 am PST #7971 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
See, I thought LOL implied the "-ing" as part of that initial L.
Atropa - Feb 28, 2008 9:09:59 am PST #7972 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have to say that I really really value (1) the clarity, simplicity and elegance of our board and (2) the fact that Buffistas care about grammar, spelling and punctuation.
There are a couple of different boards I am somewhat lurkerish at. (The MCRmy and Emilie Autumn forums are the ones that leap immediately to mind.) There's a reason I hardly post there. The constant lols! The rows of animated smileys in someone's post! The lack of any sort of content at all in most of the posts!
hyperventilates a bit
I was hoping it was mostly because a lot of the posters on those forums are, well, semi-socialized teens, but no. The other adults at those forums are just as bad.
Steph L. - Feb 28, 2008 9:13:53 am PST #7973 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
It's even worse when the posting is "Thier ar Big Sores im my muoth lol."
Okay, THIS is an even better example of my lol-hate. WTF, man??? Why is that funny in any way, even if you're say, David Lynch?
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.
Maybe excessive lol-ism is the textual equivalent of the people who have the unfortunate nervous habit of laughing after everything they say, no matter what it is. I know a LOT of people (mostly women, sadly) who do this. The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.
amych - Feb 28, 2008 9:17:27 am PST #7974 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.
Yeah, this. It's not "I find this really funny", but "Don't yell at me!"