I have to admit, I still think good old-fashioned ASCII emoticons are kind of clever, but code that turns them into animated things wigs me out.
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-t - Feb 28, 2008 9:17:28 am PST #7975 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
JZ - Feb 28, 2008 9:18:00 am PST #7976 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.
The rows of animated smileys in someone's post!
Animated smileys are so very deeply of the devil. Why does not everyone recognize this?
Why is that funny in any way, even if you're say, David Lynch?
I dunno, I could see Cronenberg finding it funny -- though, again, I couldn't see Cronenberg saying lol, typing lol, ore even allowing the letters l o l to pass through his brain in that order.
SuziQ - Feb 28, 2008 9:18:25 am PST #7977 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Yeah, this. It's not "I find this really funny", but "Don't yell at me!"
This is the person on the other side of the cube wall from me. I can predict, without fail, when that lol will sneak into the conversations she has.
Atropa - Feb 28, 2008 9:22:40 am PST #7978 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have to admit, I still think good old-fashioned ASCII emoticons are kind of clever, but code that turns them into animated things wigs me out.
In places that are not here, I am fine with old-fashioned ASCII emoticons. But the animated things! No, not even the fact that there are animated bat smiley things will sway me.
-t - Feb 28, 2008 9:24:56 am PST #7979 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tep and amych, that is an interesting idea. I have one friend who sprinkles her e-mails with rampant "lol"s that make little sense to me, but I am not out and about in the wild internets enough to see it much, so I thought it was just a personal tic of hers. I don't think of her as having the nervous laughter habit because that's not part of our conversational discourse, but it is a big part of how she talks to, for example, men.
Connie Neil - Feb 28, 2008 9:34:57 am PST #7980 of 10001
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The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.
"Please forgive me for daring to express myself, I am harmless, see?"
Though it's not as bad as people who will say simply anything because silence between people frightens them.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 28, 2008 9:37:15 am PST #7981 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Though it's not as bad as people who will say simply anything because silence between people frightens them.
I've been trying to decide if these people are better or worse than the ones who talk constantly because they love the sound of their own bloviating (and they are always bloviators).
Maybe kill them all and let hell sort them out?
Emily - Feb 28, 2008 9:38:10 am PST #7982 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Okay, who took my mojo?
Amy - Feb 28, 2008 9:39:50 am PST #7983 of 10001
Because books.
Austin Powers?
lisah - Feb 28, 2008 9:39:56 am PST #7984 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.
This is actually something we worked extensively in the first level of the (intense, full contact) self defense class I took. It's a problem for a lot of women.