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.

Okay, who took my mojo?

If I remember my cinema correctly, it was Dr. Evil.

The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.

My boss's boss does this. She has also referred to herself as a "dumb bunny" in meetings. I wanted to slap her.

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

Let's make it a poly-rant.

I could not agree more.

Ok, so add in shoutouts to somebody's niggaz and you know why I quit the Wire boards at hbo. Even starfucking Simon couldn't get me to put up with that. Fake marriages have to have clear boundaries.ETA: Or maybe it was fighting with Balmer's Lone Neocon. On a Wire Forum? He must have been horribly lost.

I think it goes without saying that I love, adore, could not live without this board and all of you. But I'll say it anyway.

I agree with this statement 100%

Animated smileys are so very deeply of the devil. Why does not everyone recognize this?

I do! The ASCII emoticons don't bother me a bit, though, and are rather clever.

but code that turns them into animated things wigs me out.

Exactly!

I'm a little conflicted about the commercial which has the various female family members playing Scrabble, where the mother says, "I have failed you as a parent." Cause on the one hand, funny! And also, yeah, ROTFL is not a word! And on the other, this is an ad for cell phones which will let you text a lot.

Edited because the commercial wouldn't really make sense if they were playing Tetris. Wish I could get my students to stop playing it, though.

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.

The other verbal tic I don't understand is when someone always finishes your sentence with you. And if you've never experienced it, I don't know if I can really convey what it's like.

It's just -- no matter what you say, they'll chime in on the last word (or last syllable) of your sentence. EVERY sentence. I know a woman who does this, and I don't see her often (mostly b/c I avoid her husband, who is a jerkface), but even when I *do* see her, I hate having a conversation with her, because it's like there's an echo in the room. Or like she's trying to one-up me by showing me she knows what I'm going to say.

Like --

Me: "So I figured, I'd just buy both!"

Her, a nanosecond behind me: "...oth!" (LOL!)

Every. Single. Sentence.

And the thing is, I'm sure it's a verbal tic, not an attempt to one-up me or be an extremely annoying echo, but, again, it drives me bugfuck.

I'm, er, not extremely tolerant of others' verbal tics. Bad Teppy!

Ok, so add in shoutouts to somebody's niggaz

Shoutout to my homie erika, yo yo yo yo whazzzzzup my homeslice???

(Okay, that hurt me to type.)

right up there with calling your spouse "Mother", Tep.