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to really really not like people putting three full stops at the end of sentences

174 replies

emkana · 11/10/2010 22:06

There are a few posters who do this.

I really don't like it, totally changes the "voice" of the post in my head.

[Fussy, moi? Grin]

OP posts:
Diziet · 11/10/2010 23:10

AHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.................................................................................................................................. :o :o :o

MmeBodyInTheBasement · 11/10/2010 23:10

May I refer to --->>> Links and Smileys instructions.

Links and smileys: To insert a smiley face, , type Smile or :)
For a big grin, , type Grin or :o

ThighsWideShut · 11/10/2010 23:10

:@

ThighsWideShut · 11/10/2010 23:11

Leave us alone, we're having fun!

FellatioNelson · 11/10/2010 23:11

I do it quite alot but only if it is supposed to convey something. If it changes the 'voice' of the post then perhaps that was the desired effect!

MmeBodyInTheBasement · 11/10/2010 23:11

: ) or [ smile ] for a :)

: o or [ grin ] for a :o

sixpercenttruejedi · 11/10/2010 23:12

Hmm Grin ...

RandomMusings · 11/10/2010 23:12

oh arse, Mme

Some of us are just rubbish !

Diziet · 11/10/2010 23:12

I know. But it's good for you to learn and try new things!!!!!!!!! (Sorry, the children let me have Fruit Shoots earlier.)

Diziet · 11/10/2010 23:14
ThighsWideShut · 11/10/2010 23:14

'I like turtles' is my new Biscuit

In honour of this

BonzoDooDah · 11/10/2010 23:15

Bloody ell emkana if you want "the rigour of a written report" you're going to fall asleep at the computer a lot!

edam · 11/10/2010 23:15

Kissing, love the imagine of you teaching small children to go 'DA DA DAAAAA!' But hope you explain it also means trailing off.

Jellykat · 11/10/2010 23:16
ThighsWideShut · 11/10/2010 23:19

(.)(.)

hobbgoblin · 11/10/2010 23:21

I do this with a degree of regularity also. They are my pregnant pauses and I have used them when not pregnant.

I had a partner who used to do it all through anything he ever wrote to me. He was an overdramatic sod which explains it.

As for upsetting your sense of 'voice' of the OP, like when you see the film of a book I assume (?) (Bet you like my question mark in brackets there..?)...........erm, when I read your name it makes me think of gymkhana and thus a little thelwell character with pigtails which really doesn't fit with your 'voice' OP Grin

LacksDaisies · 11/10/2010 23:22

Can't believe she has just read the whole of this thread... Grin

ThighsWideShut · 11/10/2010 23:23
Grin
Jellykat · 11/10/2010 23:23

(.)(.)
oo

ThighsWideShut · 11/10/2010 23:25

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ThighsWideShut · 11/10/2010 23:26

Hoping that had the effect of comedy cock with jizz.

But it didn't.

Think I should go to bed now.

RandomMusings · 11/10/2010 23:28

har har har

sixpercenttruejedi · 11/10/2010 23:28

C=8 I can only do a sideways cock, and jizz is beyond my grammatical capabilities

ThighsWideShut · 11/10/2010 23:29

But it has to have jizz.

sixpercenttruejedi · 11/10/2010 23:32

* C=8