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to say FUCKING STOP LOLLING

125 replies

ChileanMinerWife · 12/10/2010 15:12

on every post you neaderthals

that is all

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ShirleyGarrote · 12/10/2010 15:47
ElephantsAndMiasmas · 12/10/2010 15:48

My mum is one of those "lots of love" interpreters of LOL.

Constantly get texts from her saying things like "Send your Auntie Anne a card she is going downhill fast LOL".

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 12/10/2010 15:53

lol elephants!

rumred · 12/10/2010 15:55

excellent.
i hate and despise lol and all the other shite acronyms. oh, and smileys.
just plain stupid and dishonest.
i also dislike 'to be honest'. how overused can a saying be?
glad i got that off my chest

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 12/10/2010 15:59

I thought she had gone stark staring mad the first few times I saw it. "Poor gran has got a supperating sore on her leg again lol"

MmeBodyInTheBasement · 12/10/2010 16:04

Oh, I hate it too.

My FB is full of messages from my cousins.

Nite out tonite lol

whatcha wearing lol

dunno lol. maybe get something new from primark lol

gonna get ratarsed lol

yeh, me too lol

SCREAM

Lexilicious · 12/10/2010 16:20

can we not start the "LOL=lots of love" movement? Reclaim The Lol?! especially as it is very funny when youngsters think you mean laugh out loud but in fac tyou're being mummyish. (never mind about your C in the spelling test today / the nasty boy in the playground / missing the bus and not having a raincoat darling lol)

maduggar · 12/10/2010 16:23

My gran thought it meant lots of love, sent me a text that said "grandads been taken into hospital LOL" :(

HalfTermHero · 12/10/2010 16:25

I lol a lot. That's the kind of happy go lucky person I am.

MaryBS · 12/10/2010 16:27

Can I presume YANLOLLING?

usualsuspect · 12/10/2010 16:27

I like a lol its quicker to type than Grin

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 12/10/2010 16:30

I don't mind those thngs so much, Mme. It's the ones that are IN NO WAY FUNNY that grate so much:

DP got annoyed and threw the pringles tube at the baby lol.

He always says I'm a lazy fat bitch, but that's life lol.

My parents always told me I was stupid and I suppose they're right lol.

TheBountyMuncher · 12/10/2010 16:30

If you send a text message to a landline with LOL in it, it is read out in as "lots of love"

LOL to all. lol

maduggar · 12/10/2010 16:32

I was once a member of another baby forum (until i got banned Grin) and the thing they did there was WTF!!!???? after every sentence, especially if they were talking about their MILs/DH etc. Was far more annoying than a few lols.

childrenofthecornsilk · 12/10/2010 16:33

More importantly cheese and bacon crisps are nasty

Lizzylou · 12/10/2010 16:38

I am not bothered by LOL

I do get annoyed on Facebook by people putting random Ha!'s halfway through sentences and middle aged people Whooping, though that seems to have stopped now.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 12/10/2010 16:42

Although I sometimes do it myself (the shame) I get annoyed with the self-conscious blogspeak. ZOMG for example. I have no idea what that Z is doing there. Lolsob, although often apt, is just too aaargh for everyday life.

MardyBra · 12/10/2010 16:59

I always thought WTF was What the Fuck rather than Why The Face

[I didn't want to be cool anyway emoticon]

MmeBodyInTheBasement · 12/10/2010 17:01

Mardybra
I thought that WTF was What The Fuck, or that is how I use it.

Not even going to ask for translation of the stuff that Elephant wrote.

GetOrfMoiLand · 12/10/2010 17:01

Mardy - it does mean what the fuck, the bloke in modern family made a mistake (hence the joke)

RumourOfAHurricane · 12/10/2010 17:04

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Tippychoocks · 12/10/2010 17:05

But if lol becomes lotsoflove, will I still be able to use SWALK?

I agree lots of u and ur and lol about at the moment. Perhaps it's a virus Grin

GetOrfMoiLand · 12/10/2010 17:07

For crying out loud LOOK at us lot.

I can imagine my daughter's sneering face if she read this thread 'god mum you and your mumsnet mates are all saddos

MardyBra · 12/10/2010 17:07
Blush
GetOrfMoiLand · 12/10/2010 17:10

aww mardy.