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To ask what is so wrong with 'lol'??

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Anythingwithagiraffeonit · 01/04/2011 20:16

I've been reading a few threads tonight and so many of them go off the point to complain about someone saying 'lol'

Doesn't it sometimes help with the tone of what someone is trying to say in what can often be quite heated threads?

And the whole 'it's so netmums' thing... Really? You're not rival high schools!! LOL (see?)

What's the big deal??

OP posts:
usualsuspect · 01/04/2011 22:54

lol

NanaNina · 02/04/2011 19:39

Yes I too second Gloriasmut as "post of the week" - lol drives me mad. I think it is usually used by teenagers as when I "talk" to my great nieces on Facebook, it's used all the time. If I'm really bored I look at their "conversations" with their friends:

TV is so poo tonite lol what you doing?

Not a lot but would like to be drinking wine lol but as we haven't got any I can't lol

Oh what a shame - me neither lol

and on and on it goes................................

Mind the other thing that irks me on MN is all this D business. Can't everyone accept that their Partner, Husband, Children, nieces, mothers are dear to them without prefixing everything with D! Mind I've noticed there are't many DMIL or DSIL or DSS/D.............

GetOrfMoiLand · 02/04/2011 19:52

I use lol on here a lot, usually in the context of something like 'lol at chaos's post' or something.

I think it's fine. I think on an internet forum where we use dozy biscuit emoticons (that said, I have never used that biscuit) and DH, DD etc that is fine.

charmum3 · 02/04/2011 20:12

well wmsl. tbh it sounds as if you all have coat hangers stuck in you shirts, guys lighten up, isn't mn all dh ds dc mil fil bil, cringe away!!!!!! while i LOL, sorry about my asanine pointless and banal post, Wink

Pagwatch · 02/04/2011 20:16

I've never used the biscuit. I don't get the biscuit thing.

Pagwatch · 02/04/2011 20:17

I don't wear shirts. Not often.

CFAW · 02/04/2011 20:25

I really hate "wind ya neck in" Makes me feel sick, the difference being i don't think anyone else would care if i don't like it!

Lol, If you don't like a commonly used term, or expression or abbreviation, just suck it up girls!

ChaosTrulyReigns · 02/04/2011 21:52

I'm not a biscuit user either.

Eating them, well that's a different thing entirely.

Grin
fatlazymummy · 02/04/2011 22:08

I like reading and using LOL, LMAO, PMSL .I think it does add to the fun, though they are obviously inappropiate in certain posts.
Personally I hate the use of DH, DS, DD, BF, FF ,CC etc so I don't usually use them. I just type the words out.
I don't do the biscuit thing either. In fact I don't use the smileys very often as you can't just click on them as on other forums.

BreconBeBuggered · 02/04/2011 23:47

I don't mind somebody lolling at someone else's posts. And in another forum I frequent there are a lot of posters conversing in English as a second language, and it can be useful to convey tone. BUT, it's infuriating as a dozy punctuation/comment when nobody has said anything remotely funny. And for that reason alone I would never use it. Just in case somebody mistook me for anything other than a grumpy old hag.

BeerTricksPotter · 02/04/2011 23:53

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mylovelymonster · 02/04/2011 23:59

Oh FGS......

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mylovelymonster · 03/04/2011 00:15

What's the copter thing all about? Is it a bit like stalking, but (a bit) less freaky? lol oops Grin

BeerTricksPotter · 03/04/2011 00:22

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GetOrfMoiLand · 03/04/2011 00:23

lol at roflcopter

oh

mrsoliverramsay · 03/04/2011 00:40

I use lol but on this site I proof read to make sure I don't use it. Is it not now in the dictionary? Language evoves. Thou will have to get used to thy language that we use*

  • I bet I got that wrong
GetOrfMoiLand · 03/04/2011 00:41

MrsO you are just making that up re lol in the dictionary, I can tell Grin

SlightlyJaded · 03/04/2011 00:46

The other reason that lol is so hateful is that when it is used like punctuation, 'we had a right laugh. lol', I feel as though the writer is judging their own comments to be amusing. Mostly, they are not. It is for reader to decide whether someone is so hillarious that you have actually laughed out loud st their wit.

It actually makes me dislike people.

mylovelymonster · 03/04/2011 00:53

Hateful? really? I mean, hateful??
I would raise my handbag in a comedic manner and go 'ooooOOOOOoooohh' if I thought this was all a bit of a laugh............
I think I need to sleep.

MotherMucca · 03/04/2011 00:58

As mentioned by someone else, "lol" is just a lazy way of expressing oneself. What is wrong with typing "hahaha"? Why is it so difficult for people to express themselves succinctly? Why? Why?

I am guilty of using 'emoticons' (bleurgh), so am a right cunt hypocrite.

MotherMucca · 03/04/2011 01:01

And 'lol' as punctuation... Gggrrr. FFS!! (lol)

And 'hahahaha' instead of 'lol'

(Beats own self with stick)

Kaekae · 03/04/2011 01:15

It doesn't bother me, I have other things to worry about without getting worked up about whether some person I don't actually know in real life chooses to type LOL on the end of a sentence. Yawn.

mylovelymonster · 03/04/2011 01:16

GO TO BED!! Put that bloody stick away, FGS.

MotherMucca · 03/04/2011 01:17

Nightnight :)

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