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to beg you all to please stop LOLing?

118 replies

Crevix · 24/05/2011 22:49

It makes me cringe.

Who the chuff ever thinks about 'Laughing out loud', let alone ever says such a thing?

It is one step away from Txt talk and hunning and it makes me nauseous.

If something is amusing will a Smile or a Grin or even a 'Ha Ha' not do?

Please people, just stop, cease and disist.

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HidinginaHardHat · 24/05/2011 23:06

i want to know when lol became an acceptable form of punctuation or an acceptable conversation ender.

Deesus · 24/05/2011 23:08

Mid 90's I reckon Wink

HidinginaHardHat · 24/05/2011 23:08

does that make me officially old then, can i have some Wine to drown my sorrows?

Deesus · 24/05/2011 23:10

Course you can! Grin

Wine Wine

leftblank · 24/05/2011 23:10

HATE IT!!

'I might eat an apple lol!'
'I had a banana earlier hun lol'
'lol was it nice lol'
'lol lol yes'

Fuck off.

Valpollicella · 24/05/2011 23:18

Late 90's/early 00's, when people got mobiles en masse I think, Hiding

crazynanna · 24/05/2011 23:24

I heard a girl actually say the word LOL instead of laughing at her friend's funny joke Confused

madonnawhore · 24/05/2011 23:25

Lol @ lol.

SecretNutellaFix · 24/05/2011 23:25

pmsl.

is that better?Grin

crazynanna · 24/05/2011 23:26

IWM = I'm Wetting Myself

worraliberty · 24/05/2011 23:30

Oh there are far worse things posted here than 'LOL'

I mean, the acronyms DH, DD, DS, DP, DSS, DGP and all the bloody rest of it is no different to text type really is it? It doesn't take a second to type 'Husband' 'Daughter' 'Son' or whatever and yet no-one on here bothers to do it? Confused

bruffin · 24/05/2011 23:37

My lovely old mum thought LOL meant "Little Old Lady" Grin

tethersend · 24/05/2011 23:39

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh god, I just can't do it.

Monty27 · 24/05/2011 23:45

I even say it in real life now Blush

Lol!

Monty27 · 24/05/2011 23:45
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kreecherlivesupstairs · 25/05/2011 07:05

Put me down for a financial contribution if you want to take your campain national.
I hate it, DD LOL'd at me the other day, she actually said LOL. She also says OMG. I must knock it out of her Smile

acumenin · 25/05/2011 07:14

lolirl

GooGooMuck · 25/05/2011 07:20

Kreech it's this place, made me think in abbreviations!

I'm just going to have a Brew lol.... Agreed I do hate that shit. You'd think that the vipers would have sorted this out... but we they're getting outnumbered!

I bet there's no lolling on the oldies thread Grin

sausagesandmarmelade · 25/05/2011 07:27

YABU

Psammead · 25/05/2011 07:28

What? No-one's said it yet?

Ok.

Please stop this kind of bollocks. The next think you know it'll all be tickers and glittery shit and then we might as well all fuck off to hunsnet.

Did I say it right? I messed up the delivery didn't I?

Lol.

Lovecat · 25/05/2011 07:33

YANBU

Tbh, it's not so much the lol in itself, it's how it's used. Very rarely is it actually in a funny, laughing aloud context - as illustrated by leftblank.

I blame the incomers from the other place (runs away)

fatlazymummy · 25/05/2011 07:51

I agree with worraliberty. I can't stand most of the acronyms used here. That doesn't mean I can ask other people to stop using them.
lol is used all over the internet, why would this forum be any different?

TheShriekingHarpy · 25/05/2011 08:21

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IvyAndGold · 25/05/2011 08:36

does this mean i have to get rid of my roflcopter? :(

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