to beg you all to please stop LOLing?

[Crevix]

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 or a or even a 'Ha Ha' not do?

Please people, just stop, cease and disist.

, which is not a 'PMSL', just a wry and more importantly, dry smile.

I could never be friends with anyone who LOLed.
And I certainly could never shag anyone that LOLed.
Same with people who don't know when to use apostrophes.
Irrational and pompous I know. I hate myself for it.

Must say I am forever telling people to desist from writing "lol". It's becoming rather common on MN, sadly. I hate all "txt spk", it makes me feel I'm reading someone else's shorthand.

I do engage in the odd "Ha ha!" or even a but it's just a dabble and not something hideous like;

as exercised on another parenting website I could mention. netmums

I would normally say Piss My Self, I really am just laughing tho. Sorry Lying

You on Twitter then Chaos?

sometimes i say lol to myself at home

lol

I actually do physically lol at things I read on MN. I believe I did so more than once yesterday

I like it as a way of indicating I find something quite funny.

Can we have a laughing emoticon instead then? Lol seems to offend too many purists.

Can we not just laugh and not feel the need to tell everyone what we are doing by writing "lol".

Some twat told me to stop 'Loling' when I first started posting here...said it made me sound like a 'Facebook teenager' and if I didn't stop I should 'get off her thread'

I 'LOLed' repeatedly at the stupid cow after that...after every sentence infact. I'd never LOLed so much in my entire life

I can hand on heart say that wasn't me.

She has inspired me though.

worral now that is very acceptable usage of LOL! I didn't know there was actually 'ownership' of threads. Perhaps I missed something when I didn't read the rules

Good username.
Getorfmafred

Same here Rock Lol

And while we're all moaning on the subject...why do people say things like "I took my DCs to school?"

They took their Dear/Darling childrens to school? I thought only Meerkats did that

well, its not going to start a revolution.

Anyone remember SWALK?

I 'LOLed' repeatedly at the stupid cow after that...after every sentence infact. I'd never LOLed so much in my entire life grin

a lady after my own heart

lol

Worral that is an excellent point re DC(s). But please don't get me started on apostrophes or I will explode

Scousy yep - is that showing our age? There were others as well, but thankfully I can't remember them now.

I sometimes come out with the odd LOL if something did actually make me laugh out loud. Same as if something makes me snort in that rather unattractive way I sometimes type Which I suppose could be interpreted as me having a bad coke habit... Maybe I should stop...

As an aside Chaos i'm beginning to love your typos and I hereby christen them Chaosisms. Would people want to hit me if I said they make me LOL?

Funny I was thinking the same thing last night. Somebody had posted a fairly serious message about something with a LOL on the end and it made me cringe.

Please don't ban WTF though - I really need that one

ABF I have also christened them Chaosisms. And they never fail to make me laugh, and laugh out loudly at that. Rather than a snigger or snort.

YABU!! I love it.

lols

I saw a car registration that was WTF. Loads better than my WYZ

I must admit to watching Made In Chelsea last night on Channel 4 OD.

There were 2 hideously screeching extras who kept saying;
"OMG"

A rather strapping chap merely looked at them and said;
"Oh...acronym". I may start using that.

I like lol

I think possibly the worst thing I've ever heard said out loud was my extremely camp cousin who declared "Oh Em Double Gee, I love this song!"

Could we redefine what lol meant to discourage excessive use?

Eg

Licking old ladies
Lying on the lavatory
Leaping over lederhosen

FYI YANBU

i wish people would stop 'boak' ing. I've never heard it before coming on here, and I don't actually understand it. I would prefer 'wretch' or 'heave'.