to beg you all to please stop LOLing?

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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.

It's Jockinese, as my Scottish ex used to say.

you've gotta love it on an internet forum when posters think they can actually go around telling the rest of the board what they can and can't do...

I sent my vicar an email with LOL on it... he thought it meant lots of love .

Its a TLA like any other, I don't have a problem with it. Or OFLAs and VOFLAs

PMSL :o

AmazingBouncing - don't give up on I use it too sometimes and beautifully describes something that isn't LOL (sorry) but makes you make do something more than smile. Alternatively, it could be a spit your drink out funny moment. Either way there is room for snorting imo.

Worral - I thought people used DCs because they were talking about their children and DC stands for Dear Child. Well it does to me anyway.

OP - I hardly ever used it before but highlighting how bad it is and how it annoys some people I find myself wanting to use it all the time.

In Norn Iron we boak too, although I think we mostly spell it boke. I'll keep my regional wretching and heaving thanks very much SarfEasticated.

I don't mind the odd lol and I can spell and punctuate just fine. I don't really see the difference between a properly used lol and pmsl, rofl and the other acronyms used so much on here. "Just got up lol had breakfast lol" type messages are v annoying, but I only really see that on Facebook and hide people who use textspeak as it annoys me so much.

Now I know it's a regional thing, I don't mind it so much! Just couldn't really work out where it came from and why everyone used it.
Interesting there are two spellings....

Normally I have a rule never to reply to a post which includes LL.
At the first LL I start to cringe and click elsewhere.

ROFL...

Niecie:

"Worral - I thought people used DCs because they were talking about their children and DC stands for Dear Child. Well it does to me anyway."

Wouldn't that make dear childs? Or have I missed what you're trying to say?

No not really because I would assume that we were all sensible and knew the plural of child was children.

Although having said that, I am not entirely sure I do use DCs now. Oh I dunno.....

I could type "LOL" or "ha ha ha ha ha", or "arf" or "very funny".

TBH I don't see how any mumsnetter can get funny about abbreviations. IPOAT, DH DDs, DCs, CMs can be very confusing. At least everyone knows what LOL means. But, like in real life, I don't LOL all the time so my LOLs are rationed.

As are my exclamation marks!! Because if you use exclamation marks all the time you look like a nutter you are permanently shocked/excited/angry/surprised!! You don't have to be mad to work here but it helps!! I'm mad I am!! Just crazy!!

LMFAO is my particular favourite though.

How about ROFLMFAO that's a smudge OTT, I do feel the need to let people know when I've lol by loling.

As for bowling - I've always prefered gipping :)

Eeeeeek smidge I meant and boaking (bloody predictive text & me not checking)

Worra.... I never read the 'D' as 'Dear' or 'Darling'... more 'Dreadful' or 'Derranged' or 'Delirious'.

Happygomummy... 'Lying on the Lavatory'... definitely NOT.

I read the D in DH as dutiful...

DH/DD/ds etc is cringeworthy.

and all these years I thought it stood for Damn