to feel stabby when I see 'lol' in place of a full stop?

[Kipsy]

That's it, really. I've been seeing a lot of this on Mumsnet recently. There's something about 'lol' that just rubs me the wrong way. Use a full stop, and a smiley emoticon if it's funny FGS.

Can you imagine what the world would be like if everybody were actually "Laughing Out Loud", when they say they were?

It would be bedlam.

YANBU. Don't people know it's illegal?

And as for 'makes my teeth itch' - that's even more illegal.

Fact.

Sorry, I had no idea that 'stabby' made people feel ... stabby!
Killin understands; it conveys perfectly how I feel when I see gratuitous 'lol'ing. Irritated doesn't quite cut it somehow.

I really couldn't give a shit and I don't know why anyone else does.

I remember putting 'lol' on one of my very first posts here and some cheeky bitch (can't remember who) decided she had the right to tell me off for it

I 'lolled' every time I saw her on the same thread as me after that.

I think she name changed in the end

Saw an amazing post on Facebook the other day which basically went:

I'm going out today with the kids lol and hopefully Hubby will but me something nice lol but I haven't been to town for ages lol so don't know where any of the good shops are lmfao. Where is your best shop lol?

Amazing.

LOL at Worra stalking a MNer with her LOLing.

years ago I thought it stood for 'lots of laughter'

This irritation is as old as the internet. I don't know if you got the memo but "lol" won. Deal with it.

Puppy, you should have written something like "You're right! That is TRULY HILARIOUS. Verily I am laughing out loud."

LOLZ

my mum and sister use it for lots of love. i have told my mum it is laugh out loud and that putting at the end of every single message she sends is a little strange......

I think the 'z' adds certain je ne sais quoi.

LOL at Worra stalking a MNer with her LOLing.

At one point, I was going to tattoo the letter L on both arse cheeks and bend over

If I am laughing out loud - or at least laughing quietly I will use lol. There may be a smiley they will convey the same thing, but they are not the same in every place that I post so I have to look.

If someone complains I tell them to #### and ##### and probably ##### and then I add TWO lols

What rpitchfo said.

Lolol.

Worra, that really did make me laught out loud. Actually, to be honest, it was a rather undignified snort.

SOL

snort out loud

When I first encountered "lol" on an american forum many many years ago, for some reason I thought it stood for "Lord O Lord"

I used to think it meant "lots of love" and was mystified as to why people would say that to people on forums that they (presumably) didn't know in RL.

I really hate fml, by the way, but mostly for the way people use it, Eg. "I feel really ill fml" "Work tomorrow, fml" "Monday's coming fml"

I had to look up what it stood for (fuck my life) and thought, well we all feel crappy sometimes, we all know what it's like to do a job you hate and we all have Mondays, FGS!