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To want everyone to stop it with the crossings out?

157 replies

ChampagneTastes · 30/08/2016 21:01

If you have something to say in a post, can you please just say it, rather than doing the intensely annoying whispering-behind-your-hand crossing out thing? I wouldn't mind so much if everyone always used it correctly but people are using it for whole paragraphs of pertinent information. It's not an effective replacement for wit.

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OP posts:
Quickqu · 30/08/2016 21:03

god yes. It really bugs me. It's so unfunny and shit.

SukeyTakeItOffAgain · 30/08/2016 21:03

---- YABU

MoreCoffeeNow · 30/08/2016 21:03

YABU
and a bit of a misery guts

LucyFuckingPevensie · 30/08/2016 21:04

Grin you know how this is going to go don't you op.

Ps yabu

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 30/08/2016 21:04

moany get

SecretNutellaFix · 30/08/2016 21:04

Of course YABU, Why the hell should we it's not up to you to police how posters use certain functions

PatsHatOnTheCat · 30/08/2016 21:04

now we'll all start doing it on your thread...because we're fuckers Grin

Laiste · 30/08/2016 21:04

whispers behind hand

yoowhoo · 30/08/2016 21:05

YABU

WanderingTrolley1 · 30/08/2016 21:05

Yanbu.

ToxicLadybird · 30/08/2016 21:05

YABU

Crisscrosscranky · 30/08/2016 21:06

YABU I wish I could use it in work emails

HerRoyalFattyness · 30/08/2016 21:06

this is going to be a whole paragraph that says absolutely nothing and means absolutely fuck all, and gas no bearing on anything whatsoever, and I might just start typing random words like duck and elephant, maybe even yellow. I might not though

Flossiesmummy · 30/08/2016 21:07

Sorry not sorry

ToxicLadybird · 30/08/2016 21:07

Although people who cross out every word individually like this give me the jitters.

usual · 30/08/2016 21:09

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Mrsmummyof1 · 30/08/2016 21:09

I agree. So annoying and boring now! Just say what you want in the pos!

Rrross1ges · 30/08/2016 21:09

YAB V U

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 30/08/2016 21:09

I like a crossing out who are you, the thread police Smile

Queenbean · 30/08/2016 21:10

I agree. We still have eyes. We can still read what's being written.

Jellybean83 · 30/08/2016 21:10

I actually find some of them quite funny, of all the things that bother me on MN, that isn't one of them so YABU.

pollyblack · 30/08/2016 21:12

I love the crossing out, it's funny.

CafeCremeEtCroissant · 30/08/2016 21:13

YABU

as well as boring & unoriginal

user7755 · 30/08/2016 21:13

Queenbean that's the whole point

OP YABU

I wish there were more opportunities to do this in real life

OvariesForgotHerPassword · 30/08/2016 21:13

yabu

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