to think that the new fangled use of the @ symbol when addressing a poster is

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

stupid

me no likey

and the first person to @ me will be shot

Who is Wanderingdogs, lol!

HAHAHAHAAA god sorry sheep, I meant sheep!!
whats cuk?????

@BoysAreLikeDogs

Ha ha @ Geraldine

at the bolding and the @

oooh I can feel the veins in my temple throbbing

Not sure what cuk is. Are they a bunch of blokes that were trolling on mn?

dunno, its a secret apparently, or a long story that no one can be arsed to explain.

@Wanderingsheep what's CUK

x posts sorry
@bald, care to take some paracetamol and explain CUK?

What is CUK?

Pretty pretty please can someone expalin what CUK is?

I read about it on a thread yesterday and I am completely in the dark...
Everybody else seems to know what it is.

Some IT blokes came to troll.

ok, thanks Bucharest, what does CUK stand for?

No idea, I think maybe the name of their forum?
I missed it all, I kept seeing threads talking about CUk but it was the same day as the threads on BPA in plastic baby bottles and I thought CUK must be some kind of noxious plastic!

whats so bad about using a @

nothing, ilovesprouts. imo anyway.

but why bother? you can hit the keyboard twice, once on the a and once on the t or you can hold down the shift key and press ' giving you @. as far as I can see, it isn't any easier. Or quicker.

And quicker is the point of such things, is it not? that's why we put imo instead of in my opinion. As I did up top there.

Although...If any of us are so busy that we can't spare the time to type "at" (or even "in my opinion") should we really be pissing about on here anyway?

@ does grate. It comes from twitter, which made sense originally when it was mainly on mobile phones and was about all these little messages flying around. Though twitter is more web based now I believe - I don't know, I was an early adopter and then got bored of it before it became hugely popular anyway.

But on a forum it just seems rude, because it sounds like you are talking at someone rather than to them. Bolding I don't mind at all as it makes it easy to pick out someone's name and in a fast flowing thread if you want to reply to something someone said a few posts back without confusing everyone it's useful.

I don't mind things like @ or PSML @ though because you generally do laugh or grin etc at someone.

hahaha good point!

that was @justmytwopenceworth btw!

@ or at
my personal research tells me that @is more fiddly to type than at and you need 2 hands to do an @ so where do I put the gin? hmm?