OK, Parental Advisory, you have a point. I stand corrected. There are an inordinate number of lazy assholes that would deserve such a response.
Might be fun and useful around here: http://tinyurl.com/c2xk85
Ha, I discovered this about a week ago and still think it’s pretty much the coolest thing ever. The perfect opportunity to be informative and a smartass at the same time.
But sometimes, that’s exactly what it means. I was in a thread last week where a poster kept asking for a link to the rules of MLB baseball, because he couldn’t find it. He ignored one poster’s directions of entering “baseball rules”. It’s the first friggin’ hit on Google! I’ve actually been trying to figure out what he could have been entering that would come up with unhelpful links.
“Baseball rules” = success
“rules of baseball” = success
“mlb rules” = success
Mods, I noticed I’d been beaten to the punch by an identical thread title (even though I searched the forums first??) from a couple days ago…can we merge threads?
Yes. I’ve been guilty of asking questions I could have easily googled. The reason I ask it here tho’ is because I like the interaction.
But as ParentalAdvisory points out; I’m not going to ask something so mind-numbingly stupid as “Hey guys, how do you spell blah-blah?”
Done.
When somebody raves about some obscure pop-culturey/internet-meme phenomenon without elaborating on what it is or even giving any sort of “context clues,” it is exactly because he wants someone to follow up with “lolwut?” rather than run a Google search.
Consequently, the appropriate response to ask “lolwut?” or run a Google search according to whether you want to indulge your interlocutor’s fanboy paeans.
Don’t you have to at least buy me dinner first? 