"Like" or snapping gum?

The BBQ Pit
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I’m afraid that I will end up doing 30 to life in prison. I can see it happening but I’m not sure what will drive me over the edge.

I like women, especially young women. I’m just afraid that someday one of them is going to use the word “like” too many times in one sentence and I will snap. As an example, watch this:

Like you’re a brainless idiot.

The event that might prevent this from happening is the store clerk or fellow rider on mass transit that thinks the ability to snap their gum gives them some kind of status. Hopefully, capital punishment laws will be passed to take them out of the gene pool before I feel forced to do it on my own.

Yea, I know . . . Anger Management. But this is the Pit so I get to say it here. It’s part of my therapy.

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It’s not so bad, y’know, I mean you could just relax, y’know. They don’t know they’re annoying you, yknow…

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Sorry.
I say “like” a lot while speaking, and I hear myself sometimes and hope the person I’m speaking to doesn’t think I’m a moron. A lot of times I don’t even realize how many times I say it. For me, it’s basically filler; it fits in the spaces between forming thoughts into words. If that makes any sense. I’m a 26 year old female, for reference. (27 in a week).
I am with you 110% on the gum snapping thing. I rarely chew gum as it is, and never, ever, ever, snap, pop, or crack it. I think that’s one of the most fucking obnoxious things in the world. Also the people who happily chew away with their mouths wiiide open. Gah. It makes me want to punch something. Maybe I have anger issues too. :slight_smile:

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I’ll snap gum, and I can do it loudly to the nth degree, but rarely happens. Can’t stand anyone else doing it, though.

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You got something against the quotative?

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Silence fills those spaces better.

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Y’know, you’re right! I need to relax. Like I hadn’t really thought it through, y’know. If I’d a done that, y’know, I’d a realized there there was something else that wooda driven me over the edge, y’know what I mean.

Thanks. Like I think I’m all better now, y’know.

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Me too. My boss chews gum with her mouth wide open. Smeck, smeck, snap, pop, smeck, smeck…someday I’m going to snap! I can’t stand it. I hope she gets TMJ so she has to quit chewing gum. How can anyone be over 40 and not know how fucking obnoxious that is? How has her family not killed her? I think her kids must have a lot of repressed anger…or maybe they’re deaf.

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OP’s link doesn’t work.

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Seconded. It’s not even a link for me, just colored, underlined text.

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OK, I suck at the Internet. I’ll try again. I thought I checked it and it worked.

Like

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Okay, I think you have to take the first “http” out and then it becomes a link.

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It’s not fair. It ruins the word for the rest of us who want to use “like” legitimately, like when making a comparison.

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Look closely at the link, and eliminate the extraneous “http”.

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Er, uh, yeah… and refresh before you post!

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Like, I can understand why this should bother me, but it really doesn’t, ya know?

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Also irritating is when a certain person I work with repeatedly says “You know what I’m saying?”

No. I have no idea what you’re saying. You’re talking way above my head here. Can you dumb it down a bit for me? Thanks.

We could be talking about ham sandwiches and he’d constantly say “You know what I’m saying?”

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:rolleyes: WhatEVER.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIsamoNwGk - (0:30 to 1:10)

ETA: NSFW warning - one instance of strong language at a little past the one minute mark

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