Thanks for the link; I’ve never actually heard a living person use that word.
I entirely disagree. More often than not, I ask for a cite because I wish to expore the issue with greater depth than a message board discussion permits. However, anyone making a controversial factual assertion in GD or GQ should be ready to give us a reason to believe him or her for a more compelling reason than “Because I said so.”
I’m guilty of that, but I always intend it as self-mockery.
That cracked me up, but I gotta say…I think I am guilty of this one.
I think. I can’t actually remember doing it, but I think it alot. I think, ‘damn, I agree with that so much that I wanna express my agreement, but I can’t drop no eloquent shit like that. My post will come out all hard and jagged.’
I like all the inside jokey things, I don’t know why, but they often make me laugh, although my cool ass never actually participates in that stuff.
One thing I notice I do that I bet people find annoying; I feel the need to tell a poster that is being piled on that I agree with them, if I do. Some weirdness about lending support, I guess.
Also, I feel compelled to let someone know when they crack me up. And I never forget posters who can crack me up, and I follow them around the board, looking for funnies, and posting my laughter when they crack me up again.
Jesus, that sounds annoying to me, right now. I’m gonna work on cutting that out.
ETA: When I say I like the inside jokey things, that does not include the initiation goat crap…that is some cornball stuff, right there.
This ranks Number 1 on my list. It removes the narrative flow of reading a thread for me, acting almost as a hard stop in my brain. Why? Because I never understand what is trying to be conveyed!
Is it:
- Innocent shrug?
- Angrily daring someone to call you out?
- Pretending like you’re hearing voices?
- Implying that your post is so confusing that you don’t even understand it?
- Pretending you’re another poster reading and not understanding your post?
Number 2 is beginning a reply with “Um” which just instantly pisses me off before I even read another word.
It’s preemptively feigning mock innocence in response to the assumed wonderment that the poster’s cleverness will elicit.
Not wonderment. Outrage.
A blow job is always in order. 
I see.
I think I’ll keep my rankings the same.
Yes, that’s how I’ve always read it too.
Re: the posts that end in “<pause…> What?”
I’ve always looked at it like the guy who will be sitting there, listening to his Ipod, totally lost in his own world, singing along to the tunes, stopping when he notices everyone staring at him… “what?”
S^G
I’m 40 and I know. In fact I didn’t know it was used in the Simpsons; I haven’t watched that show for years.
I don’t like it when people use emotes like :rolleyes: or :dubious: without bothering to explain WHY they don’t think much of the comment they are quoting. It’s more of an attempted conversation stopper than a response.
You don’t see it much anymore, but I HATED the use of “cow-orker” for “co-worker”.
I’m another who dislikes the word definition wars that some threads degenerate into. Especially since I often suspect it’s a successful attempt by someone with an untenable position to divert attention from his or her error.
I would except most 40 year olds to remember him. I was worried about our younger members, since I’m barely old enough to remember :).
Oh that’s absolutely what it’s all about. Or the similar, “I can’t argue against the basic message of what you’re saying, so I’m going to divert attention by nitpicking all the minor details to death.” If I had a nickel for every interesting topic that got blown off the rails here by nitpicks, especially about word definitions . . .
I’m an etymology lover and it still bothers the hell out of me. There’s a time and place to discuss or argue definitions and there’s a time and place to let a word mean what its user meant it to mean.
In opinion threads, generally in Cafe Society, when the thread is something along the lines of “What’s the greatest oom-pah band of all time?” or “What’s the best bowling film ever?” and some joker gives their answer and then says, “Mods, you may now close the thread.”. Yeah, I know they don’t really mean it and they’re just trying to be cute. It’s not. It’s annoying.
I’m in agreement with everyone else here who hates when people sign every post. I can’t exactly explain why, but I find it very condescending.
Guess it depends on the forum. I remember seeing it more as “Come on, I* had* to make that remark. No one else saw that?”
I thought that only happened to me…
“Wow. Just, wow.”
Why are you even posting if you don’t have anything to say? I consider this even worse than “LOL”, because at least “LOL” has a clear meaning. But I’ve seen “Wow. Just, wow” used here to mean everything from “I’m speechless with emotion after having read your sad story” to “I’m speechless with horror after having read your idiotic post.”
I find the sarcastic usage annoying enough, but saying nothing more than “Wow” when you mean to express sympathy is stupid and insensitive. If you must fall back on a cliche, why not “I’m sorry to hear that” or even “Gosh, that sucks”? I do not understand why anyone would prefer to express their sympathy by using a phrase that literally conveys nothing more than surprise and that is also commonly used to mean “Wow, I’m amazed that someone as dumb as you managed to learn how to type.”
Dude, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Sorry, you’re just not in the clique.
I haven’t seen it as often but- referring to the God concept as the Invisible Pink Unicorn, Sky Fairy, or Flying Spagetti Monster in a serious discussion of religion. For the Pit or a joking discussion, it’s fine. But to use it dismissively in a serious GD as if it’s a devestatingly clever retort is just stupid. I hate it & so does Og.
In the same vein, in GD when there’s a full-on theological discussion going and someone just has to come in and snark something about all religion/belief in God being nonsense, the implication being that no theological discussion is ever worth having 'cause it’s all bullshit anyway, man. Likely from some clown who will participate in a ten-page thread in Cafe Society about “earth one” “earth prime” and whatever else kind of comic book nonsense.
To be fair, I don’t recall seeing this kind of threadsh***ng as often as I once did.
Another one that irks me is when somebody makes a perfectly clear, well-written post in the Pit and then says, “Oh, wait, this is the Pit. Shitpissfuckcocksuckermotherfuckerandtits!” Swearing is neither forbidden outside the Pit nor required in it, and that joke stopped being funny a long time ago.
The mods aren’t amused either.
But at least those are better than the people who jump into the “What’s the greatest oompah band of all time?” thread to say, “Who cares? Oompah bands suck!” If you don’t like Oompah bands, what are you doing in that thread?