You people that have to start a post with “um”: fucking stop it. It is an annoying habit that amounts to a typing tick or spasm. As if your keyboard has the runs or something. . It doesn’t make you look clever, it makes you look as if you are a condescending piece of shit and a perfect example with everything that is wrong with the world.
If you have something to say, just say it. Use clear words (and no more of them than you need to). Really. Just give it a fucking rest.
Oh. And a preemptive fuck you to the first douchbag that posts “um, perhaps you should switch to decaf”. That one is played as well.
Um, it is a free board. I can type Um if I want you uptight asshole. Um 
Sure. Do what you want, just be aware that what you are doing is lame.
hell yeah. That is one of my biggest board pet peeves. It just makes you sound like a condescending asshole.
How do you feel about people who start their posts with "Oh. " rather than "Um, "?
Yeah, and while we’re at it, “fuck you” to people who type pauses into their messages using “…wait for it…”
Stupid assholes.
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Uh, that’s exactly the point.
Can’t say that I have seen that one, or at least not enough that when I do my opinion of the poster automatically goes down.
That is totally different of course. 
uh, hello?
it’s called sarcasm
I also gotta take issue with this OP. The SDMB is not a characterless and soulless medium for the interchange of factual data and rigorous scholarly debate. It’s also a place where people hang out and chat. And when chatting, sometimes people like to try to add personality and voice into their posts, and they do so a variety of ways, and if they want to do so with “um”, that’s absolutely their right.
Ums don’t make posts irritating, posters make posts irritating.
I get that; I just find it to be terribly lazy and pointless. True condescension is an art form. This “um” business just makes you look like an unimaginative asshole.
How about if you use it, um, later in the post? You know, to indicate, um, hesitancy.
Um, fuck you. Given the nature of the communications over the internet, one has to be careful to convey nuance and emotional meaning in order to accurately communicate. By starting a post with “Um”, I help define a reluctance to speak or an insecurity- given that most of the posts that I start with such are statements of factual correction, it can be the difference between an interpretation of “Excuse me, but I think you’re incorrect” and “Fuck you, asshole, you don’t know jack” while retaining an informal and casual conversational tone.
My other alternative is to use smileys, and I abhor the little fuckers.
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Were you actually trying for the lamest pitting of the week award?
Is there such an award?
If not should there be?
I was just wondering
Jim
That’s just horrible. Won’t someone *please *think of the little fuckers?
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From now on, I’ll start my posts with “Om”.
Ah bullshit. You know that you love it. This place needs threads like these so that it can follow its little ingrained and predictable pattern.