Text speak
LOL, ROFL, IMAO, fucking missing out vowels.

What the shuddering fuck!

I'm to old to be having to look these thing up on the internet just so I can understand text messages that have been sent to me by people old enough to know better.

God didn't invent vowels so you lot could miss them out of words. I was always taught that there are no words in the English language without a vowel or a y.

And those trendy abbreviations, don't get me started! If I had a pound for every message I've been sent ending in LOL, I'd have enough to buy a fuck off big nuke and toast the bastards.
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:16, 18 replies)

Quite right.
Burn them!
( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:20, closed)

Maybe we could start collections for a proper size nuke.

( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:27, closed)

I think...
With the iPhone - there's an app for that...

I'm so sorry
( snee held his breath since, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:29, closed)

Even if you had the money to buy this nuclear weapon
You would find it extremly difficult to purchase one, seeing as it's hardly something you can just pick up in Argos.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:31, closed)

with the amount I'd have saved I could just buy myself into government, then I'd have all the nukes I'd need
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:42, closed)

Can't you just find the plans on the internet?
I mean come on! With all the talent on this board we should've had one by now.

G2G
bRb
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:42, closed)

That's not a bad plan
I think we should join the nuclear arms race.
Or, as above, just run for parliment.
Have you seen the Tories' posters? Advertising for all political parties is so poor, with the wealth of talent here, we'd win for sure.
Although Rob would truely become the ginger overlord, that's a bit scary.
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:45, closed)

Oooh, that's a tough choice
World domination - Ginger Overlord
World domination - Ginger Overlord
World domination - Ginger Overlord

Screw it, I'm going to go play Halo 3.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:48, closed)

Weirdly, my mum, who is a retired teacher, and one of those people who's REALLY irritating about grammar
- you know - the sort who will correct you:

"I was sat over there ... "

"sitting"

has recently discovered texting, and uses text-speak all the time. Still doesn't get the LOL not meaning Lots Of Love, though.

"Hi V bn 2 c jenny hr cancer is bak lol m"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:34, closed)

.
lol
( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:44, closed)

You can say "I was sat over there".
It is grammatically correct... if someone actually directed you to sit over there...
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 18:41, closed)

Or8
I received a text message from someone I play football with begining 'or8' (alright pronounced in a sheffield accent) saying that he was unable to play.
I responded:
'Not to worry!'
lol.
( Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 16:18, closed)

Yep
Me too. My mind switches off, and I end up judging that same person when I see them.

In fact, we have a lodger - she's a very nice lady, and I always though her quite intelligent.

Until, that is, I saw her Facebook page - I cdnt ndrstnd a fkn wrd.
(dchurch bah, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 16:45, closed)

"If I had a pound for every message I've been sent ending in LOL"
I guess there's a lot of people laughing at you in txt too =)
( Allisade would love to hear from you, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 19:04, closed)

The one that narks me right off
is when people type normally on forums and blogs, except for the word "people", which gets abbreviated to "ppl". grrr!
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 21:17, closed)

Nuke `em all in an underground bunker, in order to contain the radiation

AIUATLOLSIJL

(And I understand about the laugh out loud speak, it`s just lazy)
(Sadarse works like Mist condensing mud flaps, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 0:36, closed)

Shall
we start a collection?
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 17:42, closed)

Here are 20 English words that don't have either a vowel or 'y' in them...
BRR
BRRR
CRWTH
CRWTHS
CWM
CWMS
HM
HMM
MM
NTH
PFFT
PHPHT
PHT
PSST
SH
SHH
TSK
TSKS
TSKTSK
TSKTSKS

/smartarse
(quantum raspberry quizzically quashing Quebecans, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 20:04, closed)