Overused Internet Comments
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Did you just make that up because of what I said? 
Did you just make that up because of what I said? 
None of the things mentioned in this thread really bug me, but theis the most overused and annoying thing on the internet. GET RID OF THAT EMOTICON.
It's the single most useful emoticon of the lot (thoughisn't bad either).
What other emoticon can you use when you hear/write about politicians giving themselves a pay raise in the middle of a recession, see pictures of fat mummies smuggling candy bars and greasy foods into schools (so their kids won't have to eat all the health conscious stuff the school serves), Listen to someone say how ridiculous Trek is then rant about how fantastic Twilight or Hairy Potter is...
It's not so much the idea of the roll-eyes emoticon I have a problem with, but the constant abuse of it. There are people here now and in the past where the majority of their posts featured a roll-eyes. There are people where a large number of their posts are nothing but a roll-eyes. And there are people who use it for any minor disagreement instead of something really egregious. "What's that, you use a different kind of lightbulb than I do?"
That's what I have a problem with. It's the single most abused and overused emoticon there is. It should be the weapon of mass destruction that you only roll out as a last resort, not the AK-47 of the internet forum world.
I use that phrase all the time. But about 99.9% of the time I am using it to preface something that really is outlandish or invoking the phrase as a joke.
You're using it appropriately, though, so I don't mind that. It's the people who say things like "Am I the only one who likes pizza?" that make me wonder.
TL;DR
FTW!
Nah, I'm not that fast; had the first one somewhere but couldn't find it and when a google search produced the iterated demotivator I wanted to post that instead.^
Oh, btw: it's an old 4chan meme
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
I also don't like when people respond with "Um, no..."
As though they had to type that when they disagree. It just sounds like something a 13 year-old girl would do.
As though they had to type that when they disagree. It just sounds like something a 13 year-old girl would do.
That's what she said.
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Amaris
Guest
It signifies disbelief in the (stupidity of the) argument you are disagreeing with, so as far as discussion board lingo goes I actually find it very expressive.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
Um, yeah, like I know that. Duh.
I would like to add "That's not canon." to the list.
I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but if it has I apologise.
I haven't been on the internet long (two years), and this is in fact the only "place" I've ever frequented. But, in my wanderings, I've come across a phrase in a couple of other places that really makes me grind my teeth:
I hate it when people respond to a claim (often a simple, unimportant one) with the phrase "Link/pics or it didn't happen".
I mean, I really, really hate it. If they said,
"do you have a link/pics, 'cause I'm not sure I accept that without seeing it",
or,
"I'd like some evidence",
or something reasonable and polite like that, I'd be fine with it. But the totally obnoxious declaration that if you don't hand them a bunch of links or pictures or whathaveyou then "it didn't happen" just drives me mad. It's such a self-centred obnoxious worldview. The straightforward, unthinking dismissal of anything and anyone who won't show them evidence they want. Maybe part of it is just me being unreasonable (I have a somewhat irrational tendency to think that if someone hasn't done the searching themselves, why should I waste my time in handing it to them - and if they're going to demand I hand them evidence rather than putting in the effort themselves...it just irritates me
?) but mostly it's just the obnoxious phrasing.
Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean "it didn't happen". That's like a baby placing a blanket over its face to make the rest of the world disappear. Saying "I'm reluctant to accept this except in the face of evidence" is fine and proper (so long as you're willing to actually then go out and look for some before you come to a definitive conclusion), but saying "It's not so" in order to completely dismiss something as an excuse to justify your own ignorance....grrrr...
I'm ranting, aren't I?
I haven't been on the internet long (two years), and this is in fact the only "place" I've ever frequented. But, in my wanderings, I've come across a phrase in a couple of other places that really makes me grind my teeth:I hate it when people respond to a claim (often a simple, unimportant one) with the phrase "Link/pics or it didn't happen".
I mean, I really, really hate it. If they said,
"do you have a link/pics, 'cause I'm not sure I accept that without seeing it",
or,
"I'd like some evidence",
or something reasonable and polite like that, I'd be fine with it. But the totally obnoxious declaration that if you don't hand them a bunch of links or pictures or whathaveyou then "it didn't happen" just drives me mad. It's such a self-centred obnoxious worldview. The straightforward, unthinking dismissal of anything and anyone who won't show them evidence they want. Maybe part of it is just me being unreasonable (I have a somewhat irrational tendency to think that if someone hasn't done the searching themselves, why should I waste my time in handing it to them - and if they're going to demand I hand them evidence rather than putting in the effort themselves...it just irritates me
?) but mostly it's just the obnoxious phrasing.Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean "it didn't happen". That's like a baby placing a blanket over its face to make the rest of the world disappear. Saying "I'm reluctant to accept this except in the face of evidence" is fine and proper (so long as you're willing to actually then go out and look for some before you come to a definitive conclusion), but saying "It's not so" in order to completely dismiss something as an excuse to justify your own ignorance....grrrr...
I'm ranting, aren't I?
I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but if it has I apologise.
I hate it when people respond to a claim (often a simple, unimportant one) with the phrase "Link/pics or it didn't happen".
I mean, I really, really hate it. If they said,
"do you have a link/pics, 'cause I'm not sure I accept that without seeing it",
or,
"I'd like some evidence",
or something reasonable and polite like that, I'd be fine with it. But the totally obnoxious declaration that if you don't hand them a bunch of links or pictures or whathaveyou then "it didn't happen" just drives me mad. It's such a self-centred obnoxious worldview. The straightforward, unthinking dismissal of anything and anyone who won't show them evidence they want. Maybe part of it is just me being unreasonable (I have a somewhat irrational tendency to think that if someone hasn't done the searching themselves, why should I waste my time in handing it to them - and if they're going to demand I hand them evidence rather than putting in the effort themselves...it just irritates me
Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean "it didn't happen". That's like a baby placing a blanket over its face to make the rest of the world disappear. Saying "I'm reluctant to accept this except in the face of evidence" is fine and proper (so long as you're willing to actually then go out and look for some before you come to a definitive conclusion), but saying "It's not so" in order to completely dismiss something as an excuse to justify your own ignorance....grrrr...
I'm ranting, aren't I?
I think getting that annoyed over stupid people on the Internet is a bit silly. Who cares if they don't believe? If it's something really obvious that most people know is true, take the opportunity to mock the nonbelievers for their idiocy.
Or, conversely, "This thread is useless without pics". (Sometimes, though, that is actually true.
)That is also an old 4chan meme that polluted the rest of the internet. Just disregard it.
But it is canon.
What drives me nuts about w00t isn't its origin, but how 99% of German internet kiddies use it.
By their definition, "w00t" = "what?" and is used as an expression of astonishment.
Thanks, all
Well, maybe. But like I said, I'm a relative newcomer to the Internet and the charming people who populate it. I'm still in the final stages of the initial shock .Similar threads
