• @paddirn
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    1911 months ago

    You fucking cunt, LOL

  • @ShortFuse
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    911 months ago

    OP thinks it removes rudeness and not adds lol

  • LazaroFilm
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    911 months ago

    It means lots of love.

  • @sailingbythelee
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    811 months ago

    Everyone knows LOL means “smiled and made a rueful exhalation of breath”.

    Whereas LMAO means “yes, I actually vocalized a chuckle”.

  • Norgur
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    711 months ago

    Is it just me or does LOL remove rudeness but replace it with snark for anybody else?

  • @AngryCommieKender
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    11 months ago

    I used to have a button that read: “Is There A Polite Way to Say: ‘Fuck You’?”

    I have since found that the way to do this is to say “Fuck off, mate,” in an English accent, with the tone of the word “off” and “mate” said in a second and third tone respectively. You should end the word “mate” in a fricative tonal shift down to indicate directive rather than query.

    This is considered a polite way to tell someone to go away, in much of the US anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      aussie accent also works, and then you can say basically anything because you just can’t be offended when someone sounds like steve irwin

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        311 months ago

        “Croikey! Here we have an average American Bloke. Look how enormous the bugger is. I’mma poke him with a stick!”

        “OH! HE’S ANGRY! HE’S ANGRY!”

        -Fluffy

    • Rentlar
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      111 months ago

      “Fuck off, mate,” in an English accent, with the tone of the word “off” and “mate” said in a second and third tone respectively

      After trying a couple times in my head I think I get what you were after, but my initial thought was saying “fuck off, mate” in the style of the Duracell chime

  • @[email protected]
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    211 months ago

    I’m reading a book “Because Internet” that talks about exactly this - how online writing evolves and can develop subtle meaning. It’s pretty interesting

  • OhStopYellingAtMe
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    011 months ago

    Unlike “lmao” which I find rude as fuck. Any comment which ends in “lmao” immediately gets a downvote from me, it just seems so condescending and crass.