NEWT FOR PRESIDENT!!! GET AWAY FROM HER, YOU BITCH!!!
I’m not saying the Internet is making us more stupid. On the contrary. It’s just making us SOUND more stupid. Now if you will pardon me, I have to go update my Frangbo.
COMMENTERS: Have you ever found yourself uttering an Internet-born word or phrase with complete sincerity only to realize later how incredibly dumb it sounded? I still don’t like to say “he Tweeted me” or “they @’d me” in real conversation. I will usually take the long way around to “_____ said this on Twitter.” Alternately, please make up some more fake-but-totally-plausible-sounding social media services.
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Gruntr, the phone app to track, organize, and share pictures of your poops
That's craptacular!
This reminds me of the time you Fringed me on Derkle. That was a frabjous day.
Callooh, callay?
*chortle*
Including internet phrases in a game of scrabble is fun.
I've avoided doing it in real life, but even typing some things to people who don't use the internet beyond email can make you feel stupid when you then have to explain it.
That Newt 2012 Tshirt, the tag line should be "Why don't you put her in charge?"
A lot of people have suggested that. I guess it just didnt cross my mind. I might change it.
It's a better line, but less recognizable, thus less sellable. Do you want to be nerd-cool or retail cool?
Holy shit that's genius, but it takes it from a somewhat recognizable quote to a far more "super fans only" quote that you'd have to explain to most people.
yeah Im sort of on the fence about changing it. No one is really complaining, but in the last 2 days like 6 people have brought up the other quote.
This looks like a job for Buttons!
I use "lol" in every day conversation, not "el oh el" "lol." I dont know when it started but when I realized it I was instantly disappointed in myself, then did it again minutes later.
I was recently out camping with a group, and one of the people started talking about this conspiracy she'd heard somewhere on the internet, which was that "internet slang" was secret Satanist communications. We spent a good portion of the night, not only saying these words out loud "brb","rofl[she particularly liked rotfl-copter]", etc…, but we came up with a list of what they could be acronyms for.
I don't use them in every day conversation, but I feel just as bad…
Don't worry, internet speak will be banned in the 22nd century after it leads to the disastrous first contact with the Romulans and later the Klingons.
"Rmlns, u ships no cloak yet? LOL!"
"Hai Klgns, y u no haz ridges?"
Someone tried to skump me at a party….we don't talk ànymore….
This reminds me of the brilliant bit Stephen Fry did when he reached his first million Twitter (Praised Be The Tweet!) followers: http://youtu.be/mPXOkcjPCo0
But what I want to know is if you really crochet or not, and if you do, are you on Ravelry??
http://xkcd.com/1013/
Posted on the same day. Peculiar.
Those two comics share exactly nothing in common.
Noob has now been shotened to nub…a true sign of laziness…but brilliant.
Shortened*
i've been known to say roflwaffle in polite conversation.
I have caught myself saying something in conversation and then saying Hashtag___________ . I felt like such an idiot.
I do that on a regular basis and then am displeased with myself.
I haven't, but I heard my mom say she needed to post something on Facebook and I nearly crawled out of my skin.
"He tweeted me" sounds sexual.
"I'm going to hastag him/her so good".
I told my son's third grade teacher that "he spells much better in leete speak than he does in English." I was met with silence on that one. Some people just can't admit they don't know what you're talking about.
"Google it" remains my favorite because out of context it sounds like baby talk.
I kick myself mentally every time I hear myself say "friend" as a verb.
Including internet phrases in a game of scrabble is fun.
I've avoided doing it in real life, but even typing some things to people who don't use the internet beyond email can make you feel stupid when you then have to explain it.