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Are these cats talking, or are we just 'lol' at ourselves?
...an article. On CAT MACROS.
Oh internet. I adore you so. ♥
I have a ribbon around my wrist, and I'd love anyone who understood the reference.
Somewhat related, I can't stop listening to this song. And Carpal Tunnel of Love. Although as always, wtf with the screamo. It always seems so random.
I may have gotten Keith into shit with his girlfriend. Err, oops. [Keith is my ex on the same course as me. We hang around and gossip and I attack him with make up. Most of our year either think we are still dating or will get back together. I have my no going back to exes rule for a reason. And plus, ahaha, we make way better friends. And I'm totally not attracted to him anyway.] Basically, I got bored and made him go to Burger King with me, and then I was making him listen to some music. And when he got back, she was waiting there for him. ...She lives in York. Um, yeah.
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dogmop looks amusing in wigs, true story. I am vaguely pathetic but enjoy taking photos.My computer is so laggy. And I am hungry. Hmm. Should probably do something about that.
2007-05-27 10:48 pm (UTC)
Then you'd have to get your emo on.
(agreed with the screamo, it just makes me laugh at Pete Wentz. A lot. He writes all these heartfelt segues into the human condition and then screams all over them. Ahahahahah oh god, say what you like about the Wentz, he is never not entertaining).
2007-05-27 11:14 pm (UTC)
I played my friend The Carpal Tunnel of Love and Saturday, and he said he preferred the screaming bits.
But seriously, the songs would be fine without them. And wouldn't it really hurt his voice to do all the screaming... and then carry on doing normally backup vocals? I think too much about this.
That has to be one of my favourite lines in any fall out boy song really.
2007-05-27 11:26 pm (UTC)
God, I couldn't even start to pick favourite lines. Though at the moment I keep writing we're travelled like gypsies, only with worse luck and far less goldall over everything and I just love the idea of things falling like bachelors for bad luck girls. Bad luck girls! Oh, Pete.
And, of course, I wrote the gospel on giving up (and looking pretty sinking)
But the real bombshells have already sunk (primadonnas of the gutter)
At night we're painting your trash gold, while you sleep. Heh.
2007-05-27 11:27 pm (UTC)
I'm still pretty sure it is. Where are my IOH liner notes? Hmm.
2007-05-27 11:36 pm (UTC)
The screaming does make me giggle so much, especially in Saturday, because it's kind of 'wait, what?' It's just too random.
There are so many good lines, tbh. I find a new one each week, it feels like. At the moment, it's all about The Carpal Tunnel of Love.
2007-05-27 11:48 pm (UTC)
["also into cats!" =D Never gets old. I've heard someone misheard the lyrics of This Ain't A Scene as "Lucy, Lucy is a god! damn! arse! face!" Oh, oh, and mistaking "drive home through the night" in GINASFS as "dryhump through the night".]
Mmm, I keep listening to "I've Got All This Ringing..." and "The Take Over" hasn't really budged from its position as one of my favourites on IOH since I heard it performed in the AOL sessions thing before the leak, even.
2007-05-27 11:19 pm (UTC)
Comedy Reply:
Ahahaha. Shame that article doesn't have a comments section. Imagine how quickly it would have been besieged by the 4chan/SomethingAwful et al masses!
Reply From the Mindset Of An Actual Writer:
He's just another one of these elitist language freaks who is scared of change. The hilarious thing about him - like the people who bitch about text speak - is that they're using a language built from the very methods they despise. The common example I use is "goodbye", which started as shorthand for "god be with you". The idea that they're trying to preserve the "purity" of one of the most impure, chaotic languages in the world, is frankly baffling!
2007-05-28 08:09 pm (UTC)
English mugs other countries for their vocabulary. I need that icon.
2007-05-28 01:52 am (UTC)
And besides, many have various different meanings. >_>;;
Also, the idea of trying to analyse and explain an interjoke (internet injoke, see?) is at best futile. There also seems to be this continuing misconception that "internet culture" is restricted to the teenage masses. My fifty year old aunt uses the most perverse variant of "txtspk" of anyone I know for godsakes. Even dear old Amy would be hard pushed to rival her.
2007-05-28 08:07 pm (UTC)
That was the point, someone quoted that in a thread about a company called 'Locks of Love', which obviously gets shortened to LOL. So people are writing things like 'wigs for lol' and 'don't they know what lol does?'
I just found the title hilarious. 'are we just lol at ourselves?'
And most of the time, someone just thinks 'hmmm, this is rather funny! I shall save this picture and use it at an approriate moment!' There's is no deep significance or meaning involved.
My mother tries to use textspeak in reply to me talking normally, my dad has a blackberry and just ignores puncuation. It seems the adults are worse than us.
...I say nothing about the emo 15 year olds on myspace.
2007-05-28 07:04 am (UTC)
2007-05-28 08:08 pm (UTC)