Versatile Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 As the world steadily dumbs down to the pits Our wonderful Prime Minister's future may depend on the true meaning of LOL.... :blink: V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Our wonderful Prime Minister's future may depend on the true meaning of LOL.... :blink: Where Cameron and his cronies are concerned "Laugh Out Loud" is the last thing I'll do. Don't get me started......... The other option is equally appealing. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest farnsbarns Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Where Cameron and his cronies are concerned "Laugh Out Loud" is the last thing I'll do. Don't get me started......... The other option is equally appealing. P. At the risk of a thread lock.... Damn socialists! :P There, not only in before the lock but possibly the cause too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 At the risk of a thread lock.... Damn socialists! :P There, not only in before the lock but possibly the cause too! I always liked Billy Bragg... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obpd9uc5HVg We could learn this and play it at our next jam session! What say you, Comrade Farns? P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 In life...as in art... Always keep a sense of humour... Hence...LOL... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Yep, we are being dumbed-down. We get so damn lazy. Won't be long you won't even have to use the bathroom. Just stay at the keyboard writing in forums and in the midst of a sentence write poop or piss.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 A couch potato nirvana/nightmare... Most of Asimov's dreams have come true :blink: Time to get creative... 'Lots of Lager' Over...... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 It's a pretty stupid (but text-convenient) acronym whatever meaning it has....how about 'lolZ'? And yes, soon it will be possible to communicate entirely using acros, BTWFYIOMGWTFLOLIMHO.... In the 20th century we used "O.K.", which was not an acronym but an abbreviation, probably from the Choctaw or Lakota Indian languages. And we were generally too polite to 'laugh out loud' at others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT ED Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Foe Cameron and his CRONIES LOL will stand for what ever he wants it to as long as it gets his *** of the hook. Were all in this together, yeah right. There in the money and were in the ****. [cursing] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Time to get creative... 'Lots of Lager' "Lashings of Loot" ? P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest farnsbarns Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 When I worked in travel I once had this terribly posh, old school customer on the phone. I was talking about a product called a Hahn pass. He asked me if Hahn was a TLA because he hated TLA's, I explained that Hahn was an unusual entity, registered as an IATA airline but did not operate flights, they buy seats in bulk from regional airlines to create these multistop air pass products. "what's a TLA?" I asked, "a Three Letter Acronym" he replied. After we both had little a chuckle at the irony he expressed surprise that I knew what an acronym was (yes, I sound young on the phone and British education standards have dropped that much). I gained a repeat customer who bought 2 first class round the world tickets twice yearly from that conversation! Poop. So there you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest farnsbarns Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 It's a pretty stupid (but text-convenient) acronym whatever meaning it has....how about 'lolZ'? And yes, soon it will be possible to communicate entirely using acros, BTWFYIOMGWTFLOLIMHO.... In the 20th century we used "O.K.", which was not an acronym but an abbreviation, probably from the Choctaw or Lakota Indian languages. And we were generally too polite to 'laugh out loud' at others. The story I heard was that O.K. came about as a result of a high brow ironic joke by the New York Times. I.e. it wasn't (at the time) O.K. to spell the word okay thusly: O.K. Kind of like the TLA joke above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Where Cameron and his cronies are concerned "Laugh Out Loud" is the last thing I'll do. Don't get me started......... The other option is equally appealing. P. Plan B has a crack at the government in his new tune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Depends on how you use it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Plan B has a crack at the government in his new tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8GvLKTsTuI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 To do with the London Riots last summer and just with how the Goverment are in general.. Im from East London and what they say in the video is true.. They built this whole Olympic village in one of the poorest areas in London and yet did nothing for the area apart from build pointless so called works of art that cost god knows how much. And they wonder why the people around there are peed off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Herb Caen, the long-time writer for the SF Chronicle, from as far back as the 60's used LOL to mean little old lady. That's what I always read at first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 With regard to original post (OP)... Low on Literacy... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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