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I miss punctuation!!
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Jun 16, 2010 07:21AM
Has anyone noticed (mostly on FB) that people are completely doing without punctuation? Even in long rants there's no commas, periods, question marks...nothing!! How the fuck am I supposed to know what you're talking about? It's bad enough you don't spell things out and I have to guess at your dumb lolspeak. I need punctuation, bitches! Haters, help me come up with a solution. I want to start harassing people who don't use punctuation on facebook. I'm now to the point where I'm either going to deactivate my account or start being myself on there. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
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It is because they're posting from their phones and are too lazy to go to the little punctuation menu.
OH. well, that kind of makes sense, Sally. I thought you could only post to facebook with a smartphone and they all have qwerty keyboards. So what's your excuse, Teresa?
inversely exclamation marks are making a major come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I vote for the 2nd. I'm already ignoring EVERYONE on facebook so it wouldn't be much of a movement on my part. I really want something clever and succinct, yet biting, that I can post after every long-winded flipping status update that needs punctuation but doesn't have it. It's really quite dangerous! Especially the lack of periods. "Don't get punked by punctuation!"
As long as you use periods I'm ok. I can usually infer the commas.
I ignore so many people on Facebook it is obscene. It is really just my news reader for the NYT and NPR.
It's much easier people, if you don't use your real name or photo on FB. Just saying.
Tom wrote: "Or avoid using facebook alltogether."That's the smart way to go. Unfortunately FB is the primary means of communication for most of my siblings, and heaven help me, I like 'em.
But how do they know you're communicating with them if you use a fake name and picture?
I email them and say "Hey numbnuts, this is your brother Rusty." And yes, some cousins have figured out who I am, but it's easy to block their input if their posts get too gay.
See, that just seems like a slippery slope. Everyone would pass the word around that Sally is really "Big Mama Thunder 34" and then they still know all I'm up to, and that I'm trying to hide it too.
I'm not really one to write updates of what I've been up to. I email my siblings via FB, and for some reason they respond quicker than they do through regular email channels. I don't spend a lot of time on there. I still don't know what a poke or a nudge or whatever, is - and I'm okay with that.
Yeah, I get it. You want to see what they're doing without anyone seeing what you're doing. You probably dress in black and peek in people's windows, too.
You probably dress in black and peek in people's windows, too. WAY too risky around here-- you could get shot at. Instead, you buy a house at the top of a hill, and a telescope. Or so i hear.
Gretchen wrote: "Yeah, I get it. You want to see what they're doing without anyone seeing what you're doing. You probably dress in black and peek in people's windows, too."No, I want to keep up with me siblings (and they know who I am). I could give a shit what thre rest of them are up to.
STOP WITH THE SCOTTISH ACCENT YE DAMN FOOL!
I said I'd keep it to a minimum, not cut it out completely. Thank you though, this actually reminds me that it has been over a year since I last watched Braveheart. It's embarrassing, really. While I'm on the subject, my clan was closely associated with Robert the Bruce's clan. Someone from my clan actually went to Rome to plead Bruce's case when the pope was considering excommunicating him, just because he murdered somebody in a church.
What frosts my nuts is seeing handouts or flyers my kids bring home from their teachers with punctuation and/or spelling errors.
OK, I'm anal about that stuff anyway but these are the people we've entrusted to educate the little darlings?
OK, I'm anal about that stuff anyway but these are the people we've entrusted to educate the little darlings?
I love that movie.
That movie works better than any sleeping pill on the market.
Is that the movie that made William Wallace a Protestant 200-300 years before Protestantism was invented?
@Gretchen: With good reason.@Sally: You're such a girl.
@Tom: And Wallace never even met that princess chick. I don't watch the movie for historical accuracy. I watch it for ass-kicking.
The other night on TV, I saw some CG text that had the possessive of "it" as "it's."
What am I saying here:whats that in the road a head mother
I watch it for ass-kicking....and lovely scottish accents.
If it's not scott'sh, it's crap!
That was the only good thing to ever come out of soccer and it's hooligans.
I love the word hooligan. That's what my dad called every boy I knew in high school.
"ITS hooligans," goddamit!Or were you messing with me, Serv? If so, well played, sir.
Rusty wrote: "Now let's get pissed drunk."Don't you mean to say "shit-faced"? Or perhaps "rat-arsed"? I think you're falling short of the visual poetry your countrymen famously bestow upon the falling-down, puking drunk.
(Apologies for any extranneous punctuation in the above.)
Doni wrote: "Rusty wrote: "Now let's get pissed drunk."Don't you mean to say "shit-faced"? Or perhaps "rat-arsed"? I think you're falling short of the visual poetry your countrymen famously bestow upon the ..."
It's a quote from SNL.
I know. So what? Don't hide behind your worship of major pop culture icons, sir, cute though it is.
