...language.

[Tom]

I hate bad and imprecise language, especially in public places from paid sources. I was standing in the meat section (mmmm...meat) of a local grocery chain. The video monitor they have overhead was running it's little advertising loop, and i heard the phrase "made with real ingredients." My first thought was, "what? No imaginary ingredients?" I guess it's just advertising, use appealing and comforting words to generate positive interest without saying anything at all. It still bugs me.

I hate crappy little two-paragraph internet articles on alleged news websites that are badly written, badly edited, and provide minimal information about what their subject. Whatever happened to who, what, where, when and why in a good article? And someone gets paid to write this stuff?

I hate "LOL." It's not so bad, i suppose (though i have no enthusiasm for it), when it's used to indicate something someone else said is funny. It bugs the crap out of me though, when people put it at the end of their OWN posts to indicate to OTHER people that they're supposed to laugh. Of course, i find text-speak and leet-speek irritating and annoying in general.


Why yes, i am a curmudgeon.

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A while back in Blockbuster I saw a little tray of candy-filled baby bottles. Once purchased, you could suck the sticky goo out of the bottle, which is disturbing enough. I guess I was making a face at it because the cashier laughed (LOL'd) and told me to read the tray:

with real baby nipple!

GROSS!!!!!!!!!!

[Tom]

That reminds me 'Tambo...when i ran a toy store we sold an item called "Time to eat baby." MMmmmmm....tasty, delicious baby.

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Egads.

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Hey look! It's Tom and King Dinosaur of the future!

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*curtsies*

[Ross]

That stuff is awesome... people who write things like "drink's for only $3" tend to piss me off, but on the whole when people write stupid things i find it exiting..... there may be something seriously wrong with me.
check out p 11 & 12 of this pdf for fucked up writing... "manic typo mutherfucker":
http://web.archive.org/web/2004072312...