Hey, Tom - do you mean "written tics" outside of obvious grammatical errors and poor spelling? (I loved those 3rd-grade-level e-mails I used to get asking if I was selling Dave Matthews Band tickets. I felt like I was in a hi-tech version of Fast Times - "No, I DON'T have any Blue Oyster Cult!")
I've always chafed against constant use of those damn emoticons. You know - ;), :), :P, %). Once in a while, okey dokey. Fifteen times in the same "conversation", I'm about to go alkdjfalkj.
Origin of such things (i.e. "Two words:", "Can you say...") - television. Bane of our existance. Glass tit. Sweet oblivion.
― David Raposa, Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:00 AM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
okey dokey
― soref, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
David Raposa was an absolutely classic poster and I shall hear no ill spoken of him
― 龜, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's pretty standard from-the-vaults type stuff & I was was only gonna include the last paragraph as the tsc part but stuff like "okey dokey" adds so much to the experience, also hints of cunty spelling & grammar nazism followed swiftly by "those blasted emoticons" followed by "existance" is just like, take a bow whoever you are
xp I'm sure you're right
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
it was a different time
― mattresslessness, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZDyMWHj.png
― 龜, Saturday, 13 December 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if I can make it through this article
― 龜, Saturday, 13 December 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kL6umQG.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 13 December 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
Elite Daily
― tweet deems ur mad f this (wins), Saturday, 13 December 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
unconvinced that any mode of meeting people is inherently more ~real than any other, real is what u make of it
― lex pretend, Monday, December 15, 2014 11:56 AM (5 hours ago)
― Mordy, Monday, 15 December 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
so annoying
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
~ next time
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 15 December 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
lol matt
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Monday, 15 December 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
Sure, I get that about automation and fragility and buying parts - but the espresso people are less "buy a receiver at the pawn shop" and more "my diamond-encrusted cable really allows me to HEAR this section of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' for the first time."
Mostly no. The difference between the espresso you get out of a top-quality commercial machine like a La Marzocco and out of a substandard quality home machine is enormous. There are pricey but not insanely pricey home machines where you can get pretty close to the Marzocco quality with the right technique. And certain factors in making espresso are pretty well-established -- pressure, temperature, grind, tamping (not to speak of the beans themselves). The best machines are simply able to produce the appropriate pressure and temperature consistently, which is surprisingly difficult. Other bells and whistles can make a difference -- the bottomless portafilter, for example, but there's a pretty commonsense reason for that one -- in a normal portafilter oils from the coffee build up and are hard to clean away. The bottomless portafilter simply eliminates that problem.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:35 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
meanwhile
http://www.unicefusa.org/press/releases/unicef-too-many-children-dying-malnutrition/8259
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:48 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― max, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
tbf that "meanwhile" could've linked to a local news story about a flatulent dog and the contrast would not have been lost
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
lol just came here to post that
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
dog might have been flatulent due to inefficiently made coffee tho
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
a new use for the tamper really
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
"I don't like mayonnaise on my sandwiches, only mustard"
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
oy amateurist
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
going to post that link after every amateurist film crit post
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
should be forced to change dn to that link
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
So the idea is that if someone is derisively called "politically correct" presumably because they are unnecessarily touchy about things. This displays a lack of self-awareness because if you are upset about someone being PC then you are being unnecessarily touchy imo.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, February 13, 2015 2:02 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
― Mordy, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
http://djconnectiontulsa.com/imgUL/doublestuff2007.jpg
― mattresslessness, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
As grotesque as fox news is, they are not the root of any of the issues we face
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship),
Actually, they are. Manufactured Consent. Chomsky. Get into it ya'll.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:19 AM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
i want to believe
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
probably safe to just credit every American song ever written to "anonymous black guy"
― Οὖτις, Friday, April 10, 2015 12:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 10 April 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
anonymous black guy's early stuff was better imo
― division of bowker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/bzLN9bL.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 10 April 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015
― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 May 2015 13:17 (nine years ago) link
Sports writing is and always will be terrible, because sports contests are extremely rule-bound and essentially near duplicates of one another in everything but the outcome of each contest. All the possible stories have been written hundreds of thousands of times. Consequently, sports writers are stuck in horrible dead end jobs they often become wretched unhappy people.― Aimless, Thursday, May 7, 2015 10:01 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Aimless, Thursday, May 7, 2015 10:01 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 May 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link
"No more unreleased material in the archives, folks, but here's a vintage recording of John Lennon laying down a shit on his toilet at Tittenhurst Park circa 1971"
"*gasps* Oh my god, such genius! What a musical colon! BEST BAND EVAAAAAAA! MUSIC HAS NOT BEEN IMPROVED SINCE THE '70s!!!11!!"
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 3:49 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
They just need to dig up the Bible verse where Jesus says it's ok to hate people and mess up your home if there's money in it.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, June 29, 2015 3:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That would require actually reading the Bible, it's way easier just to not read it and carry on being human garbage.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, June 29, 2015 3:31 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 29 June 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
let's be real here: fuck 'merit'.
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins),
― irl lol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
BB otm, 'distinction' or gtfo
― 2 jazz boys 1 jazz cup (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
yay!
I remember when we used to sitin the government yard in trenchanttownoba-oba-serving the hypocritesas they would mingle with the good people we meet
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
If a thing happens and isn't shared, did it really happen?
― calstars, Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― harold loltermeyer (rip van wanko), Sunday, 5 July 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
that is a st. vincent lyric tbf
― Zing Zinglar (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 5 July 2015 23:44 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Qeuajx0.jpg
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Sunday, 5 July 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
the dumbest philosophical thought made even dumber
― Zing Zinglar (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 5 July 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
wat if someone comes later in the wodds & the tree is lieing on ground
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 6 July 2015 10:25 (eight years ago) link
This thread is for reposts, not originals
― rahrah avis (imago), Monday, 6 July 2015 10:46 (eight years ago) link
Is that on a koozie?
― Liquid Plejades, Monday, 6 July 2015 11:32 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vCblGIh.jpg
― 龜, Thursday, 9 July 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
cool tablet w the headboard going thru the middle of it
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 9 July 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
you wdn't really need bedside lamps with the illumination coming off that thing
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
*wakes up*
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Thursday, 9 July 2015 12:36 (eight years ago) link
xpost yes it's quite similar to st. vincent lyrics, saw her pull it off live recently but it's not good reading material. arcade fire's worse though imo:
We're so connectedbut are we even friends?We fell in love when I was 19and now we're staring at a screen
― niels, Thursday, 9 July 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
sounds like a fucking parish priest sermon circa 1990 except it was instant coffee he was bemoaning - "there is no instant faith!"
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Thursday, 9 July 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
No glare for the guy who's trying to sleep, looks good.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 July 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
if you look up, the ruling classes do a shit on you. is that about the gist of it?
― peace, man, Monday, 27 December 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
i skimmed that thread and chaki had the best responses
― sarahell, Monday, 27 December 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Back in the 90's, The Simpsons made fun of America and the world. Did things that were out there because it's seem to fit the animated world.Now 33 years later, the world is becoming to like The Simpsons pic.twitter.com/jvkDeriG6C— Out of Context Simpsons Couch Gags (@OOCCouchGags) January 20, 2022
― mh, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
The real March Madness is taking place in Ukraine at the hands of Putin aggression.— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 20, 2022
― mookieproof, Sunday, 20 March 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
oof
― na (NA), Monday, 21 March 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
i was gonna say that the modern world is starting to make trenchant feel simply accurate but that's a great example of how this is still a thing
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 March 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2022/oct/04/david-squires-on-going-to-the-match-2022-ls-lowry
my god, it's full of trench
― saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
I assume Telsa will eventually use the subscription model for braking
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 October 2022 17:15 (nine minutes ago) link
the typo really makes it
― na (NA), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
A new British song (genre: folk) pic.twitter.com/L6KSuhNlPO— Jonathan Coe (@jonathancoe) April 12, 2023
― soref, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:27 (one year ago) link
I'm no expert but this doesn't read as very folky to me, if I imagine this set to music it's more like some kind of poor man's Instant Sunshine or something
― soref, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
That has made me a gbnews/fascist minion meme guy
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:39 (one year ago) link
this guy gets it
https://i.imgur.com/GoEsOb8.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 28 May 2023 10:05 (one year ago) link
it's smaller than i imagined
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 May 2023 10:07 (one year ago) link
love that
― imago, Sunday, 28 May 2023 10:31 (one year ago) link
Kids these days reserve their solemnity for Tiktok reels
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 20:04 (sixteen minutes ago) link
― na (NA), Monday, 18 December 2023 20:21 (five months ago) link