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les24preludes

Forum GOD!
This thread has gone strange.
I hope so....

Can we really live in a world where you have to use emoticons because irony has atrophied and everyone thinks you're being serious?

Can we really live in a world where you have to use canned laughter because comedians are no longer funny?

Can we really live in a world where you have to say LOL when you laugh?

Surrealism exploded after the carnage of the 1st World War because it needed to tell us how absurd our view of reality was.
 

Randomangle

Über Bum
I hope so....

Can we really live in a world where you have to use emoticons because irony has atrophied and everyone thinks you're being serious?

Can we really live in a world where you have to use canned laughter because comedians are no longer funny?

Can we really live in a world where you have to say LOL when you laugh?

Surrealism exploded after the carnage of the 1st World War because it needed to tell us how absurd our view of reality was.
Emoji not emoticon. ;-)
 

Randomangle

Über Bum
I hope so....

Can we really live in a world where you have to use emoticons because irony has atrophied and everyone thinks you're being serious?

Can we really live in a world where you have to use canned laughter because comedians are no longer funny?

Can we really live in a world where you have to say LOL when you laugh?

Surrealism exploded after the carnage of the 1st World War because it needed to tell us how absurd our view of reality was.
Your questions are ones that have passed through this mind too. I don’t think it will go back to before the emoticon/emoji explosion and there is a definite shift towards not using capital letters and punctuation. It is all going down the toilet. Sorry if my earlier comment seemed too corrective. (I could end with an emoji ... but feel it inappropriate.)
 

Wayne

Forum Sod
Your questions are ones that have passed through this mind too. I don’t think it will go back to before the emoticon/emoji explosion and there is a definite shift towards not using capital letters and punctuation. It is all going down the toilet. Sorry if my earlier comment seemed too corrective. (I could end with an emoji ... but feel it inappropriate.)
99.9% of what I say on here is firmly tongue in cheek and means zero insult to anyone, I have a sarcastic slant to my humour which can be taken the wrong way especially by younger members who take everything far to literally, they tend to see the written word as black and white and without a nice little picture on the end to highlight it was a joke tend to take it the wrong way. In their world emoji's are important to set the tone of the message sent.
 

Randomangle

Über Bum
99.9% of what I say on here is firmly tongue in cheek and means zero insult to anyone, I have a sarcastic slant to my humour which can be taken the wrong way especially by younger members who take everything far to literally, they tend to see the written word as black and white and without a nice little picture on the end to highlight it was a joke tend to take it the wrong way. In their world emoji's are important to set the tone of the message sent.
I agree with you Wayne, I too have a similar sense of humour and I have got into bother in the real world a few times because of it. I always manage to get out of it without being thumped on the hooter ... though it has been very close a couple of times.
 

les24preludes

Forum GOD!
I agree with you Wayne, I too have a similar sense of humour and I have got into bother in the real world a few times because of it. I always manage to get out of it without being thumped on the hooter ... though it has been very close a couple of times.
I fell foul of the moderators on another shaving forum last week. I asked "does the world really need another 5 Top Soaps thread?", the OP called me names, some other guy told me to relax. Then when I posted "Are you ordering me to enjoy myself...?" all the posts were deleted. Now the world has yet another "5 Top Soaps" thread........

Of course, moderators are lovely people, fond of flowers, kind to animals, love their mothers.......how could they ever be wrong. Damn, just realised this forum has moderators too........ At this point I should insert a smiley, but since I've never ever done so I don't know how. Please don't tell me.....
 
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Wayne

Forum Sod
I fell foul of the moderators on another shaving forum last week. I asked "does the world really need another 5 Top Soaps thread?", the OP called me names, some other guy told me to relax. Then when I posted "Are you ordering me to enjoy myself...?" all the posts were deleted. Now the world has yet another "5 Top Soaps" thread........

Of course, moderators are lovely people, fond of flowers, kind to animals, love their mothers.......how could they ever be wrong. Damn, just realised this forum has moderators too........ At this point I should insert a smiley, but since I've never ever done so I don't know how. Please don't tell me.....
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