A comment popped up on an old post. I bring it you now fully intact, not modified in any way, shape or form:
serously you’s need 2 get a life the panel is feckn gas and 1 of the best shows on tv…andrew maxwell is a ledge and 1 of th best comedians around…if u dnt lik it… dnt watch it… and shut up moanin bou it
‘Aha’, I thought, ‘some simpleton has been upstairs hammering at their non-retarded sibling’s PC with their podgy, permaclenched claws’.
Then a quick look at the email address revealed that the person in question was a student at DCU – here.
Imagine someone in university actually thinks this is an acceptable way to attempt to communicate with someone else. When they rewrite the constitution in years to come it’s going to be interesting:
Th Irish nation (dat is us) ‘ereby affirm’s its inalienable, indefeasible, and feckn sovrgn right 2 chooz its own form off Gvmnt, 2 dtrmn it’s rel8ions with udder n8ions … and 2 dvlp its life, political, economic and … like … whatever, in akrdnce with its own tinkin’ and tradition’s.
God bless you, DCU, God bless you Irish universities. With your help we can maintain Ireland’s long and renowned literary reputation.
I know it shouldn’t really be a surprise that people ‘talk’ in such a way and I’m sure that when submitting essays and other such college work a more correct form of English is used. Such as THE correct form.
It still begs the question makes you wonder why people can’t, you know, just use proper English all the time. Comments like the one above are like grunting and snorting at someone instead of using words.
And The Panel is still fucking shit.
The only unforgivable sin in Ireland is to better oneself. Therefore, those of us who have brains and the smarts to use them for more than grunting at Barmen and relating sexual fantasies trying to impress equally morinic losers as they queue for the Dole – like most of the gobshites in ‘The Isalnd of Saints and Scholars’ – either get out or make damn sure our intelligence does not make us a target for infantile, jealous and the outraged sputterings of the coomon swine.
Like your politicians (excuse me while I laugh heartily) you get the education you deserve….and won’t do a tap of work to improve the standards at places like “Dummies Central Unirsity’ or ‘ reTards Collective University’
Clear now?
The only unforgivable sin in Ireland is to better oneself. Therefore, those of us who have brains and the smarts to use them for more than grunting at Barmen and relating sexual fantasies trying to impress equally morinic losers as they queue for the Dole – like most of the gobshites in ‘The Isalnd of Saints and Scholars’ – either get out or make damn sure our intelligence does not make us a target for infantile, jealous and the outraged sputterings of the common swine.
Like your politicians (excuse me while I laugh heartily) you get the education you deserve….and won’t do a tap of work to improve the standards at places like “Dummies Central Unirsity’ or ‘ reTards Collective University’
Clear now?
Damn that pesky comment button,gets me all the time..
My Missus works in a shop and they have hired a string of College graduates,each of whom are dummer than the last.
Exam smart yes,general cop on no..Not able to spell people names,for example..
“I’ll give you a ring when that item comes in,can i take your name please?”
“Yes,its,John O’Shea”
“and how are you spelling O’Shea,is that S.H.A.Y.?”
“wha?”
True story..
Gluaistean obviously thinks we are thick, so he posts his comment twice in the hope of getting in to our thick skulls. Of course, it means we get ten typo/spelling mistakes for the price of five – is anyone smart enough to spot them all? Answers on a postcard…
How much intelligence does it take to spell-check before posting?
While I am relatively neutral regarding the shitness or otherwise of ‘The Panel’, I have to agree with Twenty’s pointing out that a third level student should really be able to communicate in a more effective manner. Back in the old days (before the invention of text messages) I attended DCU, and the proper use of language wasn’t the sole preserve of the Applied Linguistic students!
The bottom line is: if you are too lazy to at least try to use proper grammar, spelling and typing, don’t bother posting at all.
Well if we’re going to get over the top about grammar, then you should know twenty, that to “Beg the question” really means to render it invalid. In other words to “beggar the question” meaning it has no value, rather than begging for an answer which is the common misunderstanding of the term.
Yes I’m a Cunt…and I hate the fucking panel
I know someone who is doing their PhD at the minute and she doesn’t even have basic computer skills. Can’t format a document, is very nervous about using email and doesn’t know how to do basic searches with any of the search engines. It makes me wonder!
I am well practised in deciphering text messages and emails from those of us who were ’round the back of the bike sheds during English class. I’d consider myself an expert. In fact, that kind of bad spelling, grammar and punctuation doesn’t kill me. IT MAKES ME STRONGER.
I was ‘rounnd the back of the bike sheds too, but in an advisory capacity.
Every time someone uses that kind of language, a puppy is raped, Sweary. You grow strong on puppy rape.
Ta, Molson. I did not know that.
I tried reading the explanation for the “beg the question” phrase on wikipedia and nearly keeled over.
Dear Twenty,
I wouldn’t want to call you naive or out of touch with the “yoof” of today but regardless of whether they are DCU/university students or kids that barely scraped their Junior Cert and then left school, ALL of them use text-speak when communicating through technology (either online or by mobile phone). ‘Tis sad but true but this is the variation on the English language that has been adopted by all kids of the mobile age.
Even though I’m practically middle aged in the eyes of these kids (32), I occasionally text “C U later” when I’m texting to shorten the text message though I tend to avoid texting as much as is possible: handy and convenient it may be, but the process of typing in the message bugs the cr4p out of me…
Change happens. I’m sure there were many people who hated Yeats and co for introducing their “Kiltartanese” version of English too but life is transient and fluid and we need to be able to roll with the punches.
Hope this hasn’t been too much of a shock to you… wouldn’t want a total KO.
Urz,
Jewels
People who use txt spk continuously, should have some fingers removed to provide justification.
when I’m texting to shorten the text message though I tend to avoid texting as much as is possible
But they invented predictive text so that you don’t even have to type out individual letters anymore.
It’s no more difficult to type “see you later” than “C U L8R”.
quick test on my phone.
correct spelling (predictive on): 14 button presses
shortened spelling (predictive off) : 17 button presses
Jewels, I’m aware that they all do it, that doesn’t make it right. It stupidises a whole generation.
L8rs,
20
For some reason textspeak reminds me of mortally wounded cattle.
That’s quite surreal. Any particular reason why?
Like the last scene in the Movie “Apocalypse Cow”?
Maybe because of the cold weather. He’s friesian.
not sure, maybe just incomprehensible braying of dumb animals.
hnaaarhhhhhhh, mnnnuuuaahhhhhh itz gr8 n dz nteclub. mmmmmmmnuuuaaarrrrhghhhh
Mad cows
Puppies have to learn the facts of life from somewhere, Twenty.
Hah, morgor, I know what you mean.
I think the die was cast long before college though – it’s not really their job to teach spelling and gramar, though when I got to first year, it was such a problem that they gave a couple classes on it.
School is the issue though, primary and pre junior cert. After that it’s all to late, you’re just struggling to teach the Leaving curriculum.
and the little fuckers just ignore the correction and explanation – they just don’t get it. Apostrophes, there/thier etc.
What freaks me out is the mistakes that show they just don’t understand the language, the one we SPEAK, things like ‘could of. They just don’t understand what the words are for.
And they don’t care!
Ah now.
I used to frequent an online video game forum where the average age was 19 (I, too, was 19. Ewww, I’m not a PERVE) and seriously, they were the greatest bunch of grammar Nazis you could ever break into a smile for.
Gave me hope for humanity, it did.
On predictive text; that assumes you can spell in the first place, which is why so many of us prefer to type K SO C U L8RZ TB! Also, I hate spilling over into 2 text messages. I’m not giving Meteor another 5 cents for half a closing and an exclamation mark!
I hv a dreem dat 1 day dis nation will riz up n live out the troo meaning of dis creed “We hold deez trooths 2 b self-evident, dat all fellas are da same.”
Free at last, free at last, tnks god, we r free at last. lolz
Also, I hate spilling over into 2 text messages.
I’m the same.
I might be pedantic, but I’m thrifty first and foremost.
Unless it comes to drinking … obviously.
I would certainly modify my text to prevent two messages being sent but would never use txtspk to do so.
I dont care if it takes three texts to get the message across.. I’m a wee bit pedantic about the text speak..
I agree. The Panel is crap. It’s like a dinner party where everyone’s desperately trying to impress everyone else by being droll and oh-so-enlightened. The same lame liberal clichés time after time. Delamere transcends that a bit, but the rest sound like they’re auditioning for a broadsheet gossip column. And indeed, broadsheet gossip columnists frequently appear on the show. Yuck. And NOT funny.
I have to confess that I am (sadly) of the txtr generation. However, I do care about grammar, spelling and punctuation, too!
The only thing that saved me from becoming just like “them” is my perceived superiority. I just simply don’t (and never did) “hang out” with people “my age” and I choose to believe that they, in general, are stupid and disgusting, and homo sapiens sapiens in large groups (of more than 5) are most likely to reduce themselves to the level of homo itdiotus.
My best friend is one Irish woman, age 48, with masters in English and French and with fluent Irish who used to be a playwright and just entertains herself by having a glass of wine to many on a Wednesday night while she reminds me of the definite articles that I keep on forgetting about.
Thank God for my ego, it saved me after all!
(BTW, I’m Polish myself and I came here to steal your jobs.)
I dont want to be seen to be agreeing with you, but I cant bring my self to type in things like “C U Later” I have to type it long hand. Text speak irritates me, but I had a passionate english teacher at school who tried to instill in his pupils a reverence for the language, and an adventurous (but technically correct) use of it.
and anybody can miss a spelling mistake.
and as for The Panel…
>>”…andrew maxwell is a ledge and…”
…and let’s hope the cunt falls off it!
BTW, I’m Polish myself and I came here to steal your jobs
you must be very disappointed.
“when submitting essays and other such college work a more correct form of English is used”
Well, not really. You won’t find good English used below Phd level, in my experience.
These days Phd level is about the standard of your average honours English Leaving Cert student up to the mid-1980s. I’ve read very poor MA essays which have been given a once-over with the spell-checker, so they completely miss words they’ve used in the wrong context.
Not at all Morgor, I still have a job, and they pay well. I have to admit, this boosts my ego even more.
I’ve been here over three years, and maybe I’ll stay longer, only there has to be something done about that weather!
And yes, the choice of TV shows is not the best either.
Polish TV is better?!
I’ve read very poor MA essays which have been given a once-over with the spell-checker, so they completely miss words they’ve used in the wrong context
Haha, that must be funny though.
Soupy Norman
Ha, Twenty, you got me there. Polish TV is shite, too.
I stumbled upon a list of metaphors from essays recently. Some of them were really good, like:
“Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.”
“The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.”
And my personal favourite:
“The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.”
Imagine, the cunt was stupid enough to leave his real e mail. Or was he, was he winding you up ? Or should that be up winding you ?
Anyhow, texting should be illegal, I’ve said it for years, Mobile phones should be banned. OK, I know they can cause health problems for the cunts foolish enough to use them, I’ll bet that Jade carried hers up her whatsit (who’s laughing now ? ), but that’s not enough to offset the damage they are doing to the fabric of society.
One of the many things that bothers me about those sort of abbreviations is
a) In most situations, there is now no need to shorten your text messages in order to save money. Certainly, all pay-as-you-go phones on all networks now have free texts to any network (although what the hell is “fair usage”?).
b) on the Internet, you never run out of space for what you want to write (cf. most of the Internet). Why would you need to abbreviate ANYTHING?
Also. I can occasionally let a spelling mistake slide, especially if it is a typo. But the apostrophes- why why why? It is not a hard rule, once you learn it!!! It annoys me so much it drives me to multiple exclamation marks.
“Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.”
That’s my favourite.
Like any family, this house had its secrets, secrets it grimly refused to reveal, and would continue to refuse to reveal even if it could speak, which unlike a family, or at least most members of most families, it couldn’t.
OMFGLNW
“Oh, Jason, take me!” she panted, her breasts heaving like a student on 31p-a-pint night.”
That seems strangely appropriate.
“that must be funny though”
Only in a hair-rending, apoplectic fit kind of way.
She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
JJ – this filth has to stop!
There was something funny about the kidnapping crime scene that Special Agent Frievald couldn’t quite place, and the thought stuck with him throughout the rest of the day, like those tiny little bits of the circumferent skin from the bologna slices on a foot-long Subway Cold Cut Trio that get stuck in between the last two molars on the upper left, on the tongue side where you can’t possibly reach them with a toothpick, your fingernails, or even a systematically straightened paper clip, they just sit there and make everything you eat at your next meal taste vaguely like vinegar and mayonnaise, and then somehow — quietly but miraculously — they disappear by themselves in the middle of the night while you’re asleep, just like the visiting Countess appeared to have done.
Hmmm, bad metaphors might be worth a post – let’s see how creative some of you are.
Fill3rup – my version mentions British beef :>
Maggot, at least it’s educated and well spelled filth!
Nice one,get us to do the work.. I have a job thanks very much…
JJ – you will corrupt Twenty and I don’t think his prostate is upto it these days. And I dread to think what it will do to Jo!
Evil – a growth industry!
(oh how I like corrupting people!)
I bet Twenty will do just fine :>
Job, job, yes, I need to steal Irish jobs, yess…thanks for reminding me Fill3rup!
Like a Job monster,so to speak.. Devouring employment opportunites like Gerry Ryan at a Baby eating competition..
I said it before (in the forum) and I’ll say it again, people who abbreviate all the time need to be c’d in the b.
Only until I become a millionaire! (which I estimate will happen in some 12-18 months)
Then you can have my job, if you can handle it!
Some kind of Lotto scam JJ?? heh.
Nah, I’m gonna sell my soul to the internet.
He sat there, blank page in front of him, desperate for something to come to mind, something that might work, something constructive that could enlighten people and inspire them. Like a blogger blanked, Brian Cowen just couldn’t produce the goods.
Phlomski ganced at his classic Timex. It was late. Late like an overdue train with Keith Moon, Buddy Holly, and Jimi Hendrix together in a first class compartment, rehearsing ‘Have I Told You Lately’ for the Late Late Show.
Twenty tried to reason with Traffic warden,who must have been having a bad day because he had already filled out all details in his ticket book,leaving just the space for the Licence plate numbers,he intended on filling that book today.Seeing this Twenty realised that his protestaions were like a field mouse having a knife fight with a Blue Whale,utterly pointless….
Here’s hoping for Real Madrid 3 – Scouse gits 0 tonught!
Twenty, you have brought up the topic of my favourite hobby horse.
A friend of mine is an associate professor at a famous Irish university and I believe what he calls “grade inflation” is giving him an ulcer.
It’s a recent phenomenon. Things like not knowing the difference between “there” and “their”, “here” and “here” and, my favourite, “loose” and “lose”.
Things used to be different. One professor who taught me was a terrible stickler for good grammar and stylistic writing – and his subject was geography. He wrote, and is still writing, beautiful prose even when he is discussing things like climatology, besides being a hell of a good teacher.
As for punctuation, I’d like to recommend the book:
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!
It’s a great read and very funny.
Thats a good one Maggot…
“Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.”
http://mistupid.com/people/page027.htm
Correction: “here” and “here” , should be “here” and “hear”.
I’m the pot calling the kettle black arse.
Wishful thinking maggot. Liverpool will win 2-0 tonight
I’m not going to get to see it Peadar..
My blood pressure is happy..happy like a condemned….ah fuck it,im not doing anymore Twenty,you tricked me the last Two times..Fool me twice..you wont get fooled again..
he smiled the toothsome smile of a very toothy priest who has just had a twelve year old hand slipped through his zipper..
(sorry I just saw ‘Doubt’)
Fintan, I thought you were being incredibly subtle there.
I deal with so-called graduates every day and they are fucking idiots. They don’t listen, they assume they are right. If you tell them someone is not correct, they think you are lying to them. They’ve had it too good and too easy the last ten years.
(slippers, pipe, smelly dog).
(slippers, pipe, smelly dog).
Leave me out of it Holemaster
C’mon Peadar – they’ll throw the match if necessary just so they can whine – I hate Liverpooh (sic), the cunts!
Take the football talk elsewhere, I want to moan about dumb cunts.
Holemaster Says:
March 10th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
“Fintan, I thought you were being incredibly subtle there.”
Thanks, I try …
I agree with you a lot. It has been too easy for many in the past ten years – actually more like 15. Maybe a long spell of hardship will inspire improvement.
My own experience is different – because I spend a good deal of time outside Ireland. I’ve done a lot of editing of texts, PhD and master’s theses, written by non-native speakers (including one Nobel prizewinner), and many of them are more correct to begin with than what under- and postgraduates in Ireland are turning out.
I’m not a racist,but i agree with Holemaster. heh
What’s all the fuss about racism? It’s part if our Irish Cultural Heritage.
Misuse of English is even funnier when it results from inept translation, word-for-word with the aid of a dictionary. One example I once saw was on a brass plate beside a washbasin in a hotel toilet.
In the original language it said: “To prevent dripping, turn tap tightly clockwise.” The English translation read: “To stop the drip, twist cock hard to right.”
maggot Says:
March 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
What’s all the fuss about racism? It’s part if our Irish Cultural Heritage.
–
I can’t remember very many words of wisdom that John Wayne uttered, but in one of his movies he said: “Racism is hating in the plural.”
Maggot:tis a running joke.. Start a random staement with the pre-fix “I’m not a racist,but..” the sentence following should be as benign as possible with no references to anything racial..example:
I’m not a racist but King Crisps are the dogs bollox..
I am a rapist and I disagree with holemaster
I have been following this blog for over a year now and have enjoyed reading people’s comments and various points of view, while always being too nervous to put forward my own.
So, firstly, hello.
I am a 23 year old NUIG undergrad student, and I absolutely abhor text speak, even in text messages, and seeing it typed on a computer screen or written on a page is enough to enrage me for the entire day. Facebook status updates are the main offenders. This appeared on my news feed yesterday from a person who provides me with my daily dose of internet rage:
XXXX thinkin 4 daze till i’m 24, Oh sheet, i iz gettn old………. 10:21pm – Comment – Like
Daze. DAZE. I’m not a violent person, but seeing this sort of thing makes me want to invest in a bayonet.
While I wholeheartedly agree that third level institutions are fast becoming safe houses for the dimwitted – the recent disgraceful conduct displayed in NUIG during rag week is testament to that – I would ask that you don’t tar all us students with the same brush. Indeed, some of us hate the obnoxious Bulmers swilling fuckwits as much as you do.
John looked in the cupboard, it was empty, as empty as a starving African’s belly which, although it looks full is simply distended due to malnutrution and is, in fact, as empty as John’s cupboard, apart from all the gases that cause the belly to distend in the first place.
I’m not being racist – Video
Indeed, some of us hate the obnoxious Bulmers swilling fuckwits as much as you do.
Splendid!
Bulmers, a Tankard of Cunt Juice.
robocons, don’t be shy. If your first post is anything to go by, you have a lot to say that is well worth reading.
What Fintan said..
“Indeed, some of us hate the obnoxious Bulmers swilling fuckwits as much as you do.
Splendid!”
Oh, so it’s safe for me to admit I’m 22 and I study part-time?
Admit what you want. It’s not like anyone on here has a great memory and will use it as a stick to beat you for all time.
…except for Trunky McElephant..he has a good memory and enjoys beating people with sticks..
..i could be making Trunky up though..
Fuck you Fill3rup,you know damn well I exist,I’ll beat you!!! I’ll beat you good with my memory stick!!!!
Haha, the avatar works off your email address!
D’oh…Maybe Hugh was right :(
Right! Off to suck an exhaust pipe it is!
I have split personality.
Me too.
People, I think you’ll find those are similes, in the main.
For Gods sake Trunky, get your own avatar!
The thieving pre-historic bastard…
How’s this for a facebook status update?
“W3LL ii DNT R3LLii CAR3 WHA P3OPL3 THiiNK Im Nt Lukin 4 Nytink Yh..Mii Hed Is Fkd Up @ DaMoment..Plz Respct Tha”
Interchangeable caps lock, 3′s instead of e’s – but only sometimes, Nt instead of ‘not’, hed instead of head. It’s only 1 extra letter, please please type it…
I can’t believe people actually communicate like this. I’m not sure I can translate it into English, even when I add in the missing or incorrect letters.
yeah, but his head is fucked up at the moment, so yo should respect that :)
It must take more effort to type that garbage out though.It cant be for time management reasons could it?
You’re a Time Management expert Twenty,what do you think?
I blame rap music. It’s for retards.
For example “that’s the way I are” by Timbaland.
I’d like to release a pisstake called “That’s the way I am” by “the land of timber”.
My name keeps changing now..thats quite annoying..
Schizotrunk.
heh
Why the double “i” instead of “y”?
ugh.
Ebay sells bayonets.
Just sayin’.
Ebay sells bayonets.
Just sayin’.
A can of deodourant and a lighter make a handy flamethrower at a pinch …
Not that people with bad grammar should have their faces burned . . . ha … that’d be crazy.
DO IT.
Trunky would..after beating them with his Tb memory stick…
Trunky McElephant (I hope that’s not what you call it Fill3rup).
His friends might be…
Stripy McZebra
Spotty McLeopard
Chubby McHippo
Slimey McEel
Maybe Trunky’s trunk could throw flame also.
Modified elephant = tank.
Bad grammar + melty faces = OMGWTFBBQ
Simile: His hole was like a June rose; large and red and glistening.
Metaphor: Her hole, it is a June Rose, her anal emissions the only perfume.
Yes an Eco Friendly Tank– Inhale petrol for Flamethrower Mode
Inhale water for Portable Shower mode..
His mate Horny McRhino lover the shower function
Yes an Eco Friendly Tank– Inhale petrol for Flamethrower Mode
Inhale water for Portable Shower mode..
His mate Horny McRhino loves the shower function
Heh
Humpy McCamel
Crafty McFox
Fianna Fáil TD
Cunty McRyan – 2FM presenter
I think it’s just the way it is now, like it or not. The worse you spell, the cooler you are…if Shakespeare were alive now, he’d probably have written Hamlet’s speech like this:
“2 BE R NT 2 BE THT IS TH QSTN WHTHR TS NBLR IN TH MND 2 SFFRTH SLNGS AND ARRWS OF OUTRGOUS FRT NR 2 TK ARMS AGAINST A SEA OF TROUBLS ND BY OPPSNG END THM?
etc etc.
I heard Barrymore has changed his name…
Rapey McBoohoo
To what, Drowny McPoolbugger?
Itchy McFlea
Ben Doon and Phil McCavity
All of the above…
Lippy McCowen
Shooty McDissident
Twenty Major Says:
March 10th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Cunty McRyan – 2FM presenter
—
Aw, Twenty, why are you being so sarcastic about poor Gerry? The man who invented the idea of saying “knickers” in every second sentence and referring to “Mrs. Ryan” in every third?
And who expects no more than a piddling €50,000 or so a month as a salary for regaling the real swine of Ireland with false pearls every day? And not a penny more – or less!
Twenty, it’s a pity you can’t recognise altruistic genius when you hear it. LOL
Magoo: Patrick FitzWilliam and William FitzPatrick.
Sorry, I had to actually do some work today.
What’s going on? Something McSomething?
Diddly McSquat
Wordy McGames
Anyone else having problems accessing the forum?
I can’t get in. I’m getting a message saying “trying to update – hang tight” ?????
Jason McAteer
Twenty is doing a bit of tinkering with the software to stop all the trolling cunts that have been popping up lately..should be back in a while
What do I win?
Handy McShandy
Cunty McBastard
Forum should be open again. It’ll look a bit weird, will work on that. Also, the avatars didn’t copy across so you’ll have to do that bit again yourselves.
I can’t log in. I must have been cunted.
Sorry to go back on topic so late in the day, but that fount of all knowledge, Fry McStephen, likes textspeak, as per bbcnews… I hate the bejaysus out of it but if the fry says it’s ok who am I to argue?!
You look at a letter written by a 17th or 18th century letter writer, and you’ll see far more abbreviation.
Lord Byron would appreciate the poetic potential of text messages
There’s barely a word that isn’t compressed because paper was expensive and ink was expensive, and to get your letter franked cost a lot of money – a Member of Parliament or member of the aristocracy were the only people who could do it.
And so letters were, as they say, crossed. You’d look at them writing horizontally and then there’d be vertical lines all the way down and round the margins. And ‘your’ is ‘YR’, you know just as it is in a text. It’s exactly the same point – you’re compressing. And the same quality.
Read Byron’s letters. Never was a mind more perfectly expressed and yet in this fantastically compressed form.
I can’t log in. I must have been cunted.
Email has gone out – you need to reset your password.
To get on topic, obviously that particular student is a ledgebag and does NOT represent the entire DCU student body as a whole.
Or at least he doesn’t represent me.
Send me on his e-mail, and I’ll track him down and whack him one.
It might not be a he.
“2 dtrmn it’s rel8ions with udder n8ions”.
Hey, you leave Scotland and Wales out of this. We have our own problems, ‘k?
I disagree though. Andrew Maxwell is snarfsome. And kinda cayoot in a funny-looking way.
I don’t know who Andrew Maxwell is but he’s guilty by association.
His friend who is not a comedian is actually much funnier.
Oo, Sam, no… he’s funny alright, but his hair is odd – like a combover, but not bald…
having said that, I can see him being a bit of a goer.
Holemaster sounds like he’s trying to tell us he knows him.
Starfucker.
Heh. No I don’t, only know his mate and I didn’t fuck him.
C’mon HM,Maxwell’s fucked everyone,you can see it in his eyes.
I=retrd lol
That’s a little poem, B’.
And a PC play, I, Retard.
A friend in my Postgrad class turned to me today and said “I don’t really like to read or write at all.” And she’s not lying, she reads with all the speed of a special Olympic hurdler and can’t spell or punctuate for shit.
I couldn’t help but turn to her and say “Well, how and why did you get this fucking far?”
Andrew McSwell is alot funnier then RTE broadcast him to be I’m told.
n e tyme i c da pan3l tho, i lulz n lulz
“I don’t really like to read or write at all.”
Wow. I thought that sort of stuff only went on in Fás.
My brother did a short course there and was asked the philosophical question (in a thick Kerry accent)
“What are ya readin’ for? Sure that’s what they invented fillums for.lad*”
*artistic embellishment.
Bill Hicks?
Ha, yeah i heard Bill Hicks version of that in a café or something.
But this was a random hick saying it, and i’m pretty sure it wasn’t a subtle nod to Bill Hicks.
Good to hear about it actually happening though..or is it bad??
Bad bad bad.
That reminds me, I went to order a book in Hughes and Hughes once, because it was nowhere to be found. So I’m there, standing between the children section and the fantasy section (they changed it since, though) and I tell the girl what I want. And she goes “soul forge, how do you spell that? ok, ok, ok, yes, I see it, out of print, no, hold on… you said dragon lace?” “Dragonlance”
“How do ou spell that?”
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We’re not all bad. But yes it is rather infuriating when people use this txtspk all the time, particularly when on a computer where there’s no limit on the characters you can use. I think it began when text messages could only be a certain length, but that isn’t really the case anymore.
or is it bad??
funny bad.
subtle nod to bill hicks=more of a prick than not reading at all
Been reading your blog for a while now twenty, feel a bit like that awkward kid in school hanging around the edge of the cool group and vying for social acceptance by leaving a comment, but here goes. Social opprobrium awaits…
Id be prone to leaving out the odd vowel myself in order to avoid the second text, but text speak went too far the day my mother replied to a text (fully spelled out for the poor old dear, lest she not understand) with “tnx luv cu l8r” What?? Papa murph is the real gem, though – says he will never own a mobile phone as they are single handedly bringing about the moral degradation of modern society and have lead to the loss of all values humans should hold dear. Namely being on time. Some would have thought there were more important ones, but each to their own…
(post read through twice to avoid their/there mixups)
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divneymathers’ comment is the only solution to it.