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[Grizzlyjin]

idk, my bff Jill?

 

[joelseph]

Unless it's with each other, I don't see any other way.

Oh shit yeah dude, I am totally right there with you. Fuck them losers.

 

[Angry Grimace]

You realize that Professor could probably get tenure by publishing an article about the posts written in this thread up to this point.

 

[Manp]

i have a couple of good friends addicted to CS that keep saying "lol" instead of actually laughing when something funny is brought up.

it feels really awkward at times, especially when other people start giving them funny looks

 

[ToxicAdam]

I think it's just an extension of the 80's when everybody watched too much tv and VHS movies and became obsessed with catchphrases. So, even the most benign commercials became memes and a part of pop culture. "Where's the Beef", "When EF Hutton speaks .. people listen". "Time to make the donuts." Then skit shows like SNL, In Living Color and KITH became the main drivers of catchphrases.

With the dilution of television (due to 1000 channels) and the rise of the internet .. it's just kind of carried over into this new medium where everyone spends too much time on.

 

[Dyno]

I almost never use the internet stuff in real life but one time I was with a bud at a bar and...

"So did you see Superbad?
"Yeah I saw it."
"So did you lool?"
"Oh yeah, I looled a few times."

Then from across the bar is PURE pointdexter starts spitting up his drink laughing, trying not to look at us but looking at us. I think he wanted to come over to our table and sit with us, as if someone how a bond had been created but instead we were like "FUCKING NERD! FUCKING NERRRRD!!!" Until the waitress threatened to kick us out.

 

[Dyno]

I think it's just an extension of the 80's when everybody watched too much tv and VHS movies and became obsessed with catchphrases. So, even the most benign commercials became memes and a part of pop culture. "Where's the Beef", "When EF Hutton speaks .. people listen". "Time to make the donuts." Then skit shows like SNL, In Living Color and KITH became the main drivers of catchphrases.

With the dilution of television (due to 1000 channels) and the rise of the internet .. it's just kind of carried over into this new medium where everyone spends too much time on.

Woah that's pretty astute!

 

[nestea]

Oh shit yeah dude, I am totally right there with you. Fuck them losers.

Honestly though, it's one thing to post on message boards and partake in the culture. It's another thing to bring it up in class and publicly embarrass yourselves over it.

 

[Angry Grimace]

i have a couple of good friends addicted to CS that keep saying "lol" instead of actually laughing when something funny is brought up.

it feels really awkward at times, especially when other people start giving them funny looks

The only way you can say that is if it's a word used sarcastically like "Roflcopter" or "lolocaust"

 

[Manp]

The only way you can say that is if it's a word used sarcastically like "Roflcopter" or "lolocaust"

well i guess it makes even less sense in our case since English is not our language

 

[Sol..]

I reference memes all the time in real life....but in a hipster, creative loafing kind of way.

Most of the time nobody knows what i'm talking about and if they do....they think it comes from some TV/Movie entertainment source.

and i go to a mid level tech school.

but then again this is the engineering department. Perhaps i should try the computer science department where everybody smells like eggnog.

 

[Angry Grimace]

well i guess it makes even less sense in our case since English is not our language

You can't even use an internet meme like that to someone that gets it becuase it's so old and stock. It has to be someone who understand wat "Rofl" and "lol" is, but hasn't heard that expression used, like most chicks.

The fact is, a guy that uses net memes in real life is only about 2 levels higher than guy that quotes the Matrix and the Simpsons all the time.

 

[sixteen-bit]

When I'm in the company of my friends there are points in our conversations in which we only speak in memes and in-jokes.

 

[RSTEIN]

Tell your prof you'd like to FHUTA

 

[Dali]

Honestly, do some of you really talk internet meme with eachother in real life like these guys are? I can understand stuff like "epic fail", but how the hell can leet pertain to regular conversation?

Sometimes people I work with will jokingly use internet shorthand. Like a long time ago this guy showed me "End of Ze World" and our little circle at work kept saying "wtf, mate" at appropriate times. Or if someone says something stupid in an attempt to be funny someone might sarcastically reply "roflopter". It's never in any sort of way that would seem as though it were an incorporated part of our normal communication. It's kind of always done with an awareness that they are parodying internet shorthand.

 

[birdman]

I almost never use the internet stuff in real life but one time I was with a bud at a bar and...

"So did you see Superbad?
"Yeah I saw it."
"So did you lool?"
"Oh yeah, I looled a few times."

Then from across the bar is PURE pointdexter starts spitting up his drink laughing, trying not to look at us but looking at us. I think he wanted to come over to our table and sit with us, as if someone how a bond had been created but instead we were like "FUCKING NERD! FUCKING NERRRRD!!!" Until the waitress threatened to kick us out.

Well, aren't you a kind person.

 

[lil smoke]

I almost never use the internet stuff in real life but one time I was with a bud at a bar and...

"So did you see Superbad?
"Yeah I saw it."
"So did you lool?"
"Oh yeah, I looled a few times."

Then from across the bar is PURE pointdexter starts spitting up his drink laughing, trying not to look at us but looking at us. I think he wanted to come over to our table and sit with us, as if someone how a bond had been created but instead we were like "FUCKING NERD! FUCKING NERRRRD!!!" Until the waitress threatened to kick us out.

:lol :lol a bond

 

[hc2]

I almost never use the internet stuff in real life but one time I was with a bud at a bar and...

"So did you see Superbad?
"Yeah I saw it."
"So did you lool?"
"Oh yeah, I looled a few times."

Then from across the bar is PURE pointdexter starts spitting up his drink laughing, trying not to look at us but looking at us. I think he wanted to come over to our table and sit with us, as if someone how a bond had been created but instead we were like "FUCKING NERD! FUCKING NERRRRD!!!" Until the waitress threatened to kick us out.

Something about self-esteem and fear comes to mind. I guess insecurity breeds contempt or something.

 

[PistolGrip]

That was funny... how young are these people?

Also whats with the offensive namecalling coming from you?

 

[Reese-015]

I use smiley faces irl

 

[Dyno]

Something about self-esteem and fear comes to mind. I guess insecurity breeds contempt or something.

You're passive-aggressive like a woman. Plus don't you think it's rude he was listening in on our conversation?

 

[tokkun]

Three of the researchers in my lab were arguing over whether icanhascheezburger is better than failblog this afternoon. I wanted to vomit.

 

[Like the hat?]

I think it's just an extension of the 80's when everybody watched too much tv and VHS movies and became obsessed with catchphrases. So, even the most benign commercials became memes and a part of pop culture. "Where's the Beef", "When EF Hutton speaks .. people listen". "Time to make the donuts." Then skit shows like SNL, In Living Color and KITH became the main drivers of catchphrases.

With the dilution of television (due to 1000 channels) and the rise of the internet .. it's just kind of carried over into this new medium where everyone spends too much time on.

My pen! My pen!

and remember ToxicAdam, never put salt in your eye.

 

[Aselith]

If they didn't spout off "I can haz cheezeburger," they are not true internet denizens.

idk, my bff Jill?

hahah YES!

Three of the researchers in my lab were arguing over whether icanhascheezburger is better than failblog this afternoon. I wanted to vomit.

My mom told me about failblog the other day. That's how you know it's not cool anymore. (Not that it ever was.)

 

[Slavik81]

I almost never use the internet stuff in real life but one time I was with a bud at a bar and...

"So did you see Superbad?
"Yeah I saw it."
"So did you lool?"
"Oh yeah, I looled a few times."

Then from across the bar is PURE pointdexter starts spitting up his drink laughing, trying not to look at us but looking at us. I think he wanted to come over to our table and sit with us, as if someone how a bond had been created but instead we were like "FUCKING NERD! FUCKING NERRRRD!!!" Until the waitress threatened to kick us out.

I can't say I blame him. If you actually said that, I'd have a hard time not laughing at you.

 

[Frester]

What was funny, however, was how intrigued my professor was. She was like "I'd like to learn more about this phenomenon", and the tools started to suggest websites, mainly WoW forums. After class, some kid goes up to her and suggests 4chan as a valuable source. I can't wait for her feedback in our next class.

Oh man :lol It's always funny when people who aren't "into the Internet" per se try to learn about it.

 

[Aselith]

Oh man :lol It's always funny when people who aren't "into the Internet" per se try to learn about it.

She's one class away from being two girl- one cup'ed.

 

[Frester]

She's one class away from being two girl- one cup'ed.

You're obligated to film her reaction and post it on YouTube, you know.

 

[Salmonax]

Then from across the bar is PURE pointdexter starts spitting up his drink laughing, trying not to look at us but looking at us. I think he wanted to come over to our table and sit with us, as if someone how a bond had been created but instead we were like "FUCKING NERD! FUCKING NERRRRD!!!" Until the waitress threatened to kick us out.

Hasn't the nerd ship sailed the moment you've said "lool" in public?

You just hate what you see of yourself in this guy. It's tough having a mirror held up like that.

 

[hc2]

You're passive-aggressive like a woman. Plus don't you think it's rude he was listening in on our conversation?

Not if you were talking loudly in a bar. And I thought secure people didn't need to mock other folks. But if you say you are cool and all, I will believe you.

 

[AniHawk]

One of the guys who presented a project in class said that he wanted it to look "epic." The entire class laughed at him and it became a running joke for the rest of the day, with the professor joining in.

 

[MIMIC]

So you accidentally teh whole class?

:lol

(this meme is pretty new, right?)

I would never in my entire life use these memes in real life or try to teach them to people, but if the whole class was adding to the meme pot, I'd definitely participate. But I wouldn't sound like an elisist, smartass prick in the process

And while I'm here, what does ASK mean?

 

[JimiNutz]

I say epic fail a whole lot in real life, usually to describe myself.
Eated and buttsekz also form part of my vocabulary and I also say O RLY? quite a lot and Hello Thar! Most people I know are not computer nerds and they actually find this cute.

 

[Like the hat?]

if we're asking what things mean, what the heck is 'smh'?

i see it everywhere on gaf.

 

[MisterHero]

if we're asking what things mean, what the heck is 'smh'?

i see it everywhere on gaf.

shaking my head

Urban Dictionary is a great source for learning these silly acronyms as well.

 

[Salmonax]

if we're asking what things mean, what the heck is 'smh'?

Shaking my head - I don't get that one's popularity.

 

[AstroLad]

Shaking my head - I don't get that one's popularity.

:lol joke post? It's such a perfect response to soooo many things in our modern society, and also to a lot of the fanboyism on the gaming side. As I mentioned earlier it's one of the few I use consistently both on the net and irl.

 

[Armitage]

I've seen a few anonymous posters around my campus lately. Also last year there were at least two big chalk drawings of the Portal cake with "the cake is a lie" on walls.

 

[Like the hat?]

:lol joke post? It's such a perfect response to soooo many things in our modern society, and also to a lot of the fanboyism on the gaming side. As I mentioned earlier it's one of the few I use consistently both on the net and irl.

well knowing what it means now, why would you say it in real life when you could just do it?

 

[Threi]

shaking my head

Urban Dictionary is a great source for learning these silly acronyms as well.

wow i thought it meant "so much hate"

oh well.

 

[AstroLad]

well knowing what it means now, why would you say it in real life when you could just do it?

To quote myself since it probably captures it best:

The only good thing about these memes is that it's like a secret code that non-'netters can't understand. If some cashier or whatever says or does something stupid I'll just say "smh" and I don't even have to lower my voice or otherwise conceal what I'm saying. That's what linguistic codes (aka dialects) are all about and that's probably why your teacher was so interested.

 

[Dali]

I say epic fail a whole lot in real life, usually to describe myself.
Eated and buttsekz also form part of my vocabulary and I also say O RLY? quite a lot and Hello Thar! Most people I know are not computer nerds and they actually find this cute.

Shit like "Oh really" and "why hello there" kind of piss me off because they were popular phrases before they were internet memes (to a much lesser degree the words "buttsex" and "eated" as well) so I've basically had to banish them both from my list of sometimes used phrases IRL. Takes me back to when that Black Rob song "Whoa" was a hit. I used "whoa" quite a bit, then this shitty rapper comes along and totally fucks it up. I had to stop using it lest people think I was quoting some shitty rap lyric.

 

[notsol337]

So during my linguistics class today, the professor starts talking about how people have their own way of talking amongst their own friends and social circles and etc. Enter this tool that starts to explain to the entire lecture hall what the memes are.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cringe, so I did both. The best parts were when more tools came out of hiding and started adding more memes for the rest of the class to say "wtf" too. They start to drop their nuggets of wisdom and starts schooling everybody that long cats are long, epic failure, /gg, LOLWUT, teh winrar!11, and the like.

What was funny, however, was how intrigued my professor was. She was like "I'd like to learn more about this phenomenon", and the tools started to suggest websites, mainly WoW forums. After class, some kid goes up to her and suggests 4chan as a valuable source. I can't wait for her feedback in our next class.

Even though I'm annoyed that they brought this up in class and shit, but what kills me is the fact that they made it seem like they were a selective and elite class of people. Honestly, do some of you really talk internet meme with eachother in real life like these guys are? I can understand stuff like "epic fail", but how the hell can leet pertain to regular conversation?

Yes, they were all either fat pimply white guys, or really skinny pimply white guys.

Some choice quotes:

In other words, OP...

A bunch of /b/tards trolled your class and you're complaining to a bunch of closet /b/tards.

Classic.

This should be stickied for MAXIMUM LULZ!!!1

 

[domokunrox]

Probably the best resource you guys can get is from watching PurePwnage videos.

You should suggest watching some videos for class.

 

[Ace 8095]

I now cringe when I hear internet memes outside of forums/voice chat.

 

[The Lamonster]

Looks like OP really hates people. :lol

Chill out man, not everyone can be as cool as you bro.

 

[Frester]

I've seen a few anonymous posters around my campus lately. Also last year there were at least two big chalk drawings of the Portal cake with "the cake is a lie" on walls.

My schools new student access/info site is called The Portal, there was a comic about it in the first issue of the newspaper :lol

 

[Akuun]

I think it's just an extension of the 80's when everybody watched too much tv and VHS movies and became obsessed with catchphrases. So, even the most benign commercials became memes and a part of pop culture. "Where's the Beef", "When EF Hutton speaks .. people listen". "Time to make the donuts." Then skit shows like SNL, In Living Color and KITH became the main drivers of catchphrases.

With the dilution of television (due to 1000 channels) and the rise of the internet .. it's just kind of carried over into this new medium where everyone spends too much time on.

Wow, I was going to say something similar in how people tend to try to belong, even if it involves uttering are totally stupid and nonsensical phrases like internet memes, but you came up with something much more developed.

 

[JimiNutz]

Shit like "Oh really" and "why hello there" kind of piss me off because they were popular phrases before they were internet memes (to a much lesser degree the words "buttsex" and "eated" as well) so I've basically had to banish them both from my list of sometimes used phrases IRL. Takes me back to when that Black Rob song "Whoa" was a hit. I used "whoa" quite a bit, then this shitty rapper comes along and totally fucks it up. I had to stop using it lest people think I was quoting some shitty rap lyric.

Yeah I know. I put a stupid voice on when I say O RLY and Hellor Thar and most people find it funny. I was in a club once and I was trying to talk to this girl but because it was so loud neither of us could really hear each other. After a couple failed attempts at communication I leaned in close and shouted in her ear HELLO THAR!!!! BUTTSEKZ???? She gave me the strangest look but then she actually started laughing her ass off and I actually got her number. True story, although I didn't get to FHUTA.

Which reminds me I also say FHUTA, except I don’t drop it in conversation, it’s just something I shout obnoxiously when I’m drunk. I’ll be on the back of the bus head rolling around, dribbling slightly, and trying to focus my eyes, and then I’ll just shout out FHUTA!!! Nobody has a clue what I’m saying and they probably think I’m just a mad drunk, but I find it pretty funny.

 

[Salmonax]

:lol joke post?

While I admit to being hilarious, that particular meme just never quite hits the right note for me.