A long post made short (RL)

[thistlechaser]

The Human Calendar makes me happier than it should. I love checking it every day and looking at all the faces to spot new stuff. (How it works is you follow what they're looking at to find the day and date. I assume the month and year change as well, but I haven't been following it that long yet.)

This morning, while in the shower, I composed a long LJ post in my head about the history of "lol" and how AOL ruined the Internet and how people used to care about typing and stuff. (Imagine the net where using "lol" made you look bad! Identified you as being from AOL!) I can't find the energy to type it up though, and I'm too tired to focus on the negative.

Related to that, for a few days I've been wanting to post about "sammies". Quiznos is running an advertising campaign using that "word". Every single time I hear it, I have to stop myself from reaching for something to stab myself in the ears with. It's not a word! We're not two years old, people! We can pronounce "sandwich"! I hate "sammies" many million times more than "lol".

Bah. One paragraph of positive, two of negative. That's not how this was supposed to turn out! Oh well, you can request your money back at the door.

Comments

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

I demand my zero cents back!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*gives you his two cents instead!*

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Wow, profitable complaining. Who knew?

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to that human calendar. My love for it almost surpasses my hatred for LOL. And "sammies"? Aieeeee. That bugs me even more than the no-capitalization-for-the-sake-of-alleged-hipness McDonald's slogan "i'm lovin' it!".

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

That bugs me even more than the no-capitalization-for-the-sake-of-alleged-hipness McDonald's slogan "i'm lovin' it!".

Ugh, they use a lower case "i"? I pay as little attention to McDonald's stuff as possible, so I missed that. I hate the whole 'think of the children!!!' argument, but when big companies throw grammar out the window, I'm sure it makes some people think that's an okay thing to do.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I am SO HAPPY I don't watch TV and don't see this crap.

[daltontrix.livejournal.com]

I feel obligated to warn you that the aforementioned post on the history of the internets and AOL will get only one response from me. I feel you already know what it is, and I apologize premptively. I will be drawn to do it like a moth to a flame. Fittingly enough I will probably be immolated like said insect in a flame afterwards as well.

Besides, if I didn't do it someone else would. ;)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Don't do it, man! Don't do it!

:D

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

Watch out Thistle. One chick became a Fandom Wank superstar by going apeshit over the word 'sammiches'. :|

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I suspect I'd be safe since I'm in no fandom? Or have they expanded out to random blogs and stuff? (I don't know much about them at all.)

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

Well they also have otf_wank which is for non-fandom stuff. The original was featured on stupid_free though:
http://community.livejournal.com/stupid_free/330829.html.

But unless you go on a frothing tangent on people complete with name-calling like she did, I think you're OK.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes sense. I'm not overly worried either way. Worse comes to worst, I can set my LJ to let only LJ friends comment, so people wouldn't be able to bug me. But really, I try not to froth and name-call; sometimes I fail on the first, but hopefully not on the second.

You big poopyhead!

...drat, failed on the second, too. ;) <3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*reads the link and laughs* Wow, she's really angry. I see her point, but... sheesh. Hee.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Didn't she also go on to feature in a synthetic/natural fiber holy war? Oh knitting wank, never change.

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

I think she did, yeah. I get my wankers mixed up sometimes.

ONLY HORSEFUCKER STANDS ALONE.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Carrotplz?

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

I don't get where people get "M" from "ND." The word "sandwich" does not have an M in it. ANYWHERE. "What in the hell?" says I, in a thick Ukrainian accent. (Because including the word "in" in "What in the hell" is only funny if you do it in an eastern European accent)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I seriously think it's because it's how a young child would pronounce it, thus it's supposed to be cute or something. :/

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

The variation I've heard is "sarmie". May be a South African thing though.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hm, sarmie doesn't seem so bad, since it doesn't sound like it's trying to be cute? It does sound like a word in another language rather than forced-slang.

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, looks like it's a South African slang word for sandwich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_African_slang_words

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! It's intersting to see slang from another country.

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Sammiches is a colloquialism in both New Jersey and Chicagoland. :)

"'Ay, Antiny, letz go grab us a sammich over by dere."

That said -- I hope they die a grisly lingering death involving a cattle prod, marine epoxy, six yacht batteries and a hundredweight of feathers while watching a Carrottop marathon.

*sagenods*

My least favorite non-word: Signage. Screw you you jackasses! There's a word for that already - SIGNS. One less syllable, two less letters, and you don't sound like a pretentious retard. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

My least favorite non-word: Signage. Screw you you jackasses! There's a word for that already - SIGNS. One less syllable, two less letters, and you don't sound like a pretentious retard. :)

Oh god, I didn't even think of that one! I hate 'signage', too!

Leave the English language alone, people!