I say "laughing out loud" out loud instead. Hey, just in case you haven't noticed, you've passed your 1000th post! Yippee!!
I say "laughing out loud" out loud instead. Hey, just in case you haven't noticed, you've passed your 1000th post! Yippee!!
You're just another bastard.
Holy divah!!! Wow!!! LOL!!11!!1!!!!ONE!!!one11!!
Anarchism is a game at which the Police can beat you. What have you to say to that?
-Misalliance
George Bernard Shaw
I usually just laugh when I find something funny.
i agree with you simon. just because i spend waaaaay too much time on the internet does not mean that i have lost my ability to express myself in social situations of the face to face persuasion. in fact i sometimes wish that i had the ability to use my body language and facial expressions to express myself on this forum. there are times that the only thing that correctly says what im feeling is one eyebrow raised or a great big grin. and Em, as if you cant think of something to say at all times. that just strikes me as not possible.
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
and a big huge congrats on the post'o' rama you have engaged in. (postfest? post-stock? postacular?...i think im really tired!)
the big 1K eh? good for you hon. you win!
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
Often I miss tone of voice for instances like sarcasm, but sometimes not being able to hear a person allows for less altercations and misinterpretation.
i think i might have to disagree. rhetorical questions, sarcasm and teasing all require tone of voice and body language (specifically facial expressions) to be properly understood. there is so much more range to communication if the whole of the language is at our disposal, and so much of language is not just what is being said (or read).
that said, i believe that this forum is extremely useful, not just because of the friendships forged here or the benefits reaped from having intelligent sounding boards, but also for the practice in making oneself understood using only words. for any person who wishes to write effectively, that is an immesurably important tool. the ability to make clear your ideas and feelings using only the written language is highly underrated, and also much more difficult than one would think.
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
see?
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
Agreed mom, pretend to hear my chuckles then.
i already heard the chuckling...that wasnt you before? uhoh
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
If it wasn't me you'd better lock your doors and find the baseball bat.
LMAO!
Wait, you mean you guys don't do that anyway?...uh...heh...I mean, me neither...
Oh, and yes, I agree with you, VB. About the "learning to communicate with only words" thing. Although, I think maybe I have to spend more time on the "learning to communicate verbally" thing. When I type I don't skip a beat, but when I'm talking it's just a series of rapid "uhh...er er...well, it's like...wait, no, you know...um um um..."
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Oh, and were people referring to me about the 1000 posts? I'm way ahead of you.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
that is so funny Em. sometimes that happens to me where i just cannot find the right words and i sound like a sixth grader trying to order something on the phone with a parent's credit card. and other times everything comes out smooth and clear and with all these big words flowing like silk. while that is happening i am aware of it and so scared it will stop. but if it is the first time im meeting someone and it happens im thrilled because my first impression rocked. then of course, the next time i see them, im back to being a bumbling idiot. i wonder why that happens? (there is no relation to drug use, im sure!)
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
I think I am the same way. My freinds will introduce me to someone, and because I really havent heard their voice I cant "pass judgement" on them. I meet girls who are no problem talking to when I dont know them, but once there is a connection there I always seem tense, and I start stuttering, and then I start feeling stoopid, and... Well, not all girls, but the ones who show some interest in me, and then I feel dumb and I am scared to really tak to them and the girls then think I am blowing the off. Writing seems to work best, I can be "sweet" and not really feel weird about it for some reason.
But that is one thng I forgot to mention... I analyze peoples voices alot. No scientific things, just cues. I have no idea how I do it, but I could tell for one reason or another a co-worker was dyslexic and adopted, and I had only met her a week before and talked once. Another girl talked to me for like 5 minutes and I knew she was seriously messed up, the next day found out she tries to kill herself sometimes. A freind(male) of mine never said A WORD about his parents, but I always knew there was something alittle off with him, and now I find out that his dad abused his mom and cheated on her and he saw and heard all/ most of it.
I blame all of that from listening to loveline^^^
Anarchism is a game at which the Police can beat you. What have you to say to that?
-Misalliance
George Bernard Shaw
LOL Loveline has made pop psychologists of us all.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
I liked The Cable Guy
But seriously, I just have this nasty habit of starting impossible things, and then when i get to the point that it seems possible, I quit, because it isn't fun anymore.
But, if something seems impossible, or I don't think that I'm able to do it, I'll sit down for 72 hours to prove to myself that it can be done. It just won't actually get done, since I'll quit.
Does that make any sense?
And we laughed at the stars while our feet clung tight to the ground, so pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns.
I liked Cable Guy too.
And yes, that makes sense, because I'm the mistress of unfinished projects. In school I always picked the impossible research topic and right up til the deadline ignored any remark that I would be unable to complete it. Cut to 1am the night before it's due, me frantically googling and flipping through encyclopedias, trying desperately to paste together my thesis from obscure, unrelated sources...
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
I'm worse, cos I do that with possible/easy tasks
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
all right, so im bringing this back up because i have discovered a new addiction in my life, and apparently its a major malfunction.
i have the piercing bug....i cant seem to stop. i have had nine in the last couple of years...and they keep getting more and more daring. i have almost run out of places to pierce. its costing me a fortune and irritating the heck out of my kid.....
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
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