Too many people have peed in the pool

Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by jgrahamc on Monday February 15, 2016 @12:10PM (#11104452)

If you think about it, before AIM and online chat (way before texting), people hardly ever faked their emotions so much

In the late 1980s terms like LOL were used on BBSes and on Usenet. Perhaps you just aren't old enough to remember that? :-)

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by bdreadz on Monday February 15, 2016 @12:24PM (#11104560)

Thank you. On BBSes and even IRC /me laughs, /me <action|emotion>

Before LOL I'd use hahaha or hehehe all the time as well in IRC, Chat Rooms, BBSes, etc.

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by Tiksi on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:34AM (#11108084)

  * Tiksi slaps bdreadz around a bit with a large trout.

I remember reading a study that people laugh more around other people. Anecdotally, I can definitely see this in myself. If I find something funny that isn't shared with other people, I might not outwardly laugh, and it would look like my lol, rofl, hahaha, etc isn't genuine, but with a group of people I'd probably be laughing out loud at the same thing. It might just be expressing the same emotion differently.

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by kagamine on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:52AM (#11108451)

You can now try the Japanese lol: www.

It's the literal sound of a chuckle/giggle/light laughter. So when you say it aloud, you need only laugh naturally.

To see it in action go to http://nicovideo.jp and pick pretty much any video. Start watching with comments on, they scroll over the video, and marvel at the trails of www(wwwwwwwwwww).

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by bpd1069 on Monday February 15, 2016 @12:27PM (#11104581)

also irc (EFNet) made use of emoticons, and 'lol's. The longest I remember wa ROTFLMAOASTC.

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