It's been 943.057949 days since I last posted on this.
And now that my fellow companion that goes by the name of 'ajbrulez' has began a blog. I feel it is a duty (if not essential) to compete with his literary god-like genius mind. Well that, as well as being morbidly bored at my work (yes, for I am a slave to the working class society too).
First topic: The tongue smilie :P
The emoticons of today play a big part of our texting conversing. We can't write (while using: msn, bebo, facebook, myspace, twitter, blogs, you get the idea), without the usage of expressions of the human face to emphasise our point. Why the fuck do we use ":P"? It's called playing the innocent card my friend. Appeasing. Cowering from your own statement and hiding behind text cleverly constructed into a cheeky-monkey like face.
"Hey"
"Hi"
"How are you?"
"Not so good"
"Nothings changed then :P"
Now look at the same conversation, this time minus the smilie.
"Hey"
"Hi"
"How are you?"
"Not so good"
"Nothings changed then."
Yes, I know. What a bitchy comment from a filthy whore. Except in the first example, you can see that when including the emot, it adds none-aggressive good old fashioned American sarcasm. Doesn't this mean that, as an expression through text, that these 'faces' of life should be included in books, transcripts etc? Don't be a stupid fucking wank, of course not. But what fascinates me with the ':P' in particular, is its multiple ways of being used.
If your talking to someone through msn (someone you like for hypothetical purposes) but you don't really want to, what do you do? You can just sign off msn surely? No, you want to talk to a pure hot burd so you can’t do that. You could just block the person? No, you know this person well; he/she would ask a common friend if you were still online. Appear offline and talk to the hot burd that way? No, she'll ask questions that you can't be bothered answering like "omg, why u appearing offline?". This is what we do when our friends want to talk to us but we can't be arsed.
"Yas, Brand New are touring in the summer!"
":P"
End of conversation. It's not rude and you are replying. The thing is though; you can't use it in real life when your boss tells you to do some fucking work...
The magical uses of :P-
To converse with someone by pretending you care.
To inject sarcasm into direct jokes.
To show minor excitement.
To express your attraction to someone (example: I'd bang you :P, try saying it without it)
To disagree with someone in a light hearted manner (example: no it's not :P)
To try and convince someone in a friendly tone (example: fucksake, just go :P)
and many, many more :P
First topic: The tongue smilie :P
The emoticons of today play a big part of our texting conversing. We can't write (while using: msn, bebo, facebook, myspace, twitter, blogs, you get the idea), without the usage of expressions of the human face to emphasise our point. Why the fuck do we use ":P"? It's called playing the innocent card my friend. Appeasing. Cowering from your own statement and hiding behind text cleverly constructed into a cheeky-monkey like face.
"Hey"
"Hi"
"How are you?"
"Not so good"
"Nothings changed then :P"
Now look at the same conversation, this time minus the smilie.
"Hey"
"Hi"
"How are you?"
"Not so good"
"Nothings changed then."
Yes, I know. What a bitchy comment from a filthy whore. Except in the first example, you can see that when including the emot, it adds none-aggressive good old fashioned American sarcasm. Doesn't this mean that, as an expression through text, that these 'faces' of life should be included in books, transcripts etc? Don't be a stupid fucking wank, of course not. But what fascinates me with the ':P' in particular, is its multiple ways of being used.
If your talking to someone through msn (someone you like for hypothetical purposes) but you don't really want to, what do you do? You can just sign off msn surely? No, you want to talk to a pure hot burd so you can’t do that. You could just block the person? No, you know this person well; he/she would ask a common friend if you were still online. Appear offline and talk to the hot burd that way? No, she'll ask questions that you can't be bothered answering like "omg, why u appearing offline?". This is what we do when our friends want to talk to us but we can't be arsed.
"Yas, Brand New are touring in the summer!"
":P"
End of conversation. It's not rude and you are replying. The thing is though; you can't use it in real life when your boss tells you to do some fucking work...
The magical uses of :P-
To converse with someone by pretending you care.
To inject sarcasm into direct jokes.
To show minor excitement.
To express your attraction to someone (example: I'd bang you :P, try saying it without it)
To disagree with someone in a light hearted manner (example: no it's not :P)
To try and convince someone in a friendly tone (example: fucksake, just go :P)
and many, many more :P
posted by Andy Rexic at 3:33 AM
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