bunnies?

I don't get it either, I wish there were some quiet threads.

bunnies?

I've accepted the bunnies thing and even tried to embrace it (see figure one).

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Figure one.

WHAT'S TO GET?

Personally speaking, I just find it all hard to read. And LOUD.

That's interesting. You find it loud because you know that caps = shouting, but it's really just words typed - there is no sound except the sound the words make for you in your head. You yell them in your head when you read them? I wonder if someone new to the internets, who had no idea about the caps thing, would find it loud,

I think the shouting threads are a riot.

I started a quiet thread once, greasy_skillet. You can start one whenever you like ;) I guess you read those with a whisper? I'm getting a laugh out of this - I read every thread the same way in my head no matter what the font size. Does anyone else?

Yeah, I find them hard to read. So I don't.

And iconomy, I definitely image sound levels. Then again, I imagine punctuation . . .

Actually, I do shout in my head when I read the shouting threads. Funny, I never thought that was odd before.

For me, they are a good way to work out frustration when I can't actually shout out loud at work.

They're loud in my head, too, but I find them funny.

All-shouting blog.

Actually iconomy it's kind of strange the way I parse the capped words. Yes, I suppose I do 'hear' it as shouting but I also turn the volume down too.

So it's like the words are being yelled across the road. Otherwise my hearing would be detrimentally affected you see.

Otherwise my hearing would be detrimentally affected you see.

You're like, funny and stuff, peacay.

FOR ME, EVERYONE IS TALKING LIKE EDDY MURPHY IN THAT SNL "NEWS FOR THE HEARING IMPARED" SKIT. AND DISCUSSING MUNDANE THINGS IN THAT LOUD ENUNCATED WAY IS INHERIENTLY FUNNY.

See, it's like the old joke. The English-man goes to France. Before he leaves, his mates tell him to just say everything loudly and clearly and the French will understand him.

So he goes, and he goes to a cafe and ORDERS A BEER and sees the only one free seat across from another guy.

"HELLO!" he says
"HELLO!" this guy replies
"I AM QUITE ENJOYING MY TRIP TO FRANCE, IT'S MY FIRST TIME"
"MINE TOO!"

"WHERE ARE YOU FROM?"
"CROYDON! YOU?"
"LONDON!"
"WELL! THEN WHY ARE WE BOTH SPEAKING FRENCH?"

Shout.
Shout.
Let it all out.
These are the things I can live without.

Capn, that joke reminds me of the day I realized exactly how unworldy I was.

I was probably 22 or 23 and, though I'd lived in Austin since 17 -- not the dumb hick town where I grew up -- I was still pretty much a Texas girl.

I was working at a magazine. The editor (a good friend of mine) had a friend visiting from France (though she was Spanish). I'd heard a lot about her, sort of already had a crush on her, and was really anxious to meet her.

So anyway, they pull up to the curb and the staff goes out to meet Carmen. I'm a bit shy, though, so I hang back. (The point of this is that I didn't observe the others making her acquaintance.)

After working up the nerve, I finally head out there to meet her. Held out my hand for the obligatory handshake. She's tall (and oh-so-attractive), and she bends down to me. I lean into her ear and say "Hi, I'm mudpuppie."

She cocks her head and leans in further. We're on the sidewalk on a busy downtown street, so I figure she just didn't hear me, or maybe she didn't understand my accent. So now that her ear is closer to my face, I say, louder, "HI. I'M MUDPUPPIE!"

She straightens up and makes a face like I just burped at her or something.

She says, "I heard you. I was going to kiss your cheek," and walks off.

Sigh.

What a rube.

*thwaps gaspode with kipper*

... - there is no sound except the sound the words make for you in your head.
So, what are these voices yelling at me, then?

I don't get the shouting threads either, but to each its own etc.