What's this period slash business? And the backwards brackets? That shit's really annoying! Knock it off!

No, pieisexactlythree, you stop being annoying — to me.
If you don't want to participate, fine, otherwise, step away from the counter. Rilly. This isn't my thesis, so either communicate or not, ignore the punctuation. Try.
Any more NIMBY's. ]Not in my neighbourhood fuckwits[

Most of you seem to accept each other, then what of others... head check.

have a go at it. Or kick ur own dog./

You're verging into incoherence darling.

THE DEVIL IS REAL

I BUILT HIS CAGE

Easy kids. It's all just bits over a wire.

Rilly. This isn't my thesis, so either communicate or not, ignore the punctuation.

But what you either don't understand or refuse to accept is that it's really unpleasant to read what you write because the punctuation is so fucking annoying. Sorry, dude, but punctuation is a part of the English language. It's disingenuous (and annoying) of you to assume these incomprehensible stylistic flairs -- which make reading your comments if not downright impossible, then sure as hell not worth it -- and then expect people to "either communicate or not."

]Not in my neighbourhood fuckwits[

Uh, since when is this your neighborhood? How long have you been here again?

On preview: With apologies to arse_hat. I don't care, though. It's annoying, and the attitude behind it is off-putting.

agreed, pups.

shoes, please, don't call me a fuckwit. That's completely unnecessary, and only helps persuade everyone that you're a complete asshole. kthx

What gaspode said, and not for the first time.

Alright. I declare this thread to the property of my clan. You can participate in it further if you are nice, but step out of line and your chairfood! I'm not sure how that will work, but we'll figure it out together.

To begin, I would like to offer you exhibit a:

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Garfield's eye booger!

Don't make me post something even weirder. I can do it. I have the power.

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I've always thought that was a pretty good corporate logo.

Heh, I always thought the punctuation thing was becuase of some weird character-encoding issue but it's apparently deliberate. People are strange, aren't they?

Now that I know it's deliberate, it annoys me too, but not enough to make a big thing of it, although using reasonable grammar is something that is in general considered more important here than in many online communities. Calling someone here a fuckwit, now that's really annoying.

Hold on a second. FFS./
If you think I called you a fuckwit — that applies to those just don't cotton to any newcomers. In the hood or not.
You friendly with your neighbour¿
Then what is the difference if I drop by, and you tell me "we don't know you", "You haven't been here long" etc.. nonsense.
ok, you've told me to FuckOff, because of the punctuation. What of the haircut. Do you like it¿ Huh¿

so you fail to see the humour or fallacy of your NIMBY POV. fine.
nice club.
carry on camping

I really don't know what you are trying to say alicesshoe.

Alicesshoe.
Your comments make my brain hurt. I don't think they'd make it past a spam filter.
Is English a second language for you? Seriously, is it?

that applies to those just don't cotton to any newcomers.

I'm new. I don't see anyone calling me out. It has nothing to do with you being new. Your attitude and calling it "your neighborhood" is what they're referring to.

What of the haircut. Do you like it¿ Huh¿

Please stop with the annoying punctuation. Your sentence structure makes me die a little inside. "What of the haircut?" What haircut? What?

so you fail to see the humour or fallacy of your NIMBY POV. fine.
nice club.
carry on camping

What does that even mean? ENGLISH!!!
On second thought, maybe it'd be best not to even bother.
I'm sorry if I'm being snarkier than necessary, but you're not really making my crappy day any better. Knock it off. Lose the damn attitude. Do not call people "fuckwits." Because that is exactly what you did.

i would tell you the story about how i visited the future with a time machine that i have not made yet, stole the lovechild of eth and one of the undead chairs and brought it back in time and gave it to myself before i had built the time machine in the first place, but i will not. it might cause a paradox or something.

also. natural peanut butter, the kind that you have to stir up and stick in the fridge... better than any of this peter pan or jif or whatever. way better.

TOTALLY EATING AN AWESOME SANDWICH RIGHT NOW.

natural peanut butter (crunchy even) with blueberry jam with NOTHING but blueberries and sugar in it and 100 % whole wheat bread with little oat flakes on it. YUMMY.

You got peanut butter in my paradox!

"What does that even mean? ENGLISH!!!"
must bite tongue

alicesshoe, you've been told time and time again that your punctuation method is annoying. Getting defensive about it doesn't help foster good will in this community.

At least paradoxes don't stick to the roof of your mouth.

Peanut butter cures what ails ya!

Is aliceshoe typing "& #191;" to get that annoying question mark everytime¿ That's dedication.

Buridan's ass is the name for the paradox which states that an entirely rational ass, placed exactly in the middle between two stacks of hay peanut butter of equal size and quality, will starve since it cannot make any rational decision to start eating one rather than the other.

i've done things with chairs but none of them should be involved in this thread.
i've been innocently playing bubble islands and dealing with cable people.
i did have this tiny window of time today when i felt all cute and attractive for the first time in a while.
That was nice.

Freedom of choice, arse_hat. It's what you got. Now, what you want may be, indeed, freedom from choice. Who's to say¿

Let me see if I can clear this up alicesshoe...

How to begin... let's say there was a group of people and they all made a game effort to hang out in a mostly friendly way -which is not to say that they didn't argue or disagree- and they would congregate together almost every day and just, you know, talk to each other, about themselves, about things they cared about, about a bunch of nonsense.

This group of people doesn't mind at all if new people show up- bearing in mind again that no one would mistake them for perfect saints, but just a bunch of people who were mindful of the fact that the world is a fairly harsh place and it can be nice to try to keep a hard and insular edge out of discourse- in fact it can be demonstrated that they are more than welcome, repeatedly.

Now what if one person who showed up would yell nonsense words and hum a low drone and speak backwards on purpose, for the reason of demonstrating originality or nonconformity (I welcome a correction to the reason at this point in the story) as if the group of people wasn't exceptionally friendly to newcomers already (you are going to have to trust me on this if you don't agree) or not welcoming to individual idiosyncrasies, as if this group of people needed their assumptions challenged like the churchy town in Footloose (if I may).

I would say that the person who chose to go their own way, not in attitude or opinion mind you, but in the basic method of communication, is going to have to accept some requests that they stop. It's disruptive and annoying and doesn't achieve the intended goal.

You see, consensus is a strange thing, it's the true tyranny of the mob, the real democracy and like many other true things, it's not entirely fair, but it stands because it's the best of a bad lot of options.

Please be an individual, but also please accept the fact that if you want to participate with this group of individuals and not cause friction or be ignored then you need to avoid intentionally mangling common modes of communication to suit your own whims, or rather I suggest that you do so, you don't need to do anything.

We (not all of us, mind you, but many) are asking you not to pepper you text with intentional miscues and alien characters, text is our only mode of communication here and your (once again voluntary and intentional)changes to it are unpleasant, please stop it.

Thank you.

What have we started?¿?¿

Seriously, I don't cotton meanness; a lot of people have been sort of snippy and on-edge recently, including me. Quick, someone burn some incense.

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Umm. I love you all? We all love each other? It's just a big party of love? Please?

::cries::

This is not MetaFilter! We all love each other here!

No, seriously, though. I come here every day because I like reading what you guys have to say, and I like how mostly everyone tries to be nice and supportive and fun.

But I'll shut up now, because I must be missing something important. Like an earlobe.


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I was wondering if anyone else noticed the nonsense posts and funky punctuation. I just figured everyone was ignoring it. I don't if anyone else noticed but alicesshoe has a metafilter account and they seem to have no problem typing normally, so I figured it's some kind of wacky performance art. But whatever, back to ignoring it.

Hm, upon review they seem to turn it off and on in different comments. weird.

I blames the drugs.

What does Naboztag do, exactly? Everything about all this makes me confuzzled.

i will tell you what it does. it channels souls into the river of fire. and i will stop it.

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What does Naboztag do, exactly?

It records every moment of your waking life in an internet database.
The next version will have cameras for eyes.
Soon after its release Naboztag will become mandatory in every home.

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You're all right. I apologize for my rudeness, just got my back up and lashed out.

I find there is nothing more charming or graceful than a succinct and unqualified apology, good on ya Alicesshoe.

You're alright too.

(Check out ethylene's posting history for some amazing incoherence con occasional kerfluffle.)