lol

[flip_flop]

Does LOL get on other people's tits as much as it does mine?

[daffy654]

No.

[Chaterbox]

LOL are you old and grumpy? LOL LOL

[zzxxee]

ha, lol, no, lol, why,lol,should,lol, it? lol

[johntywino]

I think lols lovely....(and wafers)

[wolf63]

I used to think that it meant "lots of love" and I liked it then.

Now I never know if the person is laughing with me or about me.

IMHO bugs me though.

[paraffin]

All these little abbreviations can get on your mammaries if you don't know what they mean.

Besides, LOL is easier for them all to say to one another, rather than actually saying Lots Of Love which might be construed literally.

I also don't know what IMHO means either. Is it a disease?

[flip_flop]

And DTH.

[WaldoMcFroog]

IIRC, LOL normally means "Laugh Out Loud", not "Lots Of Love".

Anyway, not bothered by it. Don't like IMHO unless it's sarcastic - if you're going to the trouble of promoting to other people, you're not being humble about it, are you?

[WaldoMcFroog]

dth?

[JockSporran]

Latest ones from the States include LMAO (laughing my @ss off) and ROFLMAO (rolling on floor laughing my ass off).

[flobbergob]

SMSL is a good one and particularly graphic. If you have wee'd yourself, it may not have leaked on to the chair, but a SMSL is a different matter.

[Quizmonster]

I'm with you, Flip_Flop.

Some people claim LOL means 'laugh out loud'...ie it's an instruction to the reader. Others think it means 'laughing out loud'...ie it's a statement of what the writer is currently doing.

Whichever of these you go for, it is clearly nonsensical. You can't tell someone to laugh out loud unless you are a bit daft yourself and, even though you laughed out loud when you first saw the funny item now being referred to, it is highly improbable - now that you have got around to writing about it - that you are still doing so.

In whatever circumstances it is used, it is either absurd or untrue. Best avoided, therefore.

[wolf63]

I have to admit that I write full sentences in teext messages - with punctuation and I can't get out of the habit of doing this.

[barry1010]

I find many people use it to excuse some nasty remark

they've just posted, to make it acceptable to fling insults about.

eg

Barry, you're a waste of space, go back to taffy land.

LOL

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[mibn2cweus]

lol @ thread ;o)

[craft1948]

pmsl........................

[lexie..]

How can a person 'Laugh their Ar8e off?'

Does it just drop off.....................or what?

[WaldoMcFroog]

LOL is most certainly not an instruction to the recipient! Not ever.

It's an indication that the reader laughed out loud at a particular comment. I am unsure on which planet anyone would conceivably imagine this meant that the writer was still laughing at the time of typing their response. Certainly not one I've ever been on.

Is everyone on Answerbank extremely old or something? I'm astonished at such defensiveness against a few acronyms.

[Gormless]

Use SMSL instead, more recent, and lumpier.

[Jan1957]

I thought it was just me being miserable but I can't stand them all. They drive me mad! I'm at that age where PMSL certainly is not funny and have the tena lady to prove it!!