Why does every adjective need to be cut down to one syllable??

[opt2not]

I swear, it really is becoming like the movie Idiocracy.  I wanna kick hipster/kids in the teeth when I hear them shorten everything to one syllable.

What is this?  Is it the hip thing now?  Is it laziness?  Because it just sounds completely stupid.

I'm seeing it more on the forums now too:  Brill = brilliant?  Rec = recommendation?  recreation? reconnaissance?   

[HaRuMaN]

Totes McGotes

[yotsuya]

I h8 wen ppl use txt mgs abbreviations in emails & on forums, u no.

[Nephasth]

No need to get all Cray Cray.

[jdbailey1206]

I swear, it really is becoming like the movie Idiocracy.  I wanna kick hipster/kids in the teeth when I hear them shorten everything to one syllable.

What is this?  Is it the hip thing now?  Is it laziness?  Because it just sounds completely stupid.

I'm seeing it more on the forums now too:  Brill = brilliant?  Rec = recommendation?  recreation? reconnaissance?   

"Go away!  Batin!"

[Vigo]

H8trs gonna h8
- Sir Isaac Pitman

[Le Chuck]

Indub, this oner behav cert is obnox and will une lead to confu. 

[yotsuya]

WHAT YOU SAY?!

[ark_ader]

Didn't we have pig Latin when we were younger?   

[Le Chuck]

WHAT YOU SAY?!

Indubitably, this onerous behavior certainly is obnoxious and will unequivocally lead to confusion.

Shizzle be all crazy yo.

[Howard_Casto]

I'm technically from the south where people appreciate conversation enough to actually say things slower.  So while I'm not particularly offended by this turn of events, I just don't understand it.  Turn off all your gadgets, appreciate the day and sit down on the back porch and have a damn conversation why don't you.

[lilshawn]

Totes McGotes

DAMNIT! I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT!

missed it by.... an hour.

nevermind.

kids are stupid...can't leave crap alone. always changing stuff around to make themselves cooler. I USED TO BE COOL... THEN THEY CHANGED WHAT WAS COOL! then i wasn't cool anymore.

[pbj]

People are always looking for new and clever ways to say things.  I suppose we could go back to grunting and flinging feces.

 

I was getting all butthurt on humanity's behalf as I was riding a daily shuttle and watching people sit there passively glued to their smart phones and not paying attention to a thing around them.  What happened to good old conversation I grumble as I go back to my smart phone.

Then I looked at old photos of people on buses and trains.  Every damn one of them was glued to a newspaper.

We've been avoiding contact with strangers as much as possible throughout modern history, apparently.  Still, kids could put the damn things down a little more.

 

[yotsuya]

You know what annoys me? People (usually young adults) who listen to Pandora or other music services on their Smartphone while shopping or in some other public place on the phone's speaker. It's usually some ---smurfy--- hip-hop that no one else wants to hear. Put some ---smurfing--- earbuds on.

[Howard_Casto]

I totally get the avoiding strangers part.  As a rule I hate most people, and people I don't know... well that could never end well.  It's the keeping yourself buried in your phone while amongst your so-called friends that I don't get.  They are right in front of you.... look up!

I don't get people with loud stereos in their car myself.  Thank you, we all have stereos in our car, you don't need to get one so loud that every car within 3 miles can hear it... we've got our own and your taste in music is terrible... have fun with the hearing loss!

[wp34]

 

[Louis Tully]

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[Le Chuck]

I totally get the avoiding strangers part.  As a rule I hate most people, and people I don't know... well that could never end well.  It's the keeping yourself buried in your phone while amongst your so-called friends that I don't get.  They are right in front of you.... look up!

I don't get people with loud stereos in their car myself.  Thank you, we all have stereos in our car, you don't need to get one so loud that every car within 3 miles can hear it... we've got our own and your taste in music is terrible... have fun with the hearing loss!

I really hate that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. The fuckhead that lived across the street has a bass factory in his trunk. I'm not against the damn thing, just don't blast it in your own neighborhood. It shakes windows and wakes my kid. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, he sometimes has it going while the damn car is just warming up. I often entertain violent thoughts.

If you live inside city limits call in a noise complaint.  Most municipalities have restrictions on that crap for a certain distance and at certain times of day.  Call enough and the authorities might actually do something about it. 

If you live in the sticks I'd recommend salting his drive with nails. 

[Howard_Casto]

That only works if you can annoy them enough to make them move unfortunately.  You've usually got to live with the piles of inhuman garbage.  And yes, if you are knowingly disturbing the people around you for no other reason than to amuse yourself, you are inhuman garbage. 

I've dealt with these types before.  Made them move.  Again... don't mess with me. 

[Louis Tully]

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[pbj]

Well, we can't all be asspie kings.  Seriously, hating everyone?  Meh, life's too short.  And this is from someone that has to walk half a mile (each way) to take a dump without witnesses and still had a throat clearing cruiser spend 2 minutes outside the stall last week.

I haven't done subs since my early 20s, but I thump the hell out of the worst music you can imagine.

 

[Howard_Casto]

Apparently you don't understand humor when you see it.  I was joking about hating everyone. 

Then again, judging by your "sense of humor" from some of your posts it's understandable you wouldn't get it. 

I wasn't kidding about the intentionally disturbing others bit though.  It makes you the worst kind of scum when you are pissing people off and you know you are doing it.

[Le Chuck]

I wasn't kidding about the intentionally disturbing others bit though.  It makes you the worst kind of scum when you are pissing people off and you know you are doing it.

Does that apply to this forum? If so this is like the Mos Eisley of teh interwebz and X2 is that dude wanted in 12 systems.

[Howard_Casto]

I'm not sure how you can disturb someone on the internet, but yeah, it holds true.  Then again, that intentional bit is important.  A lot of times people don't mean to do it.... at least around here anyway.

[ark_ader]

I'm not sure how you can disturb someone on the internet...

Give me a couple of minutes to think of something up.   

I suppose we could go back to grunting and flinging feces.

If you are still of this mind set I suggest you visit Mameworld.   

[jdbailey1206]

I totally get the avoiding strangers part.  As a rule I hate most people, and people I don't know... well that could never end well.  It's the keeping yourself buried in your phone while amongst your so-called friends that I don't get.  They are right in front of you.... look up!

I don't get people with loud stereos in their car myself.  Thank you, we all have stereos in our car, you don't need to get one so loud that every car within 3 miles can hear it... we've got our own and your taste in music is terrible... have fun with the hearing loss!

I really hate that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. The fuckhead that lives across the street has a bass factory in his trunk. I'm not against the damn thing, just don't blast it in your own neighborhood. It shakes windows and wakes my kid. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, he sometimes has it going while the damn car is just warming up. I often entertain violent thoughts.

I totally agree Louis.  I get crap from my wife for turning down my radio when we hit my road but I don't want to be 'that neighbor.'

[pbj]

You know, I always turn it down when I get close to my home, but that's mainly because I don't want my neighbors smashing my car window because they think something valuable is in there.

 

[lilshawn]

You know, I always turn it down when I get close to my home, but that's mainly because I don't want my neighbors smashing my car window because they think something valuable is in there.

 

+1

don't bump around your home...you become a heat score. Anonymous... downtown, on the highway...crank it till it bleeds. Far as my neighbors know, I have nothing. you look in my windows...not even change in the cupholder.

[ark_ader]

You know, I always turn it down when I get close to my home, but that's mainly because I don't want my neighbors smashing my car window because they think something valuable is in there.

 

+1

don't bump around your home...you become a heat score. Anonymous... down town, on the highway...crank it till it bleeds. Far as my neighbours know, I have nothing. you look in my windows...not even change in the cup holder.

Music sounds better at a level that you can listen comfortably.  I love bass in my tunes but I don't see the point in damaging my car with all the excessive vibration the speakers create.  I guess it all boils down to the area you live in.  I live in the more expensive part of town, where there is a cop car and a bank on every corner. Everyone pretty much behaves themselves, except maybe the biker down the street with his loud chopper. 

[knave]

What cracks me up as much as it is annoying are the "cool failures" who bump the music so loud on their crappy car that all you can hear is the trim rattling. LOL every time.

Yet they persist in cruising (Buzzzzz) with the windows down(Buzzzz) looking all smug(buzzzz).

[pbj]

I think it's funnier when they're blasting something entirely unexpected.  Like a middle aged guy with freeform jazz or women with something entirely obnoxious from the 80s (Take My Breath Away seems to inspire lunacy).


Probably the most random one I've witnessed was the guy blaring Jailhouse Rock.  I mean, don't get me wrong, Elvis was the king and TCB in a flash but... that's a weird one to vibrate the car with in 2013.

[Le Chuck]

Back in the 90s I did some aquarium work for a guy that was really into car audio - but like sustained tone competitions.  Had a van with all the speakers aimed at a focal point where they'd put the decible meter or some nonsense.  Never ever understood the appeal of that money pit. 

[Vigo]

I think it's funnier when they're blasting something entirely unexpected.  Like a middle aged guy with freeform jazz or women with something entirely obnoxious from the 80s (Take My Breath Away seems to inspire lunacy).


Probably the most random one I've witnessed was the guy blaring Jailhouse Rock.  I mean, don't get me wrong, Elvis was the king and TCB in a flash but... that's a weird one to vibrate the car with in 2013.

Back in the day, I would drive up and down the bar area blasting this little ditty from CCR. It was absolutely hilarious because the drunks would all start singing along, lyrics were never right. Cruise back the way I came with my music off. It would be nothing but drunks yelling "DOOT DOOT DOOT!"

[Howard_Casto]

Hey now, that's practically the National Anthem around here. 

Don't be hatin' on the CCR. 

[Vigo]

For the record, I love CCR. I just love it more when drunks attempt to sing that song.

[Howard_Casto]

Ok I can continue to not hate you now.   

Lookin' out my back door as we speak.  Stupid snow.   

[DarakuTenshi]

Hey now, that's practically the National Anthem around here. 

Don't be hatin' on the CCR.

I was thinking the same thing.

[pbj]

I liked CCR until the 10,000th time I heard rolling on a river.

[ChadTower]

Probably the most random one I've witnessed was the guy blaring Jailhouse Rock.  I mean, don't get me wrong, Elvis was the king and TCB in a flash but... that's a weird one to vibrate the car with in 2013.

A few months ago I saw a karaoke version of this with the guy singing "Sucking on a jailhouse c***".  His lyrics were so funny I laughed harder than I have in years.

Around here the thing to do apparently is get an ATV, put it in your driveway, and rev the engine for hours while pretending to tune it up.  Then put it back in the garage.  Don't actually ride it anywhere.

[JMB]

Around here the thing to do apparently is get an ATV, put it in your driveway, and rev the engine for hours while pretending to tune it up.  Then put it back in the garage.  Don't actually ride it anywhere.

That's just because the MA fun police have made it illegal to ride pretty much anywhere in the state.