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Thread: _am i teh 0nly 1?_

Nicolas_Frost
Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:57 pm
#27


SwenLaransa wrote:


Nicolas_Frost wrote:
Yeah, seeing such things just makes me wish that IQ tests were manditory, where if your score was below a certain range for your age, you were to be sedated and sterilized.



In my province, not so many years ago, this was the case. Anyone clasified as 'legally retarded' was taken by the government and sterilized. Big lawsuits and such now.




Well, my feeling this way is probably because I work in retail and end up dealing with stupid people.



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KloudRunner
Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:01 am
#28


why is it that the smartest of us end up in crappy retail jobs serving retards. I dont know if anyone else would find this funny but it makes me laugh when a customer comes to the counter with a dvd or a game and asks


"can i buy this please"?


noBS i am so tempted to say NO just to see the look on there face



or the ones that come to the counter and walk past the giant Star Wars display and ask



"have you got Star Wars to buy"?



:shakes head in shame at the human race



we are a race of idiots beeing raised by retards






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-Geetah-
Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:53 am
#29

For me as a non-native speaker it is always fascinating to see how native speakers manage to butcher their language. At times I also feel incredibly old when I see abbreviations and I have not the slightest clue what people are talking about.






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Nicolas_Frost
Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:58 am
#30

Laziness and the unwillingness to bother attempting to be comprehendable is the excuse. Why bother conforming to a standard of speach/writing when you can do it however you want and feel "cool" while actually looking stupid?

I know I've done things to English which have made the language itself cry out in pain, but I do try to keep what I write understandable, and write similarly to how I talk(saying "gonna" instead of "going to" for example).



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The prices of my services are based on "tolerance". The more I have to tolerate you, the more you have to pay me.


-Geetah-
Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:08 am
#31

I think what bothers me are not typos or so - since I know a lot of people don't use the 10-finger-system to write. Nevertheless I get the meaning of their words just fine. Same goes for writing things as you would say them - like "gonna", "kinda" etc. What ticks me off are people that manage to write sentences with single syllable words or abbreviations - for example: "k l8ter m8 need 2 log 4 now cba 2 w8 longer tbh". *runs away screaming*





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Aendracon
Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:13 am
#32






Nicolas_Frost wrote:
Yeah, seeing such things just makes me wish that IQ tests were manditory, where if your score was below a certain range for your age, you were to be sedated and sterilized.




No sense in ruining the fun.


/sigh


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ApollyonTB
Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:30 am
#33






Drakenya wrote:





AngusMacGregor wrote:

Sometimes I really wish we could just flush out the crap in our gene pool.







We'll miss you...

*runs and hides behind his non-stackable toolkits*

(joke! it was a joke!)





/tar Drakenya


/worhship


ROLFMAO!!! he walked right into that one....



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