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#32 29-05-2005 3:08pm
The General

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Giblet wrote:

If someone doesn't put the effort into writing a post, I won't put the effort into reading it.

ye spot on mate,
just dont read it, dont go off moaning about it :rolleyes:

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#33 29-05-2005 3:08pm
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not sure if this is a joke but i think old victor has the right idea
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2821960#post2821960
post 106

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#34 29-05-2005 3:14pm
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The General wrote:

moan moan moan, if u dnt like it dnt luk at it, r dnt reed it!

Regardless of you read it or not, it's still there and it's ****ing annoying.

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#35 29-05-2005 3:17pm
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kasintahan wrote:

Just because you can't read it doesn't make it any less of a language.

I don't read sanskrit but I'm sure there's a wealth of information written in it.

Text speak isn't a language.

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#36 29-05-2005 3:19pm
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Er, i wanna apologise for my previous post. I was o'er hastey in my reply. Sorry. I take back the insults.

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#37 29-05-2005 3:20pm
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acri wrote:

Er, i wanna apologise for my previous post. I was o'er hastey in my reply. Sorry. I take back the insults.

Why bother?

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#38 29-05-2005 3:21pm
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I am MAN wrote:

Why bother?

I thought he was bein an ass. I didnt read (thats "read", not ****in' "reed"!) his next post.

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#39 29-05-2005 3:21pm
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grimloch wrote:

not sure if this is a joke but i think old victor has the right idea
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2821960#post2821960
post 106

Go on Victor, you legend. The AH mods should take a leaf out of his book.

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#40 29-05-2005 3:23pm
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acri wrote:

Er, i wanna apologise for my previous post. I was o'er hastey in my reply. Sorry. I take back the insults.

Could have done with a few more, imo.

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#41 29-05-2005 3:47pm
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grimloch wrote:

not sure if this is a joke but i think old victor has the right idea
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2821960#post2821960
post 106

ha ha ha!! excellent!

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#42 29-05-2005 4:28pm
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#43 29-05-2005 4:32pm
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Ah come on now... go easy on the poor nooblings.
Have you ever sat your grandma infront of a keyboard and watched her take a whole minute to find the S key?
It'd take hours to get a whole sentence out... nevermind something approaching a point.
I'd easily forgive someone new to typing, I think we forget sometimes how we ourselves started off single-finger typing.
There again, some people just do it out of laziness... which is really irritating.
I have to spend an extra few seconds reading the post because the poster was too lazy to type it properly... slowly they steal our lives 2 seconds at a time.
Right, that's it - I'm flip-flopping... ban them all.

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#44 29-05-2005 4:38pm
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How did you manage to get your granny at a computer?

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#45 29-05-2005 4:44pm
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Shabadu wrote:

How did you manage to get your granny at a computer?

I didn't say I had.
I was asking if anyone else had. o_O

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#46 30-05-2005 2:18pm
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I think that if someone wants to type in text speak they should be allowed, i personally dont do it but it doesnt bother me, if you dont like it dont look at it no one is forcing you to.

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#47 30-05-2005 3:15pm
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That's the third time you've posted that The General.

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#48 30-05-2005 3:32pm
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The General wrote:

I think that if someone wants to type in text speak they should be allowed, i personally dont do it but it doesnt bother me, if you dont like it dont look at it no one is forcing you to.

Wow, the repitition is really making me come over to your point of view. As opposed to annoying the living crap out of me.

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#49 30-05-2005 8:17pm
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Gordon wrote:

That's the third time you've posted that The General.

nice catch, are you gay gordo ?, or a small case of mistaken identity

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#50 31-05-2005 11:24am
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Why not just add the most used "txt spk" words to the censor?

So 'txt spk' would display as '*** ***' in any post. It still identifies the poster as a muppet and should help discourage people from using it.

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#51 31-05-2005 2:28pm
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I think it would take me longer to post something in text speak than just typing it out.

Then again, I'm literate.

Whenever I see a txt spk post, I assume the poster is about 15, barely literate, close-minded, pretty stupid and probably not worth reading.

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#52 31-05-2005 2:49pm
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*shrugs*

I think it depends on the board tbh. On some boards I don't think txt speak is appropiate (take a science board for instance or politics), and should be hit win at least a warning, then a ban etc. On other boards? Yeah it annoys me, but what's the big deal? Just ignore the illiterate ramblings of bored teenagers, it's not worth deciphering really.

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#53 31-05-2005 4:06pm
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(Hadn't seen this thread before now)

AH charter has been updated as follows:

Posting in "rtrd"
- Using txtspk n ur psts is cnsdrd been rlly stpd cuz u hv qwert kbd n ur pc so xpct 2 b bnd immditly. Dis iz ur only wrng.

One user has received a 2 week ban as a result of ignoring multiple public and private warnings.

🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast

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#54 31-05-2005 4:49pm
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That ****ing HURTS to read troj.

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#55 31-05-2005 4:57pm
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I FIND TXTSPK JUST AS HARD TO READ AS SOMETHING IN ALL CAPS.

just one of them things i guess

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#56 31-05-2005 5:00pm
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Actually i can read caps grand - i just think of this

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#57 31-05-2005 6:49pm
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crash_000 wrote:

Actually i can read caps grand - i just think of this

you think of ..... ???
am assuming you think something is gonna get slammed in that big open mouth, but what ?, and why do caps make you think this, therapy perhaps, just a suggestion

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#58 31-05-2005 8:27pm
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^^ handy tip! It does make it more legible for some reason.

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#59 01-06-2005 12:08am
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I was banned!!!
But please let me back on to afterhours!
Im new to boards and i thought it was just people messing with me trying to get me to stop.I didnt think it had actually been made a bannable offence.
Ill stop now promise!
Pwease
Pwetty pwease!!

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#60 01-06-2005 12:11am
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katie that is the first post of yours that I have been able to stand may it not be the last!

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#61 01-06-2005 12:16am
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See ive changed my ways........
Trojan let me back

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