Lol

Hate it, hate it, hate it. ???
I have not read all through this thread, but at the risk of offending, I find it crass, ill-educated and offensive

The ultimate passive-aggressive insult - on a par with “Don't want to be rude, but...” or “Don't take this the wrong way, but..”

Funny old life .... Lots of love, M x

My step granddaughter (aged 7 at the times) said it to me when I asked her to do something. I gave her the sharp end of my tongue for being extremely rude. Don’t think her dad liked me telling her off but my house, my rules.

why can`t I see the abbreviation you are all talking about?

I don't like any abbreviations and try not to use them. Sometimes the posts on Gransnet seem like a secret code! I do occasionally use lol, but to lighten a post, otherwise things can be misunderstood. Using it as a way to ridicule someone is unpleasant, but then there are a lot of unpleasant people about.

How does everyone feel about 'meh' which is a cyber shrug?

I think I prefer lol and I don't like that either.

I hate all these new expressions and abbreviations! Is it just because I’ve become a female version of Victor Meldrew (grumpy old git)? I can just about cope with LOL, but hate it when sister in law texts and calls me “Hun”. I am NOT a “guy” and resent being called one! I think expressions such as “nailed it”, “own it” and “one hundred per cent” which seem to be used everywhere now, must be American. Another moan - why do things have to be shortened, such as “bestie” for best friend and one I saw recently - “affy” meaning afternoon! I know people use “text speak” and there are lots of abbreviations used on here that I must confess confuse me, but why? Is it because people are not taught how to use “proper” English vocabulary these days? Sorry - I did warn you I was an old grump!!

Oh dear, I think I have put my foot in it. I think it must be my post which has been interpreted as ridiculing the OP. That was absolutely not my intention and I apologise wholeheartedly if that is how it read.

I was actually mocking myself, not the OP - In fact I quite agree that it a rather silly abbreviation, which is why I was mocking myself for using it. I have only fairly recently, and originally against my better judgment, started using emojis. I quite like a few of them now! If I had put a grin emoji into my post, perhaps it wouldn't have come across the wrong way. Sorry annsixty.

Well,I am with you, I am one too.

No Amagran it was not you.
You are absolved of any blame.
Feel ok again?

Its often used on Facebook in a sarcastic ridiculing way. I don’t like it.

I use LOL. I often use it at the end, or somewhere in the middle of a text or other message to indicate that something is not serious, it's all too easy to misconstrue the meaning of a message and people can and do take things the wrong way, you can't see a facial expression, or hear a tone of voice to tell whether someone is cross or upset, so LOL is used quite often

I think most of these terms, abbreviations etc are rude, self indulgent and lazy. It is also undermining our individual cultures, no matter what our nationality. So we should stamp on it whenever or wherever it arises even if we appear to be from a different age; at least we will retain our individuality

Thank you, annsixty.

Lol I don't see it as an offensive term. It's like an instruction to let you know that comment isn't to be taken seriously- it's a flippant comment although easier to use the laughing emoji.

The term I don't like is PMSL which means Peed myself laughing - which is unintelligent in my eyes.

When I feel that I’m being ridiculed, I put on my Maggie Smith’ persona as the Dowager in Downton Abbey. I even memorised some of her lines. I hate being patronised though, worse than being outright insulted.

Since I sent an emoji of a fried egg, (under the impression it was a birthday cake) attached to a birthday text I use words.
So much easier, don't you think?

Like annepl, I was confused as to what was actually offending you. Reading the other posts, it seems to be “ lol”. How did the rest of you know what annsixty meant, when annepl and I missed it. Perhaps it’s our I-pads annepl! Anyway, the phrase doesn’t bother me. There’s loads of things that can be meant in a demeaning manner, just ignore them.

lol - laughing out loud / lots of love

The fact that people use this for two completely different meanings is enough for me never to use it

‘You Guys’...........hate it when DH and myself are referred to by that Yank-ism. Even had to correct DD recently when she texted asking our opinion on something. It’s not been used by her since! So disrespectful, what’s wrong with ‘both of you’ etc. Rant over!

Okay Boomer must be an American expression? My grandson said it to me yesterday and I told him I was not a part of the Baby Boomer generation, that only people born between 1945 and 1949 qualify for that title here in the UK. By 1950 the birth rate in the UK had started to drop again and stayed that way until the mid 1960's when it rose again, peaking in the early 1970's. I know that statistics in the USA show a different pattern, their Baby Boom continued well into the 1960 before it started to drop back again.

Oh I can’t stand, Bae, Hun.You guys.Babe,baby boomer drives me mad, but do use lol as laugh out loud, but do prefer the laughing emoji.

I don't like 'Whatever' or the silly 'lol' that seems to be stuck on the end of every utterance, and I truly think they are all symptomatic of the dearth of good manners. Re reading that I sound like a mixture of Mary Whitehouse, Jayne Austen and a 1950s vinegar faced lady in a duster coat and petalled hat - but i don't care!

I wrote a letter to my sister, who is not into computers. She complained that I was writing to her in French ? I told her I would never do that and she replied why did you put TU in your last letter? I told her it meant Thank You not you in French. She had never heard of TU before and I told her many people write TU4. She was unimpressed. She is one of these dinosaurs who fights against anything modern.