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		<title>Web Lingo and Rules of the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Warning!! THE LINKS LABELED NSFW IN THIS ENTRY ARE NOT SAFE FOR WORK (or those easily grossed out)!!</p> <p>So i recently commented on a friends&#8217; blog with some commonly used gamer and internet lingo just to be replied to with, &#8220;WHAAAAA?!?!&#8221; So I&#8217;ve decided to put together a quick list of expressions and abbreviations [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: #ff0000; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Warning!! THE LINKS LABELED NSFW IN THIS ENTRY ARE NOT SAFE FOR WORK (or those easily grossed out)!!</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: #000000; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">So i recently commented on a friends&#8217; blog with some commonly used gamer and internet lingo just to be replied to with, &#8220;WHAAAAA?!?!&#8221; So I&#8217;ve decided to put together a quick list of expressions and abbreviations that are commonly used across these intertubes.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="COLOR: #000000; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Interwebs &#8211; Internet</span></li>
<li><span style="COLOR: #000000; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Intertubes &#8211; Internet</span></li>
<li><span style="COLOR: #000000; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">wtf &#8211; what the fuck</span></li>
<li><span style="COLOR: #000000; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">lol &#8211; laugh out loud</span></li>
<li><span style="COLOR: #000000; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">&#8220;<a title="Wordpress.org" href="http://www.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a> is made of win and kitteh&#8221; &#8211; win refers to the fact that <a title="Wordpress.com" href="http://www.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">WordPress</a> is awesome and is hense made of win (awesome things). Kitteh refers to the <a title="icanhascheezburger?" href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/" target="_blank">LOL</a> area of the web and the <a title="Ceiling Cat RULEZ ALL!" href="http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page" target="_blank">religion</a> born from there.</span></li>
<li>EPIC! &#8211; when something is epic, it&#8217;s well, erm.. EPIC?</li>
<li>fail (insert term) is fail &#8211; means something sucks horribly</li>
</ul>
<p>Ok, on to <a title="Rules of the Internet" href="http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Rules_Of_The_Internet" target="_blank">rules of the internet</a>.</p>
<ol>
<li>Do not talk about <a title="NSFW!!" href="http://img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html" target="_blank">/b/</a> (<strong style="COLOR: #ff0000">NFFW!!</strong>)</li>
<li>Do <strong>NOT</strong> talk about <a title="OMG I TOLD YOU ALREADY!!" href="http://img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html" target="_blank">/b/</a> (<strong style="COLOR: #ff0000">NFFW!!</strong>)</li>
<li>We are Anonymous</li>
<li>Anonymous is legion</li>
<li>Anonymous never forgives</li>
<li>Anonymous can be a horrible, senseless, uncaring monster</li>
<li>Anonymous is still able to deliver</li>
<li>There are no <em>real</em> rules about posting</li>
<li>There are no <em>real</em> rules about moderating either &#8211; enjoy your ban</li>
<li>If you enjoy any rival sites &#8211; <strong>DON&#8217;T</strong></li>
<li>Any carefully picked arguments can easily be ignored</li>
<li>Anything you say can and will be used against you</li>
<li>Anything you say can be turned into something else &#8211; fixed</li>
<li>Do not argue with trolls &#8211; it means that they win</li>
<li>The harder you try the harder you will fail</li>
<li>If you fail in epic proportions, it may just become a winning failure</li>
<li>Every win fails eventually</li>
<li>Everything that can be labeled can be hated</li>
<li>The more you hate it the stronger it gets</li>
<li>Nothing is to be taken seriously</li>
<li>Original content is original only for a few seconds before getting old</li>
<li>Copypasta is made to ruin every last bit of originality</li>
<li>Copypasta is made to ruin every last bit of originality</li>
<li>Every repost is always a repost of a repost</li>
<li>Relation to the original topic decreases with every single post</li>
<li>Any topic can be easily turned into something totally unrelated</li>
<li>Always question a person&#8217;s sexual preferences without any real reason</li>
<li>Always question a person&#8217;s gender &#8211; just in case it&#8217;s a man</li>
<li>In the internet all girls are men and all kids are undercover FBI agents</li>
<li>There are <em>no</em> girls on the internet</li>
<li>TITS or GTFO &#8211; the choice is yours</li>
<li>You must have pictures to prove your statements</li>
<li>Lurk more &#8211; it&#8217;s never enough</li>
<li>There <em>is</em> porn of it, no <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">exceptions!</span></em></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">If no porn is found at the moment, it will be made</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">There will always be even more fucked up shit than what you just saw</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">You can not divide by zero (just because the calculator says so)</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">No real limits of any kind apply here &#8211; not even the sky</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">Desu isn&#8217;t funny. Seriously guys. It&#8217;s worse than Chuck Norris jokes.</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nothing</span></em> is Sacred</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">The more beautiful and pure a thing is &#8211; the more satisfying it is to corrupt it</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">Even one positive comment about Japanese things can make you a weeaboo</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">When one sees a lion, one must get into the car</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">There is always furry porn of it</span></li>
<li><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">The pool is always closed.</span></li>
</ol>
<p><a title="Guide to internet use" href="http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/0/06/Guide_to_the_internets.jpg" target="_blank">Guide to Internet Usage</a></p>
<p>So as you can see the internet is like another universe with it&#8217;s own rules and society. Interwebs are the future, and we must learn to lurk with the best or GTFO.</p>
<p>For more practice about how the internet works, you can always start trolling forums, or hell, <a title="4chan" href="http://www.4chan.org/" target="_blank">4chan</a></p>
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