hey i just reread the OP. who misspells "messenger?" and how?

You guys have to hand it to TIP.

She's the best troll ever! She starts a thread that's sure to get people riled up and then sits back and watches as the mayhem ensues, and no one even seems to notice that thay have been trolled.

Good job Terror. That's how it's suppossed to be done!

That's NOT a pancake, it's a muffin from the Special Olympics bake sale.

The kids seem to be pretty into "messanger".

(Not especially related to this forum, but god I'm sick of seeing "expendibles" and "saftey cables". I'm not all that fond of "moniters", either.)

who can guess whether this was said about racial epithets or poor grammar usage?

(yea, its a quote taken out of context. that's why it's funny.)

racial epithets.

i was going to bring up the metal band here in boise that only plays devo covers (and they're called the mongoloids), but it seems that's become a non sequitir three pages later.

i always feel like i've spelled "non sequitir" wrong. am i just being paranoid?

irish coffee, pulling together a huge final project at the last minute, and BF. please excuse any disjointedness in this post. thank you.

non sequitur

thanks. i only hope any time my idiocy shows, it'll be corrected so i can quickly hide it again...

is no one going to praise me for distilling this thread down into one short, brilliant post?

because if it comes down to that, I'll do it myself. and it'll be the ugliest display of vanity you'll ever have the (dis)pleasure of viewing.

god bless the M-K-E...awesomeness.

Do you actually think no one notices??

Dude. Everyone notices. 90% of her posts are belligerent screeds meant to rile. They just don't care because it's coming from a girl they have an i-crush on.

"I am above ze law!"

Man, all's I wanted to say is that there's only one "o" in "lose", the word you use when you say something like "Your Mom is so loose, most of the kids in town could lose their virginity to her".

Yeah, you pretty much are. Just because somebody can't read or write (or, as is so common on the Internet, can barely read or write), it doesn't mean that he doesn't know the difference between the thing represented by "brake" and the thing represented by "break." Moreover, the notion of writing on the Internet as a form of speech, trendy though it may be, breaks--or should I say, "brakes"--down outside of chat rooms, where conversation takes place in real time. When writing for publication on a website, or posting to a message board, the time constraint that makes AOL-speak "necessary," at least for slow typists and bad spellers, does not exist; there is no reason, then, not to try to spell words correctly so as to avoid confusing or annoying one's readers.

[What] [messenger bag] [should I get]? [What do you guys think of] [this wheelset]? Mmm, [pie]!

oh, so much fun.

mcatano - right on. i do suppose that in busting out 'gloid on the forums, it was a bit presumptuous for me to think that it would go without comment. fair enough. pulling out the "privileged white, male, middle-class, heterosexual" card on me, although, seems as bad as me labeling you the "pc police." in any case, no grudges. i have no further comment on all that.

adamkell - i love it! good job! (i hope that makes you feel better)

enlacalle - i think most of us know that she's being inflammatory. it's just so much fun to join in. not like we have anything better to be doing.

this thread has made my day. **** yes.

my point was not that someone would not know the difference between the (various) objects referred to as "brakes" and the action of an object shattering, splitting, etc., but that there would be (little or) no orthographic difference in this person's conceptualization of the two. that is, /brAk/ could just as likely be orthographically represented as the following: "bk." i think that people should try to spell words correctly, sure, but the "standards" for proper spelling, punctuation, syntax, and lexcion are *not* universal, and vary greatly depending on "speech" community. bikeforums.net as the hub of the internet? not quite. time, sometimes, has nothing to do with it.

anyway, i don't think that face-to-face speaking and all forms of internet "communication" are the same. sorry if that's what i implied. i actually don't privilege speaking over writing (and, taking derrida seriously, the relationshiup between langue and parole can be inverted). i think that with new media and modes for representation/communication, "old" paradigms (such as "writing" v. "speaking") need to be shifted.

damn, my ass is ****ing bloated right now!

awwww...hipster irony!

Hey, [who are you calling a hipster]?

Yes, Me. I Am A Hipster. I Aspire To Be Hip. It Is All About What Others Think. Ask Around.

Actually, I'd almost call you a hipster for trying to claim to be one. You're so anti hipster that you're gonna end up being a hipster.

My head hurts after that one.

hi guys!

hey everyone needs to shut their vaginaz... yes i misspelled that. get pissed.

Hi!!