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[–] ScruffyDucky 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Which makes this sign very confusing

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[–] marcos 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's obviously someone drowning at close to the absolute value of O.

Or is it stating that lol is similar to "call 911" when ou see someone drowning? Hum... I guess it's not so obvious.

[–] ScruffyDucky 10 points 2 months ago

Why not both :)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have a friend who thinks LOL means "lots of love" and uses it as a generic signoff.

Had to reread it several times when he wrote "Mother in law died yesterday LOL".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

He meant what he said and he said what he meant.

[–] Anticorp 4 points 2 months ago

I read it that way, and then "lots of laughs" for years. I had to consciously force myself to read it for what it actually means.

[–] ilinamorato 9 points 2 months ago

It's obviously a head shot of a person holding their hands in the air like they just don't care.

[–] Anticorp 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When I was getting serious about photography I started seeing the world as a series of reflected lights, and shades. It was honestly kind of trippy. Anything you do a lot creeps into your psyche.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's a dinner sign tho.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds more like a font that makes the characters ambiguous.

lol vs |o| looks very different on my device

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Not sure what the font is, but looks more likely to be upper O.

[–] Sam_Bass 4 points 2 months ago

Goatse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I find it comforting. I'm pretty sure -0 is false vacuum decay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

sounds like a floating point error

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

±0