Please, for the love of everything beautiful, stop using the word 'random' to describe everything in the fucking world.
OMG!!!1 ur SEW RaNDoM!
'pulling randoms in clubs'
I want to kill my own face when I hear it.
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it's an awful word
Used primarily by people who aren't random and have never at any point been random. But I was there when it was invented. I was in a Year 10 Physics lesson, if I recall correctly, and back then it sounded FRESH and ORIGINAL.
oh yeah
Don't get me wrong, I've been guilty of it in my time, it's just so incredibly meaningless now, that anyone using it sounds even more ridiculous than a 'music journalist' berating the use of language on an internet messageboard that he moderates.
you're calling this
journalism now?
hence the inverted comma action
geezer
do you use the inverted comma
on your tax returns?
See also 'kooky'
I hate in Friends when they go "Oh that Phoebe is so random, she's like a real free spirit" NO SHE'S NOT!!!
I hate Phoebe
actually I fucking hate Friends, period. It just so neatly encapsulates what's wrong with American comedy.
random
is the new "mad" [see: "i'm mad, me!"] and "wacky" and "mental" and all the other words people use to describe themselves when they realise they have nothing interesting to declare about themselves.
my personal hatred is directed to "bubbly". i hate that word so much.
bollocks to you
the it word of westwood 6th form in da heath baby is wuh huh (said out sarcastically when sum1 drops a bollock)or wah (a shortened version of wuh huh) or unluck (derived from unlucky naturally)
others include: donic (same as cunt?!)
fanny flaps
woody
and...most famously, how dare you!
what the crunk did you just say?
Steve LMAO.
He's being random, you fool!
Kids today
what's wrong with the classics? like twat? or wanker? Do kids today still say 'Bullseye!!!!!!!' when something is deemed to be good?
I've never used that word
other than when talking about the drawing of lottery balls. It's just so ... fucking Hollyoaks
You're very right
It's a horrid word. Used by the same sort of people who do exaggerated 'ironic' dances at gigs to make their mates think they're so dang funny and cool and stuff. The exact same sort of people, in fact, who were right in front of me at The Go! Team gig tonight. Bastards.
i know the type...yes i want to bite their heads off
and fry their mushy brains on a fondu set. Oh yesh, it goes down well with a nice bit of kiante...f-f-f-f-f-f-f
I must confess
I find you difficult to fathom...
*chianti... f-f-f-f-f-f-f
Your
serious side is often very wise, Mr Crablin. I agree completely.
go fuck urself
u useless wanker! oh i hate newcastle, such bastards. Come on u arsenal, european cup here we come
That would have had more effect
in the right place, young man. It's like you meant to shout at me, but were looking at somebody on the other side of the room while you did it. Unless of course it was actually aimed at that hardcore Geordie, Wrightylew?
I will vouch
for Monsieur Brimful....he's CERTAINLY not Wrightylew.
loltard
Why
do people with shit usernames always turn out to be braindead?
Rofling Tiles.
He likes 'Bodyrockers'. Without being an elitist or anything... actually no -- Hahahahahahhahahahaha.
crablin...pot calling kettle
your the most random of all, thats your comedy motif, thames whale and ebay fiasco's. I'm sorry to say but you don't have to use the word random to be random...unfortunately
plus who says random anymore, posh school kids?
i think colin is talking semantics
woops i meant browno
or whatever ur batty friends call u...go clean ur ass browno
:-D
Never change.
that's not randomness
that's silliness.
and silliness is good.
whats the difference?
RANDOM
is when you just say things what are err 'random', like "EGG MY PIE WALRUS!!!!!". Because saying things that are totally unconnected to anything else is comedy GOLD, right?
actually someone made a 'random' thread before on here where people just posted
'random' things. It was the unfunniest thing ever. It was Anti-LOLocaust. So that's just a holocaust then.
For silliness, see: the entire history of british comedy.
no your mixing silliness with surreal
silliness is just as annoying it has no structure or anything, plus silliness and random are the same. random is when a joke has no pay off its just funny because its random which makes it unfunny. things like saying a 'crazy mob will lynch me outside' or 'I'm gonna eat my face off' is just as bad as saying EGG MY PIE WALRUS!!!!
egg my pie walrus
is clearly a beatles reference anyway, so not random. and THAT is the problem with the word. its NEVER really random.
clearly a bealtes reference?
I literally just typed four words without thinking.
the beatles didn't INVENT walruses you know.
0r the1r relation to eggs?
and howabout that "my" is a first person singular, like the "I" of "I amd the walrus" and that pie rhymes with "i".
NOW who's random, randy mc runnerbean?
I'll egg YOUR pie,
Walrus.
i think theres a difference
between saying "omg it was the most random thing ever" and talking about people that you dont know as "randoms". i find the latter acceptable, but the former is deathworthy.
i agree with alcxxk and alan.
yes i do.
I would agree with that...
My personal hate is the over use of the word "awesome".
Awesome is a great word
I agree about random though.
I reckon
Nothing is more disgraceful than the overuse of "basically" in the English Language
actually
I have friends who say "jokes" in the non-literal sense, and "bear" to mean lots. That's really annoying.
:( I probably say that
I say every cliché 'in the book'.
awesome
is overused, but is so BECAUSE it is great. the best thing is hearing "awesome" pronounced in a really great new zealand accent. it's up there with hearing cats snoring.
I
have to agree with Coastal.
If you ever, ever, ever hear me saying 'Awesome', bite my eyebrows. My accent is a barrier for words like 'awesome' and 'dude'.
PLEASE
post mp3s of you saying these words.
i'm more likely to type awesome than say it, but dude is said a lot.
sorry crabbers
it is a bit incorrect. i have almost given up but the odd vestige remains.
I have no idea why people care about this
yet seem happy to misuse your/you're and their/there/they're.
You people need to sort out your fucking priorities.
:-D
Use of random is fine.
I agree Deppo
They're is nothing wrong with people using random. If their wanting to use it there perfectly entitled. Their not going to stop just because the crabster says so. So their.
What?
zxcvbnm was actually funny you know
I thought Colin banned i_zimbra for being shit?
I've never been given a fair chance
I'm the Style Council to zxcvbnm's Jam
Never been given a chance?
Well you shot yourself in the foot with that analogy right there. You've no chance now.
Start your solo career in time for a mod revival...
Its a shame that's the username
of Mrs Prole - some more ammo for you crabbers
(awaits either being ignored or sideswipe)
I rest my case!
FANTASTIC!
'Random' and 'whatever' really shite me
but am guilty of using them sometimes to annoy certain people...
all words are subject to ridicule from time to time
but no one can decree that they are crass
I've just shifted into a spazzo mood
no idea why..
I'm with you Prole
as always.
Didja hear about the guy who got fined 80 notes for saying 'fuck' in the street?
I thought he should have argued the case that it appeared in the Oxford Dictionary.. therefore, was a part of the English language... or somethun like that.
i HATE
HATEHATEHATE the use of the word random in this context. it certainly makes me want to egg my pie walrus.
OMZZZ! UR SO RANDOM!!!1!1!!ONE!!1!11!!ELEVEN!11!1!
*quickly invents device to stab people in the face over the internet*
Yeah I saw that
and it scared me, frankly. Someone needs to do something if a copper feels that's a good use of her time.