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TS: LOL vs. HA! HA! HA!

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I don't know what it is, but for some reason I've never felt comfortable writing "LOL" to express laughter when communicating online. I've always preferred to spell out my laughter by writing "HA! HA! HA!" or some variation. Does anyone else do this? I really feel as though "LOL" doesn't really convey hilarity. Am I alone in this? Does anyone else express laughter through other means?

― j-rock, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

HA! HA! HA!

i've never seen this and it's kind of frightening

i generally combine the ha's? which i feel works for me. but i like lol a lot. sometimes, if i write lol and i haven't actually lolled, i'll make myself lol.

― Surmounter, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

I don't do Ha!Ha!ha!. I dislike using exclamation marks. Mainly because I fear people will think I'm crazy. Y'know, this bug eyed crazy loon who keeps laughing at her own silly jokes sitting behind her comp . Which is probably what I am in real life, but, well,... I tend to mix'em up though when it's in English. When I type in Dutch, I tend to go for hahah. Feel stupid doing it but if I don't half the time people think I'm being serious.

― stevienixed, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

people who use LOL over a certain age in a non-ironic manner frighten me

― cutty, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

people who don't frighten me

― Surmounter, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

xpost So what is that certain age? Let me guess, about five years older than you, right?

― stevienixed, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

people who use LOL over a certain age in a non-ironic manner frighten me

― stevienixed, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

HA! HA! HA!

i've never seen this and it's kind of frightening

Oops. I do this sometimes. I hope I haven't been inadvertently scaring people. I also generally combine the "ha"s as punctuating each one takes a bit more time.

― j-rock, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

i mean it's just so much. can you imagine someone actually laughing like that?

― Surmounter, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

j-rock, you are a former member of Ultravox! and I claim my cash prize...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Hahaha_album.jpg/200px-Hahaha_album.jpg
LOL...

― snoball, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1940/punkdmk3.jpg

― Just got offed, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

2 ha's good, 3 or more bad, lol

― gabbneb, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

HA! HA! HA!

― deej, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

HO! HO! HO!

― snoball, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Heeeee.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

i'm a fan of haaaaaaaaa

― goole, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

I have a hot HA!HA!HA! waiting for me in my bed...

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

xpost how the hell do you pronounce that? it's like you did a good dump or something.

― stevienixed, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

one ha, no exclamation

― milo z, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

it's all about the roffles.

― Roz, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― gabbneb, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost)

ROFL ROFL
ROFL ROFL
ROFL ROFL
ROFL ROFL
BATMAN!!!

― snoball, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPzzvcYYugE

― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nakken.as/Brasil/A2.JPG

― sleep, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

^ win

― am0n, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha this thread is funny

― nabisco, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Ha! Ha! Ha! is an underrated album (and of course contains 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'), but does it really compare to Tolhurst's spartan, solid drumming on the early Cure albums? I give it to Lol by a tiny margin.

― moley, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmANxHJ6s9M

― Kerm, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

Usually "haha" - a good bit of my online communication is IMing with people who are actually IN my office, and I feel like someone's going to call me out on not actually lolling if I type "lol." This is of course ridiculous, and most everyone else uses "lol."

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

HAW

(TM RoxyMuzak Productions)

― StanM, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

'Hahaha' is my favoured method. 'Heh' if it's merely amusing. 'Haha' looks sarcastic.

― chap, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.alarmingnews.com/archives/Nelson%20Muntz%20Haw%20Haw.jpg

― Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

titter

― n/a, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

There's also 'heh', as used by Tryace.

― moley, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

molye OMT

― StanM, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOvdqvt-h8c

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1054/698612664_f27701c092.jpg?v=0

― Trayce, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

gree hee hee

― Doctor Jekkle, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

I use haha, as it's quick and easy to type.

― krakow, Friday, 8 August 2008 07:17 (eighteen years ago)

yes haha preferred.

One 'ha' sounds like you're laughing in the face of fear

― Ste, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

mwahahaha, whilst rubbing one's hands in supervillain-like manner.

― Neil S, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

Adam Schefter to thread.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha said the clown
Is it bringing you down,
That you've lost your chance?

― snoball, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

usually you can gauge my amusement by the amount of ha's

hahahahaha

^^^ shit is funney

― cutty, Friday, 8 August 2008 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

ha

^^^ not amused

― cutty, Friday, 8 August 2008 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

I like doing the hahahah, random number of syllables but ALWAYS STARTING AND ENDING ON AN H! it looks the most sincere out of all of the ways to convey lulz on the internet. I generally save "lol" for when I am talking to people who also use it. Or when I am making fun of people who say it. Or both.

― Will M., Friday, 8 August 2008 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Image of yardstick with units of "ha" to thread.

― libcrypt, Saturday, 9 August 2008 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

i use lol alot sort of because it's pleasantly lame which /= using it 'ironically'

― tremendoid, Saturday, 9 August 2008 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

or ironically w/o the scare quotes

― tremendoid, Saturday, 9 August 2008 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

I hardly ever use the single ha - sounds too contemptuous. Heh sounds more genuine for kind of amusing but not hilarious.

― clotpoll, Saturday, 9 August 2008 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

I like that moley said heh is my thing: tbh I type it because thats how I say it! I just sort of go "heh" quite often.

― Trayce, Saturday, 9 August 2008 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

people who use LOL over a certain age in a non-ironic manner frighten me

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this is the thread where we talk like r momz.

― ian, Saturday, 9 August 2008 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

fwiw i always thought of lol as "lots of/o' laughs" which is even pleasanter and lamer to my ears. i do my best to keep it this way (see: "on the mark")

― tremendoid, Saturday, 9 August 2008 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

only robots laugh like ha! ha! ha!. Us real folks do the hhahahahaha. Bwahahahaa is good too. Or mwuhahaha for the evil intonation. No commas, if you wanna feel real. right?

― csa, Saturday, 9 August 2008 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

ppl who can't lol unironically are pathetic self-hating cumbeards, hth.

― cankles, Saturday, 9 August 2008 05:55 (eighteen years ago)

lmao

― am0n, Saturday, 9 August 2008 06:06 (eighteen years ago)

ppl who can't lol unironically are pathetic self-hating cumbeards, hth.

what the hell does that mean?

― csa, Saturday, 9 August 2008 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

hahalol

― DavidM, Saturday, 9 August 2008 10:54 (eighteen years ago)


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