Now snowflakes are triggered by FULL STOPS: Sensitive readers find the humble dot 'weird, mean or too blunt'

Daily Mail ^ | August 22, 2020 | Holly Bancroft

[dfwgator]

Let’s eat Grandma.

Let’s eat, Grandma.

Commas save lives!

[lerker]

Whatever.

[_longranger81]

That’s it. I’m staying up all tonight, thinking of things to be offended about, so I’ll be READY for these stupid bastards—READY, DAMMIT!!

[Pontiac]

Same for 2 + 2 = 4 which has already been branded White Supremacist.

I recall reading the mathematical proof for 2+2=4.

If you have proof how could it be racist?

But of course, reality and proof are of no importance to the perpetually offended.

If it is said by a person of the correct pigmentation it is by definition true.

[commish]

A COBOL program dies if there is even one misplaced period

Sort of like a teenage boy...

[gitmo]

People choose to react. They are not triggered. Guns are triggered.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That prompted crime novelist Sophie Hannah to reply: 'Just asked 16-year-old son – apparently this is true. If he got a message with full stops at the end of sentences he'd think the sender was "weird, mean or too blunt".'

Well Sophie, you failed as a parent.

Hope you find that blunt. It is meant to be.

[freedumb2003]

>>Not sure why you would reference COBOL like that. A COBOL program dies if there is even one misplaced period ... and even a small COBOL program has many ‘dots’.<<

That is my point. The compiler frequently gets very agitated if you leave out one small dot.

We all know the COBOL Credo: “Miss a period and you are in trouble.”

I don’t know about you, but I started on COBOL 68 — no “end if.” COBOL 74 was a Godsend!

[freedumb2003]

>>A COBOL program dies if there is even one misplaced period
Sort of like a teenage boy...<<

Or a teenage girl. ;)

[MikelTackNailer]

A COBOL program dies if there is even one misplaced period

Sort of like a teenage boy...

It USED to be that way. Now days having multiple "baby mamas" enhances "street cred" - glorification for negative behavior. Thanks, LBJ. Good joke, by the way.

[Svartalfiar]

I despise getting text messages with truncated language. No one needs to conserve data these days. Terms like “UR”, B4, annoy me. When I text I use grammar and spelling as well as I can. It does annoy my daughter, but she is used to it.

Yup, I do the same thing. I might have used some shortcuts with my first couple phones using a T9 keyboard, but nowadays everything is proper English and correct grammar, unless I get a typo or autocorrect I don't catch before sending. My phone likes to always swap "we'll" and "well" whenever I use either one. Annoying.

One of my favorite things to do is respond with nonsense to text shortcuts. Someone says lol or l8r, I'll reply with mjm or d9y or such. Or pretend I don't know what the abbreviation means, although some of the time I actually don't.

[zipper]

Rhiannon. You. Ignorant. Slut.

[MikelTackNailer]

Not exactly the same topic, but — anyway — I’ve noticed that people can’t focus or conclude any thoughts on — whatever — last week I met this guy and he was — you know — and I’m like — but he didn’t finish any of his — so, it’s totally confusing and — whatever — so who uses periods anyway, because racism and stuff

"I know someone who talks just like that. Well not just like that... What was his name? Oh yes, it was eh..."

"No, it wasn't him. He had a Texas drawl. Well, it wasn't a drawl. Oh, you're gonna do some outdoor cooking?"

[Larry Lucido]

My favorite!

Well, not my favorite. But I liked the guy!

[metmom]

We should listen to hormonal teenagers?

They need to get a life.

[bk1000]

“ One of my favorite things to do is respond with nonsense to text shortcuts”

I love it! Can’t wait to try it out.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Just imagine what an ampersand would do&

[Jane Austen]

lol

[Jane Austen]

lol

[timestax]