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My mum used to sign off every message with LOL because she thought it meant lots of love.
“Sorry to hear you’re feeling poorly. LOL”
etc.
Matt. You work with some seriously twisted people.
I envy you.
Years ago, my pre-teen pastor’s kid son told me he figured out what LOL meant: Lovely Old Ladies
Me: Have you told the church ladies that?
Him: Yup. Major brownies points.
Me: I bet.
Him: Yup. And by brownie points, I mean actual brownies.
He’s now a pastor himself. He figured out life early on.
There’s a law firm Morrison & Foerster which once represented a company I worked for.
For reasons I never understood, they decided to refer to themselves officially with the abbreviation MoFo. I had to explain to senior counsel in our law department, a very nice but completely out of touch woman, what 99% of the world thought Mofo stood for and why she should never use it herself.
I know someone who is a partner at MoFo and she knows exactly what it means and is extremely proud to use it as often as she can.
A previous company I Worked at referred to non-leadership staff as:
JMF
MMF
SMF
Jr MFer
Mid MFer
Sr MFer
This was in all official internal documentation.
Mercedes is a treasure, protect Mercedes at all costs.
“I may have sent a $100,000 vehicle that I don’t own “”a little too hard”” and it is now incapable of doing it’s primary function… LOL”
It drove just fine! The steering wheel was just off-center. I made sure to tell Ford before giving it back, because I don’t like giving automaker people nasty surprises. Ford’s people shrugged and said “ah, yeah you probably hit a rock or something, no problem” and said they’ll do an alignment before giving it to the next person. I do wonder what the fix will be for MT’s loaner, as I suspect a big pinstripe will be a little harder to fix.
Lol…
Considering the wheel in my high school ’78 LTDII needed an 1/8 turn left to go straight it tracks.
I’m not saying this as company policy, just how I think of things, but Ford owns this car. It’ll be fine. They’ll be fine. Press vehicles are meant to be tested, and sometimes tested hard. Not abused, of course, but if the company says it’s tough and can do things, then as journalists it’s up to us to see if those claims are true. We serve the readers, not the carmakers. So if Ford’s people were telling Merc this thing is a beast and incredibly capable, then I’m glad Merc took them at their word.
Every once in a while, I see a screenshot of somebody who has done that with their phone font and it throws me emotionally off balance for a few hours.
I’m still recovering from seeing that font choice. Keep it crazy Mercedes!
I am resisting the huge urge to say “lol.”
The font isn’t Comic Sans, but I cannot tell you what the font is. I imported my phone from China, and the entire font menu is in Chinese! The phone also makes me download and try two completely random Chinese apps to download a new font. I have thus far played a deeply confusing mobile game where I’m a police officer in Beijing (?) and something happens with gems, I think?
I bought the phone entirely for its camera, which is really good. I have no doubt my data is probably ending up somewhere, so I hope that whatever spy is looking at me enjoys seeing endless searches for Smart Fortwos and broken cars on Facebook.
Lol (so you don’t have to.)
Temu Comic Sans
I, for one, adore Mercedes (the person).
She helps the site maintain an entirely appropriate level of bonkers… above and beyond Torch’s own oddball proclivities.
I am VERY familiar with the Mercedes LOL. That woman is crazy, in the best way possible.
I did think the bit in the raptor article about encouraging people to jump their trucks or whatever was really funny considering she was driving a loaner and a ton of the people there brought their own trucks lol
I suppose the warehouse is 40 ft long, and you are playing tetris?
It is exactly 37 feet, 3 inches long. Technically, I am paying for 40 feet, but someone definitely rounded up.
I’m just commenting in case I have a chance of surpassing Mercedes in the comment section count.
Lol.
I feel the need to clarify that my Slack profile picture is an illustration of an airplane passenger blowing up a life vest. Though, it looks like she’s eating a Slim Jim, and I can’t stop laughing at that.
Also, finding the mold in my storage unit changed the math. The MGF went to my parents’ place because I know their garage doesn’t have any of that nonsense.
I thought that looked familiar. Too much time on airplanes this year. LOL
Have the mold remediation efforts succeeded?
Yes! I’m just giving it some time to see if my efforts will work long-term.
I actually thought it looked like someone toking a vape, initially. But The Bishop set me straight.
I don’t know an airline passenger blowing up a life vest or eating a slim jim can look like something else in the right frame of mind
If you go fast enough, what’s behind you no longer matters, right?
Mercedes is a treasure. Though I feel she is merely mid-pack of the inmates running this particular asylum.
When you have Torch as a co-founder, it’s hard to exceed that level.
I feel like Torch is pretty much the sanest of them.
That distinction probably goes to Matt. He owns a sensible number of cars, hasn’t tried to save a $111k press loaner with floor mats and a U-Haul (lol), and doesn’t give in to the intrusive thoughts that say “buy that car” or “do a burnout.”
Matt is Moe, David Larry and Torch Curly. You may be Gonzo The Great. I suspect Adrian is Moff Tarkin.
Oh please. Cool boots, all black outfit and a dry wit? Everyone knows I’m Vader.
Sorry a moped or scooter isn’t ever going to ever go fast enough
LS swap it.
I’m not sure that’s a swap. At that point, aren’t you just attaching wheels and a handlebar to a V8?
You say that like it’s a questionable decision.
And your point is? 🙂
I’m not sure what the most number of cylinders attached to a motorbike is, but I’m pretty sure it’s more than eight.
Motorbike people be crazy yo. (Some of them anyway).
Depending on how you want to count a motorcycle it’s at least 10 since Dodge put wheels and a seat on a viper engine to make the Tomahawk.