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What's with this new .com craze in sentences

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  • #32
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The first person I heard say it was Catherine Tate a few years ago. I don't know if she started it though.


  • #33
    Adyx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    Tim Comerford from RATM was credited on one of their albums as tim.com.


  • #34
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,053 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    The first person I heard say it was Catherine Tate a few years ago. I don't know if she started it though.

    I'd say it's a bit older than however long shes been on the box. Sure that people would have used the phrase back in the late '90's early 2000's, when the internet was going .com mad. Don't suppose the character she had saying it was supposed to be from back around then by any chance?


  • #35
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    Ireland is fast becoming a mini America with these phrases.


  • #36
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Ruth Scott is a muppet.org/talentless


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  • #37
    WindSock
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    I like to be patriotic and say .ie.


  • #38
    earwax_man
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭earwax_man


    I've heard people say things such as:

    "Hello, I'm XXX YYY... DOT COM."

    It was kinda funny to begin with, but now it's just annoying as hell. :cool:


  • #39
    stripysocks85
    Registered Users Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭stripysocks85


    Webmonkey wrote: »
    As time goes on more and more people I know especially on facebook seem to be using .com after every verb, for example I'm bored.com, I'm tired.com, wreaked.com. FFS it's awful, who came up with this? I've heard Ruth Scott on 2fm using this as well.

    First of all I thought it was just girls that done it, now I noticed a former class mate update his facebook status with wreaked.com. It's cringe worthy!
    I flipping hate this and thought I was the only one who didn't understand what was going on!! I thought it had faded away again as quickly, but no, I've viewed it on a few peoples profiles lately!! It's stupid.

    Oh and what's wreaked.com? ................


  • #40
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    It really isn't any different to any of these memes which pop up among those who allow their vocabulary to be dictated by what appears to be cool for 15 minutes. Another example is the affix "out", most often used in conjunction with the word happy:"I'm happy-out." They usually have a brief shelf life because they are patently stupid and annoying, a fact which becomes clear as soon as the novelty wears out.

    The greeting, "what's the script?" used to annoy me a lot, but it barely got off the ground at all (at least in my experience) so I was spared the pain of hearing it all too often.


  • #41
    natsuko
    Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭natsuko


    i think it is a lot to do with confused.com but i remember using it years ago a couple of times for my own amusement, never stuck though. I shoulda copyrighted the trend! :P


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  • #42
    Piriz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Piriz


    How about OMG.ie ???















    anyone?







    yea well you wait till some toff reads this and it'll be all OMG.ie in UCD.......you'll see!


    I coined that ****!


  • #43
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Piriz wrote: »
    How about OMG.ie ???















    anyone?







    yea well you wait till some toff reads this and it'll be all OMG.ie in UCD.......you'll see!


    I coined that ****!


    Quick! Copyright it ! You'll be minted.com by the end of the year ! Or possibly minted.ie


  • #44
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    I'M OSCAR. DOT COM.

    /Arrested Development


  • #45
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    KnifeWRENCH wrote: »
    I'M OSCAR. DOT COM.

    /Arrested Development
    Deadly show. Can't wait for movie.


  • #46
    consultech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    Ha, this is weird. I was gonna start this thread earlier because two girls on mine, one after another, completely unconnected, had "www.absolutelydyin.com" as their status update.

    Let me guess OP: "www.inbits.com" or "www.locked.com" or somethin along those lines?
    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    The first person I heard say it was Catherine Tate a few years ago. I don't know if she started it though.

    She did in her dire comedic sh1te. I cite Dennis Leary's Lock and Load from 2000/2001. I remember him saying it way too much back then: "WWW.WHATTHEFUCK.COM".


  • #47
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    EverythingBlue wrote: »
    Does anyone do this in person.com?:confused:
    If on live radio, then yes...Ruth Scott, she's very annoying.


  • #48
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    I've never heard anybody say it but it sounds fairly annoying.


  • #49
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    robinph wrote: »
    I'd say it's a bit older than however long shes been on the box. Sure that people would have used the phrase back in the late '90's early 2000's, when the internet was going .com mad. Don't suppose the character she had saying it was supposed to be from back around then by any chance?

    The character was a foul mouthed grandmother referred to as 'Nan'. It's hard to say what age she was supposed to be but at a guess I'd say she was supposed to be in her seventies. I think the episode was broadcast in 2003 or 2004. I think the quote was "It's too last minute.com". She also said in a later episode "it's too f***ing late.co.uk".


  • #50
    RolandIRL
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    just seen my cousin using it on stalkbook....just want to hit him.

    *facepalm*


  • #51
    sashafierce
    Registered Users Posts: 3,599 ✭✭✭sashafierce


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  • #52
    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Webmonkey wrote: »
    now I noticed a former class mate update his facebook status with wreaked.com. It's cringe worthy!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk


  • #53
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Yeah I know sorry, my spelling isn't the best but that's not the point of this thread!


  • #54
    Yag reuoY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Yag reuoY


    It's almost as bad as the retards on here who think it's cool to add a little egrave when the spell F*uck.

    Sad twats. :pac:


  • #55
    lisaface
    Registered Users Posts: 291 ✭✭lisaface


    billy the squid wrote: »
    probably has its origins in some of the confused.com advertisements.

    I was thinking earlier in the week, where it all came from & I came to the conclusion it has to be that annoying silly advert about home/car insurance and what not. Damn you confused.com. It defiantly has to have come from this. I can't find any other source.


  • #56
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    Webmonkey wrote: »
    As time goes on more and more people I know especially on facebook seem to be using .com after every verb, for example I'm bored.com, I'm tired.com, wreaked.com. FFS it's awful, who came up with this? I've heard Ruth Scott on 2fm using this as well.

    First of all I thought it was just girls that done it, now I noticed a former class mate update his facebook status with wreaked.com. It's cringe worthy!

    That is cringe worthy . . .using that in a sentence . . .


  • #57
    thetonynator
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    Yag reuoY wrote: »
    It's almost as bad as the retards on here who think it's cool to add a little egrave when the spell F*uck.

    Sad twats. :pac:


    Íts cálléd á fádá ín thís cóúntry . . .:rolleyes:


  • #58
    Liam Byrne
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    Webmonkey wrote: »
    As time goes on more and more people I know especially on facebook seem to be using .com after every verb, for example I'm bored.com, I'm tired.com, wreaked.com. FFS it's awful, who came up with this?

    As in "wreaked havoc" ?

    I've seen this once or twice recently, and it's pretty pathetic.....it ranks right up there with Tony Fenton's "cockney" rhyming slang.

    People who try too hard to be cool.......aren't.


  • #59
    iPlop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,822 ✭✭✭iPlop


    sashafierce wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Tell me about it! I have a mate that spells the whole lot out now.The dot and the forward slashes

    Example: paininmybollix.com/crap

    Now becomes: paininmybollixdotcomforwardslashcrap

    VERY VERY ANNOYING! IT'S NOT FUNNY:mad:


  • #60
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    That .com thing is like soo two years ago. :P


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  • #61
    Yag reuoY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Yag reuoY


    thetonynator wrote: »
    Íts cálléd á fádá ín thís cóúntry . . .:rolleyes:

    I know that, but I refuse to type out anything in Irish.:pac:


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