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'Fapping'

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  • 06-08-2009 1:01pm
    #1
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭


    I've been seeing this term crop up more and more all over Boards. Since when did Irish people start using it? I don't hear it used in colloquial conversation so I'm guessing a lot of users here are spending too much time on American imageboards and not enough time out and about.

    You don't call taps 'faucets.'
    You don't call paths 'sidewalks.'
    You don't call aluminium 'aluminum.'
    So don't call **** 'fapping,' you ****.




    (I realise that there are Americans who post here. They may continue using their version of English if desired.')


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    #2
    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    *faps*


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    #3
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,060 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    *fapping* is a nondescript term used by internet folk

    Technically you can't **** and type at the same time so fapping is more like the desire one has to be **** while talking to people online


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    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    My name is URL wrote: »

    Technically you can't **** and type at the same time

    incorrrevct


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    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    My name is URL wrote: »
    *fapping* is a nondescript term used by internet folk

    Technically you can't **** and type at the same time so fapping is more like the desire one has to be **** while talking to people online

    i learned to type left handed, only prob is lack of capitals because i don' really wanna keep on tappin caps, while i'm fapping ;]

    - drav1


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    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    You men are so silly


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    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    It is derived from the sound one makes whilst going at one's self.


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    WillieCocker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭WillieCocker


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Technically you can't **** and type at the same time

    Well why is the dump full of sticky keyboards then?


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    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    My name is URL wrote: »
    *fapping* is a nondescript term used by internet folk

    Technically you can't **** and type at the same time so fapping is more like the desire one has to be **** while talking to people online
    I always thought the two words were synonymous?
    GaNjaHaN wrote: »
    It is derived from the sound one makes whilst going at one's self.
    I'm aware of its etymology - it's the Americanization of our adopted language I'm against.


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    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    I'm aware of its etymology - it's the Americanization of our adopted language I'm against.

    Do americans sound different when they ****?


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    DeCoR18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭DeCoR18


    Seems more like internet lingo. Worst one making it into everyday conversation is epic.


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,977 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Jumpy wrote: »
    incorrrevct

    Although it does lead to the occasional typo.


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    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    it's the Americanization of our adopted language I'm against.

    Americanisation. :)


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    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    Do americans sound different when they ****?

    Bearing in mind the higher percentage or circumcized males in America, Yes, there is a legitimate reason to suggest that Americans sound different while ****. :pac:


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    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    kaimera wrote: »
    Americanisation. :)
    It was intentional, but thanks for picking up on it :)


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    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    Aluminum is technically correct.

    /boring fact


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    Holsten
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Internet speak, I've never heard someone actually say fap.


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    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,133 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    i have plenty of times. these kids come in and play counter strike and shout FAP FAP FAP! instead of HEADSHOT!


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    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Stercus Accidit wrote: »
    Aluminum is technically correct.

    /boring fact
    Was technically correct.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology

    The world has since moved on but as always the Americans have decided to keep things their way, using cups to measure volume and body parts to measure distance.
    cherryghost wrote: »
    i have plenty of times. these kids come in and play counter strike and shout FAP FAP FAP! instead of HEADSHOT!
    I mean in everyday Irish conversation. You wouldn't call Gerry Ryan a ****ing fapper, would you?

    EDIT: I'm probably coming across as very anti-American. I actually like them, I just hate the way their culture is insidiously erasing our own.


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    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    If ye like talking like them so much - why don't ye all just fap off and live there?

    Leave me, pace, and the other 83 people (dwindling by the day mind you) who actually know who we are, and are comfortable with it, in fapping peace.


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    karlr42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 580 ✭✭✭karlr42


    It dates from the excellent webcomic, Sexy Losers,here(NSFW) is what is apparently recognized as the first use on the internet.


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    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    Was technically correct.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology

    The world has since moved on but as always the Americans have decided to keep things their way, using cups to measure volume and body parts to measure distance.

    If you bother your banjo to isolate and name a new element, its basic fcuking common courtesy to respect that name given.

    The brits can go shyte.


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    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,133 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    I mean in everyday Irish conversation. You wouldn't call Gerry Ryan a ****ing fapper, would you?

    Thats a negatory. The word 'fap' sounds ridiculous as it is, it doesnt really sound like 'fap' at all.


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    Wreck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭Wreck


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    I always thought the two words were synonymous?

    I'm aware of its etymology - it's the Americanization of our adopted language I'm against.
    kaimera wrote: »
    Americanisation. :)

    Owned.


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    #25
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Wreck wrote: »
    Owned.
    Oh c'mon, don't assume that everyone on the internet is incapable of appreciating irony.


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    Napoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭Napoli


    karlr42 wrote: »
    It dates from the excellent webcomic, Sexy Losers,here(NSFW) is what is apparently recognized as the first use on the internet.

    Roflcopter

    moar NAO!!1


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    #27
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    it's the Americanization of our adopted language I'm against.

    Nice.

    [edit] Damn it...beaten to it by other pedants.


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    #28
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Napoli wrote: »
    Roflcopter

    moar NAO!!1
    Pace2008 wrote: »
    too much time on American imageboards

    :mad:


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    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,545 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    karlr42 wrote: »
    It dates from the excellent webcomic, Sexy Losers,here(NSFW) is what is apparently recognized as the first use on the internet.
    No need to be like that, the Austrailians are nice.


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    robby^5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭robby^5


    It's internet lingo, the internet is not America... it's also not a big truck.


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    TestTransmission
    Registered Users Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    The use of the word "chav" is worse imo


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