#Planebae. What hathe the internet wroth

Ipso

Sad bastid goes on Twitter about strangers talking, calls it planebae, goes viral as this nonsense does and then realises she was stupid.
I really don’t know.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/woman-started-planebae-saga-apologizes-190405494.html

Atoms for Peace

What's a BAE?

Badly Drunk Boy

OP, if you think it's nonsense (and I'm sure it is), why would you bother starting a thread about it?

Ipso

I know It’s feeding into what I’m complaining about, but this story really summed up the banality of social media/the internet these days.
Probably better suited to the what annoys you thread.

Fighting Tao

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

What's a BAE?

British Aerospace

Ipso

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

What's a BAE?

It’s internet shorthand for baby (boyfriend, girlfriend etc).

Fighting Tao

Ipso wrote: »

It’s internet shorthand for baby (boyfriend, girlfriend etc).

All credibility is immediately lost when used as such.

BrookieD

Ipso wrote: »

It’s internet shorthand for baby (boyfriend, girlfriend etc).

So three letters instead of four...... how will people use the time saved :rolleyes:

The Crowman

Nosey cow.


http://www.traveller.com.au/planebae-alaska-airlines-passengers-flight-romance-goes-viral-on-twitter-h12f4d

Badly Drunk Boy

BrookieD wrote: »

So three letters instead of four...... how will people use the time saved :rolleyes:

The safe space/abortion thread, somebody was using the term 'cray' to describe the pro-lifers instead of 'crazy'. Again, just one letter missing. The more common slang 'cray-cray' is equally annoying.

whisky_galore

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

The safe space/abortion thread, somebody was using the term 'cray' to describe the pro-lifers instead of 'crazy'. Again, just one letter missing. The more common slang 'cray-cray' is equally annoying.

People who use these 'words' should be liquidated.

ChikiChiki

#saltbae is another one. Utterly idiotic yet adored and promoted by millions worldwide.

BrookieD

whisky_galore wrote: »

People who use these 'words' should be liquidated.

To be honest when my kid sends me a text/SMS he knows to use "real" words and not text shorthand or gibberish. This was enforced with no reply what so ever until he twigged the lack of response.

WoollyRedHat

Omg Yahoo as a news source ?

Franz Von Peppercorn

BrookieD wrote: »

To be honest when my kid sends me a text/SMS he knows to use "real" words and not text shorthand or gibberish. This was enforced with no reply what so ever until he twigged the lack of response.

SMS?

That’s surely where text speak is normal and expected.

seamus

Slow news day for some journalist. All of 1,000 people on the internet read the original and know what it's about. Nobody else gives a fnck.

I wish journalists would stop picking stuff up from Twitter and claiming that it's a big thing just because it got lots of likes or retweets.

Twitter recently suspended a quarter of its accounts for being suspected spam or bots. It's fair to say the same number again are nothing but spammy retweeters.

The number of actual people who use and care about Twitter is very small. It's a tiny fraction of the population getting really hot and bothered about tiny issues. It's not newsworthy.

topper75

whisky_galore wrote: »

People who use these 'words' should be liquidated.

Agreed. The resulting bone/flesh slurry could be used to fertilise a nice lawn on which kids who speak properly play.

soups05

while not a user of bae by any means, i should point out it is not short for baby, rather it short for before all others, ie the most important person in your life. hopefully that will makes a little more sense to some.

meanwhile, in the real world, who gives a damn about two strangers meeting on a plane? also, not even off the tarmac and they are both saying they are vegetarian. there a joke in there lol.