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What's with this new .com craze in sentences

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


    Webmonkey wrote: »
    now I noticed a former class mate update his facebook status with wreaked.com. It's cringe worthy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


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


  • 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:


  • Registered Users Posts: 291 ✭✭lisaface


    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.


  • 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 . . .


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


    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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    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.


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


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    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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Yag reuoY


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

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


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    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".

    That was a pretty big deal when that website launched on the stock exchange, as that was the point at which it all started to go wrong and people realised that the internet superhighway thing wasn't actually paved with gold.

    Was good fun at the time though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


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

    Another seriously annoying brain-dead trend.......the word "like" does not belong in that sentence, and there is only one "o" in "so".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Another seriously annoying brain-dead trend.......the word "like" does not belong in that sentence, and there is only one "o" in "so".

    Yeah. That was the joke. Hence the emoticon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭baltimore sun


    ya think that's bad,
    I'm in a country where the kids actually say LOL as a word, I've had to explain to them in classes that it's not a word and what it stands for,
    it very strange to hear someone actually say lol.

    but the .com thing thats really old, at least 6 maybe even 8 years old.
    Just goes to show how influential moronic daytime radio DJs are in Ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    My apologies, it's only lately I've seen it going on, didn't know it was going on for years. It's quite a long trend then isn't it, or did it die and suddenly just come back lately?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭baltimore sun


    Webmonkey wrote: »
    or did it die and suddenly just come back lately?

    I thought i was really old, must be makin a come back.
    turn off the radio, would be the best solution, get a last fm subscription, no ads and no dj sprouting sh1te


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭cedomination


    We buy any car.com
    We buy any car.com
    We buy any car.com
    Any. Any. Any. Any
    We buy any car.com
    We buy any car.com
    We buy any car.com
    Any. Any. Any. Any


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    We buy any car.com
    We buy any car.com
    We buy any car.com
    Any. Any. Any. Any
    We buy any car.com
    We buy any car.com
    We buy any car.com
    Any. Any. Any. Any
    *pulls out gun*
    *shoots for mentioning that annoying ad* :mad:


    :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    BasilMarceaux.com wouldn't stand for this nonsense...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    It really pisses me off too.

    I wouldn't be caught dead doing it.org


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


    It's not a new thing... I remember hearing it back in 2004...


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


    It's not a new thing... I remember hearing it back in 2004...
    consultech wrote: »
    I cite Dennis Leary's Lock and Load from 2000/2001. I remember him saying it way too much back then: "WWW.WHATTHEFUCK.COM".

    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    These kind of stupid fads are why I have never had a facebook , twitter , bebo are any other account of this ilk.


    I like the word "ilk"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    It's probably just a http://fad.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    It's a phase that will pass. It's used by those pretending to be hip/with it.

    The previous phase is/was the use of the word 'random' in very deterministic situations. You will find many Facebook picture albums called 'Randomness'.

    I first heard it in 2008, so it is hardly a new, hip phase. Think it was pretty well used at that stage too.

    Anybody using it now probably should head to lastminute.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    Kasabian wrote: »
    These kind of stupid fads are why I have never had a facebook , twitter , bebo are any other account of this ilk.


    I like the word "ilk"

    Wow you are so cool. Get yourself a Blue Peter badge :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Wow you are so cool. Get yourself a Blue Peter badge :D


    You're right I am cool. :cool:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    back in the 90s this was in one of the austin powers films.
    dr evil telling a talkative mini me to 'zip it' and he said www.zip-it.com.

    This was historically the first recorded known use of the expression.
    What do I win ?


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


    knird evol wrote: »
    back in the 90s this was in one of the austin powers films.
    dr evil telling a talkative mini me to 'zip it' and he said www.zip-it.com.

    This was historically the first recorded known use of the expression.
    What do I win ?

    You win your very own web domain of your choice!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    earwax_man wrote: »
    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:



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Noopti


    I blame "confused.com"......seriously I only started hearing all this .com crap when that ad came out. "I'm confused.com"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    The best is when ya c a ugly bird and ya jus turn to ur mate and go inbits.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Hmm. This craze must've passed me by the first time around. But I can feel the keyboard rage welling up if someone does post that sort of sh*t online. (I've witnessed this recently on a friends' facebook post).

    I do have a mate, that, when drunk he shouts "offmegee.ie". It's funny, for a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    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, wrecked.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 wrecked.com. It's cringe worthy!

    Facebook is for tits!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    Beware of the coming use of established for cool !!! I warns thee!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    kfallon wrote: »
    Facebook is for tits!!!

    Is it bad that I was about to correct you that the update was from a dude cos I read your sentence "facebook or t!ts". I may need a break from the internet..........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    kfallon wrote: »
    Facebook is for tits!!!

    Asses, faces, etc. too. Plenty of talent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Have been hearing twats use that since at least 2005 tbh.


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