Hashtag!

[Kilgore Trout]

I refered to a "number sign" with a younger person and they were confused. I drew the symbol and they said, "oh, you mean a hashtag!" God, I hate people sometimes.

 

[Magic Man]

Ugh, I wonder how long it'll be before phone menus start saying "Please enter your ID number followed by a hashtag".

 

[Wherenextcolumbus]

I once forgot how to spell "together" it was in front of 3 people they were looking at me very strangely...one of them had to spell it out for me.

 

[Vinayaka]

What the heck is the pound key anyway?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

What the heck is the pound key anyway?

It's the key you pound when you get annoyed at having to deal with how slow automated telephone systems are.

 

[McBell]

I refered to a "number sign" with a younger person and they were confused. I drew the symbol and they said, "oh, you mean a hashtag!" God, I hate people sometimes.

Is this a ground hog or a woodchuck:

is this a mountain lion, puma, panther, or catamount

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Is this a ground hog or a woodchuck?

I'm aware that both of those names refer to the same animal.

 

[Poeticus]

I refered to a "number sign" with a younger person and they were confused. I drew the symbol and they said, "oh, you mean a hashtag!" God, I hate people sometimes.

Kilgore,

I am an archer. The traditional and compound bows come with draw-weights (the amount of weight that it would take to pull back the bow-string). Guess what? The numbers are preceded by a #-sign. So, if my recurve has a draw-weight of #55, it will take 55 pounds of effort to pull back the bow string. Don't get me started on how many times my friends and family members both have mistakenly said, "Why do you have a hashtag on your bow?" ... HeHe ...

I feel you, brah. I feel you.

 

[McBell]

I'm aware that both of those names refer to the same animal.

So it is a pet peeve thing?
I understand pet peeves.
i have several of them myself.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

So it is a pet peeve thing?

Yes, ignorance of common knowledge is a pet peeve of mine, especially when the part of peoples' brain that should be filled with common knowledge is instead filled with nothing but social media fads. Hence, "God, I hate people sometimes."

 

[4consideration]

Yes, ignorance of common knowledge is a pet peeve of mine, especially when the part of peoples' brain that should be filled with common knowledge is instead filled with nothing but social media fads. Hence, "God, I hate people sometimes."

Do you have any feeling of compassion for those of us that for a long time didn't know what a "hashtag" was, but was too afraid to ask?

 

[McBell]

Do you have any feeling of compassion for those of us that for a long time didn't know what a "hashtag" was, but was too afraid to ask?

Seems to me not knowing that a pound sign is also known as a hashtag, being common knowledge and all, should set off his pet peeve...

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Do you have any feeling of compassion for those of us that for a long time didn't know what a "hashtag" was, but was too afraid to ask?

I count ignorance of Twitter as a plus. Billions of banal tweets constantly being sent out into the ether, where the vast majority of them will never even be noticed or read, strikes me as one of the saddest types of narcissim I've ever encountered.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Seems to me not knowing that a pound sign is also known as a hashtag, being common knowledge and all, should set off his pet peeve...

Not nearly as much as bizarrely passive-aggressive posts in the joke forum of RF.

 

[4consideration]

I count ignorance of Twitter as a plus. Billions of banal tweets constantly being sent out into the ether, where the vast majority of them will never even be noticed or read, strikes me as one of the saddest types of narcissim I've ever encountered.

Cool!

When I have nothing to say, I just do it on RF.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Cool!

When I have nothing to say, I just do it on RF.

Here, at least, you know when you have nothing to say, it will be attacked and resisted with red-faces, crazy wide-eyes, and spittle flying from angry mouths.

 

[McBell]

Not nearly as much as bizarrely passive-aggressive posts in the joke forum of RF.

merely assuming consistency.
Is that to much, even in the jokes section?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

merely assuming consistency.
Is that to much, even in the jokes section?

A sense of humor wouldn't be too much.

 

[McBell]

A sense of humor wouldn't be too much.

Agreed.
So where did yours go?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Agreed.
So where did yours go?

I'm pretty sure it got sucked into your supermassive black hole vortex of humorless negativity. Let me know if you come across it.