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dragonchic ([info]bananainpyjamas) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-03-01 22:56:00
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Entry tags:it is very sad that this post has no tag

Pound for pound this is one of the most befuddling wanks I've seen
A question about a common symbol leads to three pages of cross-Atlantic warfare.

There's really nothing more to say.
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[info]sepiamagpie
2009-03-02 05:05 am UTC (link)
...in pajamas are chasing teddybears...

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(no subject) - [info]sisterelwood, 2009-03-02 05:13 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]bananainpyjamas, 2009-03-02 05:25 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]yoritomo_reiko, 2009-03-02 06:52 pm UTC

[info]blue_penguin
2009-03-02 05:18 am UTC (link)
Wow, it's amazing how much wank-mileage they've gotten out of such a simple question.

Personally, I like "octothorpe." It's the most pretentious-sounding option.

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(no subject) - [info]erototoxin, 2009-03-02 06:03 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]blue_penguin, 2009-03-02 06:46 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tunxeh, 2009-03-02 06:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]blue_penguin, 2009-03-02 06:45 am UTC

[info]phosfate
2009-03-02 05:20 am UTC (link)
FIRST YOU TAKE OUR LAND, THEN YOU TAKE THE NAME OF OUR MONEY!

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(no subject) - [info]youngcurmudgeon, 2009-03-02 06:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2009-03-02 06:13 pm UTC

[info]hallidae
2009-03-02 05:22 am UTC (link)
::whistles:: Wow, that's some... uh... impressive screaming on both sides.

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[info]underwaterowl
2009-03-02 05:24 am UTC (link)
Holy oversensitivity, Batman.

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[info]thegiantsquid
2009-03-02 05:28 am UTC (link)
this is ranking right up there with most ridiculous wank topic since frosting vs icing

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(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2009-03-02 05:36 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rachelmap, 2009-03-02 07:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]imp, 2009-03-02 09:02 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-03-02 12:51 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ayezur, 2009-03-02 02:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lirazel, 2009-03-04 03:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2009-03-02 04:50 pm UTC
:P - [info]doomsday, 2009-03-02 06:47 pm UTC

[info]rhrsoulmates
2009-03-02 05:40 am UTC (link)
OMG, this was very funny! I really hate when people refuse to acknowledge that things outside your hometown are not always done/pronounced/named... the same as the way YOU do/call/name it. It's such a pet peeve of mine.

Oh and we, in America, do have the £ sign on our keyboards! I so wanted to reply there and had to physically stop myself from doing so. You just have to know where to find it. (On a Mac keyboard, it's *option/3*, which ironically is also where the POUND sign (#) can be found.)

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(no subject) - [info]tunxeh, 2009-03-02 06:41 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]eleutheria, 2009-03-03 01:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]marsdragon, 2009-03-04 02:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kosaginolegion, 2009-03-04 03:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-03-02 12:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]vzg, 2009-03-03 09:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]belafarinrod, 2009-03-04 12:29 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]pfeffermuse, 2009-03-04 09:58 am UTC

[info]beejium
2009-03-02 05:47 am UTC (link)
I remember when I first moved to England, and I was listening to some sort of automated message service on my phone, and the robo-woman said, "Please enter your number, followed by the hash key." I went, "What? What? WHAT IS A HASH KEY??" Somehow, through my random button-smashing, everything worked out fine.

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(no subject) - [info]sorchar, 2009-03-02 06:23 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]deliciouschaos, 2009-03-02 09:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]magnolia_mama, 2009-03-02 10:28 pm UTC
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[info]sandglass
2009-03-02 06:07 am UTC (link)
Delicious, delicious irony.

Oh, TQC, never change.

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(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2009-03-02 07:19 am UTC

[info]sparkysrevenge
2009-03-02 06:17 am UTC (link)
I miss totally irrational awesome wank like this.

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(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-03-02 12:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2009-03-02 05:56 pm UTC

[info]xero_sky
2009-03-02 06:31 am UTC (link)
It's the waffle sign.

And we have a winner!

ogod so hungry now

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(no subject) - pastri_archy, 2009-03-02 06:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]veleda_k, 2009-03-02 07:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2009-03-02 02:14 pm UTC
Here y'go. - [info]singe, 2009-03-02 06:06 pm UTC
Re: Here y'go. - [info]vzg, 2009-03-03 09:16 am UTC
My personal favorite. - [info]singe, 2009-03-03 07:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]spawn_of_kong, 2009-03-02 06:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]vzg, 2009-03-03 09:16 am UTC

[info]tez
2009-03-02 06:35 am UTC (link)
I say it's a sharp, myself.

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(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2009-03-02 07:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2009-03-02 08:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]deliciouschaos, 2009-03-02 08:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2009-03-02 11:16 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]eldritch, 2009-03-02 02:29 pm UTC

[info]munchkinott
2009-03-02 07:14 am UTC (link)
Oh who give a shit, the # key's a h0r and £ key's worth 30% less than it was a year ago.

Make code not war!

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(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-03-02 12:53 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]vzg, 2009-03-03 09:18 am UTC

[info]spacelogic
2009-03-02 08:11 am UTC (link)
It's the "comment" key, duh.

(This amused me so much that I just surveyed my family: "sharp", "tic-tac-toe board", "hash", "pound", and "Nethack corridor symbol" were all offered up as possible answers. Diversity is good!)

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(no subject) - [info]wankaholic, 2009-03-02 07:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]spacelogic, 2009-03-03 08:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]pfeffermuse, 2009-03-04 10:01 am UTC

[info]dragonfangirl
2009-03-02 08:15 am UTC (link)
Press Button, Receive Hashish?

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[info]loquaciousquark
2009-03-02 08:24 am UTC (link)
This was by far my favorite thread in that post.

(Also, it's pound sign, Coke, shopping cart, and see-saw.)

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(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-03-02 08:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2009-03-02 09:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]adverb, 2009-03-02 10:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]minibalrogmum, 2009-03-02 10:41 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]lirazel, 2009-03-04 03:51 pm UTC
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[info]eleutheria
2009-03-02 08:25 am UTC (link)
At least one of the wankers admitted they were stoned, which kinda explains the whole thing.

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(no subject) - [info]lykomancer, 2009-03-02 05:42 pm UTC

[info]imp
2009-03-02 09:04 am UTC (link)
Goodness, these people are really passionate about this.

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[info]onyxnoir
2009-03-02 10:16 am UTC (link)
Wank like this is the only reason I keep TQC on my friends list anymore.

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[info]herongale
2009-03-02 10:52 am UTC (link)
well it's called the wank key apparently

My favourite comment in the whole thing. From now on, whenever I am tempted to wank, I am just going to mash on the pound hash number wank key instead.

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(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2009-03-02 02:17 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]crickets, 2009-03-02 08:39 pm UTC
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[info]honorh
2009-03-02 12:50 pm UTC (link)
This wank makes me unreasonably happy. I don't know why. I suppose it's because I can totally imagine Fry and Laurie doing a skit about it, Fry being the particularly snippy Brit and Laurie being the particularly thick American. Fry and Laurie make everything awesome.

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(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2009-03-02 02:17 pm UTC
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[info]llama_treats
2009-03-02 01:27 pm UTC (link)
I'm very sad that this post has no tags. :(

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[info]grrliz
2009-03-02 02:01 pm UTC (link)
I am surprised at the number of people who knew that # could also refer to pounds a.k.a. lbs. I didn't realise that was common knowledge — because I didn't know! And if I didn't know, god knows it can't be common knowledge. o_O

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(no subject) - [info]ellensmithee, 2009-03-02 02:38 pm UTC
The Snark Mark!
[info]criticalcricket
2009-03-02 02:26 pm UTC (link)
Oddly enough, I brushed up on my # knowledge when the ampersand wank came up, so I knew that it came about by some arcane deformation of "lb".

I wonder what symbol we'll see wank about next. This one looks promising:
The irony mark or irony point (؟) (French: point d’ironie; also called a snark or zing) is a proposed punctuation mark that was suggested to be used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level.

It's perfect! I saw we adopt it as our very own!

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Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]bienegold, 2009-03-02 03:52 pm UTC
Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]rodo, 2009-03-02 05:14 pm UTC
Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]puipui, 2009-03-02 05:29 pm UTC
Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]rodo, 2009-03-02 05:34 pm UTC
Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]puipui, 2009-03-03 04:43 am UTC
Re: Ampersand Wank - [info]beachlass, 2009-03-02 06:52 pm UTC
Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]lykomancer, 2009-03-02 05:44 pm UTC
Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]criticalcricket, 2009-03-02 11:54 pm UTC
Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]chibikaijuu, 2009-03-02 05:55 pm UTC
Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]lirazel, 2009-03-04 03:56 pm UTC
Re: The Snark Mark! - [info]criticalcricket, 2009-03-04 11:49 pm UTC
omg ur oppressing me
[info]beachlass
2009-03-02 02:54 pm UTC (link)
I can't believe you are wrote "Pound for pound" in the OP. Please change this immediately, as it is not metric, which is a more international system. "Kilo for Kilo" would be far more inclusive.

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