I like the classic Usenet “Micro$oft.” Producers of Microshaft Wind-blows.
Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Okay, totally off topic…what is it with this annoying trend of censoring a company/name with an asterisk when it’s a subject of ire? It just bugs me - and not in a way that focuses my anger to Microsoft.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 week ago
renzev@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Don’t forget Microshit’s renowned Orifice software suite!
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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I only ever use Michaelsoft Binbows.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 days ago
I love near a microcenter
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 week ago
It conveys “I have such a disdain for that thing that I’m asterisking its name like it was a slur or swear word”.
I’m not a big fan either, even if you can find some secondary roles for that (as keeping someone from finding it, like ilinamorato exemplified). It distracts the reader from what is being said to the author’s personal opinion about what is being said.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s ironic, except for when we’re talking about the Fr*nch. It’s self aware humor that you’re being ridiculous. The tone it’s supposed to convey in situations like thisis that you’re being hyperbolically obtuse.
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, that Franch dipping sauce in Breaking Bad was crazy!
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Honestly, it’s better than: fck, blly and sicde
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Those are generally used for bypassing filters on TikTok and Instagram
But like, come on man, no matter how much you censor it I know the word and I get the message. Because that’s why you wrote it, you want me to read and understand it
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And here we are, not on TikTok or Instagram, and still seeing it
lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
speak of the devil and he shall appear
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
With stuff like Tesla and Twitter, it can keep away the weird nerds who search those terms in hopes of white-knight-sealioning a conversation into oblivion. I think it just became part of the lexicon.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Sealioning?
eldoom@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Have you ever heard a sea lion? They’re super loud and they all get together and bark.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Ahahaha that’s great
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/sea-lioning
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Dang, that comic will be ten years old next week.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
I gotta be honest, the sea lion is not the bad guy in this comic. Guy randomly says some racist shit, and a member of the group he’s being racist against calls him out for being racist, so he then uses that as justification for the initial racist statement.