LOL at DC's LOL

[dandarez]

Leveson Inquiry...

Cameron used to sign off his texts to Rebekah Brooks with LOL thinking it meant Lots of Love.

[Marf]

Common mistake amongst those not savvy with internet slang. Hardly rofl material I'd think

[Einion Yrth]

Marf said:

Common mistake amongst those not savvy with internet slang.

As with anything else, if you don't know what it means either find out or don't use it. The alternative is looking like a halfwit.

[dandarez]

Marf said:

Common mistake amongst those not savvy with internet slang. Hardly rofl material I'd think

It will be rofl to most. Obviously not majority of PHs.

He's the PM ffs - you are supposed to be savvy!

[ewenm]

To be fair, I'd rather the PM wasn't saying Lots Of Love (or Laugh Out Loud) to the editor of a newspaper.

I don't want my PM to be savvy, I want him to be appropriate.

[ewenm]

And yet it is deemed newsworthy

[page3]

dandarez said:

Leveson Inquiry...

Cameron used to sign off his texts to Rebekah Brooks with LOL thinking it meant Lots of Love.

It does, or at least used to before it got hijacked. Seems a fair usage to me.

[Snowboy]

LOL does mean Lots of Love if the sender and recipient think it does.

It’s about as comical as saying
‘He said he was going drinking andd dancing at a ball, I mean a ball, we all know that’s a spherical object not a party. What a silly person.’

[TwigtheWonderkid]

ewenm said:

To be fair, I'd rather the PM wasn't saying Lots Of Love (or Laugh Out Loud) to the editor of a newspaper.

I don't want my PM to be savvy, I want him to be appropriate.

Why shouldn't he say "Lots of love" to the wife of one of his closest friends, who, thru her marriage to his close friend, has become a friend herself?

Also, lol meaning lots of love isn't a misapprehension of a few halfwits, it is an alternative meaning for lol. Laughing out loud may be the more common usage, but that doesn't mean lots of love isn't valid. I wasn't aware that there was a text speak rule book.

[Bullett]

I used to work for Interflora, we took phone orders by hand and used shorthand to write the messages.
LOL was lots of love. BW GWS

[ewenm]

Only a halfwit would think that text messages are private.

If I were PM (not likely!) I would be extremely circumspect about anything I wrote. But then I don't trust the press at all, even the journalists I know fairly well.

[Marf]

Einion Yrth said:

Marf said:

Common mistake amongst those not savvy with internet slang.

As with anything else, if you don't know what it means either find out or don't use it. The alternative is looking like a halfwit.

Well, your obtuse comments aside, thats the point, he thought it meant lots of love, as many non net savvy people do.

[Marf]

ewenm said:

And yet it is deemed newsworthy

As is Zuckerberg wearing a hoodie and a mixup about hotels apparently. Slow news day at the BBC I guess.

[page3]

Marf said:

Well, your obtuse comments aside, thats the point, he thought it meant lots of love, as many non net savvy people do.

Still stands though that it does mean Lots of Love, as many "net savvy" bods will testify.

[loafer123]

doogz said:

To be fair, he can be friends with whoever he likes, and what he writes in private messages, is generally speaking, none of anyone elses business.

+1

[hornet]

Meh

[elster]

page3 said:

Marf said:

Well, your obtuse comments aside, thats the point, he thought it meant lots of love, as many non net savvy people do.

Still stands though that it does mean Lots of Love, as many "net savvy" bods will testify.

Those vintage users of theinternet rather than the newbies will know it as lots of love prior to msn changing the emoticon.

[retrobob]

I was watching Fox and Friends one day and they were reading out tweets etc and Gretchen Carlson [the blonde]came across 'LMAO' in a tweet and she had no idea what it meant > she even asked for someone to tweet in what it meant.

[anonymous-user]

It's well worth watching this if you can, she's looking rattled now.

[Rugbyman]

Symbolica said:

It's well worth watching this if you can, she's looking rattled now.

Damn it ....cant witch

Any updates please ?