you know what i wish would go away?

[rone]

Any use of "fsck" in lieu of "fuck".  It's over.  It was over years ago.  Cut it out.  Unless you're running a filesystem check, no more "fscking".

Also, "pwned".  I can't begin to describe how braindead this is.  Not even ironic use can save it.  Stop it.  Don't make me come over there.

Comments

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

You're fscking pwned!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

NOW! IS YOUR TIME! TO DIE!

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

All your base is belong to us!

YM

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

"J00"

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

You mean because of this whim of yours I should now rename my untrustworthy workstation, poor little fsck.waldner.priv.at?

No fscking way.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

There'd be no need to change it if besides fsck you also had mknod.waldner, newfs.waldner, swapon.waldner, etc.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

The new firewall's called mkfs.vfat, just to add insult to it's ridiculous slowness. Does that count?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I will magnanimously issue you an exception.

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

However, now you must kill him for apostrophe abuse. Don't make me pull out Bob the Angry Flower.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'll have to give him a pass on that one, too, seein' as how he's a furriner.

Then again, so are you. Don't cross me, buddy.

[andrewhime.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I'm actually with you on this one. pr0n too. "teh" on the other hand... I still enjoy that one.

Dunno why.

[bryant]

Can we get rid of any and all "cute" misspellings designed to show contempt for the item misspelled? Micro$oft, Slowlaris, Macintrash, and so on?

[broken-gizmo.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Please!?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'm going to hang onto "N$I" and "Veri$ign" for a little while longer, but they'll run their course soon.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I kind of liked the phrase "The Pwnership Society".

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...Which is Jesse Taylor's (http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/004637.html) coinage, or at least that was where I got it.

[arian1.livejournal.com]

You mean like our favorite nazi and his egomania site clusterfsck?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I had no idea who you were talking about so i had to go look. Gee thanks.

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

I propose "STUNG!" as a replacement for "pwned".

http://www.lileks.com/comics/1907/4.html

[kodi]

What especially irritates me about "pwned" (beyond the fact that I believe it should be pronounced "pooned") is that, even correctly spelled, it's dumb. The only good thing that's come out of it, in my mind, is this. Also, I'm with bitpuddle on the topic of w00t.

pooned

[palecur.livejournal.com]

er, well, how else would anyone pronounce it?

Re: pooned

[kodi]

The last time I saw a "how do you say pwned" discussion, I was the lone vote for "pooned." I don't recall how the breakdown ran, but there were calls for "poned," "pawned," "owned," and "I don't say it, when I'm saying it I'm saying owned, I only use 'pwned' for typing; it's unpronounceable."

Re: pooned

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The few times I've heard it spoken, it was "pee-owned".

Pwned / pooned

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

Does the term maybe go back to Snow Crash?

(For those who don't remember, YT on her skateboard 'pooned tows from various powered vehicles, with the sense of the word evidently coming from "harpooned". Hiro was quite annoyed when he got pooned.)

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[lara7.livejournal.com]

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[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I like pwn3d! I just ran across it a few weeks ago, so it's still new to me. When someone says "I pwn j00" it makes me giggle.

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

The term "fsck" still has a lot of mileage, though. The F-Word Itself denotes a biological act which is generally pleasurable and sometimes even procreative. "Fsck" denotes something dry, mechanical, and sometimes annoyingly necessary just to get back to the level of functionality you had before things went pear-shaped. When I'm annoyed I'd rather invoke the latter and leave anything I actually enjoy doing out of it.