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So I'm in the can at work and this other guy comes in and starts taking a leak. Suddenly he farts and fucking Siri (his phone) pipes up with "sorry, didn't catch that."

It took everything in me to not bust out laughing.

The [lol] tag is 10 years old today!

On Jan 26, 2007 I was sitting at my desk during my last week working for the industrial automation company that I spent the last 15 years at, and had given notice to a week earlier. I was doing documentation and running out the clock when boring gegtik posted an idea (that he had apparently stolen from voodooraze ... lol).

http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=13730954#item_13730954

I had created a Greasemonkey script called Shacknews Soul Sucker Filter which did the same thing as the [ugh] tag did -- let people downvote posts and automatically collapse them if a set number of people agreed that the story was soul-sucking -- and realized I could take that script and whip up what boring gegtik voodooraze suggested in an hour or so, so between other things and lunch, I threw together the first working version of the script.

Since then, we've apparently smashed that button over 2.4 million times.

Year      LOL      All Tags   Tag Growth

----    -------   ----------  ----------

2007     87,272       87,272      87,272

2008    173,173      182,104      94,832

2009    153,539      178,536      -3,568

2010    162,412      216,850      38,314

2011    158,869      235,565      18,715

2012    236,047      365,840     130,275

2013    332,429      523,610     157,770

2014    347,735      557,375      33,765

2015    386,044      617,217      59,842

2016    372,068      641,151      23,934

      =========    =========

      2,409,588    3,605,520

Crazy. 10 years. :D

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That's fucked up. That being said, act like nothing is wrong. Don't change the way you treat her or talk to her (unless you were buying her drinks and meals, cut that shit out now). Give her the impression that you knew the whole time that you guys were just going out as friends and that you weren't interested in her "in that way" at all. But slowly start bringing in the "girl problems" you've been having with these other girls you've been seeing (make it all up if you have to).

Basically, put HER in the friend zone.

Tell her you're wanting to ask some other chick you met out on a date then say stuff like "wow you're such a great friend, I'm so glad I can talk to you about all these other girls I'm dating." Make sure to give her awkward greeting hugs with your ass sticking really far back to show your disinterest. Be completely a-sexual to her your lunches, give some friendly banter, whenever she mentions wanting to go out say stuff like "oh I'd love to, but, well, you know, we're just friends! and I don't want to ruin that!"

Eventually she'll feel bad enough and kill herself and then you won't have to deal with that bullshit anymore.

http://chattypics.com/files/femshep_uwoog9z1l1.jpg

My parents asked me to work from their apartment today because some dudes are installing blinds. I was just getting ready to scroll down the lol page when one of the guys came in to ask me a question. I looked up and we made eye contact, when - do you see where this is going? - a thunderous fart erupted from my laptop. Both of us froze, eyes locked, and then he literally backed out of the room without saying anything.

I love you ThomW.

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Now you can run two apps as the same time.

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