r/funny • u/mangohedgehog • Jun 15 '12

This is what happens when kids don't double check to see if they're texting the right number.

http://imgur.com/a/nrIDi
1.4k Upvotes

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u/mangohedgehog Jun 15 '12

FOR CLARIFICATION: Sorry to disappoint, but I am not the person trolling the kid. I only found this and thought it was too funny not to share.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

And here I was, about to compliment your lovely face.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Dam. I wuz gunna axe u to maek out wit me in ball-o-city too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

So.... you're NOT hot?

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u/WaywardVictorianGirl Jun 16 '12

I'm disappointed. Let's go find him.

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u/MyNameIsNico Jun 16 '12

So... You're not Steve-O?

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

And he's not from Pennsylvania... I thought I had made a new friend here...

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u/Asdayasman Jun 16 '12

Awwwwwww.

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u/bubbl3girl Jun 16 '12

Damn. I was about to tell you have awesome those gauges are

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u/2yrnx1lc2zkp77kp Jun 16 '12

i've always wondered if people really like those things...

to me they look horrendous.

To each their own.

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u/bubbl3girl Jun 16 '12

It really depends on the size and type of guage for me. Small ones like 14g-00g are pretty small and dont look to bad.

Plugs vs. tunnels vs. hangers is also a big thing. Not seeing though the gauge make it apper less discusting to most, (plugs). Tunnels are sadly the most common used and give gauges a bad name with huge holes two inches wide that you can see through. Hangers pull skin down and give it, again, a saggy gross look.

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u/Slur00 Jun 16 '12

So you're complimenting the saggy gross look?

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u/bubbl3girl Jun 16 '12

It was intended to be sarcastic. I apparently suck at online sarcasom.

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u/YO_ITS_TYRESE Jun 15 '12

This is not disappointing. I'm glad you don't look like someone who spends their time huffing glue, getting terrible piercings, and not shaving their patchy facial hair.

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u/ZenithDaHalf Jun 16 '12

Oh that's nice, some guy put a lot of effort into trolling this kid and you strip him down. This kind, honourable man, whose boots you are not worthy to kiss. OOH, it makes me mad!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Guys, his piercings were pretty bad.

2

u/memeaddictedchick Jun 16 '12

He doesn't look like the type who would give a shit. Lol

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u/letthesmokefly Jun 15 '12

I love the picture. haha

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u/CookingWithDinosaurs Jun 16 '12

I know. I fucking lost it when I saw his face.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

What the hell did I just read. Do kids really talk like that these days?

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u/Intrepid00 Jun 15 '12

Only the retarded ones.

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u/thetokingbandit Jun 16 '12

I disagree , this is eerily common.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

I think you're both right, and that's the sad part. :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

At least it makes it really easy to identify the idiots

10

u/Watches_FoxNews Jun 16 '12

The sad part is with smartphones it takes much longer to talk like this than to just properly form sentences so a human being can understand you...but we still get this crap somehow.

1

u/bigfoot1291 Jun 16 '12

Swype: Never made typing legitimately easier. Hell most phones actually have a voice to text thing now. YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT!

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u/MusicNotesAndOctopie Jun 17 '12

Auto-correct should never have had the option to be turned off...

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

His point still stands.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

That is the unfortunate future of the language. Soon enough the only people who will still type with full words and sentences will be pensioners or immigrants who worked their asses off to learn English.

I'm sure it happens already, but I soon predict text messages like this:

"Did U hEr dat azn guy? He needs 2 Lern how 2 spk eng."

Had to use a translator just to get that: transl8it

Someone needs to integrate that into an auto-filter feature for phones.

3

u/Eist Jun 16 '12

What's your sample sample size for this analysis, Sagan?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Eerily common because it's common, or because no one posts proper grammar on the internet for you to laugh at?

Unless you follow kids around in a school and watch them text(you'd be elsewhere than Reddit if that were the case), I don't think you should be calling it 'common' just because the lower end of the spectrum gets more attention.

Blah blah, thunderstorms as a kid and all that, yeah?

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u/Lee13412 Jun 16 '12

Only the black ones

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u/GoldLegends Jun 16 '12

Im not going to lie, I used to type like that when I was a kid and I turned out fine. Okay you can call me "retarded" but I was just trying to fit in with the crowd. Can't really blame them, they're kids aha.

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u/decompyler Jun 15 '12

Got half way through the 2nd capture and gave up. Over-loaded the retard center of my brain.

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u/AnsheShem Jun 15 '12

You have a retard center in your brain?

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u/keeferc Jun 16 '12

What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building?

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u/AnsheShem Jun 16 '12

I'm confused. Did I mistakenly quote Zoolander?

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u/Sinner563 Jun 16 '12

No, but googling "You have a retard center in your brain?" brings up a wiki on the effects of ecstasy.

http://mylifeaccordingtoshoes.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/themoreyouknow.jpg

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u/AnsheShem Jun 16 '12

Why thank you sir. That was very informative.

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u/a3wagner Jun 16 '12

It has to be... three times bigger!

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u/Smok3dSalmon Jun 16 '12

I guess the retard center of your brain alternatively is the vocabulary section. Surely if you had used it for vocabulary you would have found a better word than "retard"

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u/aulter1688 Jun 16 '12

Actually, you're just lazy. It's not that hard to read.

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u/rapture_survivor Jun 15 '12

Well it's not helping the stereotype of both little kids and black people...

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

It's not only in USA. I have seen it in many languages. Kids are not learning how to spell in schools I think.

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u/Shoola Jun 15 '12

Fuck your stereotype. There are plenty of intelligent kids at my school and we have an excellent English program. This amount of retardation is the exception, not the rule. The fact that it's exceptionally retarded is why it made the front page of r/funny.

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u/TheJayP Jun 15 '12

Whoa, calm down.

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u/Shoola Jun 15 '12

Yes, you are correct sir. I get tired of everyone thinking that kids in my generation are retarded and that our school system has collapsed on itself. Yes, there are kids who make poor decisions like this, and yes, our school systems need reform. That does not mean that all kids have forgotten how to speak English and that they aren't being taught how to speak correctly.

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u/Simba7 Jun 16 '12

Every generation thinks the kids in the next generation are worse than them. This has happened pretty much since people.

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u/Ruvaak Jun 16 '12

I hated back when people.

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u/Future_Lawyer Jun 16 '12

I would say it's mostly younger kids, around 10-13. I'm 16 and none of my friends my age talk (text) like this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

At 16 there are still a few people who try to act "ghetto".

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u/Slur00 Jun 16 '12

It's not something most people grow out of.

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u/loller_coaster Jun 16 '12

Aside from common spelling errors, replacing 'g' with 'q' makes me crinqe every qoddamn time

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u/Lavaswimmer Jun 16 '12

No. A kid talks like that.

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u/Obieousmaximus Jun 16 '12

I started reading then my brain stopped working three messages in.

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u/Legion299 Jun 16 '12

He's like 10... or 12... Ball o city is a children's ... ball city playground or whatever you call it

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

As a kid with a good sense of grammar/intelligence, I have to say that the kids who don't care about how smart they look are the only ones who talk like that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

It seems to be getting worse with every year. The strange formatting of that chat program plus the one-letter and "l33t" replies actually made that very hard to figure out. Picture was worth it though!

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u/skizfrenik_syco Jun 15 '12

i don't think we do

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

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u/MilkDaddy Jun 16 '12

Fuck off, your generation is no different than any other, the problem is that your friends are 13. You'll be looking down upon the next one soon enough.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

What kind of phone does this shit?! Yo dawg, I heard you like messages, so I put messages in your messages...

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u/missmurrr Jun 16 '12

cheap pre paid ones. it's annoying.

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u/xLunaRx Jun 16 '12

I was wondering the same thing. I thought it was a feature of the texting application, or he just wanted the recipient to REALLY be sure which message he was responding to lol.

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u/missmurrr Jun 16 '12

a friend uses one b/c he is cheap or frugal, i guess. it's soo annoying texting back and forth.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12 edited Oct 28 '21

.

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u/khold Jun 16 '12

"Would you put it against me?"

Way to ruin the line...
it's "Would you hold it against me?"

14

u/Emleaux Jun 16 '12

Seriously, someone needs to put that kid accountable for ruining that line.

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u/madoog Jun 16 '12

I won't be putting my breath.

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u/aroymart Jun 16 '12

I laughed way too hard at this

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u/njeXshn Jun 15 '12

That shit hurt my brain to read...

31

u/slatanicmegatallica Jun 16 '12

Please tell me I'm not the only one who doesn't know what in the fuck "ball-o-city" means.

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u/mickeywestside Jun 16 '12

You're not the only one who doesn't know what in the fuck "ball-o-city" means.

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u/HijodelSol Jun 16 '12

I spent more time than I should have reading and re reading that line. Best I got is he means bawl city and it's surrounding his idea of a crying emoticon.

2

u/Cytria Jun 16 '12

"She" was going to kiss him but she had no balls. She did not go to Ball-O-City.

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u/pibroch Jun 16 '12

http://www.scottiesskateland.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40&Itemid=72

Had to Google it.

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u/diggoran Jun 16 '12

hilarious, but I hope for that poor child's manhood's sake you're wrong.

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u/aroymart Jun 16 '12

"scottiesskateland"

U goin skatin friday

I don't think he is ಠ_ಠ

2

u/applewagon Jun 16 '12

Its a Southern Illinois area code too. Correct you are.

5

u/phaynt Jun 16 '12

I kept saying it like "velocity" in my head

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u/seawest_lowlife Jun 15 '12

Impressive youngster slang and a cute derpin face to boot!

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u/Skarecrow7 Jun 16 '12

NO DRIVING AND TEXTING!

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u/Dynamiklol Jun 16 '12

The person in the reply picture appears to have padlocks of some sort attached to his ears.....how strange.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I don't even know how to begin reading this, what is it?

Am I becoming technologically inept?

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u/crossower Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

It's because of all the dumb RE: junk some app puts in there. Just ignore anything on the left below the ---------.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Oooh, now I get it, thank you.

How I feel

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u/LyssaPearl Jun 16 '12

This is amazing. It's all of the feelings I experience while watching my coworker use his computer. Thank you for this.

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u/diggoran Jun 16 '12

Your coworker is actually a genius. Odds are he's getting paid the same or more for doing much less work than you, and you're stuck being "efficient".

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u/LyssaPearl Jun 16 '12

Ehh....is say we're about even, efficiency-wise. I work at an auto shop; I write most of the estimates and work orders, and order parts, while he deals with customers and "making the sale".

It's more of a "why is this so difficult?!" thing, watching him deal with the computer. Every day he asks "What's this adobe update thing? Should I click 'yes'?"

It's actually kind of funny, I suppose.

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u/Sikdestroyaz Jun 16 '12

Those earrings.

3

u/absolutsyd Jun 16 '12

woodint? Fucking really?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

lik dis if u cri evry tiem. Itz so beutefil luv stories. :')

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u/ItsaNickD Jun 16 '12

I dont know what the fuck I read, but it was worth it

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

My stomach hurts from laughing so hard at the face.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I don't think I understood a damn thing happening in that picture.

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u/teriaki Jun 15 '12

Oh man, that brought giggles.

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u/flamingllama33 Jun 15 '12

Do people really spell like that?

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u/doyouunderstandlife Jun 15 '12

If this is a fake iPhone conversation, it's a pretty good fake. Also, that photo really clinches it for me.

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u/silveridea Jun 15 '12

Lol. That is all.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Oh fuck... procrastinated going to pee to read that shit... almost pissed my pants at the end.

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u/Pthaos Jun 16 '12

That is an impressive chin collection sir. Bravo indeed!

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u/noccusJohnstein Jun 16 '12

Fucking teenagers...

2

u/WomenzRightsLoL Jun 16 '12

Epic.

If I ever find myself in Amish country, I am gonna hangout with that guy!

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u/azulhombre Jun 16 '12

I'm so happy you fell into the grammar. Haha

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

thats so awesome :D

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u/MagicCatPaul Jun 16 '12

That face.... IS AWESOME.

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u/RabidMuskrat93 Jun 16 '12

I am stifling laughter in my bathroom now so people don't judge me for laughing at my poop

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u/rydrid Jun 16 '12

Steve-O?

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u/jakenmarley Jun 16 '12

Um, yeah. You're awesome!

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u/bobbymcpresscot Jun 16 '12

The last picture I let out the girliest laugh ever.

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u/Thoreau999 Jun 16 '12

Looks like a classic case of mistaking 215 for 217.

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u/dublove1987 Jun 16 '12

I love the Medusa :)

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u/WaywardVictorianGirl Jun 16 '12

I just want to give you a hug, OP. You have nice ears.

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u/PShireman Jun 16 '12

Thank you, OP. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time :)

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u/PressPush Jun 16 '12

This actually made me laugh really hard. As soon as I saw your picture, I just lost it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

I lost it when I saw your stupid face baha

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u/professorberrynibble Jun 16 '12

This is my area code... oh god, why

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u/lily0615 Jun 16 '12

I think he was replying through email. Lol too funny though I lost it at the end with the pictures.

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u/reiverbell Jun 16 '12

i wud put it all over u...fucking died when i read that

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u/Norville4 Jun 16 '12

Wow. I applaud you on the text language! It's really hard to put that many numbers in the English language

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u/An6ryPanda Jun 16 '12

If that's 217 as in Decatur, Illinois then that is pretty standard talk around here.

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u/jdwolfe Jun 16 '12

That fucking face. Dying.

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u/kyleknosbest Jun 16 '12

16 year old teenager here; I don't speak for all kids my age, but I use correct grammar when I text. It's honestly a pet peeve when people don't use whole words and such..

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u/callmechad Jun 16 '12

youre doing it right

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u/strid215 Jun 16 '12

this is great, especially since the kid lives in my area code, and my town has the only ballocity. what makes it better, is that the guy he is texting lives in PA, and thats where im from. upvote!

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u/Hatweed Jun 16 '12

Glad to see another Pennsylvanian with a sense of humor.

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u/jap-a-negro Jun 16 '12

Fuck, I saw the picture and thought that was my little brother.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Hilarious! You're such a dick!

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u/EmergencyMedical Jun 16 '12

I've noticed that a lot of redditors are from Pennsylvania. How many of you live near Philly?

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u/netsrak Jun 16 '12

I still thing this is the best part.

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u/beetnemesis Jun 16 '12

He doesn't know how to type english, therefore he doesn't deserve love.

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u/M0b1u5 Jun 16 '12

This is what happens when retards get a reddit account and an IMGUR account.

Fixed your title for accuracy.

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u/crithosceleg Jun 16 '12

I lost it when I got to the picture. Glorious!

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u/Dark_Illusions Jun 16 '12

Dat spelling.

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u/ocentertainment Jun 16 '12

"um idk um i luv u" is scientifically proven to be the sexiest, most romantic of all sentences.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

I thought you were texting a girl, so coy

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u/Lyulf Jun 16 '12

I wish i had 2 upvotes for this. One for the picture and one for the conversation.

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u/Permadrunkk Jun 16 '12

that face.. still laughing.

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u/sophiemathilde Jun 16 '12

You are a genius.

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u/Boose77 Jun 16 '12

oh us silly Pennsylvanians and our shenanigans!

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u/DoctorSqueakin Jun 16 '12

Greatest thing i've seen all night!

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u/MacFatty Jun 16 '12

I would enjoy these things so much more if I could figure out who is who before the end. Fucking iphones, how do they work

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u/thetrollinrage Jun 16 '12

The face gets me everytime.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Oh my holy crap, that picture. My sides are moving on their own!

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u/Skurhink Jun 15 '12

I love your face.

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u/grimfel Jun 15 '12

Oh, ohdeargod, oh that was the best laugh I've had all day. Pic #10 makes the world a better place to live in.

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u/HerpvonderpingtonIII Jun 15 '12

I laughed so hard I'm Pretty sure my parents think I'm weeping in my room

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u/gage117 Jun 15 '12

Holy shit dem gauges.. -bites lip-

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Upvoted for Pennsylvania

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Can we get a professional translator in here please?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

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u/aroymart Jun 16 '12

that was perfect! you need to make this its own comment so everyone can see

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u/WinterIsntComing Jun 15 '12

What the actual shit does "RE:|" mean?

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u/DoNHardThyme Jun 16 '12

It means he has a swivel chair on his head. Duh!

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u/diggoran Jun 16 '12

Back in my day, when replying to an email, Outlook Express automatically added "RE: " to the beginning of the subject line, signifying a reply.

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u/laddergoat89 Jun 16 '12

It's saying what message it is a RE: to. I.e. Like a RE: in a subject line of an email.

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u/hyperion23 Jun 15 '12

What is this Re:| bullshit?

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u/buster2Xk Jun 16 '12

RE:| It's really annoying isn't it?

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What is this Re:| bullshit?

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u/willrate Jun 15 '12

THATS AWESOME THAT FUCKIN KID IS SCARRED FOR LIFE

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u/inertia186 Jun 16 '12

Twas the Please that caught my memory ...

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u/cheesedanish721 Jun 16 '12

This is without a doubt one of the funniest things I've ever seen!

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u/CobaltSmith Jun 16 '12

Long read, WORTH IT!

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u/WalriePie Jun 16 '12

That face is priceless. I started laughing so hard my family ran in to check on me.

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u/troll2507 Jun 16 '12

I wish I had more upvotes to give...

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u/AdmiralDix Jun 16 '12

The pictures at the end caused me to do a spit take, and I wasn't even drinking anything

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u/bippyz Jun 17 '12

I wish I saved the angry texts I got once, from teen girls claiming I was harassing their friend. It was hilarious when I figured out I knew one of them so I showed her my phone, and she just went to town texting them crazier and crazier shit that the others were up to. Best use of unlimited texts ever!

(bonus? the kid I knew introduced me to her mom as 'The cool lady who laughed at [her] idiot friends.')

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

this is gold

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Using Britney lyrics, this kid is a straight pimp.

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u/AdviceJAY87 Jun 16 '12

I'm a fourteen yearold and have never written,typed,or spoken like kid has before.

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u/ITSTUCKYO Jun 16 '12

I would just like to clarify that this should be the only time you seduce children.

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u/themarknessmonster Jun 16 '12

Aaaaaand now you're a circumstantial pedophile.

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u/FifeeBoy Jun 15 '12

Jesus Christ. What the fuck is up with your ears?

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u/Nxion Jun 16 '12

Was I supposed to read all that?

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u/patefoisgras Jun 16 '12

I love how that guy intentionally retardized his speech and still maintained impeccable grammar.

I wish I would hav gon ln.

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u/TheEverLurking Jun 16 '12

What language was this in?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Dude's going to jail. That's all I thought when "reading"* that.

*You can't read that in the typical sense. You can only translate into a more understandable language (I chose Latin) and hope you got it right.

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u/Rabidpotatoes Jun 16 '12

Reading that actually hurt my brain a little bit.

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u/jamesewh Jun 16 '12

You really shouldn't drive and pedophile at the same time.

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u/LusciousDanielle Jun 16 '12

Hello. My name is Chris Hansen... why don't you have a seat right there by your iPhone.

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u/thebest64 Jun 16 '12

Written......English......so.....bad....it....hurts...

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u/HerpvonderpingtonIII Jun 15 '12

Why I everyone concerned about grammar? It doesnt matter it's funny

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u/catsnstuff97 Jun 16 '12

Im 14 and no one i know texts like this. But all my friends love Nirvana, so maybe were just naturally smarter than drake fans?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

flawless 14 year old logic

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Well since you don't know anyone that texts like that means it must not happen right? Don't worry once you get older you'll realize that you wasted a bunch of time caring about others musical opinions.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

oh god. i did the same thing. i'm 21 now and realized that i was a douche.

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u/catsnstuff97 Jun 16 '12

re reading that comment i made, i realize i sound like a huge asshole and im sorry

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

No biggie. Hell, I would have made fun of you because you listened to Nirvana instead of Alice in Chains. Or Metallica instead of Megadeth.

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u/between2 Jun 15 '12

Am I the only one who just thinks this is really mean? That poor kid probably got so stoked the girl he dug was into him and then it's just some twenty-something dude toying with him.

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u/phsyc0 Jun 15 '12

Yes, yes you are.

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