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[Catphish]

Here's a double rant.

1. When the fuck did every posted thought in social media begin with "Imagine..."? Imagine shutting the fuck up and learning how not to read like a vapid, pretentious twat.

2. Is it some kind of new neckbeard-approved irony to blatantly use "literally" in the completely broken, uneducated, illiterate sense? "This song literally takes me back in time," or "My child is literally a hurricane".

No, you're literally an idiot.

It's apparently quite fashionable to be utterly retarded in this modern age.

I'm ready to die.

 

[Noboru Wataya]

I cant even

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[Prison Mike]

Imagine starting this thread.

I literally cannot believe it.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Imagine still consuming social media

 

[Cunth]

imagine reading all those words in the op

 

[SJRB]

Imagine literally being this upset

 

[Ikutachi]

Imagine a double rant.

 

[Catphish]

guys

 

[BlackOlivesMatter]

Overrated song

 

[tichamac]

Imagine not knowing that dictionaries have started pandering to the retards.

 

[johntown]

Imagine a thread where literally every post has the word imagine and literally in it.

 

[Catphish]

Imagine not knowing that dictionaries have started pandering to the retards.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

 

[Calcium]

Imagine literally imagining. Am I doing it right? The OP have a stroke yet?

 

[Kagey K]

I’m literally shaking RN.

Imagine not getting triggered over everything.

 

[DESTROYA]

 

[Dacon]

Imagine caring about anything anymore

 

[nush]

Imagine Software.

 

[farmerboy]

Thread title would have worked better the other way around

 

[Rentahamster]

 

[Tesseract]

Overrated song

christ, thank you

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Imagine if I was literally white.

 

[slugbahr]

Imagine literally all the people literally imagining

 

[Catphish]

Imagine literally all the people literally imagining

 

[teezzy]

Imagine if I was literally white.

 

[LaughingStock]

Imagine literally replying to this thread.

 

[teezzy]

Catphish

OP, am I still allowed to imagine legiterally?

 

[Scotty W]

Imagine starting this thread.

I literally cannot believe it.

I know right. I’m literally shaking rn

 

[Rentahamster]

Imagine literally replying to this thread.

FUCK!

 

[Catphish]

Catphish

OP, am I still allowed to imagine legiterally?

 

[MetalAlien]

Literally imagining that I am Gilligan on the isle in a Maryann/Ginger sandwich.

 

[Soodanim]

“Literally” annoys me, because it’s a word used to clarify a lack of exaggeration used in a hyperbolic way so much that I’m convinced that far too many people don’t know the actual meaning.

“Imagine” isn’t something I’ve seen too much, but it’s at worst a simple overuse of the word. It’ll fall out of use.

 

[borborygmus]

"Literally" literally means "figuratively literally" now.

 

[Hoppa]

Imagine there's no heaven

 

[GeekyDad]

Imagine still consuming social media

I literally can't imagine that.

 

[slugbahr]

Catphish

OP, am I still allowed to imagine legiterally?

I would imagine that you legiterally are.

 

[The Rain King]

Even worse when they pronounce it lllllllly. Which seems to be popular amongst Twitch streamers.

 

[dr_octagon]

I just opened Pride and Prejudice and I'm literally reading.

"It's a fact universally acknowledged that a human identifying as a cis hetronormative individual in possesion of good fortune (which should be taxed at a higher rate) must be in want of a spouse."

 

[teezzy]

I would imagine that you legiterally are.

 

[DogofWar]

Yikes!

Imagine that some people literally could take offense by this OP. Your language is extremely problematic.
I mean come on it is 2021 now, maybe, just maybe it is time to think about your language and how you use it as well.

 

[Sakura]

Imagine words changing meaning over time.

 

[V1LÆM]

i literally can't even like!

 

[AJUMP23]

Imagine if this thread was full of intelligent posters.

 

[DrJohnGalt]

Imagine not knowing that dictionaries have started pandering to the retards.

Exactly. 'Literally' lowering the bar for lazy and/or uneducated retards.

The one that gets me is when people use "impact" instead of "affect". Impact is used to be the literal collision of two physical objects, but since so many people use it incorrectly dictionaries have decided to allow it as a secondary definition. Imagine if words had no meaning anymore, only vague contextual intentions.

The other is when people start a sentence with "I mean". I can understand filler words in conversation but I see it typed all the time now too. I think it started with people trying to clarify a previous statement ("what I mean is ___") but has really gotten out of control.

 

[Peggies]

I thought this was gonna be one of those rants where someone goes through the song Imagine line-by-line and comes to the conclusion that John Lennon is wrong.

 

[Pejo]

I'm engine laterally.

 

[BlackOlivesMatter]

Imagine literally going into a snack/junk food thread and bragging about eating kiwi

 

[Amory]

You know what are still totally hilarious though?

Jokes that anthropomorphize 2020/2021.

Like earlier today someone posted

2020: "Bet you can't do worse than that."
2021: "Hold my beer."

LOL How do people even come up with this stuff

 

[BigBooper]

Imagine there's no imagine. It's easy if you try.

I agree. I was going to use imagine in a sentence today, but I changed it at the last minute because I didn't want to come off as too neckbeardy.

 

[John Day]

I just literally read this thread. Imagine that!