Things that make me dorkily happy:

[eruthros]

1. There are 30+ pages of comments on "sponsored content" lj_biz post, and perhaps three comments are positive, and another five or so are neutral "well, if I really won't have to see it, but slippery slope..." I mean, I know it won't do any good, but it makes me sniffly to watch the lj community seeing through the marketing-talk bullshit and not being satisfied by the condescending "I think you're confused..." edit. We're raising our tiny little fists together!

Man, wouldn't it be cool if we could hit the 5000 comments per post limit?

... also, that suddenly makes me want an icon of a cohort of tiny little lj user heads with tiny little fists. Well, tiny little fists that are nonetheless too big for the heads, in best Soviet Poster Styling. Too bad I have no artistic skills.

2. Hearing someone on the commons tell her friend "no, it was kinda tl;dr." Have you ever heard anyone say tl;dr out loud? About non-internet stuff? (She and her friend were talking about some sort of biology reading. Article or book, I couldn't tell.) I very nearly walked into their conversation: "hi, what online communities do you hang out in? what sorts of people do you say tl;dr to? how long have you been saying it?"

Comments

[fiatlouis.livejournal.com]

What on earth is tl;dr, and how do you say a semi-colon out loud? I guess I am not nerdy enough.

[joie-de-livre.livejournal.com]

I think that you are *just* nerdy enough! :)
And yes, of course I meant that as a complement!

[gawlfor.livejournal.com]

That was exactly my thought! Like, the whole thing.

[eruthros]

*points below to comment to fiatlouis*

[eruthros]

Dear, sweet fiatlouis, don't you know that wikipedia has an answer for everything? Also on the fandom wank wiki. Tl;dr is used all over the place, and thus didn't necessarily mark her as a media fan -- now, if her friend had said "yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?" then I would have known for sure.

Also, one needn't say the semi-colon, as TLDR is also acceptable acronym. I took the pause as a semi-colon, though; she said tl dr.