The Herd: What are College Girls Doing Now?

Connemara · May 20, 2009

I was stress eating. I've had a bad week.

Neo_Version 7 · May 20, 2009

Originally Posted by Connemara

Yep. Diet consists of: -Plain bagel with cream cheese for breakfast -Sandwich on white bread, no veggies, extra mayo for lunch -Pasta with some sort of sauce for dinner (ohmigawd! pasta is so, like, healthy!)
That actually sounds strikingly similar to my daily diet. Fortunately, I know how to keep the weight off.

chronoaug · May 20, 2009

It used to depress me when i was 19 working at a Panera. It was connected to the mall so all the mall employees came in for lunch. TONS of fat people getting soups and sandwhiches with really high calories thinking they are healthy. Same with people getting the fraupachino type things we made. Unreal the calories, fat and sugar in those things

Connemara · May 20, 2009

Originally Posted by chronoaug

It used to depress me when i was 19 working at a Panera. It was connected to the mall so all the mall employees came in for lunch. TONS of fat people getting soups and sandwhiches with really high calories thinking they are healthy. Same with people getting the fraupachino type things we made. Unreal the calories, fat and sugar in those things
Most Panera sandwiches have at least 1,000 mg of sodium in them, some have over 2,000. I won't eat there more than once a month.

GQgeek · May 20, 2009

Originally Posted by Connemara

Most Panera sandwiches have at least 1,000 mg of sodium in them, some have over 2,000. I won't eat there more than once a month.

So you save it for special occasions like dates?

Connemara · Feb 18, 2010

This is one is DRIVING ME NUTS. In olden days one would express a sense of longing with a simple "I miss you" or "I hope to see you soon." Now, The Herd has corrupted that sentiment into this essential formula: "I MISS YOUR FACEEEEEEE" Variations include "I can't wait to see your faceee <3" and "I am dying to see your faceeee."

Harold falcon · Feb 18, 2010

Originally Posted by Connemara

This is one is DRIVING ME NUTS.

In olden days one would express a sense of longing with a simple "I miss you" or "I hope to see you soon." Now, The Herd has corrupted that sentiment into this essential formula:

"I MISS YOUR FACEEEEEEE"

Variations include "I can't wait to see your faceee <3" and "I am dying to see your faceeee."

I haven't watched SNL in a few years, what is "faceeee" in reference to?

Connemara · Feb 18, 2010

Faceeeee=face. But, on the interwebz, Herd girls cannot type a sentence without tacking on extraneous letters to random words. "Yo betchhhh I totally miss your faceeeeeee <3"

Kent Wang · Feb 18, 2010

How bizarre. You would think it would be 'faaaaaaaace'.

Connemara: Thank your for your continued attention to this subject. I look forward to your reports.

NorCal · Feb 18, 2010

Originally Posted by Neo_Version 7

That actually sounds strikingly similar to my daily diet.
Fortunately, I know how to keep the weight off.

Being young? Good luck with that working out for you long term.

nerdykarim · Feb 18, 2010

Where did the "I miss your face" thing come from? It's really bizarre.

Connemara · Feb 18, 2010

Originally Posted by nerdykarim

Where did the "I miss your face" thing come from? It's really bizarre.
I really don't know. It is everywhere.

kwilkinson · Feb 18, 2010

Good showing, my friend. Just the other day I was wondering what happened to this thread.

Connemara · Feb 18, 2010

The shortening of words has also reached epic status. In this researcher's opinion, it all began with "obvious." Circa 2005-2006, that became shortened to "obvi" by the Herd set. Since then the downward spiral has gotten out of control. Some new classics: 1.) Vomit=vom (OMG I drank so many vodka cranberries I'm gonna vom) 2.) Totally=totes (I am totes going to that concertttt) There are so many more but I am drawing a blank.

why · Feb 18, 2010

Originally Posted by Connemara

The shortening of words has also reached epic status. In this researcher's opinion, it all began with "obvious." Circa 2005-2006, that became shortened to "obvi" by the Herd set. Since then the downward spiral has gotten out of control. Some new classics:

1.) Vomit=vom (OMG I drank so many vodka cranberries I'm gonna vom)
2.) Totally=totes (I am totes going to that concertttt)

There are so many more but I am drawing a blank.

A PROPOSAL
FOR CORRECTING, IMPROVING, AND ASCERTAINING THE
English Tongue;
In a Letter To the Most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer Of
GREAT BRITAIN.
First printer in May, 1712.

By Jonathan Swift

Another Cause (and perhaps borrowed from the former) which hath contributed not a little to the maiming of our Language, is a foolish Opinion, advanced of late Years, that we ought to spell exactly as we speak; which beside the obvious Inconvenience of utterly destroying our Etymology, would be a thing we should never see an End of. Not only the several Towns and Countries of England, have a different way of Pronouncing, but even here in London, they clip their Words after one Manner about the Court, another in the City, and a third in the Suburbs; and in a few Years, it is probable, will all differ from themselves, as Fancy or Fashion shall direct: All which reduced to Writing would entirely confound Orthography. Yet many People are so fond of this Conceit, that is sometimes a difficult matter to read modern Books and Pamphlets, where the Words are so curtailed, and varied from their original Spelling, that whoever hath been used to plain English, will hardly know them by sight.

...

This perpetual Disposition to shorten our Words, by retrenching the Vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the Barbarity of those Northern Nations from whom we are descended, and whose Languages labour all under the same Defect. For it is worthy our Observation, that the Spaniard, the French, and the Italians, although derived from the same Northern Ancestors with our selves, are, with the utmost Difficulty, taught to pronounce our Words, which the Suedes and Danes, as well as the Germans and the Dutch, attain to with Ease, because our Syllables resemble theirs in the Roughness and Frequency of Consonants. Now, as we struggle with an ill Climate to improve the nobler kinds of Fruit, are at the Expence of Walls to receive and reverberated the faint Rays of the Sun, and fence against the Northern Blasts; we sometimes by the help of a good Soil equal the Production of warmer Countries, who have no need to be at so much Cost or Care. It is the same thing with respect to the politer Arts among us; and the same Defect of Heat which gives a Fierceness to our Natures, may contribute to that Roughness of our Language, which bears some Analogy to the harsh Fruit of colder Countries. For I do not reckon that we want a Genius more than the rest of our Neighbours: But Your Lordship will be of my Opinion, that we ought to struggle with these natural Disadvantages as much as we can, and be careful whom we employ, whenever we design to correct them, which is a Work that has hitherto been assumed by the least qualified Hands. So that if the Choice had been left to me, I would rather have trusted the Refinement of our Language, as far as it relates to Sound, to the Judgment of the Women, than of illiterate Court- Fops, half-witted Poets, and University-Boys. For, it is plain that Women in their manner of corrupting Words, do naturally discard the Consonants, as we do the Vowels. What I am going to tell Your Lordship, appears very trifling; that more than once, where some of both Sexes were in Company, I have persuaded two or three of each, to take a Pen, and write down a number of Letters joyned together, just as it came into their Heads, and upon reading this Gibberish we have found that which the Men had writ, by the frequent encountering of rough Consonants, to sound like High Dutch; and the other by the Women, like Italian, abounding in Vowels and Liquids. Now, though I would by no means give Ladies the Trouble of advising us in the Reformation of our Language; yet I cannot help thinking, that since they have been left out of all Meetings, except Parties at Play, or where worse Designs are carried on, our Conversation hath very much degenerated.

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