Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
These days if you have watch the older kids talking, and the younger kids talking you will notice that language changes so quickly even within a few years that its a wonder that it took two hundred years to drop "thou and shalt", kek!
I thought I was so cool saying “like” just like a valley girl. It became a popular thing in the 80s. Now nobody can complete a sentence without “like”. One that gets on my nerves is someone telling a story and the say “I mean”. If you are telling someone about something I think we know what you mean. I caught myself doing it and have cured that bad habit. I’ve heard celebrities, sports athletes, musicians, on TV & trained reporters saying “I mean”! I believe they are making things like this trending so they can dump us down. I’m not a scholar and can barely put a sentence together without grammatical errors but I know how to talk to people in person! I know it’s hard to follow my writing. I don’t remember who said this, maybe the older black man that talks about the democrats making the blacks dependent and he speaks out about many things. Dang wish I could remember his name. Anyway someone said we are not as smart as we were decades ago,