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Originally posted by bilmore
All groups learn to speak in shorthand and codes. It makes communication more efficient. Also, it's human nature to want to be part of a group. Using that group's codes and shorthands is one way to both enter, and feel secure in, a group. Big deal. Why do you try to tell people that, because they're not using the codes you would choose to use, they're not part of the group? Isn't that a sort of exclusivity-based cliqueism all by itself?
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"Timmy" is shorthand. "Fred" is not. If you need to repeat some dumbass Fred joke 100 times to feel like you're part of the group (listen carefully), you're probably not part of the group. Or worse yet, you are and you're making a fool of yourself.
Just be yourself and people will engage you. Inserting "Fred" into your posts isn't going to get anyone's attention. It just means that you are completely unoriginal. And that can't and shouldn't make you secure in a group.
Bilmore, when everyone steals your style of talking out of their ass about shit they know nothing about, I'll call them out on that too.
TM
