It all began in the early 2000’s.  Lording over the plebs with my far superior vocabulary, I began to introduce LOL into my vernacular as a means to satirise, and ultimately mock, those who “genuinely” used it.  A few months down the line however, and all sense of irony was lost. Amongst my day to day language LOL’s kept involuntarily surging forth, like that little bit of puke you choke back down after a shot of Sambuca. It became habit to suffix a half-hearted chortle with a LOL just to reassure those around me that I had indeed found something humorous.  The act of laughing was now not enough.

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