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Wow just wow.....
Thankfully she isn't entirely representative of our generation...
Truthfully, I didn't even know what the pound key was until I was in 8th grade.
I don't understand what the issue is. I'm from Ireland. We call it hashtag. I never heard of the button pound until I came to the US.
I have no idea what this "pound key" is... I'm going to guess it's an American thing?
wikipedia~ "outside of North America it is called Hash." Americans, for the last time, please stop acting like you're the only country on earth.
89 I never said anything about drunk rednecks. I don't see your culture that way, actually in that sense I think Australia is worse. In my experience traveling to the US the people are the loveliest and most friendly and outgoing on earth, but there also is a massive emphasis on nationalism, for example the worship of past presidents, the abundance of your national flag on basically every street corner in some parts, the protection and sacredness of the law and the fact that the national anthem is sung even at National level sporting events. This is just my biased Australian observation. and its totally ok that your culture is like that, just understand that much of the world isn't and that's why we see the US as a particularly nationalistic society.
Well said mate
I like pudding a lot
Is it not the symbol for British currency? £££
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Show it anywaySeeing as though this FML is from America, it is alright for US to ridicule. It is not proper for (people who live in the USA) to think of it as 'hash' (Atleast not until the #hashtag epidemic).
This is a pound sign £. This is a hash tag #. Stop ******* about with things and people will have a clue what you mean.
That's funny because it's original a British term because it uses to denote 1 pound.
Woah 158. no one said they didn't like America. cut the patriotic crap. were all from different places with different ideas. it's people like you that give the culture a bad name; you look like a fool.
the abbreviation for a pound such as a measurement for weight in America is lb or # prior to Twitter everyone in America called this buttone on the telephone A pound key now that every hashtag s completely unnecessarily on facebook and Twitter the use of the pound key term will surely end. In America hash is concentrated marijuana.
I learned when I was in pre k
188, even before facebook and twitter I never knew pound meant hash until I read this FML.
#yolo (:
I understand the # but yolo? really?
yolo swaggins
#killyourself
I'm going to vomit on you
that escalated quickly
Leave now... Before it's too late.
@2 Are you trying to kill all our brain cells?
Sadly, this won't get the thumbs up this deserves as it's probably to random seeming for people to Google. Just know you made one person grin and nod in approval.
Googled it. Nice comment dude! and thank you koala for making me a little less lazy! :)
30 - If somebody thinks something is too random to Google, then they shouldn't be on the Internet anyway. *Runs off to Google octothorpe*
So hipster, 155, you and your nonconventional pet with a rarely understood name. (I don't have anything against unusual pets, I have a tortoise. It's just the way you presented it.)
I fear for humanity....
If someone said that to me, I'd laugh, not start worrying about humanity. It's funny and harmless.
You fear for humanity because the name of a symbol has been changed based on its most common usage? How do you even get out of bed in the morning? The world must terrify you.
It was the sharp sign first man.
That's what I was thinking :p
Actually, #6, a true sharp sign has slightly angled horizontal lines.
I know #70. I play in a symphony. Just making a joke!
70, Look at 6's screen name...
I called it the number key before I knew it was called pound.
#109, #6's name is hghrider123456, what about it?
@173- no it really isn't. Always get confused so easily??
She# messed# that# up#
Hashtags go before words. And of you're old enough, numbers too.
You're doing the hashtags wrong anyway.....
There are no correct ways to use hashtags...
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Show it anyway#They'reAlreadyFucked
#Fucktheegocentricpeople
#FuckHashtags
I'm a cake decorator and the other day, no lie, a 13 year old and his mother came in to have me write on a.cookie cake. He had me ******* write his username and then #happybirthday under if!! When I read it back I said "...pound happy birthday." and they didn't know what the hell I was talking about and tried to "correct"me.
#EveryGenerationIsFuckedNotJustThisOne
The pound key is now the hashtag hahahahaha # hashtag
This may blow your mind but it was always called the hash key. For some reason Americans wanted to be different and called that button the pound key.
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Wow just wow.....