16-year-old kills home intruder (imagine if races in story were reversed)

AJC ^ | today | kathy jefcoats

[JoeSixPack1]

'Doncha' just love happy endings? :-)

[OCCASparky]

Nope--other way around.

And frankly, I needed to know the racial makeup? Bad guy breaks into house, good kid defends home and shoots bad guy dead.

End of freakin story.

[CDHart]

How about enlightening me? I know what ROTFLMAO means, but this has me stumped.

Carolyn

[higgmeister]

RTFA

CWAJGA?       ROTFLMAO!

[visualops]

"RTFA" is a fracking JOKE, lighten up. There is a well known acronym "RTFM" (Read The F***ing Manual) directed at people who seek help or ask questions without doing the most basic thing first.
So "RTFA" would/should be instantly recognized as "Read The F***ing Article".
BTW, acronyms are hardly for "Freeper elites", most of them are common sense and way older than the internet.

[higgmeister]

But that isn't the purpose of abbreviation here.

Just a device to keep vulgarity out of print in a place where it doesn't belong, yet persons with thirty years of reading acronyms or with their minds always slightly in the gutter have no trouble with it.

[higgmeister]

I know Snafu, Radar and Laser too!

[rabidralph]

See #45. Very funny.

[Dustbunny]

So now that I understand what RTFA I will have to say that you must be somekind of jerk.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

"Stephens is white, McGhee black"
There has been some progress. The media actually stated the races when the perp was a member of a protected, specially priviliged group!

However, the media are always ready to stir up racial animosity, and this may be their intent.

[Dustbunny]

You could try RTFA. It's only a few sentences long.

Another ignorant jerk.

[Dustbunny]

I think I understand now, you use white paint if the person is black and black paint if the person is white in order to paint obscene graffiti.

What an age we live in. /sarc

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That cuts both ways.

[CDHart]

Thanks! Another new acronym for my collection!

carolyn

[Rodney King]

So now that I understand what RTFA I will have to say that you must be somekind of jerk.

1st, it is standard internet jargon. 2nd, you went and posted without even reading the article, and I am the jerk?

[Rodney King]

This is rich. Dustbunny posts without reading the article and then calls you ignorant, of all things, for telling him to read the article.

[archy]

I don't understand. Is the boy that shot the intruder black or white? Is the boy that was shot black or white? What does race have to do with shooting someone that is breaking into your house.?

He's DEAD, Jim!

[Dustbunny]

It was the way he told me to read the article, I had no idea what 'RTFA' stood for. I did not see in the article where it said that the shooter was black and the shootee was white.

[jongaltsr]

Posted by visualops to jongaltsr On News/Activism 02/21/2007 9:52:40 AM MST · 45 of 58 "RTFA" is a fracking JOKE, lighten up. There is a well known acronym "RTFM" (Read The F***ing Manual) directed at people who seek help or ask questions without doing the most basic thing first. So "RTFA" would/should be instantly recognized as "Read The F***ing Article". BTW, acronyms are hardly for "Freeper elites", most of them are common sense and way older than the internet.

I take two things seriously.
(1) The proper use of the English Language.
(2) Snobs who like to look down their noses at other by using code language and trash English.

[jongaltsr]

Posted by higgmeister to jongaltsr On News/Activism 02/21/2007 9:52:40 AM MST · 46 of 59 But that isn't the purpose of abbreviation here. Just a device to keep vulgarity out of print in a place where it doesn't belong, yet persons with thirty years of reading acronyms or with their minds always slightly in the gutter have no trouble with it.

Covering vulgarity by abbreviation is just a cowards way of trash talk. You still use vulvarity you just try to disguise but the result is that you still use it.