(Legless is a prick., Mon 8 Oct 2012, 7:01, 23 replies)

Mostly because people use the word 'font' when they actually mean 'typeface'

( Ghoti Fingers, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 7:59, closed)

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( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 8:30, closed)

Gosh yes that's a wholly legitimate reason to get upset
and IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER does it indicate that someone is a petty-minded prick with way too much time on their hands, most likely caused by crippling social inadequacy.

Don't listen to what they say, you seem OK to me.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 9:22, closed)

Getting annoyed enough to mash out an angry reply to a relatively innocuous post about the subtle difference between 'typeface' and 'font' is probably further along the 'petty-minded prick' continuum than the original post could ever aspire to be.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 12:50, closed)

i studied graphic design and typography
'font' simply refers to all the characters in a particular typeface. the term was only really used by compositors and printers until people had computers at home.

i don't know any designers that don't have a twitch inducing aversion to one font or another

personally i fucking LOATH Zapf Chancery. Set it in all caps and i may well kill you.

there's a great little book called 'Just my type. A book about Fonts' i promise you it is actually a great read.
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 12:05, closed)

Not so much the font, but the things behind it:
The tweeness of where it usually appears, smug church newsletters in the home counties that speak of tartan-clad terriers, doilies on mantlepieces under porceline figures; presentations from managers devoid of talent for their positions, yet ever exhorting the underlings to work harder, but it's ok 'cos I'm a bit wacky, me; spam emails from Chinese pharmaceutical companies that don't really exist.
It's become the choice of typeface for the hateful lot of them.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 8 Oct 2012, 8:22, closed)

There are times when it is entirely appropriate
My mum used it for signs and notices in her nursery school, primarily because it has an "a" that looks like the kind of "a" that she was trying to teach them to write. As a simple typeface for 2-4 year-olds to get to copy and get to grips with comprehending, it's more or less perfect.

I tend to tut when I see it used to make "Shoplifters will be prosecuted" signs in Boots or newsletters from the council, where it's completely inappropriate - it's like speaking to an adult in baby talk.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 8:43, closed)

Yeah! Or getting a bird to dress up in a fucking Yoda mask and climb up a tree in her knickers.
I agree - that's fucking revolting and really, really creepy.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 9:24, closed)

Hey Monts, maybe you can help me and a friend settle an argument
We were trying to decide at what age posting "Hey, come to the pub for my birthday, we'll go back to mine after!" to a collection of random strangers on a public interweb messageforum crosses the line from being risible to utterly fucking pathetic. I said it was any age after 30, what do you think?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 12:48, closed)

I'm really not sure.
I'd say it was probably OK for a good 15 years after it stops being OK to dress like some creepy nonce 'sk8' prick who fancies robots.

It's certainly much more acceptable than using the word 'interweb' at any time in your life; it can only be topped in the 'embarrassing wanker' stakes by 'interwebs'. That would really mark you out as a flid cunt. Worth bearing in mind, perhaps.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 9:48, closed)

Coming from an ageing deadbeat rocker with a paedo 'tache
who posts "There will be scenes of a sexual nature. There will be mild peril. There might even be an after party at Chateau Boyce." on his desperate plea for friends, I'm pretty sure wearing a hoodie and posting "interweb" are very minor offences compared to your tragic record of flidcuntery.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 10:06, closed)

SHAZAMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
It's 'America's Top Ten' with JONATHAN ZING!!!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 11:32, closed)

You do realise that any sane person would see that and read:
"Now then, now then, who'd like to come to a lovely party at Chateau Boyce, eh? Scenes of a sexual nature and mild peril, how's about that then, boys and girls?"
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:04, closed)

I'm afraid I disagree entirely.
In my personal opinion, I'd say that anyone who thought that - and even worse posted it, was without doubt a pitifully unfunny prick, floundering pathetically, clutching desperately at anything they possibly could from their 'Star Wars' festooned Finsbury Park cack-hole, in an ultimately doomed and somewhat depressing attempt at a witty and/or 'withering' put-down. I'd think that.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 17:18, closed)

Sorry, you lost this at SHAZAM.

( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 18:00, closed)

And that's the personal opinion of someone who even a crackhead considered too noncey to be a fit parent
who has to go on b3ta to find people to invite to his own birthday party and who looks like the Chuckle Brother the other Chuckle Brothers are embarrassed to be seen out with. Christ, you're like the epitome of pathetic.

Look, I know your own life is shit and you need to make yourself feel like a big man by lashing out at strangers online, but the thing is Monts old mate, being King of Off-Topic is like winning the Paralympics, if no-one on the planet gave a shit about the Paralympics either.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 18:06, closed)

'ZING' of Off-Topic MORE LIKE!!!!!!!!!

Chalk another one up for the Emvster, guys.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 8:20, closed)

This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about
Who are these "guys" you're addressing? In your fantasy b3ta life, do you see yourself being cheered on by a gang of sycophants who overlook your very obvious failings as a person?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 8:46, closed)

Oi!
Monty may be a penniless and pathetic crack-head, offering blowjobs for drugs on the streets of Shoreditch (and he is), but LEAVE /OFFTOPIC ALONE!

horrible meanie.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Oct 2012, 10:52, closed)

Thanks Wilf!!!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 14:18, closed)

My apologies
I confess I don't go in there much
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 21:17, closed)