@Thumperchick I wouldn’t be so sure, it might die back but I bet we see more GIFing than we used to. It removed the obstacle of the effort of having to go elsewhere to find said GIFs.
@RedOak and if you don’t like the results, you edit and re-save and it gives you the next roll of the dice. I had an image come up that wasn’t appropriate for the sentiment I was trying to convey
/giphy curious
@DMlivezey Some of us learned to read and spell and talk to each other before all this electronic mumbo-jumbo was even invented
/giphy electronic mumbo-jumbo
@sammydog01 and wasn’t that the scam of the century? Did you know that there are still little old grandmothers being billed for phone rentals by the various baby bells? They don’t know any better so they just keep paying it
@jbartus Now it’s the same for cable modems and DVRs. They bill you for them forever and you never own them. Very few people know that you can buy your own.
And it was wonderful when I found rotary phones that weren’t connected to anything. Moar phones!
That said, we now have MagicJack phones (three of them, but still have one landline through the cable company). I hooked two of them up to the house wiring so they ring in all of the rooms. Had to go outside and disconnected the lines from the cable company, though. I love this stuff!
@hallmike Yeah, but your head would probably explode because I’m hardly ever around people IRL and I’d talk so much and so fast so that I could get everything I have to say out as quickly as possible…
@sammydog01 Just wanted to remind you that while you can’t get away from some kind of fee, you don’t have to use their box- any device that supports CableCard will work. You can’t buy CableCards, only rent them, but depending on what you have in your house already, you may get it for free (or $5/month at most).
Tivo is the most popular device, but SiliconDust makes a fine device that lets you watch on nearly any device: HD HomeRun Prime.
If you’re thinking of doing this, just remember that you don’t get access to their OnDemand stuff.
@dashcloud Thanks, but I went with Internet only, Rokus, the Ooma I got here, and Sling, Hulu, and Amazon prime. And I’m trying to find some good antennas.
@sammydog01 There’s another option you can consider here- if you get a splitter, you can plug your FiOS line into your TV, and have the TV scan for digital cable channels (aka ClearQAM). You usually just get the broadcast channels, but if you’re worried about signal strength, this might be a good idea. If you do this, it will take about an hour to sort out all the channels and delete the junk.
@dashcloud So I thought maybe you meant that all of the cable wiring in the house would act as an antenna. So I plugged the FIOS line into the TV and scanned- nothing. Did you mean something else?
/giphy confused
@sammydog01 If your TV has a ClearQAM tuner, and you’ve got the appropriate splitter (mine says 5-2400 MHZ), plug the line into your TV, and then choose Auto Scan.
I just checked my TV, and I get CBS still using the cable line.
@jbartus Every forum needs its villains.
@Dizavid
/giphy villian
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/giphy this joke would would be funnier if I was better at emoji
@MrGlass
The new giphy smell will wear off in a few days and the gif to word ratio will lev em back out to normal.
/giphy post all the gifs
@Thumperchick I wouldn’t be so sure, it might die back but I bet we see more GIFing than we used to. It removed the obstacle of the effort of having to go elsewhere to find said GIFs.
@jbartus agreed, all effort is gone, and if you don’t like the random GIF the first time, you can edit for another try
/giphy edit-to-your-heart’s-content
@Thumperchick
/giphy new toy
Chill’in like a Villiain.
oops. Villain (that’s why I use gifs)
/giphy huge mistake
@cengland0 i thought that was /giphy silent screaming
/giphy cry me a river
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/giphy great idea
/giphy spam
I was confused. Didn’t even understand what “/giphy” meant. Now I (think I) do. So it is a self-contained auto-gif-searcher for lazy people, right?
@RedOak
/giphy you are correct, sir
@RedOak right. You type /giphy as the first thing in a line followed by your search phrase then roll the dice when you post to see what you get!
@RedOak and if you don’t like the results, you edit and re-save and it gives you the next roll of the dice. I had an image come up that wasn’t appropriate for the sentiment I was trying to convey
/giphy curious
@mikibell ha… I wondered if that would be the image again, and it was – this the inappropriateness for curious. I am not sure how that is curious!
@medz This doesn’t mean that we still don’t want to see your creations !! Just thought that should be clarified.
@ceagee Yep, @medz, we like your gifs, even though you are an ol’ meanie.
@Barney I missed the “ol’ meanie” part. What did @medz do now ?
@ceagee i went
/giphy ha ha
at Barney because my fuko was better.
@medz And he didn’t have to pay for his crap.
/giphy mad jelly
@medz Yep.
/giphy tear
lol at the guy who writes in all caps with too many exclamation points complaining that images will be the death of written language on the internet.
@Moose welcome to the abusive liberals club!
@Moose
/giphy irony lol
/giphy less lurkers
/giphy abusive liberals
/giphy fuck me
/giphy get over it
Everyone in the FESUSGL already discovered this.
Though to be serious, the worst thing about browsing meh forums on mobile was loading times, and giphy certainly turned it into a superfund site.
@DrunkCat The original giphy announcement thread crashes Chrome on my phone!
and if we’re not careful, we’ll all start watching TV and texting and socila media stuff and then we won’t read books anymore…
wait, that already happened
/giphy illiterate citizens
@DMlivezey Some of us learned to read and spell and talk to each other before all this electronic mumbo-jumbo was even invented
/giphy electronic mumbo-jumbo
@compunaut yea, the phone (not phones) in my childhood house had cords and dials on them
/giphy rotary phone
@DMlivezey And you couldn’t unplug them because they were wired to the wall. And the phone company owned them.
@sammydog01 and wasn’t that the scam of the century? Did you know that there are still little old grandmothers being billed for phone rentals by the various baby bells? They don’t know any better so they just keep paying it
@jbartus Now it’s the same for cable modems and DVRs. They bill you for them forever and you never own them. Very few people know that you can buy your own.
@sammydog01 You could unwire them. I did. lol
And it was wonderful when I found rotary phones that weren’t connected to anything. Moar phones!
That said, we now have MagicJack phones (three of them, but still have one landline through the cable company). I hooked two of them up to the house wiring so they ring in all of the rooms. Had to go outside and disconnected the lines from the cable company, though. I love this stuff!
@lisaviolet I could learn so much if you’d just let me hang out with you for a while.
@hallmike true but not quite the same. Back in the day the phone company actually had a monopoly, they manufactured the phones.
@hallmike Yeah, but your head would probably explode because I’m hardly ever around people IRL and I’d talk so much and so fast so that I could get everything I have to say out as quickly as possible…
And then I’d take a Xanax.
@jbartus Just like cable and those stupid boxes. Fuck you FIOS.
@sammydog01 Just wanted to remind you that while you can’t get away from some kind of fee, you don’t have to use their box- any device that supports CableCard will work. You can’t buy CableCards, only rent them, but depending on what you have in your house already, you may get it for free (or $5/month at most).
Tivo is the most popular device, but SiliconDust makes a fine device that lets you watch on nearly any device: HD HomeRun Prime.
If you’re thinking of doing this, just remember that you don’t get access to their OnDemand stuff.
@dashcloud I wish they had stuff like that for satellite.
@lisaviolet It’s okay, I’m married. I have years of training to filter out the stuff I don’t need to hear.
@dashcloud Thanks, but I went with Internet only, Rokus, the Ooma I got here, and Sling, Hulu, and Amazon prime. And I’m trying to find some good antennas.
@sammydog01 There’s another option you can consider here- if you get a splitter, you can plug your FiOS line into your TV, and have the TV scan for digital cable channels (aka ClearQAM). You usually just get the broadcast channels, but if you’re worried about signal strength, this might be a good idea. If you do this, it will take about an hour to sort out all the channels and delete the junk.
@dashcloud So I thought maybe you meant that all of the cable wiring in the house would act as an antenna. So I plugged the FIOS line into the TV and scanned- nothing. Did you mean something else?
/giphy confused
@sammydog01 If your TV has a ClearQAM tuner, and you’ve got the appropriate splitter (mine says 5-2400 MHZ), plug the line into your TV, and then choose Auto Scan.
I just checked my TV, and I get CBS still using the cable line.
/giphy giphy
I know: let’s just do away with technology and
/giphy make America great again
/giphy drumpf
@jml326 There goes breakfast
/giphy confused
I’m worried this thread is becoming
/giphy NSFW
@hems79
/giphy boobies
/giphy pussy
/giphy beer lady
haha wtf
@marklog
/giphy beer maid
/giphy milk jugs
/giphy all the best words
/giphy big mistake big
/giphy am I still VMP
@Ignorant it lives another day
/giphy huge mistake huge
/giphy i think it adds color
/giphy chillax
