@ithyphallus, 13382: The two should never mix. Beating is meat-appropriate; butchering should only be used on derelicts and Sunday school teachers. And "women of the night". They kinda fall into both categories.

@Kaiser-Machead: Kaiser, you disappoint me. Can't you see? It's clearly going to be the icanhaz and failblog ilk—they'll integrate with Facebook, and you'll see interests like "Cats in cardboard boxes" mingle with "Guy stabbed in balls by own Bic".

@Joel: Much like the "blogosphere" has changed news, it's also placed a less formal spin on wordsmithing. Grammatics and writing canons that have been upheld for generations have fallen to a mightier power—convenience. We can try to shape this effect, but it has its own obvious consequences on the material that we…

@winshape: It's the closest equivalent you'll find, yes.