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> And groan, good old Orwell makes a cliched showing. Yes, we all read 1984 in grade school.

Perks up "people believed in corporations" groan. It's a hall of mirrors.

Getting back on track, I may be wrong but Dart makes me groan. It is one thing to design such a language in 1990, but quite another thing to do it in 2011.

Then Liz would let out a big theatrical groan that said, in essence, What kind of friendship is that? I thought it was a great friendship, if I thought about it at all.

Look at the old Reiser threads if you want to groan about very smart people looking dumb talking about the law." There's no such thing as circumstantial evidence!

At the risk of sounding negative and grumpy, groan. Another one of these blogadoodoos.

It's full of things that make me groan in agony, but at first glance, it seems like it might actually be sufficient to build a Skype competitor as an extension or web app. Some problems: 0.

I had a similar experience, that was at least as groan inducing. I was working a low-level IT job, as an AS/400 operator / network tech.

I'm very liberal and far from a prude and the name just makes me eye-roll/groan and assume the worst about the maturity of the project owner. Save the clever names for bands.

And this is why I groan when Samsung easily dismisses rumors that Apple is about to enter the TV space. The UX around TVs is horrific right now, and people put up with it because that's how it is.

Is it bad that I picture SxSW and groan, and then picture it full of pseudo-nerds who think they're nerds because they own an iPhone and then groan even more?

I understand that a lot of people groan the moment they see a reference to Philosophy. Philosophers might be to blame for that, but let's not throw away the baby with the bath water.

How embarrassing to have produced an instance of the indignant and uninformed speculation that I so often groan to find at the top of HN comment threads.

I tend to groan a bit inside where I hear someone make a remark about "smoking crack" because it's often used to describe behavior that is quite unlike that of a genuine crack smoker.

I'm not the one that downvoted you, but here's why: It's as groan-inducingly absurd as "how about you mail me a full stack of strawberry pancakes flaked with gold, just because I asked nicely?" It adds nothing to the conversation but a silly, burdensome request thinly veiled as a lame joke.

Nine years later, when the same Director, now promoted to the Board says the same line, you groan inside because you know exactly how often he calls his clients muppets. Slowly you begin to feel that the company is no longer the same wonderful, inspirational place of work that you signed up for.

Nothing to hide" is thematically similar to the groan-inducing "Do you want the terrorists to win?" arguments against civil liberties, in favor of increased security measures, proferred and popularly supported in the mid-2000s.

I groan at iGroan because it's a bad pun, but Stallman's position seems more or less sound. DRM sucks.