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um wut???
It means “too long; didn’t read” ^_^
ah okej =p, nice one ^^
Would anyone notice it if you replaced the word conclusion with TL;DR?
That would be why this is on fail book.
^ WIN!
OK, I did it. I can haz 50 bucks now?
LMAO!!!!! u can have $69!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ill give u a 010$ if u did it
pics or it didn’t happen.
Isn’t that what the abstract is for? Just saying.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Yep.
In business it’s called an “executive summary”. Same idea.
I’d take this person up on this. It would help cover a small chunk of the crazy fees for printing and submitting the damn thing.
Actually the acknowledgment section would be the perfect place for this, your adviser can’t really tell you what to write there. Hahah.
50 Bucks.. now that is a lot of deer meat….
Oh, dear!
your a jackass.
sorry i don’t get it. what does TL;DR mean?
Too Long; Didn’t Read
WTF??
that makes perfect sence??
googled it and got it. sorry i’m italian
Don’t be sorry for being Italian! Make me spaghetti!!!
pwaaahahahahahaaa I thought the same thing. I’ll take some profiterole please.
Oooo, yum! Make that 2. Chop chop!
pasta with tommy sauce for me plz!
CANNOLIS!!!!1!!!
i want some ravioli now or (read name)
Cheese raviolis please!
Challenge accepted
That makes no sense. They just wrote the damn thing, obviously they know what it says.
When you put a TL;DR on your own writing, its basicly a summary for people who don’t want to read the whole thing.
Maybe is a copy/paste from Wikipedia… =P
I think the prize should really go to the thesis advisor who writes that in red on the first page of an advisee’s thesis. Putting it at the end of your own thesis … meh.
Exactly. Why would you put it on your own thesis? Uhh.. to prove you didnt proof read it or something? Pretty lame.
I agree. Maybe THIS is the real FAIL.
agreed.
the purpose of writing a TL;DR is not for yourself. The author obviously isn’t saying that they did not read their own paper. It is essentially a quick summary for readers who only want to spend a few seconds to get the gist of the longer text – commonly used in online comment threads (such as this one) if the poster has a long story or explanation, but realizes that many readers on the internet are somewhat lazy when it comes to large blocks of text, but still wants to get their point across to as many of those people as possible.
TL;DR: TL:DR is for readers, not author.
TL;DR. Seriously dude.
He already put TL;DR, Mr. Redundancy.
“abstract”
I agree! It makes more sense than putting it at the end of your own. I mean, since you presumably wrote your own thesis, you’ve obviously read it over.
this.
I’ll give $100 to the professor that puts TL;DR on a thesis
Just what JA said above. *That* would be truly funny.
Challenge accepted!
What sort of proof do you need?
Just to clarify for folks: “In cases of more courteous exchanges and serious discussions, TL;DR can be self-invoked by the original poster as a disclaimer to the readers and precedes a brief summary of the longer original text. On that note, if you don’t want your readers to be falling asleep at your long, boring blocks of text, do us all a favor and summarize it.”
tl;dr – This would makes sense.
TL;DR
Economics may not be my strongest area, but I do believe that $50 is a low return on the thousands I spent enrolling in that university and the hundreds it took for the measly few hours credit I received from studying my butt off all semester.
Also, given the state of the American economy, I would assume a good GPA that leads to a nice degree under my belt somehow outweighs the short-term benefits of $50.
TL;DR
You actually OWE me $50 for your inability to read two short paragraphs. You have two options: send via PayPal or pay me in increments by enrolling each semester in my university where my professors will teach you how to think up a joke that hasn’t already been played out.
i don’t think that it was the length of the paragraphs that makes this a TL;DR, rather the words “economics,” “return,” “enrolling,” “economy,” “GPA,” “degree,” and “outweighs.”
this is failboook. srsly.
I think a teacher putting TL;DR on your important paper would be funnier.
I think my thesis reviser did it implicitly…. I mean, I went to her desk 2 days before the notes deadline, and she hadn’t even start it! 2 Days later, my note appeared miracously. Heck! It was a 210 pages long thesis! How frustrating it is to think she didn’t even read it!! What a waste of effort… Had she told me before, and I wouldn’t have done such a great work…
you wrote 210 pages? jesus christ! That had better have been a PhD thesis…
I’d give $75 to someone who did it and didn’t get points docked for it. $100 if the Prof circles it and draws the LOL meme face in addition to no points taken off.
*offer not actually valid anywhere
I agree with above that it would be funnier for the advisor to write TL;DR after reading it. And as far as writing a TL;DR summary at the end of the paper, wouldn’t that basically just be a repeat of the abstract, but at the end? Kind of pointless.
in a thesis you summarize at the end, if you out tl ; dr instead as an equivalent of in conclusion and such it would be the correct way to do it.
ie.
TL;DR the economy was actually affected more so at the start of the industrial revolution than the peak of financial instability during the world war.
that can summarize a 10 page essay lol
Ha. Similar to the PhD Challenge in which someone got a paper published with the phrase “I smoke crack rocks” contained in it.
http://phdchallenge.org/2010-phd-challenge-winner
This year’s challenge is to get an author listed as “Crazy Cat Lady” or “Dirty Old Man.”
I was thinking the same thing as ThatDarnCat. Wouldn’t the teacher be the one putting TL;DR? You wrote it, why would you put that your own paper/these was too long so you didn’t read it? Do you mean, too long didn’t edit it?
This doesn’t make any sense.
Jeez, people, it means that you should put, “TL;DR, (summary of whatever you said)”
When I turned in the first draft of my masters thesis, my professor returned it with one comment: “You can do better.”
So I rewrote and resubmitted, and his feedback was, “You can do better.”
The third time I turned it in, he took it from me and said, “Okay, now I’m going to read it.”
Nice trick to get you to excel, but I’ll bet at the moment you wanted to kill him. Yes, I’m a masters student right now, and I know exactly which of my professors would do this.
My sister seriously wrote “Blah blah blah blah blah. Are you even reading this? Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah” at the end of an essay in high school. She got in trouble, but they let her change it.
I am SO going to do this on every comprehensive exam submitted by one of my advisees this year. 11 of them are scheduled for comps- y’all can start saving up for my end of the year bonus. >:)
Printed only thesis? Add TL;DR as a footnote and make the text white, then save the file as proof. You’ll have $50 and your profs won’t be any the wiser!
I am now going to do this. Thanks for the tip.
I am going to do this before turning in my report on Monday. Thanks Storm, I now have something to laugh about this week.
I did it, but I didn’t text-white it. really. check my website.
TL;DNR would make more sense…Too long; do not read! (Just give me the freaking grade!
^WTF how did this happen?
You typed something and hit “Add Comment.”
That’s how.
What does it mean??
deep endes on da phaze ov dee moon,..andde thee tyme ov days..
OH NOES!
TL;DNR would make more sense…Too long; do not read! (Just give me the freaking grade!)
Haha, one of my friends actually wrote a facebook status saying “Who the f**k wrote “THE GAME” on my lab-report?! I handed it in like that!!”
… but sadly, it was in swedish so I can’t upload it here
challenge accepted
high school tricks are fun. once put “fresh prince of bel air” theme song into an 11th grade history paper…
Once for a big project i added a sentence in the middle of a random paragraph describing my skepticism that my professor would read the whole thing. No comment on it.
Isn’t that called a conclusion?
WTF is wrong with all these people that do not get it?
It makes sense perfectly, you just have to add a TL;DR at the end of YOUR OWN work for people who don’t want to read it and just want to know what it’s all about within a few seconds
It’s like saying: For all of you who think it’s Too Long and Didn’t Read, here’s a summary:
And what the guy at Facebook meant by saying “put a TL;DR at the end” is that the student should make a summary for the professor who didn’t want to read the whole damn thing
TL;DR – It makes sense, go and do some research on what to “put a TL;DR” is
Challenge Accepted.
I did it! Albeit, it was a midterm essay, and not a thesis….
LINK
http://s969.photobucket.com/albums/ae173/bugme143/?action=view¤t=tldr.png
^^^^^^^^^^^
I’m anxious to find out what you got on that paper. :p