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F to pay respects 

a prompt from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare where you press F (or ◻ on console) to pay respects as Mitchell to a fallen Will at his funeral. Now used online for showing sympathy to a random stranger
A: Oh, last night my laptop just overheated, all my data is gone!
B: F to pay respects

Press F to Pay Respects

When someone you love passes on, so you pay your respects with F
Damn, my cousin died.

Press F to pay respects, am i right?

Press F to pay respect 

It is a (semi-funny) response, seen a lot on social media like reddit, for example for someone with no chance of surviving a gaming battle due to enemy superior force , originally from 2014 first-person shooter Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Quoting know your meme :

"Press F (X) to Pay Respects is an action prompt featured in a quick time event from the 2014 first-person shooter Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Upon the release of the game in November 2014, many players of the game mocked the funeral cutscene for its forced element of interactivity that seemed out-of-place at a memorial service."
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"Press F to pay respect"
"Press F (X) to pay respect"
Press F to pay respect by MoFazul September 21, 2017

press f to pay respect 

When someone has taken a BIG L or has been oofed so hard that they may feel emotional pain

This term can be abbreviated to the letter F
Man : "i got regected last week"
Everyone : "F"

Press F to pay respect is a general term or responce after someone feeling emotional or physical pain

press f to pay respect 

An action in a funeral in CoD: AW when ur best friend died
Some random cmt on youtube: this guy died yesterday, press f to pay respect.
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
stove by anthony willison March 18, 2004
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