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i am the opposite,, i hate signatures and avatars. ! and i use :) as im a natural little ray of sunshine .
@toybulldog wrote:
@pete wrote:
Intonation isnt sound quality now is it
ok, I think I see what you mean. But for that we have words which can do the job better and in a million different ways too.
yeah like fuck off ..without an emoticon to portray how we meant that how many ways could it be taken. Like Bon Bon said a picture paints a thousand words
@toybulldog wrote:
Why exactly do people use these patronising scabs of yellow facial smallpox ? I’m not completely sure that I like them.
Because, like Everest, they’re there ? Maybe some believe that their posts cannot truly be understood without bluntly signalling the intent, but you have to admit that they are pretty lame. I really can’t see the point, except for illiterate seven year olds, and sir actor.
Am I being a tad sarcastic ? If only there was some way or hint I could use to help you tell………… I was reading some of Churchill’s great inspiring speeches, and thought, damn, if only he could have used emoticons – I’m sure the War would have been over a lot quicker. They are so very last century anyway, and isn’t plain text what all the cool people use? Not having them would of course give this place more of a Luddite feel, and might even add to its charm, if that could be possible.
I might use one if it could depict my usual state of mind. However, as yet no one has been able to depict anger, jealousy, tourettes, fake keyboard warrior-ness combined with a slight hint of inferiority complex on the one cute smiley face.
L O L
I’ve read this post already – or one very similar to it – on a blogsite I happened upon some time ago.
It’s doing the rounds at the moment.
Thanks for the mention by the way.Taking the moral high ground by criticising posters on a message board is all very well but why stop with second hand frustrations at emoticons?
You could easily have taken your objections a little further by slating those who failed to meet your very high standards with regard to grammar and spelling for instance.
But you didn’t.
Maybe (as Churchill will have pointed out in one of his awe inspiring speeches that you’re so fond of..) it would have been a Bridge Too Far to criticise the foot soldiers to that extent.
The only truths I’ve learned here is that you obviously know which side your bread is buttered.
Oh, and that you lack originality.I shall refrain from using the “rolling eyes” emoticon in your honour.
its buttered whichever side hits the floor first or is that just toast
thats meant to be mildly amusing and not in any way contentious or posted to inflame or belittle but i still think :lol: would have sufficed@pete wrote:
yeah like fuck off ..without an emoticon to portray how we meant that how many ways could it be taken. Like Bon Bon said a picture paints a thousand words
well I’m still trying to work out why you used the word ‘intonation’, which would normally apply to the pitch of voice, or is generally used as a musical term in reference to sound. So won’t dilly dally with any further confusion regarding the above.
(Perhaps you meant ‘implication’, or ‘intimation’, or even ‘inference’, or quite possibly should ONLY use emoticons in future.)
And in many cases a thousand words is nowhere enough to describe a picture, but we’re not exactly talking about Pieter Breugel the Elder here, just them pesky yella fingys, that get used so robotically…….
so i did i meant inflection thought intonation could be used for emphasis i guess anyway inflection will suffice
I cant believe you are dissing Mr Green in all this… like he dont exist.
Im mortified (sad face).
fuck off :lol:
is completely different to
fuck off
or :shock: or [-X@sir Actor wrote:
I’ve read this post already – or one very similar to it – on a blogsite I happened upon some time ago………you lack originality.
I shall refrain from using the “rolling eyes” emoticon in your honour.
Evening actor,
Of course I deserve both barrels from you, but can only wonder what’s gone wrong with your shotgun.
I must thank you for the compliment you didn’t mean to offer, and would be so grateful if you could kindly POST the link to the ‘blogsite’ in question, but suspect that that won’t be happening any time soon now will it ?
Even if I were to remind you on a daily basis perhaps? Or offer a sporting wager ? But no, we both realise that in the end all that would remain is your vapid blustering. (Rocks and rolls eyes.)
People’s spelling is idiosyncratic and entirely down to them. I respect that and it’s not what this is about at all.
silly you
xis x an emoticon and should you be putting x’s to men
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