I saw everyone else do it, and like the pathetic follower I am, I joined in. 
Wait a minute! You can bold things in your messages???
I thought you could only italicize. Boy was I wrong…
Green
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aGIANT[sub]dwarf[/sub]
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Just a general falling apart related to my diabetes that I’ve not posted about here. There have been some really bad declines and problems lately, but one symptom that has been exacerbated as of late is a severe stiffness in the hands and fingers, which is accompanied by numbness and tingling as if they are asleep. It takes sometimes a good two hours before my hands work properly lately when I wake up in the morning, and it’s hard to type certain keys, which leads to embarassing typos, and me not using the [ and ] sometimes because that little finger on the right hand sometimes refuses to move. On the grand scheme of things, it’s no big deal. There are much worse issues.
I suspect agiantdwarf is reading this, even if just for grins. I like to think most of us have the good sense to see why bolding usernames is a decent courtesy here.
In addition to bold and italic you can also underline.
And I have got to start attending Dopefests! 
Una Persson!
You do not need to use the (Alt Gr + Shift 8) for [.
Use the B at vB code
Then You get a window up left.
Write Your text there and push OK.
Btw. Swedish? I also have a Swedish keyboard.
Henry
Yes, I almost forgot. It is polite to make the other guys name in bold letters.
Well, I put other people’s names in “all caps,” out of force of long habit, dating back to when Grandpa was a little shaver and the internet didn’t have fancy coding, so you had to underline like this and bold LIKE THIS.
Now people think I’m randomly shouting people’s names, when really it’s that I’m too mentally challenged to remember to bold instead.
Thanks for asking, AGIANTDWARF.