# Can we PLEASE get a Vomiting Smilie? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 18, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193 "2006-04-18T18:34:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/61 "2006-04-21T18:39:45Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > [Here’s a list of the smileys used on my board](http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/misc.php?do=showsmilies). Nothing animated. > > A few users are smile-happy, but for the most part messages stay uncluttered; threads don’t look teen board-ish. I love that embarrassed smiley. It actually conveys embarrassment. Unlike our orange blowjob dude. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/62 "2006-04-21T22:37:29Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > My bad. I did go overboard there and wasn’t seeing clearly. > > I think it’s a shame that everyone views :wally so offensively; I think it should be able to be used tongue-in-cheek, and I hope the board culture changes in that direction. No blood, no foul. 🙂 I think we’re stuck with the current understanding of it. I agree that it would be nice to have a tongue-in-cheek smiley. Sadly, the nature of text-only communication makes that unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/63 "2006-04-22T00:55:07Z")
Another early nomination for “Barfy” from me, if I may be so bold. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/64 "2006-04-22T01:05:12Z")
FWIW, I like cyburbia’s sick smiley and maybe I even get a trickle of acceptance for their puking smiley. They’re subtle (relatively speaking) and the sick smiley gets the message across without being nasty or ugly looking, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/65 "2006-04-22T01:36:02Z")
Both **Opal** and **Una** have pretty good barfies on their respective boards. They are fun, and sometimes they are exactly what’s needed! Would either of them be willing to share, I wonder? ---
**Author:** ![Iris\_Rings](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Iris\_Rings](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iris_Rings)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/66 "2006-04-27T23:03:40Z")
Nobody needs a vomiting smiley. There’s enough rudeness without getting childish about it. What will you want next? The one with Calvin peeing on a Ford? ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/67 "2006-04-27T23:18:59Z")
> [@Iris Rings](#): > > Nobody needs a vomiting smiley. > There’s enough rudeness without getting childish about it. > What will you want next? The one with Calvin peeing on a Ford? Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/68 "2006-04-28T14:59:42Z")
> [@Iris Rings](#): > > What will you want next? The one with Calvin peeing on a Ford? No, but it might be fun to have one of Gerald Ford peeing in his Calvin Kleins. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/69 "2006-05-06T22:13:54Z")
Anyone who says we don’t need a pukey has obviously never read the legendary epoch that is the original TMI thread, and it’s small line of descendants. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/70 "2006-05-06T22:18:42Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > Anyone who says we don’t need a pukey has obviously never read the legendary epoch that is the original TMI thread, and it’s small line of descendants. Of course! I never thought of this. Bob: Hey, you remember that TMI thread way back when? Jim: Yeah! It was, like, 12 pages long! Bob: Yeah, you know what would make it better? Jim: What? Bob: 12 MORE pages of one-smiley posts! Jim: YES!!!11111eleventhousandonehundredandeleven puke lolololol ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/71 "2006-05-07T01:41:27Z")
I wish to go on record as opposing a vomiting smilie and opposing more smilies in general. Vomiting smilies are disgusting by nature. In addtion, I visited a lot of message boards duing my suspension, most had many more smilies than this one. I found them distracting. Their widespread overuse had a tendency to make the content of the posts seem stupid and immature. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/72 "2006-05-07T01:50:17Z")
Not that anyone gives a shit what I think, but the only smilies we need are: 🙂 :dubious: 😛😉😕 :eek: ☹ and :mad: . At most. Get rid of cool, head slap, putz, Jew, toothy grin and me-suck-you-off embarrassed. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/73 "2006-05-07T04:35:28Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > I wish to go on record as opposing a vomiting smilie and opposing more smilies in general. Vomiting smilies are disgusting by nature. In addtion, I visited a lot of message boards duing my suspension, most had many more smilies than this one. I found them distracting. Their widespread overuse had a tendency to make the content of the posts seem stupid and immature. Here here! I would make an exception though for emoticons that can demonstrably aid in the fight against ignorance. Such emoticons will tend to soften a message, as opposed to intensify it. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/74 "2006-05-07T06:19:58Z")
> [@Measure for Measure](#): > > Here here! Hear, hear! ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/75 "2006-05-07T21:56:41Z")
D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/76 "2006-05-08T14:27:37Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > Has ANYONE read this fucking thread who’s posted here? > > That suggests to me that the name-calling is tongue-in-cheek, which means there are lots of uses for it in every forum. Why I’m the only one who sees it this way, I don’t know. You’re not the only one, but the smiley is misused to the point that I’d be happy to see it go. There’s just way too many people who are simply too stupid to get the point - maybe they don’t notice that he’s smiling or something - which is why you’ll see posters using it in reference to people who commit violent crimes. “Those guys committing genocide in the Darfur are such :wally es!” and so forth. Let’s face it, not everyone can be smart, or even average. This smiley is simply too challenging for many people. As for me, I’d be greatly disappointed to lose kneepad-smiley or the Happy Orthodox Jewish Man. Kneepads might not be appropriate for expressing embarrassment, but he’s plenty useful nonetheless. And I just like ;j. He’s cute! And there’s something pleasantly random about having a “Happy Orthodox Jewish Man” smiley. I’d like a good embarrassed smiley, and a nauseated smiley as well. **jjimm** ’s barfy is an excellent one, in my opinion. I don’t need to see one featuring actual vomit, thanks. I also would like to see people who use an average of more than one smiley per post be beaten to within an inch of their lives, just on principle. They’re useful, but they’re best used sparingly. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mycroft\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_H)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/77 "2006-05-08T16:18:08Z")
> [@Measure for Measure](#): > > D’oh! You should have added a head-slap smiley. Oh, wait. . . never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/78 "2006-05-08T16:36:30Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I also would like to see people who use an average of more than one smiley per post be beaten to within an inch of their lives, just on principle. **They’re useful, but they’re best used sparingly.** The smileys, or the people? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/79 "2006-05-08T17:09:39Z")
> [@](#): > > In addtion, I visited a lot of message boards duing my suspension, most had many more smilies than this one. I found them distracting. Their widespread overuse had a tendency to make the content of the posts seem stupid and immature. There’s two different issues here, I think… There’s the number of smilies available, and there’s the frequency with which they’re used. Increasing the frequency with which they’re used would probably have the immaturifying effect you describe (although there are still a few cases where a person ought to use a smiley and doesn’t). But just increasing the variety, so long as it didn’t cause an increase in the usage, could potentially make possible more nuanced communication, without unduly cluttering up the board. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193/80 "2006-05-08T20:21:19Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > There’s two different issues here, I think… There’s the number of smilies available, and there’s the frequency with which they’re used. Increasing the frequency with which they’re used would probably have the immaturifying effect you describe (although there are still a few cases where a person ought to use a smiley and doesn’t). But just increasing the variety, so long as it didn’t cause an increase in the usage, could potentially make possible more nuanced communication, without unduly cluttering up the board. I’ve been a member of a few different boards, and IME there is a 100% direct correlation between number of smileys available and frequency of smiley use, in Every. Single. Case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-get-a-vomiting-smilie/353193.md?page=5)