# I demand a ban on the use of o\_O **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758 "2005-03-22T19:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/21 "2005-03-22T20:37:42Z")
🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/22 "2005-03-22T20:40:51Z")
o-------allll– **O** [sup]\< }[/sup] drag chute helps it stop ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/23 "2005-03-22T20:41:20Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > …1eet spe@k fuckers. And before some smartass (I’m looking at you \*\*Happy Scrappy Hero Pup \*_) chimes in about my spelling, let me be clear l33t speak, as far as I am concerned, can be spelled any way you want. The point is to obscure communication, while at the same time fooling yourself into thinking that you are somehow special or vaguly interesting_. \*Why yes, someone did piss in my cheerieos this morning, thanks for asking. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/24 "2005-03-22T20:42:57Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > o-------allll– **O** Dilute! Dilute! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/25 "2005-03-22T20:46:58Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > \*Why yes, someone did piss in my cheerieos this morning, thanks for asking. That’s why you shouldn’t let the cat on the table. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/26 "2005-03-22T20:49:21Z")
**Binarydrone** , my poor, urine-cereal-eating brother, if you couldn’t smell the sarcasm emanating from my post, then you need a new monitor. I can’t STAND leetspeakers or even posters with poor grammar. Personally, I think you’re just overreacting due to a vitamin deficiency. Remember, you’d need twelve bowls of pissed-in _Cheerios_ to get all the nutrition in just one bowl of pissed-in _Total_. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/27 "2005-03-22T20:49:57Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Dilute! Dilute! Oooh! It looks faster italicized. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/28 "2005-03-22T20:59:28Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > Remember, you’d need twelve bowls of pissed-in _Cheerios_ to get all the nutrition in just one bowl of pissed-in _Total_. Sig line! ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/29 "2005-03-22T21:06:43Z")
12 bowls of pissed-in cheerios? That would feed my family for a week! ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/30 "2005-03-22T21:07:42Z")
Well, the dude’s thankfully gone. With his obnoxious fucking smiley. I just cannot understand why he uses it in every incarnation, given how obvious it makes him. (Though I wonder at the mods taking so long to notice; it was clear to me a week ago and I even reported a post that made me suspect he was a sock.) ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/31 "2005-03-22T21:09:42Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > **Binarydrone** , my poor, urine-cereal-eating brother, if you couldn’t smell the sarcasm emanating from my post, then you need a new monitor… No worries, I was smelling what you were cooking. Picking up what you were putting down, so to speak. I just thought that I would run with it a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/32 "2005-03-22T21:32:34Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > o-------allll– **O** [sup]\< }[/sup] > > drag chute helps it stop I can’t stop laughing. You must have some serious time on your hands! ---
**Author:** ![Mayfield\_St.Cloud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@Mayfield\_St.Cloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayfield_St.Cloud)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/33 "2005-03-22T21:39:50Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > 12 bowls of pissed-in cheerios? That would feed my family for a week! Bah! You spoiled kids with your cheerios! In my day, the cat pissed on a bowl of gravel _and we were glad to eat it!_ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/34 "2005-03-22T21:40:29Z")
> [@Flander](#): > > I can’t stop laughing. You must have some serious time on your hands! Yeah, rained out of work today. I really should be doing my taxes… ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/35 "2005-03-22T21:44:23Z")
> [@Mayfield St. Cloud](#): > > Bah! You spoiled kids with your cheerios! In my day, the cat pissed on a bowl of gravel _and we were glad to eat it!_ You had cats? In my day we had to wait for crotchety old men who liked to complain about how tough it was when they were growing up to walk over (uphill both ways) and piss on our bowls of dead maggots. But we were happy for what we had. ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/36 "2005-03-22T22:22:16Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > You had cats? In my day we had to wait for crotchety old men who liked to complain about how tough it was when they were growing up to walk over (uphill both ways) and piss on our bowls of dead maggots. But we were happy for what we had. You were lucky to have dead maggots, we had to kill our own - and we had to piss on them ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/37 "2005-03-22T22:25:34Z")
> [@](#): > > (Though I wonder at the mods taking so long to notice; it was clear to me a week ago and I even reported a post that made me suspect he was a sock.) Despite our arrant arrogance and our apparently arbitrary actions, we _do_ prefer to act on evidence rather than on suspicion. **HG P** (or even **Zagadka** ) is hardly the only person on the internet who uses that particular icon and we chose to wait for more substantial evidence of malevolence toward the board before we dropped the hammer. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/38 "2005-03-22T22:37:06Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > … **HG P** (or even **Zagadka** ) is hardly the only person on the internet who uses that particular icon… Well, I suppose that is one way to handle it. On the other hand, we could simply have a rule prohibiting the use of that particular emotocon. Then you could summarily ban anyone using it, and then send some big, hairy angry men over their way to have a frank exchange of ideas. Think about it, the motto for the SDMB is: “Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It’s taking longer than we thought)”. Perhaps what we have been doing is not so much fighting ignorance as trying to talk folks out of it. That may be what we are doing wrong. Perhaps what we need is a clue enforcement squad. Let’s beat the ignorance out of people! ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/39 "2005-03-22T22:45:37Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever used that particular emoticon, but I’ll confess to having a certain fondness for it. Due to an eye injury one of my pupils is sometimes (not always) dilated more than the other, causing me to look like this: o\_O I keep hoping that some hot David Bowie fan or another will notice this and be overcome with lust for me, but it hasn’t paid off yet. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758/40 "2005-03-22T22:58:32Z")
Yeah, but can’t we assume that anyone who uses “o\_O” is, by definition, incapable of making any contribution to the boards? 🙂 Was Mr. or Ms. Pennypacker indeed Zagadka? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-demand-a-ban-on-the-use-of-o_o/295758.md?page=3)