# OMG new smileys??! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 26, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330 "2014-02-26T17:03:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/41 "2014-02-26T18:59:06Z")
:dubious:😕:eek::smack:⭕cool::p:)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/42 "2014-02-26T19:03:31Z")
This guy 🆒 looks more sarcastic now than this dude here :rolleyes:. That’s really my only beef. Get a snarkier :rolleyes:. And c’mon, we still need a puking smiley. It doesn’t have to be gross or obvious. Just a nauseated one. This :eek: sort of works, but it’s not that great. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/43 "2014-02-26T19:24:15Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Do these retroactively repopulate? There could be some oddly emoted Posts from the past now! Yes, in fact I just now saw an old post that specifically refers to the blowjob smiley but actually displays the new, stoopid-looking pink thing. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/44 "2014-02-26T19:26:17Z")
I’m kinda upset they didn’t add 2 more smileys to fill out the rectangle. My OCD will forever be annoyed at that ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/45 "2014-02-26T19:35:47Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > And, after all the begging in Cafe Society… still no barfy-emoticon? I want the sciencefail smiley. [This one ain’t bad either.](http://www.giraffeboards.com/images/smilies/im-a-pervert-smiley-emoticon.gif) 😃 > [@Colibri](#): > > “Smashy” was the nickname for this [animated emoticon](http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)that was available on the temporary replacement board that was set up during the Winter of Our Missed Content. Lookit that little fella go! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/46 "2014-02-26T19:49:33Z")
He looks so content in his smashing. Like he’s thinking, “Yeah, smashing, this is why I exist.” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/47 "2014-02-26T20:06:51Z")
I believe these are the default vBulletin smileys. Last time we upgraded, they appeared for a few days until Jerry overwrote them with the older default vBulletin smileys due to popular demand. Assuming, of course, that we can trust my memory. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/48 "2014-02-26T20:11:52Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I’m kinda upset they didn’t add 2 more smileys to fill out the rectangle. My OCD will forever be annoyed at that RIGHT?! yes, right. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/49 "2014-02-26T20:22:18Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I believe these are the default vBulletin smileys. Last time we upgraded, they appeared for a few days until Jerry overwrote them with the older default vBulletin smileys due to popular demand. > > Assuming, of course, that we can trust my memory. I think you’re right. The version appears to be 3.8.7 now and looking at a cached page on google from earlier today, it was 3.7.3. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/50 "2014-02-26T21:55:04Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I believe these are the default vBulletin smileys. Last time we upgraded, they appeared for a few days until Jerry overwrote them with the older default vBulletin smileys due to popular demand. > > Assuming, of course, that we can trust my memory. Yep. That’s my guess, too, especially since the facepalm one - :smack: - hasn’t updated, and that one was custom made for the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/51 "2014-02-26T21:57:04Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I think you’re right. The version appears to be 3.8.7 now and looking at a cached page on google from earlier today, it was 3.7.3. WE HAVE A NEWER UPDATED VERSION OF VBULLETIN NOW? Yippee! This means we can re-raise all the requests, over the years, for changes that were pooh-poohed in the past because “our older version of vBulletin can’t do that.” Starting with: Let’s make a minor modification to the thread-list page to include the DATE of the OP of each thread, alongside the username of the OP. There’s plenty of room for it there. We can then know if a thread is old without having to open it to see the date of Post #1. In one of the many ATMB threads requesting something along these lines, it was suggested (by someone who runs another board) that a newer version can do this. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/52 "2014-02-26T22:00:57Z")
The rolleyes now looks like one I requested several months back. To me, it conveys a subtext of: _“Why, of COURSE I wasn’t being sarcastic/intending a double entendre/making fun of you/him/her.”_ :rolleyes: I just wish we didn’t have to lose the _“What stupidity I have to listen to!”_ smiley to get it. I guess :dubious: will have to serve in that capacity for now. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/53 "2014-02-26T22:13:00Z")
I want the roll eyes guy back. I’ll have to start typing “Dumb ass”, and I’ll get banned. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/54 "2014-02-26T22:18:08Z")
I think, for most of these smileys, [noparse]I will just start typing things like :rolleyes: or 🆒 or :eek: or :embarrassed: and so forth. Everyone will know what I mean. The new :eek: one (if you can call it that) look like Kermit The Frog barfing. Maybe this is the :barf: smiley everyone’s been asking for. We can invent our own smileys this way too, like :JewGuy: or :blowjob: [/noparse] ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/55 "2014-02-26T22:31:26Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I think, for most of these smileys, [noparse]I will just start typing things like :rolleyes: or 🆒 or :eek: or :embarrassed: and so forth. Everyone will know what I mean. The new :eek: one (if you can call it that) look like Kermit The Frog barfing. Maybe this is the :barf: smiley everyone’s been asking for. We can invent our own smileys this way too, like :JewGuy: or :blowjob: [/noparse] How about :JewGuyGivingBlowJob: or :JewGuyGivingWallyABlowjobWhileWinking: ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/56 "2014-02-26T22:33:38Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > They started out looking the same in Firefox for me, but different in IE. I came back from lunch, refreshed the page, and they’re updated in FF now. I assume it displays the smileys you have cached (which would be the old ones) until/unless you refresh the page, at which point it reloads the graphics. At least, that was my experience. At first, reading this thread (in IE, if it matters), I couldn’t figure out what people were talking about. “New smileys? They look exactly the same to me.” ::refresh page:: Oh. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/57 "2014-02-26T23:47:43Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I assume it displays the smileys you have cached (which would be the old ones) until/unless you refresh the page, at which point it reloads the graphics. I agree, the laptop at home shows the old MUCH BETTER ones. But at least we can type in ALL CAPS! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/58 "2014-02-27T00:03:19Z")
This is a test of all caps ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/59 "2014-02-27T00:04:22Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I agree, the laptop at home shows the old MUCH BETTER ones. > But at least we can type in ALL CAPS! > :rolleyes: No we can’t. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330/60 "2014-02-27T00:07:12Z")
I like the new smilies as they tend to _soften_ the snark rather than amplify it. Interestingly Mr. Dubious is now more intense than the new rolley: he used to be less intense. Maybe I should modernize him and bring him in line with our pastel future. Maybe in a couple of months after the current set has been tried out. **Testing 1 2** Sure, mfm, like that will happen. 🙂 Sure, mfm, like that will happen. 😉 Sure, mfm, like that will happen. :rolleyes: Sure, mfm, like that will happen. :dubious: 'Ol dubious is a pretty serious guy! (It’s also even more apparent that he needs a shave.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-new-smileys/682330.md?page=4)