OMG new smileys??!

[Chimera]

If you want to type in all caps, you have to have a lower case letter in the message. Somewhere.

[Siam_Sam]

FIND THE LOWERCASE LETTER HEREx

[Thudlow_Boink]

l FOUND IT.

[Siam_Sam]

CLEVER CHAPx

[terentii]

l like the old ones better.

[Siam_Sam]

So I don’t understand. It sounds like this has happened before? And after much bitching and moaning, the old smileys were somehow brought back? So now we have to bitch and moan all over again? Is that it?

[elmwood]

Emoji. Deal with it.

[Guinastasia]

@Maastricht

This listhas most of our old smilies (including smashie) and some other ones (animated and non-animated) in the same style.

I’d want looney, tired and dunce.

I want the middle finger smiley! (Not that that’s going to happen)

[Ranchoth]

@elmwood

Emoji. Deal with it.

…'nother reason for me to upgrade to OS 10.9, I guess. :smack:

And, for the record, to whom here do I direct the email/PM bitching to formally request the old smileys be restored?

I’d prefer not to go to the Chicago Reader HQ and self-immolate with my fruit cart in front of it. Which is effective, but gas is kinda pricey these days.

[Measure_for_Measure]

@Measure_for_Measure

Nah, seriously - we have enough rancor here.

I toned down the giggles on Mr. Rolleyes. It’s subtle - you may not notice the difference immediately, though it’s readily observable when the images are alongside one another. Snarko-meter readings are now registering at 3.8 quatloos. It’s still way less snarky by than Mr. OldyRolly - intentionally.

http://wm40.inbox.com/thumbs/70_130b4e_8fe95b9c_tn.jpg.thumb

You can see the two versions alongside one another here: http://wm40.inbox.com/thumbs/72_130b4c_53a7e841_oP.png.thumb The 2nd one is a little less cutesy, a little less effusive, a little less zany, a little more toned down and therefore a little more condescending in practice.

Amateurs pour on the snark with a ladle. Professionals ease in the shiv.

ETA: Then again, the first one looks more like Dick Cheney. So there’s that.

[Patty_O_Furniture]

@carnivorousplant

I want the roll eyes guy back.
I’ll have to start typing “Dumb ass”, and I’ll get banned.
:dubious:

Try some ascii smilies:

WTF: (ಠ_ಠ)

Blank stare: (•_•)

Angry: (ノಠ益ಠ)

Middle finger: (ಠ_ಠ)┌∩┐ (Pit only, of course)

Smug: (‾⌣‾)

Frustrated: ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Whatever: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Confused: 【・ヘ・?】

Evil: ψ(｀∇´)ψ

Shy/ashamed: (//･_･//)

[Thudlow_Boink]

@Patty_O_Furniture

Try some ascii smilies:

[nerdish nitpick]
Those aren’t all ASCII characters.
[/nitpick]

[Northern_Piper]

I don’t like pastel.

I like full-bodied, definitive colours.

Plus, I’m now down to only one pale green smilie. How can I properly express my innermost thoughts relating to the Saskatchewan Roughriders with only one, pale green, smilie.

My œuvre will suffer tremendously.

[carnivorousplant]

@Ranchoth

I’d prefer not to go to the Chicago Reader HQ and self-immolate with my fruit cart in front of it. Which is effective, but gas is kinda pricey these days.

Sam and I are good for half the cost of the fruit cart.

=)

[Drunky_Smurf]

@Maastricht

This listhas most of our old smilies (including smashie) and some other ones (animated and non-animated) in the same style.

I’d want looney, tired and dunce.

We so need “bibber”.

[Gyrate]

@Inner_Stickler

I thought it looked more like "The poster above me doesn’t know that I also licked his piece of pie*.

Is that a euphemism?

@Siam_Sam

Bring back the blowjob smiley!

The old one wasn’t big enough - I need this one.

:D:cool:

[Spiderman]

@Patty_O_Furniture

Try some ascii smilies:

WTF: (ಠ_ಠ)

Blank stare: (•_•)

Angry: (ノಠ益ಠ)

Middle finger: (ಠ_ಠ)┌∩┐ (Pit only, of course)

Smug: (‾⌣‾)

Frustrated: ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Whatever: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[del]Confused[/del] Boobies!: 【・ヘ・?】

Evil: ψ(｀∇´)ψ

Shy/ashamed: (//･_･//)

I fixed the one for you
Yet another vote to bring back the old, non-Easter smilies.
Does :eek: remind you of those kids toys where the eyes pop out when you squeeze the body?

[Ponderoid]

The biggest problem with changing them, IMHO, is that this retroactively changes all the earlier posts to the new smileys. The various different appearances of them definitely have new connotations that might not have been intended when they were posted.

On occasion I remember seeing clever art pieces done with smileys, and the color scheme of them might have been important.

[Inner_Stickler]

If we can survive old threads with usernameless posts, I think we can survive palette changes to smiley art.

[Lukeinva]

Was there a poll?