# The great smiley changeover! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 6, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-smiley-changeover/102216 "2002-04-06T21:21:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-smiley-changeover/102216/41 "2002-04-09T06:13:53Z")
At least you can **see** those coloured smilies. … SOME OF US ARE COLOUR BLIND YOU KNOW! It is so **monochromist** of you all not to even think of my pain, and to gloat at such length about these damned colour smilies, no wonder the board is so slow, all that colour takes up extra bandwidth you know. Blackandwhiteboss. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-smiley-changeover/102216/42 "2002-04-09T10:32:24Z")
…umm, er… I, uh… …I…can’t think of anything… ---
**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-smiley-changeover/102216/43 "2002-04-09T12:50:08Z")
**Redboss** , you are not alone: [Who decided red means “stop” and green means “go”?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_152.html) > [@](#): > > But it’s rare to find someone so colorblind they can’t tell bright red and bright green apart. Usually they only have trouble with pastels or in dim light. If all else fails they can fall back on the knowledge that on most stoplights red is on top. > > **Cecil speaks from personal experience.** You’d never want to take me hunting for wild raspberries in the forest. But I can tell when the damn traffic lights say stop. Be proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-smiley-changeover/102216/44 "2002-04-09T14:54:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flamsterette\_X \*reminded me of the Bash Brothers (or whatever they were called) in those old Super Mario[sup]TM[/sup] games… you know, those little Koopas with the hammers that they would throw down at you in hopes of killing you with a well-aimed hit! I never was much good at those games, but they were still fun to play. At least until I got tired of dying like 100 times in a row! :eek: So much death and destruction. ☹ Doesn’t anyone play any nonviolent games? There’s got to be a Care Bears video game. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-smiley-changeover/102216/45 "2002-04-09T15:24:00Z")
Ok, maybe my cache got cleared overnight, or when I logged out of my account or something, but now the smilies are coloured again - well, most of them. :mad: 😛 :o ☹ 🙂 aren’t the right colours. They’re still pale yellow. Anyone know why? And IIRC these three: 😉 ;j :wally are the proper colours, but all in all, it’s still way too much yellow, IMHO 🙂 Are we still looking for the correct ones, or is this now a browser problem? ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-smiley-changeover/102216/46 "2002-04-09T15:46:03Z")
gah! I even tried the ctrl advice given above, and nothing changed, and now all of a sudden ALL the smilies are different colours again! Am I the only one having such issues? Should I find a shrink…? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-smiley-changeover/102216.md?page=2)