I need one character, one symbol, that shows supreme disgust. Please. It would be so much easier than trying to explain. Anybody got a Nike-like swipe in mind?
How about the yuk face, a swastika, the artist formerly known as Prince symbol, or truck nutz?
I think yuk face is probably the best one I can think of: “Mr. Yuk is a trademarked graphic image, created by the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and widely employed in the United States in labeling of substances that are poisonous if ingested.” My mom used to put Mr. Yuk on cleaner bottles, so me and my sister would stay away from the chemicals!
Probably about ten years ago now I designed a nauseated-looking smiley that I’m quite proud of, and offered it to the SDMB to use. Regrettably they never took me up on the offer. “Barfy” is still around though.
TPTB, the offer still stands, by the way.
Trawling Symbols.com, the closest I could find is this one, the alchemical sign for horse dung, nowadays also used for human excrement (in comics, for example). There’s also this astrological sign, associated with disease and death, and, taking the title of the thread somewhat more literally, this sign indicating a pit-head or mine shaft (it’s however chiefly associated with ‘female’ or ‘woman’, so you may want to avoid using it in this sense…).
These are all good. Maybe a combination? A pointy-down arrow toward barfy?
I am very fond of the ack2emoticon.
Oh man! How can I do that one, dangermom? (Looks somewhat like Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes. I love his expressions.)