# What's your take on... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-take-on/416900 "2007-08-25T16:48:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-take-on/416900/1 "2007-08-25T16:48:12Z")
… :rolleyes: Do you use it after a A. wry but humorous comment? B. bitingly sarcastic observation? C. bit of self deprecation? D. Other? I am frequently tempted to punctuate humor with :rolleyes:. Long ago, however, when I used it that way, I got whole bunch of Dopers seriously ticked off, e.g., one guy came back with “Don’t roll your goddam eyes at me, BarnOwl!!!” And of course I had to. Again. 😃😃😃 Since then I have invoked it rarely, if at all. How about yourself - do you get a lot of grief when you :rolleyes: ? If you’re going to reply with links to 1001 threads on this subject, I can only say in advance, I’m deeply sorry, but don’t know how to search on a friggin cartoon. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-take-on/416900/2 "2007-08-25T16:55:14Z")
I take it to mean “What a maroon!” Whether that observation is directed toward myself or another should be inferrable from context. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-take-on/416900/3 "2007-08-25T17:03:10Z")
If folk are annoyed by others tutting, indrawing breath, and rolling their eyes (usually in kind of a schoolmarmish disapproval) – they’ll be hacked off with seeing the :rolleyes: online, I think. Some here overused it, and it led to bitter battles over in the Pit. Aimed at someone who isn’t a poster here, say at someone involved in an event in current affairs, the effect isn’t so personal. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-take-on/416900/4 "2007-08-25T17:05:09Z")
I use it, quite simply, whenever in normal face-to-face conversation I would roll my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-take-on/416900/5 "2007-08-25T19:01:24Z")
I don’t use it at all. As your post points out, it can be misconstrued. Communication is tough enough face-to-face. It is even tougher via a message board. No sense introducing things that some view as offensive. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-take-on/416900/6 "2007-08-25T20:39:30Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] As your post points out, it can be misconstrued. [/quote] What CAN’T be? > [@](#): > > Communication is tough enough face-to-face. It is even tougher via a message board. No sense introducing things that some view as offensive. As I’ve said before, if people are **offended** by a mere smilie, for heaven’s sake, the problem is not the smilie. If it were overtly racist, sexist, etc., that’s an entirely different matter. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-take-on/416900/7 "2007-08-25T21:08:30Z")
[QUOTE=rowrrbazzle] What CAN’T be? As I’ve said before, if people are **offended** by a mere smilie, for heaven’s sake, the problem is not the smilie. If it were overtly racist, sexist, etc., that’s an entirely different matter. [/QUOTE] My apologies. I thought he was asking what I do and why - I hadn’t realized this was a debate. I withdraw my comments as I’m disinterested in debating my view with you. You may use whichever smiley you wish. I will continue to not use it.