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HolyMoly 
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 Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:53 |
 Tapfret wrote:
Its a perverted little smiley that wants to fondle the other little smileys. It should be banned and sent to smiley prison for perverse for perversions.
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Still, it only suggests... it never actually does the deed. Which is actually even more unnerving.
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A Person
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:52 |
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I think the smiley itself looks condescending even though I know most people don't mean it that way, I usually use ;) instead of it.
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Tapfret
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:50 |
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Its a perverted little smiley that wants to fondle the other little smileys. It should be banned and sent to smiley prison for perverse for perversions.
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smartpatrol
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:39 |
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I use it when I sound mean but am kidding
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:38 |
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^Unless you forgot the wink.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:38 |
Smurph wrote:
If anyone takes offense to anything they suck. It's just the internet. Nothing is offensive on the internet. |
That is the most absolute bollocks anyone has typed for a month at least.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:37 |
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Makes one pause for thought. I have been offending about half the people here regularly for seven years and I didn't even know it. And maybe those people have been deliberately trying to offend me in return and I never noticed.
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Smurph
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:35 |
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If anyone takes offense to anything they suck. It's just the internet. Nothing is offensive on the internet.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:31 |
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So it looks like about half the people take offense to it, and the other half don't. Great.
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:28 |
Dean wrote:
JJLehto wrote:
I still have no idea what this sh*t is though 
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In the olden days like the time I connected the network over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to connect to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to dial-up the internet cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say, but when the network was connected you couldn't be sure you were connected to Morganville so you see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big tin washtub and catch the mint-condition 1918 liberty-head silver dollars and they would make a noise as they hit the tin washtub, 'ping' they would go, like siver dollars dropping from Zeppelins into tin washtubs 'til Superman challenged FDR to a race around the world. FDR beat him by a furlong, or so the comic books would have you believe. The truth lies somewhere in between.  |
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Dean
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:18 |
JJLehto wrote:
I still have no idea what this sh*t is though
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In the olden days like the time I connected the network over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to connect to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to dial-up the internet cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say, but when the network was connected you couldn't be sure you were connected to Morganville so you see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big tin washtub and catch the mint-condition 1918 liberty-head silver dollars and they would make a noise as they hit the tin washtub, 'ping' they would go, like siver dollars dropping from Zeppelins into tin washtubs 'til Superman challenged FDR to a race around the world. FDR beat him by a furlong, or so the comic books would have you believe. The truth lies somewhere in between.
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What?
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Ambient Hurricanes
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:14 |
Smurph wrote:
its a seductive wink. |
This.
Seriously, I've never thought the wink was condescending. I try to use it when I'm making a joke or clever statement to make sure people don't think I'm serious. I might use it in a teasing way, or just to emphasize that I'm joking so I don't look stupid, but I try not to use it as a "cover up" for a comment that's condescending.
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I love dogs, I've always loved dogs
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:10 |
Arrogant and condescending? No way. I have never used it like that either.
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JJLehto
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:07 |
Oh yeah, it's arrogant and condescending for sure. Though I reckon it's the context it's used in...could also be seductive I still have no idea what this sh*t is though
Edited by JJLehto - May 31 2012 at 11:08
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:06 |
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darkshade
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:06 |
To me it always kind of looked like some bad-guy cowboy saying, "heh, we gone kill ya' now"
We should all use this smiley anyway 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:04 |
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^Winker!
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:01 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 10:51 |
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^I have never meant it that way.
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colorofmoney91
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 10:10 |
 definitely has always looked belittling to me.
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