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    Posted: May 31 2012 at 09:41
... Is a right little smart ass don't you think? Everytime I see someone use it, it gives off this condescending vibe. Annoying really. Is that what it's meant for, or is it actually a more friendly wink?    
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 09:42
Wink
its a seductive wink.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 09:54
To me it means, "this sentence may sound like I'm belittling you, but I'm really not".

Kind of like saying "no offense, but...." and then saying something offensive.

Still, I feel compelled to use this emoticon, as it's my only way of hinting that I'm not being completely serious.  I have a dry sense of humor, and that's hard to put across with just text.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 10:10
Wink definitely has always looked belittling to me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 10:51
^I have never meant it that way.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:01
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:04
^Winker!
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Direct Link To This Post 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" Wink

We should all use this smiley anyway 
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Direct Link To This Post 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 Ping


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:10
Arrogant and condescending? No way. I have never used it like that either.





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:14
Originally posted by Smurph Smurph wrote:

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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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:18
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

I still have no idea what this sh*t is though Ping
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. Geek
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:28
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

I still have no idea what this sh*t is though Ping
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. Geek

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:31
So it looks like about half the people take offense to it, and the other half don't.  Great. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:35
If anyone takes offense to anything they suck. It's just the internet. Nothing is offensive on the internet.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:37
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:38
Originally posted by Smurph 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:38
^Unless you forgot the wink.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2012 at 11:39
I use it when I sound mean but am kidding
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