Graphical smilies are the devil.
 

I cannot begin to express my contempt for graphical smiles.

I mean, you type something one way, and the damned computer changes what you say! When I type ':)', I mean ':)'! Thank God most places let you disable them -- but I still think they should be disabled by default.

This random rant brought to you by Juju, and the letter 'G'. Thank you..

How cute! You use Gaim!

I use gaim. Nothing wrong with it, and it makes some of the best logfiles around.



But, just for the records, Trillian does that too.

I actually agree about the smilies, and I tried briefly to find the option to make the default "off", but in a moment of lameness, I couldn't find it! I think I'll just leave it where it is... hey, I turned off avatars, be thankful.

I use Gaim. It's great. I keep in close touch with the developers. Know the new option to have the alias be shown in the tab? That was mine.

I was refering to his "and the letter G" comment. It used to be in the About screen for Gaim, but was removed a while ago.

what?
smilies are an important part of internet conversatoin, they start to make up for what text lacks in comparison to voice - tone.

<b>Graphical</b> smilies, jaggy. Graphical.

AOLIM does the same thing. Unfortunately, I'm too lazy to see if there is a way to turn them off.

*follows in sycamore's nightly routine*

There is. Unfortunately, I'm too lazy to tell you how. :)

go to preferences...its right there... at least on the mac version...

i think there should be more smilies with noses though. someone was talking about this in a different thread somewhere. look how cute... :o)

like a little clown. :)

ok, that sucked... it should have looked like this... :0) with a smaller nose (the letter "o" ... of course im being a lazy sack of shit and didnt bother to preview my reply before posting it, so thats what i get...

anyway... noses... yes.

Avatars? Ohmighod...I don't know whether to be grateful or to retch.
I'll have to do both. One still occasionally sees folks wander into IRC with Microsoft Chat markup:

CLUELESS: **** appears as Gilgamesh

I don't mind the graphical smilies, they're OK. I just hate that they don't have noses. Noses rule.

:-)

:-P

:-D

:-O

;-)

Narf?

like i said. there is a lot to be said for things without noses...they are cute and all, but noses give much more realism to things (not that a graphical smilie is 'realistic'....) im a fan of round noses though. :0)

I never was a fan of the nose in a smiley, graphical or otherwise. I just prefer them without. I guess it's just personal taste (unlike Pad Gai, which is universally appealing, even to vegetarians, who lust after its amazing rice noodles but can't eat them because they're smothered in perfectly cooked chicken). Mmmm, pad gai. Okay, I'm off topic now. :)

I guess there's nothing wrong with not liking a nose in your smiley, other than the fact that you're wrong. ;-)

All my emotions on one page.

Now that is for people with way too much time on their hands.

the best nose by far is the circular one. : o )

Agreed. I also think that the cutest smiley is... well, that one you drew on my "Welcome Home David" paper :)

You don't like graphical smilies?? http://www.dvdfile.com/interactive/f...ies/boohoo.gif Cry me a river!!

No, seriously, check some of these out:

http://www.dvdfile.com/interactive/f...on=showsmilies

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/misc.ph...on=showsmilies

Talk about tacky.

Hahahahahaha. I like http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/images/smilies/eek7.gif - "Who farted?" :)

Tony! Can you get there here?!

I can. But in the middle of a thread called "Graphical smilies are the devil"?

Hmmmmppph.

I suppose it's everyone's choice whether they use it or not.

*laughz
exactly
you can turn off viewing them if people really hate them, come on...please!
I promise to to randomly fill my posts with them more than once.

There, I've added a bunch of em. Not all of em. It's a PITA to do it.

dammit!

Not only are we superbly goofy now with all these smilies, but the :whofart: one isn't even there! :rar:

Fine, I've added it...

/me sits in the corner quietly, thinking he now has this on his Cellar karma, as well as tits (Sorry Ruthie).

So I'm sitting here at work, and there's this foul smell. :whofarted

:P

Tony is cool. :)

Here's to Fahlman
 

It was 20 years ago today that Scott Fahlman taught the 'Net how to smile.

The IBM researcher has devoted his professional life to artificial intelligence, the practice of teaching computers how to think like humans.

Mr. Fahlman is known for his work with neural networks -- a computer technique designed to mimic the human brain -- and helping develop Common Lisp, a computer language that uses symbols instead of numbers, but the bearded scientist is perhaps best known for a flash of inspiration that helped to define Internet culture, in all of its ungrammatical glory.

On Sept. 19, 1982, Mr. Fahlman typed :-) in an online message.

:beer:

Here is the message including the first smiley.

he should have trademarked that things so he could receive royalties everytime someone used a smiley :lol: :mad:

Damn, jaclyn8700, you're digging deep. :thumb: Found any skeletons?

GAIM is great and the smilies that you can use are very worldly and never dull :p