Man we’re all fucking old people here aren’t we.
Well, back in 19-dickety-2, I used to wear an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
Now, to take the ferry costs a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now, where were we?
Back when a dime bag used to cost a dime!
I used to get free cocaine in my soda.
Ferry costs a bee.
It’s making a comeback except now the kids are using shallots.
Of course they are. Always opting for the more expensive options, these kids.
No, it’s more that :) and 🙂 give different vibes. I literally use both because of that lmao.
:-/
(•_•)
:P
(O_O)
<(‘_’<) <( ‘_’ )> (>‘_’)>
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
these are the ghosts from Super Mario.
No sir. This thread is about emoji, not GILFs.
Those are the protagonists in The Dark Crystal, right?
A muppet movie about GILFs instead of Gelflings would be significantly different 😂
I’m not even 30 yet. I’m not ready to be calling myself old. D:
You’re not old unless you type smileys with a nose :-D
Yeah maybe somebody can help me here. Is it 🤣 or 😂 the one that kids make fun of us for using?
Both, grandpa. Now let’s get you to bed.
Oh… oh no… 8:30pm and i am in bed :(
I do love MILFS. Can’t lie.
:D will forever be better than its emoji counterpart
😀
shudders
It just does not convey the same feeling.
Especially that one with the teeth.
You should at least use the normal smile emoji 🙂
Yes but in some chats that one has weird rosy cheeks
That’s this one 😊 (or this one ☺️)
There are a lot of smiley faces now
:P is appropriate a lot of times when 😛 is not, and the latter is what slack converts it to. 😋 Is what they should use. One looks like you’re being silly, the other looks sexually desperate.
:P can also be more neutral than happy at times, which is a nuance that the emoji lacks.
Very true
Yeah :P growing up for me was always either “yeah that’s silly” in a more nondescript way, or it was something akin to “yeah XYZ isn’t great but it is what it is” — almost like a diet version of :/
Yeah, there’s a kinda cheeky tone to :p and ;p that none of the graphical ones I’ve seen have captured. :S is another one, where I see it as half smile, half frown/sad. Like “this is amusing but also horrible” or “putting on a smile despite everything being awful”. Any of the smileys on my phone that have more than one curve for the mouth look either crazy or sick.
:p
Also D:
:I is one of my favs
:|
^^ is what is used most often here (Germany)
You inspired me to make this meme OP:
Nice
Nice
Nice
Tried auto-cock for a while and turned it off, my texting life has been considerably more ppleasurable.
We use an older version of Outlook at work and it turns :) into 🙂 but not the emoji but the Wingdings smiley which is the letter J when you use a different font. I only found out after months when somebody asked me why I put so many J’s in my mails.
I don’t remember asking you a god damn thing Outlook 🤨
holy crap, is that where all the Js come from?
If there’s a bad decision that can be made, the Outlook development team made it. It’s a real shame that the industry standard is a hot garbage fire of a program.
I’ve had to re-disable auto correct options multiple times in outlook. I’m perfectly fine capitalizing my own letters because sometimes I type code snippets in emails and don’t want those being treated as if they are sentences that need grammar and spelling corrections. I don’t need your fucking angled quotes either.
Red or green underlines to say you think there’s a problem are ok. Changing what I’m typing without me telling you to is not.
Mac OS has autocorrect enabled by default on the entire operating system. Why TF would I want that when I’m typing with a full-sized physical keyboard? It’s especially annoying when you’re typing code. So yeah, I disabled all that crap within a couple of minutes. It’s super annoying.
When i was about 10 i sent an email to my uncle that said “K cool 🙂” with the wingding smile.
His client rendered it “K cool J” and he made fun of my “jive”
Never sent an email using multiple or nonstandard typefaces again. I guess it was a good lesson, but it’s one of those hyper cringe core memories.
That’s cure. You must have really liked that person :)
I guess I did J
…who thought that was a good idea
I work in a technical field. My work email changes “<3” to a heart emoji.
Pardon me, sir. I was not expressing my admiration, its just that your analyte concentration is less than the measuring range of my instrumentation.
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Autocorrect be like: Capitalize’s
I put autocorrect on suggestion mode. That way it still suggests words but never corrects what I type, unless I click the suggestion. Much better.
I call automistake.
You gotta watch it like a hawk. Sometimes it will change words three or four words back in what I’m typing.
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Mine thinks “human” should be spelled “juman” and that “.com” is supposed to be “.con”.
It’s ridiculous
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I actually disabled the damn thing a few years ago. It kept changing the meaning of words. Unfathomable bullshit like love to hate and will to won’t.
Same. Only thing I keep enabled is the auto insert the ’ into words like don’t
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Emotions take more effort than emoji these days.
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Oh for duck sake I hate it when it does that!
That’s why I draw them the other way round (-:
But please… Please without nose.
I just use a space : )
…on PC.
What about
(•_ )•
In my head it translates to an upside down face which is more like a signal of slight discomfort
That’s right leaning. You may even add another dash.
Another reason why I miss my full keyboard: I could tell autocorrect to bend over, snap it’s spine and fuck itself with it’s own spinal cord.
I’m old. I don’t understand what people are trying to tell me half the time they use emojis.
Who in tarnation is cooking an eggplant peach dish that’s splashing? I saw my daughter’s text messages and her boyfriend didn’t even bring any of this strange dish to share when he came over. Kids these days…
😶🌫️
I’ll raise you one better: I don’t know what I’m saying when I use them. I’m sure some have meanings, but I just pick whatever looks funny. I’ve probably caused some confusion before.
💏💢🏏🐶
🫠
I see this as an example of either how little some people making decisions in tech companies know about what people want or about how different the things I want are from the majority of people.
Your framing is wrong. They know some people have preferences. They just don’t care because emojis drive engagement, which drives revenue for many of them.
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