Yes, we've done this before, but what smilies irritate the hell out of you

[RagingInMiami]

I really can't stand this one. :eyes:
Or this one. :puke:
To me, they just scream elitism.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

I used to like the eyes until two specific posters started using it

in damn near every single post as though this :eyes: combined with a one line post were an actual rebuttal to an argument.

[RagingInMiami]

2. Yes, those eyes can get so irritating when you're debating someone

Why can't people just let the words speak for themselves?

[tnlefty]

8. You mean that's not enough for a rebuttal?

Oh jeeze :eyes: :wtf: I :think: it should be, but I don't want to seem like a :dunce:.

[neuvocat]

1. You're just soooo non-elitist.

:eyes:

[pres2032]

3. those two are at the top of my hate list too

seeing :eyes: turns me immediately off to what the person is saying. It just reeks of arrogance and an "i'm better than you are" attitude.

[Lavender Brown]

4. Sure

This :eyes: is annoying in real life too. I also really hate :hurts: Just because it's gross.

[Longgrain]

5. I've never used this guy, but once...

:freak:

And I'm not sure what kind of message would deserve this smile...

:evilfrown:

other than that...

:shrug:

[Lavender Brown]

7. I use that

:evilfrown: When I've been bad, but actually feel bad about it. :shrug:

[BurtWorm]

6. Puking screams elitism?

:eyes:

[RagingInMiami]

9. Yes, it says, I'm too good for whatever I'm responding to

It's so beneath me that it makes me want to puke.

[BurtWorm]

10. Do people often puke in response to what you've posted?

;)

Actually, I don't use either one usually to insult the person I'm dialoguing with, unless things get heated. By :eyes: I'm usually signalling that I'm being ironic with a statement that is obnoxiously freeperish. The :eyes: usually means, "Don't you hate it when people say that?" So I'm not trying to signal my superiority to the person I use that with. I'm trying to signal comraderie.

The puke thing I usually use similarly. I usually use it to mean, "Doesn't that kind of thing make you gag?" Once in a while, during a hostile debate, I'll use it preemptively, to signal I hate a mode of argument or a particular position. In those cases my puke means: "Don't go there."

PS: I just got a :eyes: from someone trying to belittle a point I made in GD. So I :eyes:'d the fucker back!

[RagingInMiami]

11. I haven't got the puke many times, but the few times I did get it

It pissed me off.

[Left Is Write]

12. I like the eye-rolling guy.

Used judiciously, he can help make a point.

I don't use the puking one, but I guess I don't hate any of them. I just looked at the list...have we always had that donut one, and I'm blind?

[Misunderestimator]

13. Only one irritates the hell outta me... only when it comes with a snarky..

response to a post of mine, with some dismissive intent... this one: :hi:


but, I'm quilty of using it in the same way so...

[fluffernutter]

14. this one is way overused by some

:hi: and it's sooo annoying.

i don't like this one either :puke:

[Longgrain]

15. Hi fluff!!!

:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

Good evening, even if I still despise the marshmallow sandwich which bears your name...

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Bok_Tukalo]

16. All of them. Every one of those things are fingernails on a chalkboard

<eom>

[DerekG]

17. That damn "crying" emoticon

The last thing I need to see when I read about some Iraqi child who had her arms blown off, or a tsunami body count of 150,000+, is this...

:cry:


How 'bout some sobriety, folks!