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Original poster

😂 MNHQ, How about a 'crying with laughter' smiley? 😂😂😂

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DailyMailShite · 10/05/2016 13:47

😂😂😂.

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paxillin · 11/05/2016 00:02

I shall report that last post for passive aggression, SilverBirchWithout and for troll hunting on account of the Hmm

SilverBirchWithout · 11/05/2016 00:01

snuffle I had to google kegels and found myself confronted with a scary diagram.

Fortunately I didn't PMSL.

SilverBirchWithout · 10/05/2016 23:57

Yesterday, I was called passive-aggressive for using a perfectly legitimate strike through in an attempt to be witty.

Today I had a post deleted for supposed troll-hunting for using Hmm.

Any more emoticons, I will need to attend a correct usage training course.

SnuffleGruntSnorter · 10/05/2016 23:40

Oh for fucks sake. Kegels, not levels.

SnuffleGruntSnorter · 10/05/2016 23:39

OMG silver we should, like, totally have a wetting oneself with laughter emoticon! Wink

Probably quite apt for the audience here at least

DonkeyOaty · 10/05/2016 23:37

I was going to say wtf is Heart Eyes but now don't need to.

SilverBirchWithout · 10/05/2016 23:34

No please not.

I do loathe any reference to crying with laughter, spitting tea out, wetting oneself or being unable to breathe due to a mild witticism from another poster.

Anything that makes it easier is a dangerous downward slope Sad

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 10/05/2016 22:59

I like the pixelly emoticons, they are far clearer, and "pop" more from the page.

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PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 10/05/2016 22:51

Hmm was a later addition

BertieBotts · 10/05/2016 21:55

I've noticed that the newer emoticons are all vector-y and smooth and aren't as pixelly as the old ones. I don't mind that so much for the wine, flowers etc but it irrationally annoys me that the halo doesn't match the other faces!

Would be idly curious to know how the first lot were made. IIRC it was only :) Grin Wink Shock Hmm Blush Angry :( and Envy to begin with. I remember Confused being added later and yet it matches.

I am envisaging one of the first Techs drawing them in Paint... but I could be wrong!

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DailyMailShite · 10/05/2016 21:49

Archers smileys ?? Confused The mind boggles. 🤔

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AuntieStella · 10/05/2016 21:32

I really dislike non-MN emojis, and they bugger up the list in active convos if used in thread titles.

I just thought it was a variation of Sad not an expansion of Grin because if the way this device displays.

And generally I prefer words

poocatcherchampion · 10/05/2016 21:32

Grin is like a baffled buffoon

That other one is ubiquitous and noone likes that

Vardyparty · 10/05/2016 21:30

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PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 10/05/2016 21:28

I think there's a queue for new smileys (the Archers lot are in front I reckon)
I love Grin and am always really gutted when i am Shock elsewhere on the inter webs and can't use it.

Vardyparty · 10/05/2016 21:24

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CherishFindensRulerOfDeath · 10/05/2016 21:22

I hate the new emojis with a passion.

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DailyMailShite · 10/05/2016 21:21

😍😆 Wink

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DailyMailShite · 10/05/2016 21:19

Ok, okay, I get it! 😋 It was a bad idea.😂

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Sparklingbrook · 10/05/2016 18:28

It's a no from me.

paxillin · 10/05/2016 18:13

I have never cried with laughter at a mn thread. I'd prefer a gin emoticon.

BertieBotts · 10/05/2016 17:51

And PLEASE no heart eyes or smug punchable closed-eye smile emoticon.

BertieBotts · 10/05/2016 17:51

It's not that widely used. I don't see many people using it at all unless they are new.

I'd rather read cliched descriptions myself, sorry. And it's not often that anybody really cries with laughter anyway, so the big grin is better. I think it puts across exactly the same sentiment in a more MN like way.

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DailyMailShite · 10/05/2016 16:12

I can understand how the 😂 can be annoying but the fact remains that it seems to be very widely used by Mumsnetters.

If it reduces the need for posters to declare that they .... are literally crying with laughter or that they have ... literally just spat tea over the keyboard then that can't be a bad thing, can it?

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