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big tech - a force for evil or needing a COLD SHOWER1

116 replies

FluffyMummy123 · 30/05/2008 16:00

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MarsLadyInChains · 30/05/2008 16:48

clicked on your link wabbit

TheSmiler · 30/05/2008 16:48

I am very sinister

TolpuddlapinMartyrs · 30/05/2008 16:46

tickers

EachPeachPearMum · 30/05/2008 16:46

OMG- I assumed it was because I was on DH's computer, using a different browser!
CHANGE THEM BACK FGS!
They are horrific, very msny

castille · 30/05/2008 16:44

The smiler looks goggle-eyed

claireybee · 30/05/2008 16:43

Italics look more italic-y I think

MrsWeasley · 30/05/2008 16:42

Whats a ticker ??
as in coppertop's "It'll be tickers next"

NotABanana · 30/05/2008 16:39

still looks blue to me??????????????

MrsWeasley · 30/05/2008 16:39

Could we grow to love them?? perhaps we wore the others out

CombustibleLemon · 30/05/2008 16:38

They're shitty. Fix them. A pleasant smile is now freaky cross eyed emoticon, a knowing wink has become a serious facial tic and blush is just stupid. Agree that the 'sad' face just looks inappropriate (and turquoise).

wilbur · 30/05/2008 16:37

Ditto dotty re sad one.

Thanks for pointing this out lapin.

[wilbur tries to think of cool name change and, once again, fails miserably]

DottyofArc · 30/05/2008 16:34

Swedes - crossed post - great minds!!

NotABanana · 30/05/2008 16:34

Still can't see anything that different...

looks like it is actually crying though

DottyofArc · 30/05/2008 16:34

Ruby!!

Right everyone - how about we all take ourselves off to flouncers' corner and stay there until the scary emoticons have gone away?!

Swedes · 30/05/2008 16:33

Has anyone taken this matter to Flouncers' Corner? [outraged]

Rubyrubyruby · 30/05/2008 16:33

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DottyofArc · 30/05/2008 16:33

Right. I've got to go and have a facial now (don't ask - birthday pressie from MIL - have to use it or I'm in trouble) but I'm never going to be able to relax knowing there's trouble in MN paradise.

Sigh. Am expecting natural order to be restored by the time I get back.

TolpuddlapinMartyrs · 30/05/2008 16:32

Bold looks heavier

what about italics

EffieOnThePilgrimageOfGrace · 30/05/2008 16:32

not this one

DottyofArc · 30/05/2008 16:31

Seriously, the sad one just isn't right - and people do use it a lot on bereavment threads when you want to show support and thoughts but can't do or say too much else.

It looks too comical to be used in those kinds of circumstances.

please change it back??

If you change that one back and the angry one (which is just downright terrifying) we might be able to cope with the others...?

DottyofArc · 30/05/2008 16:29

I reckon they do this every now and then to give themselves a laugh on a quiet Friday afternoon.

Well it's not funny.

I've told you before - we need clear notices, in advance, of any changes. In fact there should be a voting system. And a separate section on 'proposed changes' - if chicken keepers get one I think we should get a 'scary changes' one...

claireybee · 30/05/2008 16:29

Um, is it just me or does the bold type also look different?

Swedes · 30/05/2008 16:29

I was just about to start a post about the new emoticons. [livid]

NotABanana · 30/05/2008 16:29

Internet Explorer.

Remember when we had a change a few months back? It was awful but within a day or so it was like it had always been like that.

TolpuddlapinMartyrs · 30/05/2008 16:28

Wilbur made a good point about the sad one, that people use it to express sympathy. Go and have a look at any Bereavement or Miscarriage thread, they are now full of turquoise cartoon , it looks DREADFUL