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AIBU?

to have thought that the biscuit emoji was a sunflower

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EleanorShellstrop100 · 12/11/2019 14:18

and always wondered why people post sunflowers when other posters are being goady?

All this time.

What an idiot.

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EleanorShellstrop100 · 12/11/2019 14:20

- I mean seriously

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palindromeam · 12/11/2019 14:29

Ha!

How old were you when realised that the biscuit emoji wasn't a sunflower?

Me "my age in years, days and minutes minus 1 minute"

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PennyNotSoWise · 12/11/2019 14:35

Did you see the thread where a poster wanted to show off her baby after a long time struggling?

Gorgeous little baby, everyone posting congratulations and flowers, and one poster posted three biscuits. Just three biscuits, no words. She came back to the thread later to say she'd mistaken them for flowers, so it's not only you

D'oh!

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PrincessMaryaBolkonskaya · 12/11/2019 14:36

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Monday55 · 12/11/2019 14:44

I've always imagined it as a 'Jammie Dodger'

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ScreamingCosArgosHaveNoRavens · 12/11/2019 14:46

I've seen new members mistakenly offer a biscuit to OPs in distress, thinking they are a comforting thing like .

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midnightmisssuki · 12/11/2019 14:46

for you

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SVRT19674 · 12/11/2019 14:50

No problem OP, I used to think the turd emoji was the head of a brown hen. There.

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Cattenberg · 12/11/2019 14:51

I used to think they were gerberas. And I still don’t know exactly what they mean.

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WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 12/11/2019 14:51

Haha

I see it as a jammie dodger too

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BritishHorrorStory · 12/11/2019 17:41

@ScreamingCosArgosHaveNoRavens
I've seen new members mistakenly offer a biscuit to OPs in distress, thinking they are a comforting thing like

I name changed because there was a really genuinely long sad post made by someone and I didn't know what to say so just wanted to offer comfort so posted on its own (and worse, it was the first reply). I still wince to this day at the accidental offence caused to that poster and the angry replies directed at me.

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NotTonightJosepheen · 12/11/2019 17:47

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SleepnWorkn · 12/11/2019 17:51

For years I thought the symbol on the mug was a cannabis leaf and it was a sign for 'Chill, relax'

Apparently it's the mumsnet logo. Still looks like a cannabis leaf to me though.

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DioneTheDiabolist · 12/11/2019 17:53

Me too SleepnWorkn.😎

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BenWyatt · 12/11/2019 18:03

I always thought it was supposed to be a flower, but it was a MN in-joke to call it a biscuit because it looks like a jammie dodger.

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Batshittery · 12/11/2019 18:07

Aw OP Should have gone to specsavers

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NotTonightJosepheen · 12/11/2019 18:16

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IndieTara · 12/11/2019 18:18

I still don't know what the biscuit means

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PuppyMonkey · 12/11/2019 18:27

The came to be the universal symbol for “no comment” after a notorious q&a with Gordon Brown in which several MNers repeatedly asked him what his favourite biscuit was as a bit of a laugh and he repeatedly declined to answer, indicating his lack of personality. Or something. And it became a bit of a thing on a number of subsequent threads.