to have thought that the biscuit emoji was a sunflower

[EleanorShellstrop100]

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

All this time.

What an idiot.

[ScreamingCosArgosHaveNoRavens]

"First you lost my keys, then you dropped my phone in the sink but this takes the biscuit. How did you manage to set fire to the television?"

LTB!

[AnneKipanki]

Ah someone has already answered you Bibidy.

[AnneKipanki]

Further upthread , someone has explained that it was from when Gordon Brown was repeatedly asked what his favourite biscuit was and he did not reply or no comment.@Bibidy

[Newbie1999]

Ahhhhhhhh, I see. Feel like I belong now

[MereDintofPandiculation]

from a BBC "learning English" site:
"First you lost my keys, then you dropped my phone in the sink but this takes the biscuit. How did you manage to set fire to the television?"

[MereDintofPandiculation]

"I've heard some peculiar comments in my time but that really takes the "

[Shannith]

Bollock and dignify.

I'll give myself a

[ShowOfHands]

Bibidy, it's explained up thread why it means no comment. Because GB refused to comment.

4 = I don't care (welcome to MN, please state your opinion. Press 1 for yes, 2 for no, 3 if you are undecided and 4 if you don't give a monkey's left testicle)

Parp = harder to explain. It's the sound a car horn makes and could be used in various ways from agreement to derision.

[Shannith]

Which means

A passive aggressive "you are a troll"
Heard it all before love, didn't believe it the first time
Chinny reckon
Yesssss, like that really happened just as you said

Basically, you are talking bullocks and I'm not even going to dignity you with a sensible reason why because... you ain't wof it.

Think of it as a polite "oh do fuck of dear"

Or a sunflower
Or a nipple (s)

[Newbie1999]

But what does ‘here, have a biscuit’ mean?!

[Shannith]

basically means, "here, have a biscuit"

HTH

[Hagbeth]

Oh I never knew what it was. I just thought it was some kind of dot?! 😀 My eye sight is not the best!

[Newbie1999]

I thought it was a sunflower, but no less confused now that I know it’s a biscuit?

[riotlady]

If it helps, I used to think that Hovis biscuits were shaped like little houses.

They’re bread loaves. Like Hovis bread.

[TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot]

I used to think it was a bun and that people used it to start a bun fight.

[Bezalelle]

I used to think the turd emoji was the head of a brown hen

This has got me laughing like an absolute drain!

[Bibidy]

Err I also thought it was a sunflower until right now!

Tbh I'm none the wiser about what it means even with that cleared up .

Why does a biscuit mean no comment?!

[WarmSausageTea]

4 and parp? Could you elaborate, please, Show?

Though parp has reminded me that I used to think

[ShowOfHands]

It does indeed mean no comment but has evolved slightly to mean "I am not even dignifying that with a response you goady fuckwit".

Once upon a time a normal response to an op was "4". Maybe we should resurrect that. And "parp".

[Bluntness100]

I also thought it was a flower when I first started using the site, and gave it this look when told it was supposed to be a biscuit.

[EleanorShellstrop100]

Hahaha I can’t believe you thought it was a nipple 😂 @EL2019 ! But now you mention it I think it looks more like a nipple than a biscuit!

[EleanorShellstrop100]

Ha! These replies made me laugh out loud (especially the one about thinking the poo emoji was the head of a brown hen! ) Feeling much better to know I’m not the only one

[AnneKipanki]

Wee Jeemy Dodger

[EL2019]

Especially when they get two biscuits

[EL2019]

ooooohbetty We are the only ones confessing. There must be more!