To comment the flame emoji on a friend's husband's photo?

[Tealnotbluemum]

Is this ok?
He's a friend too and I thought nothing of it. Now worried she thinks I was flirting.
It was about the suit honest!

I haven't a clue what a flame emoji is so it probably wouldn't bother me :-).

All of your justification is odd. How you see yourself, how others see you and so on. However you clearly know the accepted meaning of the response or you wouldn't have asked the question you did.

You're aware you are pushing boundaries and you're looking for us to say it's ok. It's not. Not because of an emoticon, because you knew what you were doing and did it anyway. The rest is just cloud cover.

It's the opinion of anyone under 35, I promise. Nobody ever uses fire to mean hot

Oh thank God. I thought I'd stepped into another dimension!

So today I learned that to British mums, the fire emoji means somebody is hot 😂

I am one of those who use the flame emoji to mean “you look awesome” / “love the suit/dress/whatever” (I am give or take 25yo if that matters?) , I comment it to everyone, including exes I am friendly with, it is NOT flirting to me (or anybody I know?) it’s simple acknowledgement that someone looks good on their picture/ made an extra effort/ have done something amazing

Same. It means they are looking fire. Aka looking awesome! I see men and women using it with both men and women aaaaall the time with no flirty intentions whatsoever.

I don’t understand why you’re worried now?

You routinely use this emoji for male and female friends, you don’t believe it means you think they’re hot, what’s made you worry?

I’ve commented ‘nice suit!’ On my friends husbands photo before, I wouldn’t put the emoji though, feels a little on the edge as in could be very much misunderstood or could be fine. Either way I’d not want to take the chance in all honesty . .

Interested to see how this pans out compared to the thread about DH calling SIL 'sexy'.

Hopefully OP you can see that this emoticon can be interpreted in different ways which could save you embarrassment in the future!

I doubt it will end this friendship though unless you genuinely fancy your mate's DH

I would if it was my best friend's husband, because he's also one of my closest friends (and it wouldn't be in any way misconstrued - it would be me going 'look at you, you look great!', not 'I want to fuck you'). I wouldn't if it wasn't someone I was independently friends with/didn't have that kind of lighthearted friendship with.