Cup of tea anyone?

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Last week we offered you the emoticon but after cries for further beverages in the form of a nice cuppa tea, we are putting it to the vote. Please note that although we are using the word 'tea' the emoticon can be used as any hot beverage of your choosing (attempt to fend off enraged coffee/ Horlicks/ hot chocolate or Bovril drinks).

Please vote here . Voting closes at midnight on 10 Feb

MNHQ

p.s. Here endeth the beverage emoticons

[sulk] does the job just fine. It counjures up the right image where small yellow face couldn't really do the job.

(o) more like it (5 kids emoticon)

Ok I'll do it
( \¥/ ) how good is that?

Very good ladyp if a little scary.

Why is it scary?

[meh] to more emoticons. And also [arse] and [fucksake]

I think the are all sliding dreadfully close to the line where tickers and things live... I would rather have more 'facial expressions' than those, but if we are keeping those, then a [mug] would be OK.

310/60

Nay, nay and thrice nay. One in, one out.

What BOF said.

You'll be asking us if we want a Gregg's sausage roll emoticon next...

I should have checked before voting - is it going to be a cup of tea, or a mug? Because a mug would be more inclusive of coffee and hot chocolate etc.

I should have read this thread first as well to see if this has already been answered...

I say no, I say no to the wine glass as well tbh.
(Though that could be because I am on week 2 of IPD diet where wine is not allowed and I am )

Anyway, I far prefer coffee (decaff these days, bloody diet).

Mumsnet is sleepwalking into disaster with the cup of tea, I tell you. It is a bridge too far.

EMOTICON BACKLASH NOW!

i hate the one so vote against the tea too. only emoticon we need is a box of frogs - preferably animated so they can jump out of their box interestingly

I have a proposal

ONE novelty smiley. Either pombear or wineglass or cup of tea. Rotate them, have smiley of the month or something.

The biscuit and the bear sort of fitted in as they are yellow and roundish. The wine glass is not. It doesn't go.

All of the others have a meaning, they all say something. The wine glass does not. It doesn't go.

Yes- I suggested guest smilies too. A sop to the invaders newbies, not more than the oldies can cope with before the sucking of teeth begins.

Can't say I'm keen on the [tea]/[cup] idea but then I don't do hot beverages so I'd never use it.

I notice the is now missing from the Smileys list too. Has it gone? I never really did quite get how it was supposed to be used.

[bicuit] I like. Not used yet

Agree with MmLindt that we need [choc] that'd be more comforting than [tea]

I still say we need an [evil]grin emoticon. I quite regularly need one of those and evil just doesn't quite convey it.

and NO TICKERS EVER please

{biscuit] not [bicuit]

Lord!

Brain not woken up this morning

Totally agree with Trills and BoF.

Can someone give me an example of how we're supposed to us these beverage/food based ones? I really, really don't get it at all.

the was funny in response to a funny thread but has now had its day. It has become a MN 'in joke' which is now over. the also I think. I like the new emoticons but I do think we should lose the old ones first, especially those which are MN jokes, like the pombear thread and the GB biscuit incident. Continuing with them makes us look a bit quichey TBH.

LadyPumpington and MrsDevere - you're right, we do need a fanjo.......

...to go with the norks !!