Please please please mumsnet can we KILL THE BEAR EMOTICON

[GetOrfMo1Land]

(that is a picture of the bear getting shot by a crossbow)

I hate it.

Please get rid of it.

Please. I am not the only one who loathes it, honest guv.

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthdya to you
Happy birthday Oliviaaaaaaaaaa
Flush the bear down the loo

I love the bear

It is the only sweet thing in my life at the moment BIG

I really want a stick out your tongue emoticon as in so many cases it would be appropriate [childish]

I like the seasonal random ones like dragons. I also like and bestest of all

ditch all the rest and give me my [beer] and [boil]

Olivia - we know!

Happy Birthday Olivia!

I am tempted to take some Tramadol now so I too can be all happy, shouty and demanding.

however the hideous allergic reaction makes it probably not worth it.

nope. all the picture make us look like be-cardiganned idiots

have said this before and then got corrected by Nancy about a [wimple] emoticon that should actually have been a [henin]

just put your descriptive word in the square brackets and let folk use their imaginations

i don't need an arsing mug or bear to imagine a mug of tea or a bear fgs

I read the thread title as "Can we have a kill the bear emoticum?" That would be much more fun. How about it MN?

Happy Birthday, Olivia. Have a large
{Shameless attempt to curry support for emoticum}

Happy Birthday Olivia

[nice slice of bara brith with a sparkler in it as cup cakes and whoopie pies are so 2010]

OOH yes I agree slubber.Actually emoticons remind me of powerpoint preesentations which thick some people do, with clip art and animated shit, and with a cure picture of a puppy or a David Brent joke at the end. I am a professional. I know what an aeroplane looks like. You don't need a cartoon of one in a presentation at work. Just fucking write something.

yes I concur. I can imagine all sorts of things in my head as I am not 3 and a half and no longer need the pictures.

why are you on tramadol?

have you broken something?

I have some mysterious kidney disease slubber, they are not sure what yet. I feel very sorry for myself, bloody 6 weeks in bed so far.

Oh God. 6 weeks in bed. Poor poor you. That is truly shite. No wonder you are taking it out on the fucking bear. Hope the tramadol is helping. It's powerful stuff.

getorf I don't give a shit about the bear. But I do give a shit that I have a kidney twin on mn- what's with yours? Mine appear to have given up filtering stuff, making me put on 2 1/2 stone in two weeks. Are you on the steroids?

2533 the bear and he3- 0e f5x 0y c60-4ter -3ease.

I'm quite sure you're right, Zombies. In fact I'd go so far as to say I agree with you.

But is it your actual birthday this time, Olivia or does it just fall some time in this quarter? [pa wink]

The bear is ok with me, his usually invisibilty and the many puns just about make him able.

I want a red pen, like a pedant emoticon if you will.

I'll whip it out every time somebody erroneously uses 'ambivalent'.

am·biv·a·lence   /æmˈbɪvələns/[am-biv-uh-luhns] Show IPAnoun 1.uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
2.Psychology. the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.

I am scared of the zombie code.

Grumpy have had a biopsy, they still don't know for sure what the frick it is, it is some sort of nephrotic syndrome and they have put me on a couple of steroids, but have to go next week and see what they say. I am in agony and tramadol doesn't really sort it, just makes me not give a shit about the pain. Feel constantly sick and dizzy, the oppostie though, have lost nearky two stone. God knows. Kidney pain though has got to be the wosrt - it's up there with tooth absesses as the worst pain every experienced. Would rather have childbirth with an 11lb baby than this.

Thanks everyone for askinf

MNHQ can you do anything to rid us of these awful doped up Mumsnetters?

I am afraid I suggested the biscuit

Follow the

Slubber when I see your name I usually click on your profile because the photo of the high sift never fails to make me giggle, and I am laughing away at all the rest of your photos, especially the camping stove with dog for scale and the pics of your feet, that has reeally cheered me up

Look, I may be doped up but at least I have not been bloody taken over by the Matrix and am talking in code like poor ol' cervix

no, and this is why

this is why

the bear is a substitute for other missing smileys