Where's [gin] when it's needed?

[RancidOldHag]

Starting a new thread as this would sound rather off on the one to which I refer.

I find the Zombie 'home fire' thread incomprehensible. Not because I disagree with it, or want to spoil it or anything.

But because person after person has posted just blank squares. Now, I assume they are a non MN emoticon of some sort. But they can't be read by all devices, and whereas usually you can guess by context you just can't when that's the entirety of the post.

Which got me thinking about MN emoticons again, and ask - as in the thread title - where's when you need it?

It would be so fitting, and good to be able to tell her.

In fact - on the app - there's a space just sitting there empty. A emoticon would round things off nicely.

Agreed it's a great idea and a fitting tribute. We'll get on it.

Thanks, Justine.

You're a Justine!

Now, will it be bottle or glass?

Or a pipeline.....

We'll have a look around for suitable candidates. Feel free to post any good emoji examples.

Just going back to the blank square thing, mine has started doing this and it started the day of the https update. I always use my Nokia phone and could load pictures fine before, but now they're all the blank square with the folded over corner, like the software isn't recognised by my phone. What do I need to do with my phone to be able to read these again?

Oh I'm so pleased this is going ahead.

is the best emoticon ever and I really wish I could use it outside of MN. I may have to print it out and glue it to a SCD scoring paddle so I can channel my inner Craig Revell Hallwood

🍸That's a martini with an olive, for those whose tech does not deal with it. It's not a good example, but it is a start! I'd go for a good, squared, green bottle with a white lid and a white label saying drink me.

I remember vaguely an old old movie scene of Frank Sinatra making a martini. He poured the lavishly into the glass and then took a vermouth bottle, upended it and extracted the cork. He 'dabbed' the cork twice on the rim of the glass and then......thoughtfully.... went for a third dab. (I can't remember whether he executed that third dab - personally, I'd have left it at 2. )

Could this somehow be worked Justine?

:)

Are those bottles full gin or empty wine ?

Gin, natch, and well, they were full

Have a look for images of 'green bottle', Justine. (I don't know about copyright but you're the one that has teams for that. )

I don't think anyone else has made an emoji of them.

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Easy enough to create this one.

PS - and ignore the whimperings of Sales and Marketing.

If you're doing it for Z, she doesn't like gin!

She drinks whisky or a pint of ale.

I think she would like the pint of ale as she has been known to reprimand MNers at meet ups who like a pint but haven't ordered one in the circumstances because it's not ladylike !

Feel free to do a gin one too

How about a row of optics? Then we can choose our poison.

On the other hand, the gin pipeline seems to be what's keeping the Phalanx going at the moment, so maybe as a collective memory is appropriate...?

Bewitched. I keep wanting to say that on the thread, but don't feel really comfortable doing so, so I've kept quiet. I don't think half of MNHQ much like gin either...I think it's just becomse 'a thing' that symbolises alcohol & friendship really.

This is much more Zombie 🍺🥃
😁

You're right Chipping about the symbolism and I think it's been there for decades, if not centuries.

Mother's Ruin was gin wasn't it?

Only replaced when we got Valium, (mother's little helper) which of course was soooo much better .

I like that second emoticon, Chipping. (The generous tumbler of the amber liquid.)

I could live with that. ( And we could say it was a Gin and It for gin drinkers. )

Zombie always dispensed the gin in a blue bottle on here in times of strife. Particularly to Helen and Olivia.

That's why she is, on Mumsnet, fittingingly associated with gin.