Really not liking the biscuit, now...

[sausagepastie]

Are we stuck with it now? I actually find it pretty offensive. Fair enough if someone posts something contentious and ridiculous but when it's a facile thread about clothes, do we really need to option to say 'I don't give a flying guinea pig'?

surely it's less work simply not to post rather than insult people

It upsets me a bit.

anyone else?

Agreed. It's the emoticon for "whatever".

I agree. I don't like the confused face either though, so I maybe a smiley puritan.

I have wondered why there was a picture for 'no comment', as surely if you didn't have a comment you wouldn't post? I think it's a bit daft too.

oops: may be

lol at smiley puritan

tis the thin end...

I hardly ever see it in use.

Is it about lots on aibu?

Not sure - I avoid aibu.It has definitely proliferated though slubbs.
you can barely move for biscuits some days.

dear me

mn drowning in a sea of jammy dodgers

I dunno though, parp and 4 have been around for ages, but with well rationed usage.

maybe people are just getting a little frisson of pleasure by making a little picture of a biscuit appear on their computers. Like the first time you discover paint thing in accessories on your computer and you spend ages drawing squiggly lines and filling them in with zany colours using the paint pot cursor.

I'm sure the biscuit will peeter out to a normal level soon.

I love the biscuit, and the face. Confused face is rubbish though, would be happy to see that disappear.

Smiley wars happen on every board.

Sorry - couldn't resist!

I think the biscuit has its place.

Sometimes you read an op and, without being mean or dismissive, you just think "thats all a bit of a fuss about nothing" - hence biscuit. And it might not do posters any harm, sometimes, to see that other people are not bothered/worked up/saddened/offended by whatever it is, so they may look again at their issue with fresh eyes.

Or summat like that.

ds thinks it's a flower anyway