The invasion of the MSN emoticons

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I've never been a huge fan of MSN emoticons. I think they're rather juvenile and nearly cringed when I saw my beloved ASCII :) being automatically replaced by thesmiley in MSN. I have become somewhat desensitized to the cartoonish nature of the emoticon in recent times though. It's a little like how I used to cringe at the truncated :) in IRC and stuck to my fundamentalist smiley - :-) for ages before relenting to the truncated smiley.


I've always found the default MSN smiley a bit corny but have grown to embrace it and even love it. I have recently grown fond of theworries emoticon too - a smirk of sorts capable of expressing a wide range of emotions from distaste to worry.

sideways-smiley

The one that takes the cake is a custom emoticon (Custom emoticons! OMG! I can't believe how far I've traveled down this road!) I just got from a co-worker. I call it the sideways smiley and I'm growing to like it a lot. (!)


I've always thought of MSN custom emoticons as the realm of pre-pubescent teenage girls and now I'm experimenting with the cursed things!

karen-msn

I've even resorted to soliciting random custom emoticons!

(and putting up MSN conversation chat boxes - ZOMG!)

I'm worried.

I fear for my manhood. worries

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emoticons should be banned.

u r turning gay....

Haha and I remember how you didn't know there are other emoticons in MSN! I never like too many emoticons used in a conversation especially the custom ones, it's annoying!!!!!!!!

Emoticons is cool. I use them a lot on MSN.

i guess, these social network things ie facebook and msn are turning real man gay :S heh!

i love my ASCII symbols :D

custom emoticons should die!!!!

i rarely use emoticons. only to really express some emotion i'll use it. other than it, plain text.
those emoticons that mix up with normal conversation text is really killing sometime.

I once got turned away from work ( age 18, and should have known better), cause I was wearing a "smiley face, Have a nice day" tee shirt, with a bullet hole throuh the image. But, then, I also got sent home for wearing a Bart Simpson tee shirt, because it was "inaprorpriate for a manager trainee". I guess the most ergegious of my offeneses was when I wore a "now it's miller time" shirt just to piss off anti war demonstators at the gate of the base where I was serving at the time. ( the shirt showed a B-52, peeling away from a mushroom cloud, and I was a 52 nuc.) I can still remember the co's tirade "are you guys out of your GD minds... etc. I belive in freedom of expression, even if distasteful to my own code of ethicis. Emoticons are not gay, just a short hand lanugage, and I hope to see some new, really offensive ones evolve soon. Just to piss persons off.
Tom

The one I have never seen on a shirt is the pic of a womens rights rally. And one guy in the back is holding a sign that says "iron my shirt bitch". Even I dont have enough balls to make, wear, or print that on a shirt. Men just think they rule. Sorry , talk to any guy over 30, and they will tell the truth. And it is not too bad, after all.
Tom

You are a very disturbed individual.

Do bind them as "slash [word]" eg 'die' = '/die' to avoid looking like a kid ahaha.

Yeap, agree with Yee Hou
I usually disable those emoticon on friends who having tooooo much of it.

This is bcs we need time to process their although it is understandable

AHAHAHAAH shows how OLD u are alrdy huaibin!!

XD XD XD

I turned off custom emoticons in my MSN they are an EPIC FAIL.

OMG i can't believe you're one of those people! I hate emoticons except those smileys because they are so annoying especially you can't tell them at first glance!

It happens. Some sort like mid life crisis =P I hate MSN custom emoticons hahaha!

It happens. Some sort like mid life crisis =P I hate MSN custom emoticons hahaha!

It happens. Some sort like mid life crisis =P I hate MSN custom emoticons hahaha!

i kenot tahan MSN's :)! the smile is damn annoying can? T^T but i love my yoyo n cici icons though :P

Excuse me folks, I gotta catch some zzz's. Mr Sandman is calling me. All comments tomorrow ya. Thanks for your patience! :)

A lil bit of it is ok. But sometimes emoticons can get in the way of reading. I have to right click it and click copy to see the actual word behind the annoying gif.

vincent: I didn't know you can do that! I get confused with the emoticons people use as well. Cheers!

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