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Most useless smilie?
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Greengoop

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Most useless smilie?
Please note this game is just a bit of fun and all the smilies on this site are great and I don’t aim to get any removed
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lyndo64

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Re: Most useless smilie?
I'll never understand this one: 
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Greengoop

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Re: Most useless smilie?
Oh wow, that’s sure a really unusual smilie to express your feelings, anyway I was thing this
one because I have no idea what it’s of my best guess is an eating face
Re: Most useless smilie?
The most useless one is
because life is an endless cycle of suffering
/s
/s
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Greengoop

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Re: Most useless smilie?
Very well said 
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Ambidextroid

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Re: Most useless smilie?
This used to be a favourite of mine, but come to think of it it's pretty useless and perhaps mildly racist, so my vote goes here
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PluMGMK

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Re: Most useless smilie?
Oh yes, I remember that being your favourite! Interesting how you've done an about-face on that!
Anyway, I don't think any of them are useless. The more smilies you have, the more contours of emotion you can express!
If anything we need more, since I don't think we have an adequate equivalent for the "worried", "thinking" or "doh" emojis 
Anyway, I don't think any of them are useless. The more smilies you have, the more contours of emotion you can express!
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Ambidextroid

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Re: Most useless smilie?
Well despite its issues I'm still kind of fond of it
I think its meaninglessness is what drew me to it in the first place
I can't imagine what emotion or meaning this one conveys though, and why it doesn't have any other directional counterparts:
I can't imagine what emotion or meaning this one conveys though, and why it doesn't have any other directional counterparts:
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DaveRattlehead

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Re: Most useless smilie?
And what about this one?
Btw, it's kinda curious the most famous forum in Spain has the fou as a symbol
Btw, it's kinda curious the most famous forum in Spain has the fou as a symbol
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lyndo64

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Re: Most useless smilie?
Re: Most useless smilie?
Tbh I've never really understood the point of
or
when there are two nearly identical characters on most keyboards that convey the exact same message, and several other smilies like
and
that convey similar emotions.
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DaveRattlehead

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Re: Most useless smilie?
I guess it was added after the classic smilies(?)
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PluMGMK

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Re: Most useless smilie?
My guess is that it was added to indicate lists and/or help with the Mot à motAmbidextroid wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 9:13 pm I can't imagine what emotion or meaning this one conveys though, and why it doesn't have any other directional counterparts:![]()
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Shrooblord

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Re: Most useless smilie?
no, I will not elaborate
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Ambidextroid

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Re: Most useless smilie?
That's me demonstrating the use of this very useful smiley
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Shrooblord

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Re: Most useless smilie?
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PluMGMK

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Re: Most useless smilie?
So that post can be interpreted in multiple ways? Some saying that
is useless, others saying that something someone has said was useless actually isn't and they were a boon for thinking it is? 
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Shrooblord

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Re: Most useless smilie?
I actually just pulled out the
to get a rise out of someone -- because
is actually one of my favourite smilies from anywhere, ever
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Greengoop

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Re: Most useless smilie?
Wow thanks guys I really didn’t expect this place to blow up! Mines definitely the
ones because you can just as easily time a real exclamation mark or question mark
Edit: oops just saw lumgum wrote the same thing
Edit: oops just saw lumgum wrote the same thing
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PluMGMK

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Re: Most useless smilie?
I think those exclamation and question mark ones are there for comical over-emphasis
Maybe I should add upside-down versions of them…

