The wink smiley

[ripple27]

Dec 31, 2012 12:36:07 GMT maccafan said:

I mean this one..

I have seen it peppered in various posts and overused as if the person offering advise or making a comment is somehow a seer endowed with celestial knowledge..

Do you go around winking every time you offer advise or make an observation? If you really did that then you need your head examined.. Just do it in front of a mirror and you would also realize how facetious it looks..

I accept there is a place for it but not in every post FFS..

Rant over but I really had to get that out..

i never even knew it was there shows how much notice l take of stuff and added to the fact l can't even wink anyway

[maccafan]

Jan 2, 2013 19:25:21 GMT alvoram said:

Fair enough, since you want to bring this to a mature conclusion, may I end with this? I didn't argue the fact it could be seen as facetious, because many of the times I use it personally, that is my intention, for it to appear facetious, as in, not to be taken too seriously, or literally. Other reasons I use it to indicate in-jokes, arrogance (yes I can be honest about it) and also sometimes use it, probably out of context, as nothing more than a fun smiley.

If you want to draw a line then fair enough, but I would have been interested to know whether it was just how it looks to you that caused you offence, or whether there was more to it than that, I was asking a genuine question, despite already believing that it cant be anything serious (an assumption I admit.)

I've already said the reason, which is, it's not something you would normally do when interacting with people..I 've also said in my opening post that it has a place when sharing a private joke or something like that.

If you meant for it to look facetious, well, what can I say? To each his own..

And the inevitable yet obvious disclaimer just to put it in black and white: Yes it is my opinion. No one has to live by it and accept it. Opinions are like a-holes. Everyone has one.

[Blownupdolly]

Jan 2, 2013 19:29:24 GMT ripple27 said:

Dec 31, 2012 12:36:07 GMT maccafan said:

I mean this one..

I have seen it peppered in various posts and overused as if the person offering advise or making a comment is somehow a seer endowed with celestial knowledge..

Do you go around winking every time you offer advise or make an observation? If you really did that then you need your head examined.. Just do it in front of a mirror and you would also realize how facetious it looks..

I accept there is a place for it but not in every post FFS..

Rant over but I really had to get that out..

i never even knew it was there shows how much notice l take of stuff and added to the fact l can't even wink anyway

Aha!! Your secret is out.. you use botox then?

No, no dont YOU get offended as well.. it was a joke! Really i promise

[maccafan]

[alvoram]

Jan 2, 2013 19:35:59 GMT maccafan said:

Jan 2, 2013 19:25:21 GMT alvoram said:

Fair enough, since you want to bring this to a mature conclusion, may I end with this? I didn't argue the fact it could be seen as facetious, because many of the times I use it personally, that is my intention, for it to appear facetious, as in, not to be taken too seriously, or literally. Other reasons I use it to indicate in-jokes, arrogance (yes I can be honest about it) and also sometimes use it, probably out of context, as nothing more than a fun smiley.

If you want to draw a line then fair enough, but I would have been interested to know whether it was just how it looks to you that caused you offence, or whether there was more to it than that, I was asking a genuine question, despite already believing that it cant be anything serious (an assumption I admit.)

I've already said the reason, which is, it's not something you would normally do when interacting with people..I 've also said in my opening post that it has a place when sharing a private joke or something like that.

If you meant for it to look facetious, well, what can I say? To each his own..

And the inevitable yet obvious disclaimer just to put it in black and white: Yes it is my opinion. No one has to live by it and accept it. Opinions are like a-holes. Everyone has one.

Yikes, clearly not the same meaning of the word as you are talking about this meaning...

fa·ce·tious [fuh-see-shuh s]
adjective
1. not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.

And yes you are right about opinions macca, we've crossed opinions a few times and agreed on many things I think, but it has always led to reasonable discussion and debate, and I respect you for that

[alanfinal]

[alvoram]

Jan 2, 2013 19:39:46 GMT maccafan said:

My hero, well almost, my second hero. Barny from how I met your mother is my true hero!

[Phoenixflame (Julie)]

Jan 2, 2013 19:43:47 GMT alanfinal said:

[Bluefish]

C'mon Alvo I wanna Big Bang

[alvoram]

Jan 2, 2013 19:55:45 GMT Bluefish said:

C'mon Alvo I wanna Big Bang

[Blownupdolly]

Is that all you got?.... jog on

oops, sorry, i winked

[alvoram]

Jan 2, 2013 20:32:21 GMT Blownupdolly said:

Is that all you got?.... jog on

oops, sorry, i winked

Fine I'll bring out the big guns...



P.s BTW I chose the party popper, because on last night's episodes the "pick the bang" giffgaff ad before The BBT was a party popper.

[Blownupdolly]

PMSL

Didn't see the ad, but i use Giffgaff. Love it unless i go to my daughers place as it's useless there