this emoticon

[pk]

i'm pretty sure that this emoticon is giving 'the finger' >:D<, so why do people use it so much?

TLS is a prime example - are you intending to say 'f*** you', or words to that effect, in so many of your posts?

[david_carnell]

I think you'll find it's a thumbs up.

[SeanMacGabhann]

looks like a happy smiling 2 thumbs up to me...

[Michael Palaeologus]

Hmmm - on close examinations the little bumps on the side of the hands would seem to be the thumbs, thus the raised digit is a middle finger.

[Annasfield]

It is definitely "the finger". I think that people think the cheesey grin makes it less offensive.

[pk]

i thought that people might think that, but i don't think that it is a thumbs up

looking carefully the thumbs are out and not up, and if you hovver over it it say 'the finger smiley'

surely the 'thumbs up' one is this: (tu)

[david_carnell]

Goodness, pk may well be right although you need bloody good eyesight to tell.

I never realised. The grin makes it deceptive. I thought it was a happy-grinning-thhumbs-up.

How wrong I was. I feel I may need to go back and do some editing.

[Moos]

pk, I've wondered the same, but thought I must be wrong! Thank goodness that's cleared up... now bugger off the lot of you. >:D

[MelbourneGr]

It's a thumbs up dude. You can see the back of the hand and the fingers wrapped around. The name of the smiley would have come about from reference purposes.

[Brendan]

>:D< you guys.

[Jah Lush]

(td)(td) Two thumbs down for a deceptive smiley then.

[Ant]

::o

[HonaloochieB]

All emoticons are bastards, why should this one be an exception.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - they're the devil's punctuation.

[*Bob*]

Yes, emoticons are absolute COCK.

Users of emoticons need to sit down, have a good hard look at their lives and try to figure out where it all went wrong. I mean that in the nicest possible way of course - yeah guys? :)-D

[Brendan]

>:D

[HonaloochieB]

Same to you Brendan.

With knobs on.

[Keef]

If it is what pk suspects it is, I plan to use it even more!

[Moos]

.

[Jimbob]

Keef Wrote:

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> If it is what pk suspects it is, I plan to use it

> even more!

>:D<

[MelbourneGr]

If this >:D< emoticon is supposed to be offensive, then this :) emoticon isn't a smiling face, but a face with a banana mouth causing even more offence than being told to 'f off'.

In fact all the emoticons are offensive!

[KalamityKel]

Dear Admin,

I must insist on the creation of more emotions. There are just simply not enough ways to express ones self... no?

>:D<

[2degreesfrommadness]

(?)

[citizenED]

I think it's one poor, confused, emoticon. The fingers up gesture suggests an angry dismissive state of mind, a countenance of aggrssion and arrogance but this is countered by the kinetic grin which is at the same time a snigger and, I posit, a sneer, reminiscent of the sadistic grin of Nicholson in The Shining. And then there is the colour. Whereas all fellow emoitons are in pale yellow, this sorry fellow is devil red, like a steaming, raging bull. Perhaps he has shifted all the way through the chromatic notches as he pulsed through many different stages of rage on his way to the rude symbol he proffers or perhaps he's simply a slip of the mouse during the clip-artist's colouring-in session.

Either way, I wouldn't give the matter too much thought.

[Brendan]

Are you infering that emoticons of different colours have different meanings? You racist!

[citizenED]

No, but red ones are faster runners and better dancers.