[toybulldog]

Many thanks for your full and pertinent reply cathx5

@cath 55 wrote:

why use emiticons, the thing is toy this form of communication is notoriously emotionless

There’s nothing wrong with the media or the printed word. Only people can be emotionless and I’m just asking for a little more wit and imagination. It might even be a good thing.

@cath 55 wrote:

how many times have u fired off an email only to find that maybe the recipient has taken it in the wrong context

God, not often enough. If only !

@cath 55 wrote:

However, sometimes the reverse is true about emiticons they can be used falsely like when someone says something that can be misconstrued as inflamatory (and maybe the author of the message did sorta mean it) a wink emiticon is used as a way of saying I’m only kidding when if fact there was some truth to the message or derogatory remark.

Exactly. Or when laffing smileys are used on their own, with no text, when quoting someone having a go at the common enemy. As ugly as it gets, a cowards way out and plenty examples on here.

@cath 55 wrote:

they do add a sort of punctuation to a message, how many times have we heard people say LOL you urself use it so a simple (SOMETHING YELLA WAS HERE) perhaps stops reptition of LOLs and pml and LMAO …..??

Fair point. But I shall never cease to fight for the humble full stop of course, with its dignified yet effective simplicity.

@cath 55 wrote:

at the end of the day in the scheme of things there are far more worthy irritations to tackle on here

I care about world poverty, global suffering, and the incessant use of pedantic, soul-destroying, systematic yellow blobs. Only in a different order.

finishes by taking the trouble to type

*xXChubstaSmileyFingyXx*

instead of lazily clicking somewhere on the left

[toybulldog]

welcome storm

I have a very sexy giraffe. It often pops its head through my bedroom window on romantic nights that are resplendent with heavenly moon-lust.

[toybulldog]

it’s fine pete, as long as I use xx for women…..

Orz

[toybulldog]

@sir Actor wrote:

I’ve read this post already – or one very similar to it – on a blogsite I happened upon some time ago………you lack originality.

I shall refrain from using the “rolling eyes” emoticon in your honour.

Evening actor,

Of course I deserve both barrels from you, but can only wonder what’s gone wrong with your shotgun.

I must thank you for the compliment you didn’t mean to offer, and would be so grateful if you could kindly POST the link to the ‘blogsite’ in question, but suspect that that won’t be happening any time soon now will it ?

Even if I were to remind you on a daily basis perhaps? Or offer a sporting wager ? But no, we both realise that in the end all that would remain is your vapid blustering. (Rocks and rolls eyes.)

People’s spelling is idiosyncratic and entirely down to them. I respect that and it’s not what this is about at all.

silly you
x

[toybulldog]

@pete wrote:

yeah like fuck off ..without an emoticon to portray how we meant that how many ways could it be taken. Like Bon Bon said a picture paints a thousand words

well I’m still trying to work out why you used the word ‘intonation’, which would normally apply to the pitch of voice, or is generally used as a musical term in reference to sound. So won’t dilly dally with any further confusion regarding the above.

(Perhaps you meant ‘implication’, or ‘intimation’, or even ‘inference’, or quite possibly should ONLY use emoticons in future.)

And in many cases a thousand words is nowhere enough to describe a picture, but we’re not exactly talking about Pieter Breugel the Elder here, just them pesky yella fingys, that get used so robotically…….

[toybulldog]

Bunny Wailer, the only surviving member of the eponymous group, has continued to perform for going on fifty years now. Very much regarded as an elder statesman of reggae, he has lived on his farm hidden away deep in the Jamaican countryside, surfacing periodically to tour and record in a variety of styles. He wrote and sang on some of the Wailers most accomplished work, whether romantic, rude-boy inspired, or socially conscious.

My favourite CD of his will always be the deeply meditative and superbly crafted Blackheart Man, created with some of the top musicians and session men around in 1976, and including contributions from Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. The title refers to how the majority of his compatriots traditionally viewed the Rastaman, and remains an enduring classic, born of a time when anything seemed possible for Jamaican music. Most afficionados think it the strongest of solo albums by any of the Wailers; in contrast to the anger of Tosh’s output, this was material rooted in the same experience of ghetto suffering, yet which proclaims some kind of spiritual resolution.

Here is the thoughtful Amagideon(Armageddon), with terrific work on the images.

Take a ride on the beautiful This Train, heavily influenced by his hero and similar sounding Curtis Mayfield; a traditional Afro-American song that has always possessed both temporal and spiritual meanings.

And lastly the often covered (and already versioned on this thread) Dreamland, a sublime plea for repatriation, and more besides . . . . .

(blimey, I’m starting to get the hang of this)

xx

[toybulldog]

@sharongooner wrote:

Poor Boris. I like him

It’s just been announced that he’ll lead the British football team in 2012

Spank the German

[toybulldog]

I love

smileys…………they’re fab

](*,)

[toybulldog]

@bon bon wrote:

welease

W O D E R W I K

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[toybulldog]

Now I never, not for even one moment, thought that this thread might get splattered in yellow.

(nope wasn’t expecting that at all)……………..wheels out the big gun then

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KOONTS !!!

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