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Okay, what is the deal with first posts and gun smilies?

I don't get it. Now granted, I'm neither 14 nor male, but I don't think I'd get it even then.
Is this the only forum in the whole wide web with gun smilies? Or "Up Yours" smilies, for that matter?
Because if it is, I could sort of see the attraction. If not - not so much.

Do people use these smilies just to spruce up their post with a little color (hint: yellow is a color, too) or are they trying to actually make a point? If so, what is it?

Please discuss, so that I may not live out my life unenlightened. Thank you.

It's a nice way of adding to my list of people to ridicule.

Perhaps because no one else uses them they think everyone will go "hey, cool! How did you do that?" if they do.

Or it could just be an attempt to draw attention to themselves. A smilie way of saying "I'm here! Please accept me!"

It's for impact. Surely, if my first post includes a gun, I will be noticed and liked by everyone!

Blah, I actually have no idea why. I first started NS when I was 14 and have never used a gun smilie. Oh well.

A smilie way of saying "I'm here! Please accept me!"
*snort*
I guess we can just hope this doesn't carry over into their real life then. :p

*snort*
I guess we can just hope this doesn't carry over into their real life then. :p
That would certainly make an impact on whoever they're trying to impress. :p

I think they do it to warn us that what follows will be utter crap.

Edit: Forgot to add the gun smilies, my first ones ever! :sniper: :mp5: :gundge: :D

Blah, I actually have no idea why. I first started NS when I was 14 and have never used a gun smilie. Oh well.
Yeah, that's why you're one of the good ones.

I think they do it to warn us that what follows will be utter crap.

Edit: Forgot to add the gun smilies, my first ones ever! :sniper: :mp5: :gundge: :D
That must be it.

And do you feel dirty now? I used them once in jest, ah, the Horror!

I think they do it to warn us that what follows will be utter crap.

They're like "Wet Paint" signs; people will still read them just to make sure the post is crap and end up worse off after reading it.

Oh, and why does the person posting always have two or more posts? Where the hell does the first one come from?:confused:

Edit: Forgot to add the gun smilies, my first ever! :sniper: :mp5: :gundge: :D

You bastard.:p

:mp5:

I think it's because they go to post and then look to the right and see them They think "zOMG c00l3st smilees evar!!!" and use them gratuitously.

I think it's because they go to post and then look to the right and see them They think "zOMG c00l3st smilees evar!!!" and use them gratuitously.

Ever since jolt stopped hiding :upyours:, n00bs have been using it gratuitously. It's the new sniper smilie.

Oh, and why does the person posting always have two or more posts? Where the hell does the first one come from?:confused:
What are you talking about? I *always* get the first time posts, and way too many times I get them lavishly decorated with gun smilies, too.


I think it's because they go to post and then look to the right and see them They think "zOMG c00l3st smilees evar!!!" and use them gratuitously.
But see, that's exactly what I'm wondering about. Now, I only frequent one other forum besides this, and there, smilies are actually *gasp* disabled, so I honestly don't know about the rest of the internet, but I can't for the life of me imagine that our smilies are so OMFG teh c00l3est evar!!! I mean, surely other forums have gun smilies, too. Right?

What are you talking about? I *always* get the first time posts, and way too many times I get them lavishly decorated with gun smilies, too

Maybe that explains it? They unleash not just one, but two posts of gun smilies and flaming before retreating in to the abyss, never to be seen again...

Chocolate!! Especially dark chocolate. Mmmmmm
*gun smiley added for effect*
:sniper:

But yea, n00bs enjoy them waaay too much

I don't think I've... you know, I haven't ever used a...
Hmm...
Where was I? Oh yes. I don't think I've ever used a gun-smiley. ... Hm? Oh, at least not in my first post, nor my last 800.
Damn! I'm distracted! Why, oh why, have you put "chocolate" as one of the poll-options? Now I can't think clearly! You fiend!

*runs off to find chocolate*

Mmm... Chocolate :fluffle: And you knew that was coming, didn't you! :p

And you knew that was coming, didn't you! :p
Sure did. :p

Ever since jolt stopped hiding :upyours:, n00bs have been using it gratuitously. It's the new sniper smilie.

that, and they replaced the :fluffle: with :upyours: ! is jolt implying hatred over fluffle-ing?!?!

*realizes he's a gunsmiley virgin*
:sniper: :mp5:
*grins*
:gundge:
*confused*
what exactly is the gundge smiley?

Gun smilies for all! :D
:upyours::gundge: :sniper: :mp5:

whoo smilie time :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: I love you alL!

Okay, what is the deal with first posts and gun smilies?

I don't get it. Now granted, I'm neither 14 nor male, but I don't think I'd get it even then.
Is this the only forum in the whole wide web with gun smilies? Or "Up Yours" smilies, for that matter?
Because if it is, I could sort of see the attraction. If not - not so much.

Do people use these smilies just to spruce up their post with a little color (hint: yellow is a color, too) or are they trying to actually make a point? If so, what is it?

Please discuss, so that I may not live out my life unenlightened. Thank you.
I was fascinated with the gun smilies when I first started here. They were something new. I still occasionally use one now and then when it will "spruce up" a post or add emphasis, but I've overcome my early fascination. :)

Gun smilies for all! :D
:upyours::gundge: :sniper: :mp5:
Oooh, now I'm really curious - are you just someone's puppet or did you really just delurk to post your first post on here? Because that, evil smilies be damned, would be pretty damn funny. :p

Oooh, now I'm really curious - are you just someone's puppet or did you really just delurk to post your first post on here? Because that, evil smilies be damned, would be pretty damn funny. :p
I'd assumed it was a newly-created puppet to make a joke - I didn't see the join date. :p

Mmmmmh....chocolate. :mp5: :sniper: :gundge: :upyours:

Mmmmmh....chocolate. :mp5: :sniper: :gundge: :upyours:
Must...resist...urge...to lose gun smilie virginity...in thread...that's crying out for them...

Must...resist...urge...to lose gun smilie virginity...in thread...that's crying out for them...

:sniper:

Lulz omg noob

Must...resist...urge...to lose gun smilie virginity...in thread...that's crying out for them...
No, don't! Don't succumb to the evil peer pressure! We should all aspire to be virgins, it will help save the world from AIDS! And... other things. Man, sometimes I really wish I could quote scripture at will. Or at all, really.

I was fascinated with the gun smilies when I first started here. They were something new. I still occasionally use one now and then when it will "spruce up" a post or add emphasis, but I've overcome my early fascination. :)
I thought you only used that fish-slapping one...
I've only ever used those smileys with humourous intent. It's just that normally my humour is lost on most other people.

No, don't! Don't succumb to the evil peer pressure! We should all aspire to be virgins, it will help save the world from AIDS! And... other things. Man, sometimes I really wish I could quote scripture at will. Or at all, really.
Do the one from Pulp Fiction, that's a bucket o' laughs. And I'm sure it's fitting with the subject at hand. :cool:

I thought you only used that fish-slapping one...
I've only ever used those smileys with humourous intent. It's just that normally my humour is lost on most other people.
Heh! That trout smiley is just too much fun to pass up, although I've even stopped using that very much. I usually used them in humorous intent as well. For example, there were a couple of posters on here ( who will remain forever nameless ) who insisted on making slightly suggestive comments whenever I mentioned my grandaughters. It became de riguer for me to post gun smiles in response. Kinda like a running joke. :)

I was fascinated with the gun smilies when I first started here. They were something new. I still occasionally use one now and then when it will "spruce up" a post or add emphasis, but I've overcome my early fascination.
I remember you when you were a new poster. You were a complete troll. You really knew how to breath fire on liberals.

Do the one from Pulp Fiction, that's a bucket o' laughs. And I'm sure it's fitting with the subject at hand. :cool:
Now don't be silly. What does McDonald's have to do with any of this?

Now don't be silly. What does McDonald's have to do with any of this?
Well, on the topic of unspeakable evil and unholy alliances...

http://forums.relicnews.com/images/smiley/snipersmilie.gifhttp://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/uzi.gif__ http://www.cohguru.com/forum/images/smilies/heroes/pawn_2guns.gif___http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/flamethrower.gif http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/nerd.gifhttp://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/chainsaw.gif___:mp5: :sniper:__http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/bigun2.gif
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I honestly do not have the slightest idea what you are talking about. http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/kaffee.gif

Okay, what is the deal with first posts and gun smilies?

I don't get it. Now granted, I'm neither 14 nor male, but I don't think I'd get it even then.
Is this the only forum in the whole wide web with gun smilies? Or "Up Yours" smilies, for that matter?
Because if it is, I could sort of see the attraction. If not - not so much.

Do people use these smilies just to spruce up their post with a little color (hint: yellow is a color, too) or are they trying to actually make a point? If so, what is it?

Please discuss, so that I may not live out my life unenlightened. Thank you.

Yeah... a first post with more sniper rifles and uzis than text generally makes me look at the name, file it away, and say, "Don't bother responding to this person ever. They're not to be taken seriously. Probably some 14 y/o kid."

And now I'm torn between apologizing to the 14 y/o's who aren't that dumb, and saying, 'screw it. you don't get a legal opinion. Suck it up.' :p

< most energetic snippage applied here >
Ugh. I really love how the little guy just sits there drinking coffee, but I wish you'd edit all those other eyesores out. :p


I think I have created a monster with this thread. Oh noes. :(



ETA: Yay, a non-gun post! Thanks, Gargantua.

Ugh. I really love how the little guy just sits there drinking coffee
That's why I put it there.

You've created a monster,
cause nobody wants to see WYTYG no more
They want Smileys,
You're chopped liver
http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/shine.gif

http://forums.relicnews.com/images/smiley/snipersmilie.gifhttp://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/uzi.gif__ http://www.cohguru.com/forum/images/smilies/heroes/pawn_2guns.gif___http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/flamethrower.gif http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/nerd.gifhttp://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/chainsaw.gif___:mp5: :sniper:__http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/bigun2.gif
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I honestly do not have the slightest idea what you are talking about. http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/kaffee.gif
Oh my god....

I don't use smilies and if you find any post made by me with a smilie in then I was drunk and high and being forced to type at gunpoint at the time.

I burned out most of my gun smilie desires on another forum... after all, there was a designated smilie war thread there! :fluffle:

Of course, I've been known to make an exception for one particular "gun" smilie... http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b128/norm142/sg_war1.gif Of course, it's really a zat'nik'tl smilie...

I'm a strong believer in the 'right smilie for the right job'.

As such, I have little need for gun smilies. If I need violent and/or threatening smilies, I'm more likely to use these:

http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/chased.gif

http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/arsespank.gif

http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/whips.gif

http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/kar.gif

I think there are worse ways of aggravating people when you have very few posts.



Much worse than smilies, case in point, the generic evil laugh: muahahahaha.


Why do I posess the urge to be annoying?

Gun smilies are kind of lame, but this :upyours: is the worse goddamn smilie in the history of being blasphemous in connection with the Internets. Using :upyours: in any context (serious or ironic), makes your point irrelevant, lowers your IQ, makes your penis smaller, makes you blind, grows hair on your knuckles, raises your risk of ass cancer and shaves 5 years off the end of your life.
I think I just lost about 20 points of my IQ merely using :upyours: demonstrationally, and now I have an inexplicable desire to eat pork rinds and watch Nascar.

someone died in nascar today ....

someone died in nascar today ....
Is it on film? If so, someone needs to dub it with an episode of Dukes of Hazzard.

Gun smilies are kind of lame, but this :upyours: is the worse goddamn smilie in the history of being blasphemous in connection with the Internets. Using :upyours: in any context (serious or ironic), makes your point irrelevant, lowers your IQ, makes your penis smaller, makes you blind, grows hair on your knuckles, raises your risk of ass cancer and shaves 5 years off the end of your life.
I think I just lost about 20 points of my IQ merely using :upyours: demonstrationally, and now I have an inexplicable desire to eat pork rinds and watch Nascar.
I like that one, even though I think this'll be the first time I've actually used it.

Someone asked if this is the only forum with an :upyours: smilie...it's not, but it IS the only forum I've seen with one that doesn't completely destroy the whole point by trying to look - of all things - CUTE! :confused:

Fergi America']Someone asked if this is the only forum with an :upyours: smilie...it's not, but it IS the only forum I've seen with one that doesn't completely destroy the whole point by trying to look - of all things - CUTE! :confused:
Hmm, but cute would actually be, well, cute.

Is it on film? If so, someone needs to dub it with an episode of Dukes of Hazzard.

yes there is... go on www.espn.com horrific and no tiny shorts in sight

Oh my god....
Smiley overkill. Sorry 'bout that! (Maybe you shouldn't have quoted all those smileys again - WhereYouThinkYouGoing is mad enough at me as it is)

I'm a strong believer in the 'right smilie for the right job'.
As such, I have little need for gun smilies. If I need violent and/or threatening smilies, I'm more likely to use these: (...)
Great choices!

http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/whips.gifhttp://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/fouet.gif
Bring out the gimp!

Smiley overkill. Sorry 'bout that! (Maybe you shouldn't have quoted all those smileys again - WhereYouThinkYouGoing is mad enough at me as it is)Ah, the sweet smell of truth and regret. Nothing could lift my spirits more.

Oh wait: http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/gen111.gif *giggles*



Works every time. :)

someone died in nascar today ....
ZOMG OH NO35!!!1!
Now I must make a horribly photoshopped picture of him with some crying eagles (created using MSPaint, of course) and horrible floating text (created with MSPowerpoint). My melting brain commands me!

I like this one.. http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/birth.gif

Smilies in general are stupid.

ZOMG OH NO35!!!1!
Now I must make a horribly photoshopped picture of him with some crying eagles (created using MSPaint, of course) and horrible floating text (created with MSPowerpoint). My melting brain commands me!
Do what you have to, just don't post it here, will ya?

Smilies in general are stupid.
Ahw, somebody needs some wuv . . .
:fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle:
Sorry, I had to do that; you left me no choice. Stationary smilies aren't a problem, but those moving ones are either annoying or distracting, and reading posts with them is difficult as they drag your attention to the smilie and away from the content.

Do what you have to, just don't post it here, will ya?
Sorry, I have no choice in the matter. The stupider one gets, the greater their desire to use photoshop and publish the results.

I thought you only used that fish-slapping one...
there's a fishslapping smiley? Where?

there's a fishslapping smiley? Where?
Just start following Eutrusca around, he usually leaves a few in his wake.


Sorry, I have no choice in the matter. The stupider one gets, the greater their desire to use photoshop and publish the results. What if I bribed you with a secretly handed-over envelope stuffed with indecent amounts of this (http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/gen111.gif)?

Just start following Eutrusca around, he usually leaves a few in his wake.
True! :D
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6348/smileytroutsmack22ip.gif (http://imageshack.us)

I'd assumed it was a newly-created puppet to make a joke - I didn't see the join date. :p

Puppet? that hurts :( :upyours:

Is this the only forum in the whole wide web with gun smilies? Or "Up Yours" smilies, for that matter?I'll take this opportunity to lament the replacement of the :fluffle: with the "Up Yours" smily.

why?
Why?
WHY?
WHY?

make fluffles, not gun-smilies! :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: ;)

Okay, what is the deal with first posts and gun smilies?
Probably the same deal with high schools and "trenchcoat mafia".
Perhaps i'm wrong, though, and they're just being honest about their social desires. Reminds me of Eutrusca's "Lunatic Goofballs!" thread about La Tomatina. ;)

Maybe it's like the whole adolescent, frustration thing only in forum form? These new kids haven't vented their pent up posting-frustration, and therefore the forst opportunity they get they have to get rid of as much as possible by appearing overly aggressive?

Or maybe they're just n00by bastards :D

*votes for all options*

I'll take this opportunity to lament the replacement of the :fluffle: with the "Up Yours" smily.

why?
Why?
WHY?
WHY?
because... this is a forum about Goverments... where else besides the Government will they give someone a Medal for :upyours: hundreds of enemy combatants, and a dishonerable discharge for :fluffle: a willing civilian... :headbang:

:fluffle: Y'all!

I think it's just a desperate cry to be recognised for what they really are - a bunch of immature nobodies with a distinct shortage of intellectual ability.

*votes for all options*

it's the future of democracy

I think it's just a desperate cry to be recognised for what they really are - a bunch of immature nobodies with a distinct shortage of intellectual ability.
I like your style, Sir. You're not one for mincing words, are you? :p

I like your style, Sir. You're not one for mincing words, are you? :p

Thank you. ;) I used to be less... blunt, shall we say, but then I got tired of all the morons in this forum proudly going around showing the world how poor their grasp of even basic knowledge and logic was.

They're entertaining, in a way, but that's no reason for me to encourage them.

Puppet? that hurts :( :upyours:
Wow, gun smiles in the first and an up yours in the second? Surely that must be a record?

it's the future of democracy
:D

Gun smilies are kind of lame, but this :upyours: is the worse goddamn smilie in the history of being blasphemous in connection with the Internets. Using :upyours: in any context (serious or ironic), makes your point irrelevant, lowers your IQ, makes your penis smaller, makes you blind, grows hair on your knuckles, raises your risk of ass cancer and shaves 5 years off the end of your life.
I think I just lost about 20 points of my IQ merely using :upyours: demonstrationally, and now I have an inexplicable desire to eat pork rinds and watch Nascar.
http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/fu2.gif

http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/fu2.gifIf I weren't at work, I'd be lol right now! :D

I don't generally see the point for smilies in OP. There are certain occasions where it makes sense, such as PM announcing Amy's birthday, but for the most part I think they are stupid.

When they are in a response post, it normally has a point, such as a personal reference or insuring that people understand you are joking or being sarcastic.

When they are in a response post, it normally has a point, such as a personal reference or insuring that people understand you are joking or being sarcastic.
Or people just use it gratitiously to annoy the hell out of you.

http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/gen111.gif





:)



Well, I guess there goes my free Cinque Terre accomodation. Curses, foiled by a smiley. :(