have you noticed how only the idiots here use smilies

[thegreekdog]

Call me Ismael!
Thar she blows!
Hello, suggs, this is where you go to, huh?

The White Whale!!!

The End

[Neoteny]

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[MeDeFe]

Smileys show emotion... the smileyless Internet sucks at portraying emotion... therefore I use smilies.

fixed

Talk to hand, see what it says.

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[SultanOfSurreal]

Call me Ismael!
Thar she blows!
Hello, suggs, this is where you go to, huh?

The White Whale!!!

The End

While some were occupied with this latter duty, others were employed in dragging away the larger tubs, so soon as filled with the sperm ; and when the proper time arrived, this same sperm was carefully manipulated ere going to the try-works , of which anon.

It had cooled and crystallized to such a degree, that when, with several others, I sat down before a large Constantine’s bath of it, I found it strangely concreted into lumps, here and there rolling about in the liquid part. It was our business to squeeze these lumps back into fluid. A sweet and unctuous duty! No wonder that in old times this sperm was such a favorite cosmetic. Such a clearer! such a sweetener! such a softener; such a delicious mollifier! After having my hands in it for only a few minutes, my fingers felt like eels, and began, as it were, to serpentine and spiralize.

As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as I snuffed up that uncontaminated aroma,— literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow ; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.

Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me ; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally ; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side; the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

[john9blue]

Fun fact: I use smileys in research papers and technical reports and the professors all love it, they can't get enough of my smileys!

[MeDeFe]

Fun fact: I disabled smilies in my account settings a few months back. I don't regret it one bit.

[thegreekdog]

I wish I could do a signature of Sultan's smiley-laden prose.

[MeDeFe]

[quote="thegreekdog"]I wish I could do a signature of Sultan's smiley-laden prose.[/quote]
Use the [spoiler] [/spoiler] tags.

[thegreekdog]

I wish I could do a signature of Sultan's smiley-laden prose.

Use the

Spoiler

tags.

Oh... nice.

Not working - still saying I have an overage.

[SultanOfSurreal]

I wish I could do a signature of Sultan's smiley-laden prose.

i only added the smileys; mr. melville supplied the incredibly homoerotic undertones

[jefjef]

[jonesthecurl]

So that's what they mean by "crater face"...

[Neoteny]

Fun fact: I disabled smilies in my account settings a few months back. I don't regret it one bit.

I never noticed such a thing could be done. I am doing that now.

[khazalid]

i went the other way and re-enabled them a few months ago. perhaps i am regressing?

[natty dread]

I use smileys, and I'm not an ideot.

[jonesthecurl]

I've used 'em occasionally. My favourite is . I mean, it says f*ck all. Sometimes that's exactly what you need to say.
Some posters should be restricted to posts entirely made of .

[Woodruff]

Smileys show emotion... the smileyless Internet sucks at portraying emotion... therefore I use smilies.

fixed

if you can't write well enough to convey a certain tone with only your text, you need to learn to write better. herman melville never used a single smiley to write moby dick and that book is like a billion pages

In that particular case, it's like a billion pages of suckitude too.

[theusual1]

What's it you whether people use smilies or not. Using smilies doesn't make you a dumb shit. Seriously, what is the point of this thread It's pretentious, unnecessary and will not achieve anything. You do realise there are kids playing this website and it is ridiculous to believe they should all talk like they have a stick up their ass, rather than use smilies. In fact by posting this I can see more people just using smilies to get on your nerves. Enjoy:

[Army of GOD]

I usually go with a full-body shot:

O-|-<

[SultanOfSurreal]

Smileys show emotion... the smileyless Internet sucks at portraying emotion... therefore I use smilies.

fixed

if you can't write well enough to convey a certain tone with only your text, you need to learn to write better. herman melville never used a single smiley to write moby dick and that book is like a billion pages

In that particular case, it's like a billion pages of suckitude too.

moby dick is amazing you fucking philistine

[john9blue]

OK then sultan, in an effort for my meager intelligence to be recognized more by the community, I shall not use smilies unless the situation strongly calls for it. I hope this puts more emphasis on the content of my posts, rather than a small gif or two conveying, in their own pixelated way, my feelings on the matter at hand.