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[aggienaut]

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   I had a truly shocking discovery the other day. Something I had safely assumed my entire life has turned out to apparently not be true.

   The smilie face :P To me it goes without saying that if you make an expression that involves your tongue hanging down out of the side of your mouth you are expressing "bleh" or "ick" or "feeling sick."

   The other day I met a friend who fervently disagreed, and informed me I was "fucking rude" for sticking my tongue out at her after she said she was sick. I surveyed some other friends on facebook and... was absolutely shocked to discover nearly everyone who responded thinks it represents sticking your tongue out at someone in a silly and frivolous manner.

   The face facebook renders the smilie as looks just like I would expect it to under my original understanding, it does not look happy, it looks slightly unwell. Skype has always rendered it as clearly sticking its tongue out in a silly manner but I just shrugged that off as Skype going in a radical new direction with it.

   To me the idea of sticking your tongue at someone in a silly manner could only be expressed by saying something like "pbtbtbtbtbt."

   So am I really the only one who thinks :P or :-P or d: is an unwell / bleh face??


Almost Completely Unrelated Picture of the Day

And here's an advertisement I saw on a ferry crossing the Dardanelles in Turkey.

Other random discussion items:
(1) Flickr is changing things up again? What do those of you who use Flickr think of the new "photo experience?" (I think they're trying to quietly remove a lot of features)
(2) The livejournal homepage looks like it's been substantially changed. Unlike yahoo's tinkering with flickr, I think this change might actually be a lot better. I wasn't very fond of the previous lj "home page" anyway.

Comments

[conscience.livejournal.com]

I have always used :p as a happy, sticking out my tongue, especially after I was sarcastic with someone in text (email or phone or fb text) to show them 'it's a joke!"

I can totally see it being sick, too.

When feeling blah, I tend to use :/

I am a big believer in the android "sunglasses" smilie. It just makes me laugh. I'm too cool, yes? Ha! (thats where a winkie would come in, saying not to take me seriously on that!)

Not sure about LJ homepage. It looked the same when I logged in, but long ago I forced my page to be in the 'classic' style of many years past, mostly because I resist change.

Yahoo Mail surprised us and changed their format into something akin to gmail's conversations without an option to keep it in the older style of simple individual emails, instead of threads...just this week with no notice at all. Some that I email have never used gmail or the like, so keep forgetting to 'scroll' up if I send an extra email or two after the initial one, not being used to threads in email. But, does lead to some very entertaining email replys saying sinply..."WHAT???"

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I use yahoo mail too. And being resistant to change myself, I had hung on to the "classic" style of yahoo mail for years after they tried to change it. Finally a few months ago they forced the last of us to use the new style, which I _hated_. And yeah, I've been totally confused and flummoxed by the recent change-up. It compelled me to finally move to gmail (after all, if I have to re-figure-out from scratch how to use a format that is based on gmail, I may as well go there. Figuring out a new system was the reason I hadn't done so already)

This :P thing really really baffles me. To me it CLEARLY looks like a bleh face. I don't know what to do now because I don't think I can use it as a pbtbtbtbt face but now I'll know people won't know what I'm intending if I use it as a sick face. To me :/ is a thinking face.

[zhent.livejournal.com]

I've always used :P as kind of a "sarcastic/having fun/sticking my tongue out at you" face, not bleah. I just do a :( or ): for anything unhappy at all...

[yukonsally]

:P has always been a joking, lighted hearted smile to me.

[tatdatcm.livejournal.com]

I always use :P as a silly, stick out your tongue face. I use :s as a sick face, but I'm not sure it's taken that way as I don't use it often.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I don't know anyone else who's interpreted the :P face like you did. And it's one I use a lot, including to you... did you really think I was just making a sick face all the time?

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Just use words. That way there's no doubt.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Or both.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I noted that in skype it is clearly rendered as a silly face, I just figured the skype team member who designed it had an unorthodox idea of how it should be rendered, and rolled it with it. So on skype I use it as a tongue sticking out thing too. after all, I'm mostly talking to you on skype and have an overabundance of occasions to pbtbtbtbtbtbt you ;D

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

hahaha. True, true.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

pbtbtbtbbtbtbt

[skitty.livejournal.com]

Definitely a silly, sticking-out-the-tongue face.

[selucius.livejournal.com]

I've always interpreted that as a silly/sarcastic face. It never even occured to me that it might be sick face. I guess I would go with the standard :( for being sick.

[belgatherial.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to add that has not been said, but yeah, I also use it as a joking "I am being cheeky" face.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I'm really having trouble wrapping my mind around this, despite EVERYONE saying its a silly face, I've never even thoguht to question that it's a bleh face!!!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Apparently to everyone else too! I'm still having serious trouble wrapping my brain around it not meaning what I've always thought it did though!!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I'm really having trouble wrapping my mind around this, despite EVERYONE saying its a silly face, I've never even thought to question that it's a bleh face!!! Hmmm I'm not sure one would recognize the :s face. That's the problem with emoticons of course, the mean whatever the person receiving them makes of them!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Pshhh words!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

LIES LIES!!!! I really can't wrap my mind around this!!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

BUT BUT like if one doodles a sick face doesn't it have a tongue sticking out? Or maybe its just a thermometer. I'm seriously having so much trouble wrapping my brain around this!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Which is bad because I use it for pretty much the opposite of being cheeky.. hence my friend telling me I was rude. ): For cheeky faces I like to use :-* or ;-*

[ilovegravy.livejournal.com]

I used to/still pretty much agree with what you said regarding it being like a bleh/ick face; I kinda used to use it semi-interchangeably with :/ but then i remember one time I used it when talking to my friend about a death of a celebrity she liked, and while she wasn't offended she was like "uhh, just to clarify, when you use that face, what exactly do you mean?" haha so that's when I kinda decided I wouldn't use it as much due to the grey area of emoticon interpretation it seems to fall into.

Now days, IF I use it, it's definitely regarding only trivial things, and sometimes, depending on who I'm talking to, I might even use it as a teasing face, but very rarely as I wouldn't normally use that face in real life anyway. haha

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

FINALLY someone who agrees with me. I've been shocked by just how universally everyone else seems to use it as a silly face while to me it is CLEARLY not a silly face. d: Since this revelation I've mostly tried to replace it with /: but that has always been a "hmmmmmmmm" face to me. Does that mean I've been using THAT face wrong this whole time??? \: