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    Ooops - smilie misuse

    I have been the member of various forums for AGES, years and year and this smilie I have known to be used for being "confused" :

    So as a newbie to your forum I've been using this smilies to "emote" confusion whilst on this forum, completely oblivious to the fact that your forum has it down as "feeling sick".

    DOHHHHHH!!!!!!!

    So in future if anyone sees me using smilie, I mean it as "looking confused".

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    Quote Originally Posted by Shodan View Post
    I have been the member of various forums for AGES, years and year and this smilie I have known to be used for being "confused" :

    So as a newbie to your forum I've been using this smilies to "emote" confusion whilst on this forum, completely oblivious to the fact that your forum has it down as "feeling sick".

    DOHHHHHH!!!!!!!

    So in future if anyone sees me using smilie, I mean it as "looking confused".
    morning Shodan,,

    now im confused... why dont you use the confused smilie !!!!!

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    is not the only one that can lead to confusion.

    is a bit weird – it looks like it should be similar to but its name suggests it is more like

    Sometimes it's better to ignore the names and just go with the emotion expressed.
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    I originally thought the smilie meant being sick. After drinking something highly alcoholic and dark blue, presumably.

    (Now that'll get everyone wondering whether I'm confused or just feeling sick ).

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    Quote Originally Posted by Blueshoes View Post
    I originally thought the smilie meant being sick. After drinking something highly alcoholic and dark blue, presumably.

    (Now that'll get everyone wondering whether I'm confused or just feeling sick ).
    Maybe it didn't start off blue. Just got that colour when it got to the shoes....

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    Quote Originally Posted by trouble View Post
    now im confused... why dont you use the confused smilie !!!!!
    I will now, if I remember. But I'm so used to using as confused for the last few years (and still do on many other forums) that breaking the habit whilst on this forum will be quite hard.

    p.s. anyone know why the ordering of the selection of smilies on the right changes EVERY time when I make a post / reply to a post? (see, I used it then )

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    Can you tell me how to highlight the quote when I want to reply back? I am such a novice around the pc I use at work, as I am having to work it out myself, I could do with someone coming and showing me as I can never understand reading instructions, and I not even blond

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    Quote Originally Posted by sidney View Post
    Can you tell me how to highlight the quote when I want to reply back?
    You mean like this?

    Go to the post you wish to quote and click the quote button in the bottom right hand corner VVVVVVV

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    while we're at smileys, this one confuses me a lot:

    anyone care to explain what it means?

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    Well this one is good


    . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . It has Horns!
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Does that therefore equate to HORNY?



    Pleaseee

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    Go to the post you wish to quote and click the quote bottom right hand corner VVVVVVV[/QUOTE]

    Testing

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    sidney, you need to make sure you have the [quote= at the top of the quote, or it won't work

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    Quote Originally Posted by Shodan View Post
    I have been the member of various forums for AGES, years and year and this smilie I have known to be used for being "confused" :

    So as a newbie to your forum I've been using this smilies to "emote" confusion whilst on this forum, completely oblivious to the fact that your forum has it down as "feeling sick".

    DOHHHHHH!!!!!!!
    didn't realise that despite having used it several times! I've always understood it to mean confused before
    Quote Originally Posted by Shodan View Post
    So in future if anyone sees me using smilie, I mean it as "looking confused".
    Same here

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    [QUOTE=TurboTomato;305050]sidney, you need to make sure you have the [quote= at the top of the quote, or it won't work[/QUOTE]Testing

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    Re: Ooops - smilie misuse

    Whats wrong with using the "Testing" forum at the bottom of the front page for the main overal forum?

    As far as I'm aware, thats the place to test out all the cool stuff. If not, then please forgive my newbieness here.

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