I'm sorry to say I had to look this up. The first listing in Urban dictionary says

"I though it was a smiley face. I used it everywhere. Now I'm banned from lots of forums. =("

>> ^SlipperyPete:
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(smiley face here)

Fancy a picnic!

shouldn't that have been a question? maybe he didn't want to make it a question, cause he knew she'd just reply with a smiley face again....

It kinda looks like a smiley face right before it dies.

Haha! That is fucking crazy! His hat kept falling off. How cute. Then he throws a snowball at whatever is knocking his hat off, I think.. If there are snowballs flying at his head, it's hard for me to make them out since they must be going too fast.

At the end, after it says "THE END," did anybody catch what that last image was? It appeared to have thin lines. I couldn't quite make it out.

edit - oh, I think it's a smiley face....

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
No more stealing passwords, mr 9257! We're watching you

(Welcome back! Sorry for the confusion..)

Is there a smiley face for "sheepish grin"?

lol... I killed that video right after qualms comment. How'd it get up to 15 views? It's not a bad video either...

When you learn how to make arguments without loaded terms like "heavy taxation", "excessive burdens" and "genocide", then maybe I'll decide to reply to one of them. Given the way you wrote, for me to make an intelligent reply would take 80% refuting things I didn't say. Which is too bad, because you do make some interesting points in there.

I have found this sort of response to be commonly employed when debaters would rather stay on the surface instead of diving deep to the root of an issue. If you really want to address the substance, then it isn't difficult. Pick whatever adjectives you didn't like and toss them. Instead of 'heavy taxation' just say 'taxation' in your brain. It isn't a tough exercise, and should alleviate your overtly stated concern which you claim prevents you from continuing to substance.

However, I disagree with your opinion that the terminology was 'loaded'. That implies that the words were inaccurate or misleading. But they were not. The US taxes ARE heavy - 2nd highest on the planet in fact. Industry IS saddled with excessive burdens, which is why they shelter overseas to reduce costs. Socialist governments DO commit genocide when they are at thier worst (which is how I qualfied it). Stalin, Lenin, Khamir Rouge, China - there is no shortage of examples. Now, you may not personally LIKE the words I chose if they do not hew to your bias, but that does not mean that I have inaccurately applied them.

Regardless of that - Lord knows people (such as the kid in the vid) who espouse personal responsibility and small government have had to put up with more than their share of 'loaded terminology' when discussing issues. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. You - for example - used loaded terms when you said 'benefits the country as a whole more than it benefits the individuals who used to have that money'. That's loaded. Who are you to say that the person who has the money isn't benefiting the country? Why is it assumed that a person who has earned wealth is somehow an unworthy custodian of it?

Starting every paragraph with "I would suggest..." and "I would posit..." doesn't make your style appropriate, and putting smiley faces after put-downs doesn't work either.

It is as I feared. You have no sense of humor. But in jest I made a good point. You claimed Canada has the best universities on the planet. Even the kindest evaluation wouldn't define Canada's colleges in that kind of lofty 'loaded' language. The QS poll lists the top 100 Universities, and Canada has grand total of four entries... #20, #34, #74, and #91. By comparison, the USA has 1, 2, 5, and 8-14, 17, and 18 of the top 20. I'm not trying to offend you. I'm just grounding you in reality.

When you learn how to make arguments without loaded terms like "heavy taxation", "excessive burdens" and "genocide", then maybe I'll decide to reply to one of them. Given the way you wrote, for me to make an intelligent reply would take 80% refuting things I didn't say. Which is too bad, because you do make some interesting points in there.

Starting every paragraph with "I would suggest..." and "I would posit..." doesn't make your style appropriate, and putting smiley faces after put-downs doesn't work either.

I saw a creepy thing in Cole Valley (nicer neighborhood in SF) yesterday. Two officers came into the cafe I was working at and they both had smiley face stickers on the base of their gun clips. Because the guns are holstered 'barrel down,' the stickers were positioned to be right side up and obvious from their backs. I know they have a tough job, and I like to joke around as much as the next guy, but I thought it was distasteful and really unprofessional given what just happened two weeks ago, 10 miles away, on the other side of the bay bridge.

Congratulat*Buried under avalanche of smiley faces!*

Good stuff.

Did anyone else notice that the guy in the smiley face shirt looked like Cam-Cam?

@gwiz

I'm not saying the admins should police the site, or anything like it. I'm just saying it truly feels like a hostile environment at times, because of comments members [males] make. The examples I cited earlier, about the Big Breasts BBC documentary, "OooOh, Honkers" and "Tits or GTFO" really don't make me feel welcome. I think as a community, everyone should work toward a more friendly environment. It's true that gays and feminists are treated as lesser citizens, even around here.

It's surprising to me that so many guys here have conned their girlfriend / significant other into making an account, and are still less than acceptable. Another side of my boyfriend I never would have wanted to see comes out on here, and I don't think that would be the case if the general tone of the community was inclusive. I realize that's a personal problem, but there are a plethora of comments and videos that really just make me mad. Like this one. How in the world did it make top 15? It's some nasty 14-year-old girl doing shit that really isn't remarkable, except maybe the smiley face with her tongue. And yet it made the top videos, wrought with comments about masturbation, oral sex, and if she was "of age."

I just wish it were different, I suppose.

Holy cow that wave and "smiley face" blew my mind..

OK, We did this at my kids Birthday party, only we used yellow smiley face balloons - no need for the condom, that's just plain unnecessary.

"Hey Bob, what's that you squeezing there...?"

Smiley face back atcha, King Ocean! Thanks.