Author Topic: Can we have smileys in radio chat?  (Read 1252 times)

Offline titanic3

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Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« on: March 29, 2012, 07:26:02 AM »
Sarcasm doesn't translate well without an indicator and some guys take stuff too cereally.  :joystick: :uhoh

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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2012, 07:34:26 AM »
seriously...... cereally?  :huh
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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2012, 07:39:16 AM »
Sarcasm doesn't translate well without an indicator and some guys take stuff too cereally.  :joystick: :uhoh

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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2012, 07:45:16 AM »
Well, they do say a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence...

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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2012, 07:51:28 AM »
Well, they do say a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence...
:rofl lol  :lol lmfao  :rofl hehe hahaha







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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2012, 08:04:59 AM »
seriously...... cereally?  :huh

Why so cereal?  :D

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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2012, 08:13:46 AM »
A crutch for the people who lack the ability to communicate through words.

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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2012, 08:35:57 AM »



NO!


Isn't it bad enough Midway already has his own smiley for the BBS?   :bhead
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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2012, 08:49:45 AM »
For those of you who feel the need to communicate the proper tone of your [probably] inappropriate knee-jerk text after just getting killed, and who are more visually-oriented and don't know the age-old text equivalents...

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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2012, 09:17:53 AM »

A crutch for the people who lack the ability to communicate through words.
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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2012, 09:31:27 AM »
:rolleyes:

Probably one of the most wisest, thoughtful and influential posts of our time. Everybody here should be taking notes.

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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2012, 09:50:24 AM »
For those of you who feel the need to communicate the proper tone of your [probably] inappropriate knee-jerk text after just getting killed, and who are more visually-oriented and don't know the age-old text equivalents...

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Oh please, like every single sentence people make with smilies are automatically insults.

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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2012, 09:57:48 AM »
Oh please, like every single sentence people make with smilies are automatically insults.

 
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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2012, 10:18:38 AM »
Oh please, like every single sentence people make with smilies are automatically insults.

I never said that.
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Re: Can we have smileys in radio chat?
« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2012, 10:47:21 AM »
I never said that.

Sounded you implied it though.
But a smilie would've cleared any wrongly implied message. :D

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