The two smileys here are pickable using a mobile phone browser. You need to enable the correct type of interface for a mobile device in your preferences.
One of the reasons we have avoided having loads of smileys is because they can get used to make a complete mess of a posting, which is then difficult to read.
LeSving wrote:
The problem is we have too few smilies. We have only TWO:
This and this and – none of them is pickable when using a mobile phone. We have no means of expressing ourselves emotionally. We are in fact emotionally crippled !!!
I’m having trouble understanding this thread. Imbued as we all are with boundless tact, meekness, modesty, sensitivity, intelligence and generosity, it is impossible for any Yorkshireman to construe anything said or written to or about us as anything but respect and adoration.
So anyway, @Peter, have a good flight, and @LeSving, +1 FOR THE SMILEYS!!!
The problem is we have too few smilies. We have only TWO:
This 
and this 
and – none of them is pickable when using a mobile phone. We have no means of expressing ourselves emotionally. We are in fact emotionally crippled !!!
As a minimum we need this:
For the avoidance of doubt: I have to point out that, being German, all my posts are deadly serious and are to be taken entirely in their literal sense. Me and my countrymen generally expect the same to be the case with all other posts.
In the past this has led to all sorts of unfortunate misunderstandings, the last two of which did not turn out to well for us, so I am keen to avoid such unpleasantries.
So while I have no idea what a smiley is or what it does, I welcome this policy of providing a yellow warning symbol in posts that are inappropriately non-factual.
Airborne, yes, the lovely my ego, is clearly, and, actually bigger than your ego, scenario. Just love it…
That “other infamous forum” is really something. I spent some time there before discovering EuroGA. My favourite moment was when two people who were both clearly airline pilots accused each other of being “sim pilots” because their respective airlines had different SOPs in respect to the thing being discussed.
Now that is spooky, because I too noticed recently that some items were getting, shall we say, tense. I had not noticed it before on Euro GA. Now, on the other infamous forum, there are so many idiots posting that if one were in the mood, particularly after a couple of beers, it becomes good fodder.Like Peter, been banned a few times, and had a good number of posts deleted. We could have a good laugh and name and shame the idiots in question, but that would be unfair on idiots in general….
Yes, far better to be polite and sensitive
JasonC wrote:
As an Australian, I am almost always being sarcastic. Can I have a smiley appear in my posts by default?
Ask Peter & David to add “signature” feature to forum and then put smiley in your signature
JasonC wrote:
As an Australian, I am almost always being sarcastic. Can I have a smiley appear in my posts by default?
Now, now, Jason, you clearly missed the point and you get a " F " for today’s lesson.
You NEVER put a " " when you’re NOT using irony !
Now go to the chalk board and write 100 times:
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”
