{ aie. MY BRAINZ. }

[delga]

Alright, guys, look: I love you all a crazy amount, even those of you with whom I rarely talk, mostly because I find you all to be brilliant and funny and human and other such awesome things (I sort of love that on my flist I know people who will obssess over shoe-tie co-ordination, and people who can tellme everything I want to know about particle physics).

BUT.

Guys! It's says pictogrammatically challenged for a reason. It took me an embarrassingly long time to work out that \o/ is not someone frowning. Someone else also does something that's like, \(>o<)/ I think? And is basically an elaborate form of \o/? GUYS. THAT'S NOT WHAT I SEE WHEN YOU SHOW ME THESE THINGS.

In that vein, would somebody please, please explain x_x? IT LOOKS LIKE A DEAD PERSON, WTF, GET IT AWAY FROM ME.

I find this to be very stressful. So I'm going to eat pizza and watch Empire Records with my housemates. Flist you later? MAYBE.

Comments

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

...what the hell does that \o/ thing mean? How could it be an elaborated form of... the latter smiley. Speaking of which, I've always thought the latter was a sort of duh/frustrated/screw-up-your-eyes-because-you-want-to-die kind of thing.

I think x_x is supposed to mean something like cross-eyed, confused, explodey-brained, or something like that? I dunno. I could be very, very wrong.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had to have that one explained to me. It's "yay-arms". The circle is a little man's head, and the strokes are his arms. (We have a variation that I hve named the 'apocalypticon' whereby the little man is covering his head. Like so: /o\). You can give it pompoms, which I sort of hypocritically love: *\o/* I'm still trying to work out way for it to have mini-flags. Also: a traffic person - lo/

\(>o<)/ is basically the same thing, but I obviously never read these things right because when I first saw it I was all, IS THAT A BAT IN A FISHBOWL WITH LEGS? WHAT IS THAT?! I spend a lot of time being confused by anything that isn't a colon and a single parenthesis.

Whatever x_x is, I find it Very Disturbing. !

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

...well, it does kind of look like yay-arms now that I look at it. The pompoms thing is adorable though! I love that..

But there is no way in hell, no way in hell that that other one looks like yay-arms. I mean, it does look a bit like a face - the o looks like a nose, and those...thingies like screwed-up eyes - but if those slashes are arms, then I'll be buggered. I thought they were his ears or something. Besides, he doesn't look very happy. More constipated than anything else, in my opinion.

it's like those pictures of skulls on bottles of poison, or something. Freaky.