The Smiley Face With Many Chins

written on February 11, 2009 in Rants, Stupid People

I don’t know if you’ve ever had to misfortune to come across people who write like this:

Blah blah blah!!!!!!!! Blah blah : DDDDDDD BLAH!!!!!!! blah blah blah blah : ]]]]]] Blah!!!!

I’ve seen this (along with some awfully butchered Japanese¹) in an anime forum I used to own, but I get that, because it was a message board filled with tween anime fangirls/Japanese wannabes. Now after several years, I’m starting to see the return of the stuck shift+ 1 key and the smiley faces with too many chins. Not from teeny-bopper-anime-fangirls-who-think-they’re-Japanese-but-actually-aren’t, but from college kids. College girls in particular. Someone I know recently had his facebook wall spammed with such posts:

OMGOMGOMG!!!! BEACH!!!!!!! I long to see some real sun!!!!
anywayys haha XXXX take me skiiing too : ]]]]
AHHHHHH!!!! Ice Cream = I Scream!!!!
!!!!!!horseback riding!!!!! : DDDD

Seriously though, I understand you’re excited, which is why you’d use an “!” instead of “.”. Heck, you might even use 2 “!” or even 3. But anymore than that and having it occur more than once in a sentence is totally moronic and unacceptable, unless your keys really did get stuck.

Second, what is up with : DDDDD or : ]]]]]] or any smiley face with way too many smiles? Do you have any idea how retarded it looks? I’ll tell you what I think: I think you’re smiley face is FAT and has too many chins and needs to call Jenny Craig ASAP. For crying aloud, you are in college, not middle school anymore. Doing this does not make you look cute or pretty or anything positive for that matter. It just makes you look like you need to spend some grammar time with Momo-chan². Maybe then you’ll learn how to use punctuations properly.Error processing request