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  • Discrimination and injustice at Apolyton!

    Everyone and his mother on this site is able to depict the flag of his country with an array of smileys. We have scores of yellow and red smileys, sufficient blue, green and white (or light grey) ones and even an orange smiley for those pesky people from south Asia.

    But we Germans are discriminated, because this site lacks a black smiley. I tried for a while to get around it by using these new rectangular Civ related icons, but all of them have another color clearly dominating the black background, so they aren't useful.

    There is yet another reason, if you take the smileys as representation of skin colors. We have enough to represent Asia and native America, some for Europe, and even blue and green for goblins and orcs! And where is the representation for Africans? Are they not humans in the eyes of Apolyton??

    This is an outrageous injustice, a blatant case of discrimination, tantamount to racism! I'm deeply offended!

    The conclusion is, we are in sore need of a dominantly black smiley.

    We need that even more than
    - frog
    - vomit
    - better crying
    smileys. And with at least the same priority as teh :happyputin: smiley.

    I'm sure, our friends and brothers from Belgium as well as the whole Africa will understand and support this demand!

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    • #3
      Maybe you shouldn't have tried to kill all the Jews, huh?
      Last edited by Lorizael; November 21, 2007, 10:14.
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      "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Lorizael
        Maybe you shouldn't have tried to kill al the Jews, huh?
        Hi, I'm RAH and I'm a Benaholic.-rah

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Lorizael
          Maybe you shouldn't have tried to kill all the Jews, huh?
          I have never seen a red herring named Godwin before. I love Apolyton; learn something new everyday.

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          • #6
            I support this proposal (but still think that:
            -frog
            -vomit
            -better crying
            -happy putin
            smileys are more important).

            Also, teh problem with teh white smiley is that :stunned: is too long a string of text to use more than six times consecutively on one line. So we should get:
            -black
            -white
            smileys, too.
            THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
            AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
            AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
            DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Lorizael
              Maybe you shouldn't have tried to kill all the Jews, huh?
              “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
              - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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              • #8
                odd that the folks who want to display the German flag via smilies, dont display the BundesRepublik flag via the flag option.

                "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by lord of the mark
                  odd that the folks who want to display the German flag via smilies, dont display the BundesRepublik flag via the flag option.

                  I looked for the "BundesRepublik" option in the flag list and didn't find it, so I am not sure what you are talking about.

                  Since this option is obviously lacking, I may as well express my support for the independence of the people of Seborga from their Italian oppressors. That is my right in a democracy, backed by the freedom of speech.

                  How is the weather in France, by the way? Many traffic in Paris, or whereever you come from?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Sir Ralph


                    I looked for the "BundesRepublik" option in the flag list and didn't find it, so I am not sure what you are talking about.

                    Since this option is obviously lacking, I may as well express my support for the independence of the people of Seborga from their Italian oppressors. That is my right in a democracy, backed by the freedom of speech.

                    How is the weather in France, by the way? Many traffic in Paris, or whereever you come from?
                    Look at my current flag. Is that not the Bundesrepublik flag? Did I make a spelling mistake or something?

                    Of course I dont always use the US flag. But then Im not asking for smileys to enable to me make it either
                    "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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                    • #11
                      I'm not very fond of the politics of my country right now; in fact, I filed a constitutional complaint this very morning (seriously, albeit together with thousands of others).

                      But as you will notice I am fighting for others (like Belgians) as well. Even people who want to troll Germany (like this bloke: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...05#post5114405 ) can't do it properly without black smiley!

                      So you'd better sign my petition!

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                      • #12
                        well just as well then.


                        Lets all fly the Belgian flag, though, while we still can!
                        "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by lord of the mark
                          Of course I dont always use the US flag. But then Im not asking for smileys to enable to me make it either
                          You don't have to, btw, there are plenty of white, red and blue ones. It's a matter of size, though, to get all the 50 stars right, but I'm sure with PLUS there's less restriction .

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by LordShiva
                            I support this proposal (but still think that:
                            -frog
                            -vomit
                            -better crying
                            -happy putin
                            smileys are more important).
                            Better crying

                            I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                            I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                            • #15
                              Affirmative Action for Smileys!
                              THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                              AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                              AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                              DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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