Christmas Smilies are Here!

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Solver
Look at it from the perspective of regular people visiting the site, not your own. Most people will see Christmas smilies at this point as either okay or slightly silly.

I see it as appalling lemming-like behaviour. As I said in one of teh first posts in teh thread, there are far more important issues to address first than teh addition of silly commercialised hats to our smileys

[Solver]

Being a follower of Happy Putin is also lemming behaviour

[LordShiva]

I started teh Happy Putin cult, so I cannot be my own lemming, duh!

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Solver
Look at it from the perspective of regular people visiting the site, not your own. Most people will see Christmas smilies at this point as either okay or slightly silly.

Those whom I respect the most will feel it's as retarded as I feel it is.

There aren't many who'll give it more than a second's thought and thus think about lemming behaviour.

I know plenty of people who do. In fact, lemmings generally tend to flock together, as do people who think for themselves.

I don't like lemming behaviour any more than you do, but you have to recognize that, in this case, it wouldn't even be notable to most people.

Uhm, these hats only appear in pretty much every single post. It's pretty hard not to take notice.

And if you want to fight against lemming behaviour in general, do it on a bigger scale, like tell the shops not to start their "Christmas sales" on the last week of November

I can't stop people from doing what they want, we live in a free society. But that doesn't mean I'll accept it in my own front yard...

[Nikolai]

Fine. You're better than most people. You're very special. Now, could you please begone with your attitude?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Fine. You're better than most people. You're very special. Now, could you please begone with your attitude?

Personal attacks

[Nikolai]

More like me being fed up of his silly "I'm better than you" attitude in this thread so far. If that is a personal attack, so is some of his posts in this thread.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Fine. You're better than most people. You're very special. Now, could you please begone with your attitude?

[DrSpike]

By the way, I think Locutus means sheep, not lemmings. They both follow the crowd, but the lemming context is a very specific example around committing suicide. I don't even the passionate advocates of christmas smileys/no christmas smileys here would take it that far.

[Locutus]

It's a small step to turn sheep into lemmings, so over here we use the term pretty interchangeably (though it's even more common to refer to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but I'm not sure that's a particularly well-known myth beyond the German lingosphere).

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by DrSpike
They both follow the crowd, but the lemming context is a very specific example around committing suicide. I don't even the passionate advocates of christmas smileys/no christmas smileys here would take it that far.

What a pity

[DanQ]

It's a shame that this thread has degenerated the way it has. Though I feel compelled to respond further to... statements made here, I don't see what possible constructive point it would serve. I believe there are far more important things in life to spend our energies on both in regards to this site and otherwise.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Lorizael
I just want you all to know that I plan on leaving the site forever because of the premature inclusion of the Christmas smilies, and I hold Locutus personally responsible for the whole mess.

QFT

poly sold out!

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Locutus
No, it doesn't. It starts the weekend before. Commercial institutions selling Christmas schtuff want you to believe otherwise and you're thick enough to fall for it...

If I were falling for it, then I'd be starting to celebrate Christmas in October

Originally posted by Locutus
Christmas is a 2-day holiday, not a month long-one. Anything beyond that is commercial hype.

Where's the fun in that?


And what's up with mentioning commercial hype all the time? Had I been living in the middle of nowhere, then Christmas season would still start on Dec. 1st... it's tradition... it was tradition before it was commercialized

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Locutus
It's a small step to turn sheep into lemmings, so over here we use the term pretty interchangeably.

That is a far worse sin than the early inclusion of Christmas smileys.