What is this one meant to convey    I don't like it..seems a bit smug.

I love this one   but only when it's used by people that know each others reactions. I never use it

  This is the best one, and again I never get the chance to use it . ( Used it a lot in my head when reading in the past)

I think you've seen them pretty well stoory!  I see the  as sometimes a bit sarcastic and I agree... I'd only use  when I know someone well enough... like that Blousey woman!  The  is actually very good if you can't put it into words at the moment.

It's just a standard smile stoory.

Perhaps we may think before we post some smileys...the mood can be  be taken the wrong way to others.Twitches....to post a smiley...etc.

I've never smiled at anyone like that Fluffy

OK, whilst we're posting photos of ourselves...

lol your through

Awww! Pretty in pink Triggers!  

I think it's more representational than factual.

I always thought it would be safe to use this one

*postus interruptus*  

Actually, it's like that with many of them brisket. When you post that with me, for example, I wouldn't feel sarcasm or hostility. I'd simply feel you were feeling happy at the time! Like I said, you have to feel your way with these things with FMs sometimes... awaits Blousey's ninja now!

After thinking about it for a while, I think I use  to indicate that my comment was not confrontational or aggressive, but meant in a chatty tone.
No matter how hard we try, the reader may sometimes receive a message in quite a different way to that intended. I try hard to not leave things open to misinterpretation, but it is very difficult to eliminate the possibility. So where there may be doubt I now tend to use the  smiley.

I think it all basically depends on the tone of your post brisket... and the FM you were referring to and how confrontational the discussion is. I love how you don't use smileys... because I see the thoughts behind without them. Hope you don't mind if I give you one of these...

I love smileys, have loads saved on my pc that I use for email friends that at times help to convey what I'm trying to get across. Sometimes words alone don't get some things across and can cause misunderstandings. Face to face convo's are different as either side can pick up quickly what's really meant, in cyberspace it's not always as easy but I think smileys can help

I do love a ninja or two
But this -----> is a bit of a dumbass smilie. I hate using it and only do so when I really need to and there is nothing else that can convey my intention in my post. (Like on the rare occasion I try to be nice, I use it to convey my 'nice' and 'harmless' rare demeanour - at times that I dont it's just a dumbass smilie)

This -----> does my nut in. The angels went into overkill on C4, especially when there pages upon ruddy pages of em one after the other.

I do like this ----> - like when I'm telling someone to go swivel

The rest of them I don't really have an opinion on? Some new ones would be nice though

I can only imagine how irritating over-use was in the old days Karma... and I know how frustrating the lack of an easy quote system here has been to some. But I can tell you as a previous lurker... it's made my experience here so much easier when I did finally sign up!

I am delighted Xochi

This is the best 'smile' smiley I could find around t'interwub


but this is more me after the night before

I also favour
I never did understand  this one

That's me, after my holidays.

Beats me as well

  Keepin it real!

> wish this was added to the smileys here I like it.

I use this one  mainly at myself when I've done somehing stoopid, but sometimes also when I'm posting with someone who I know well enough to handle it