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With Eggplant Wizard's blessing, I present to you a thread in which you will explain (and probably argue at great length about) what the gently caress these things mean. Some of them I can understand just fine:  Amazement. Pretty simple. There's other stuff like  that I gather has some kind of backstory with it but I get the general idea: academic smartness and poo poo. I love its variants too, like  and  .Then there's some stuff that I completely don't understand. Take this guy for example:  he seems like a pretty nice guy, right? What's he ever done to you to make you want to use him as the poster-child of asperger's? And what the gently caress is  ?
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Can someone explain  ? Not because I don't know what it is, but because I want to see someone explain it and struggle not to look stupid. is the Juggernaut, as per this scene from X-Men.
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I haven't been here nearly long enough to explain them all, but the backstory behind  can be seen here.http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=1548543
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is from a thread in GBS, some guy found a pamphlet about autism. Hopefully someone will have a link. is the Juggernaut, bitch.
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If I'm not mistaken was taken from a pamphlet in UK which featured a cartoon on how people with Aspergers think and act. Does anyone have the original entry of  ?
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Penguingo posted:Can someone explain "What I am seeing is so dumb or nonsensical that it hurts my brain"
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Buzkashi posted:"What I am seeing is so dumb or nonsensical that it hurts my brain" I love all the variants of These are my favorite   Your brain is beyond hurting. The Saddest Rhino posted:If I'm not mistaken From what I know a group of goons went camping, two of them hosed and the rest did notice. I think pictures were taken?
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Why are there berries in  or is that something else?
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 is Responsibility Scallop, from an "MSPaint captcha phrases" thread. He's there to gently remind you that there are better uses of your time than posting mushmouth drivel on an internet place. Things like earning money, or bettering yourself to provide for your family.He's a bit of a nag to be honest. Buzkashi posted:"What I am seeing is so dumb or nonsensical that it hurts my brain" That's the emotion, but the little guy itself is Psyduck, a Pokemon with a gigantic life-long headache. Y'know just in case you didn't know.
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OneEightHundred posted:Why are there berries in This came up in...I think it was the old Internet Trainwrecks thread. Apparently some Reddit MRA was talking about how all girls like pink, red, and purple because those are the colors of edible berries, and women are naturally suited to gathering rather than hunting. Of course this is not true at all, because most red berries in the wild are poisonous, but don't let that get in the way of your psuedo-scientific sexism.
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OneEightHundred posted:Why are there berries in A common biotruther argument is that women like pink and other "girly" colors because they were responsible for foraging and gravitated towards brightly-colored berries. Please ignore that not all women like those colors and that most berries are dark-colored.
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1stGear posted:Please ignore that not all women like those colors and that most berries are dark-colored.
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Does somebody want to explain the relation between  and  ? I've heard an explanation, but it seems like that should be explained somewhere in this thread.
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The biotruths derail is my least favorite recurring derail I ever heard of. Just because one example is wrong doesn't mean the genders are genetically identical or that evolution has no effect on behavior  I can't quite figure out this emote means by context but I see it all the time--> Also how do you sometimes see emotes growing larger? Is that a mod superpower because: 
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No-Jokes Feynman posted:The biotruths derail is my least favorite recurring derail I ever heard of. Just because one example is wrong doesn't mean the genders are genetically identical or that evolution has no effect on behavior is basically saying something retarded. : Hey guys I'm selling knives for cutco!
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Xenoveritas posted:Does somebody want to explain the relation between From what I remember, the same guy bought them at the same time and mixed up the names during purchase. Colbert should be crossarms and crossarms should be Colbert.
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No-Jokes Feynman posted:The biotruths derail is my least favorite recurring derail I ever heard of. Just because one example is wrong doesn't mean the genders are genetically identical or that evolution has no effect on behavior I like to think of as  from the side, but where can come across as sarcastic, is just happy and having a good time.
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 is Negative Man from the game Mother 3. He's basically a joke boss; he never attacks your group and says depressing things like "Life is but a moment, a meaningless grain of sand."
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Friar Zucchini posted:There's other stuff like Backstory here. Tragically the rehosted pictures are also gone.
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Desperado Bones posted:I love all the variants of Naturally  is a BSG-specific variant of this emoticon. I imagine it was used in spades after the finale.
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Wait, about ... really? I was convinced it was the face of some SA forums user who happened to be a superb programmer... the guy who wrote a worm that changed something in FB, something like shitbook instead of FB or something? And then he got hired by FB? I am sure the same emoticon appears in FB, but you have to know the code and I have forgotten. Anyho, I was sure it was the same face.
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I remain utterly baffled by: Why is it a box? What does its boxness communicate? What does a duck have to do with this sentiment? I like stoats but I don't see why we would use one? I have no idea what this cat is from.
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Pick posted:I remain utterly baffled by: Kat Tut from Peggle. I'll let this horribly designed Wikia page talk about it, http://peggle.wikia.com/wiki/Kat_Tut
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is from Peggle. I don't know why it's ironic. Why is someone throwing bacon at this poor girl? 
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Who is the guy in the  smilie?
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JonBent0000 posted:
Here's why!: 
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I'd love to know the story behind 
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JonBent0000 posted:
It's from a GBS thread about this guy dealing with a really dumb student and her horrible stories, which included that line (I believe the character in the story was a Muslim). The girl in the avatar is the student. It was a pretty funny thread but I have no idea what made someone decide it was worth spending $30 on. On the other hand, I just noticed that the Reddit pedos thread inspired not one but two smilies,  and  . If there ever was a thread deserving of $60 it would be that one.I've always wondered where  came from.
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A Slice of Bread posted:Here's why!: I like to imagine you're answering the question about why bakon [sic] is being thrown at the girl. 
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Pick posted:
One of the original mods of BYOB was a poster named Stoat Box. I'm assuming it has something to do with him. If memory serves, he did something and was demodded. Been so long I don't remember. My BYOB memories are better served filled with GIFs of Willow and Madmartigan.
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Someone please explain  and  TIA
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Away all Goats posted:Someone please explain It is one of many Mass Effect related smilies.
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cletepurcel posted:I've always wondered where It's from some BBC (I think) nature/documentary/clip where a parrot starts shagging a guy's head. Spawned avatars as well, look at SH/SC moderator Star Wars Sex Parrot's.
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cletepurcel posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xICiQ-7hMPY#t=2m03s
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HorseRenoir posted:Who is the guy in the Jonathan Frakes, of Star Trek fame.  No idea why him, though.
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Perestroika posted:Jonathan Frakes, of Star Trek fame. Isn't it the picture of him that's stretched out and says "#1 Grandpa"?
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Dawncloack posted:Wait, about You are not thinking of :putnam: are you? because the face is a little different. (for those who have no idea, put :putnam: in FB chat)
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I must admit, I've always been curious about the sonia icon. I kinda don't want to actually use it incase it's  
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Perestroika posted:Jonathan Frakes, of Star Trek fame. There was (is?) a poster called What The Christ with Riker as his avatar with #1 Grandpa as his title text. Dude's been around since forever, I strongly suspect the smilie came from him. e: is indeed from a bunch of comics meant to educate people about autism/aspergers. Naturally the aspergers guy is dressed all in gray and has that face.
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Unfortunately I lack platinum but I remember the original thread for  in which the OP wanted to get it down to emoticon-size, but at the time it wasn't possible. This led to several edits, including Forkbanger and Evardread out-editing one another. What I want to know is who finally got the drat thing re-sized and purchased, because it didn't show up until a few years later and I rarely see it used!Why is  spelled wrong? And why are there two of them?  Clearly the second is in reference to something, but I can't figure out what!The sonia emote is related back to DPPH but I can't remember the specifics, it was before my time.
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