moan

retiredin2011

What are these forums coming to, when, being high on cough medicine and brandy toddy , you post a jokey answer to a post, including a :rotfl:and nobody gets it?

I'm away to lie down.

kermitfrog

If you needed the smiley, it probably wasn't very funny.

Zedicus

kermitfrog wrote: »

If you needed the smiley, it probably wasn't very funny.

Not necessarily true. There are some quite slow people here.

arcon5

The symbol can also come across as a way of patronising somebody.

Zedicus

arcon5 wrote: »

The symbol can also come across as a way of patronising somebody.

Especially if they are a little on the paranoid side.

flashg67

If it makes you feel any better, I agree that one would go 'up' to Glasgow from Bath....... :rotfl:

mandragora_2

I thought you got an apology from them pretty much straight away.... and an acknowledgement that they'd misread your post because they felt it had been a 'morning for trolls' - s/he wasn't suggesting you were one...