Have you ever tried to cut and paste anything into Yahoo/AIM/ICQ/MSN, etc…? More than likely you’ll get a ton of random happyfaces throughout whatever you are attempting to show your friend. Well I’m sure it’s bad with any of those but Trillian has got them all beat. Why? Because it combines all of them into one. Why, oh why:

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I cannot fathom a reason I would need to have so many emoticons. And now you are rightfully saying, “Turn them off, dumbass.” Yes, but then while I am talking to my girlfriend she is typing things like, (@) and I have no clue what that means (it’s a cat for all those who haven’t played with Trillian). Why do I need to know it’s a cat? Because otherwise I spend at least a few seconds typing out something like this:

RSnake’s girlfriend: (@)
RSnake: WTF is a parentheses at parentheses?
RSnake’s girlfriend: its a cute kitty cat
RSnake: Stupid Yahoo emoticons.
RSnake’s girlfriend: (@) actually doesnt do anything in yahoo
RSnake: oh
RSnake’s girlfriend: i just know its a kitty
RSnake’s girlfriend: cos kitties are important.
RSnake’s girlfriend:
RSnake: I want the last 20 seconds of my life back.

It’s simply not worth my time to deal with that. It’s faster to write this rant, believe it or not, given how many smileys are out there. And by the way, since when is a cat an emotion? Hasn’t this all gone too far? Yes, I’m stuck in a world of smiley faces and ROFLs and other whathaveyous. Feel for me.

-RSnake