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having pounded these keys recently pointing out that we all come from such different life experiences.......i admit to being surprised when i saw the smilie. i wouldn't use it. heck, it doesn't even take a smilie for someone to feel that something is directed towards them............and, i've never held back from saying that the reason we're all here is that we're crazy..........

i see the potential for it being used in a less than joking manner. but, then that's me, i'm concerned for the quiet, the shy, the ones who don't get hugged and those who feel as if they don't matter here...............love, pat p.s. and just because i have a big mouth doesn't mean that i couldn't be hurt by that one...........xoxoxo

all it takes is ONE pissy moment and someone posts "i'm not...smilie.........and 3/4 of the members here will think it is about them.........

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this was my first post about it........i did not see the thread when it first went up........

i am not denigrating anyone's sense of humour here nor am i even "hinting" that a sense of humour is not good for PC. read what you will into my posts. it's known, far and wide, that i have a sense of humour and i use it when i see fit. if turning this into whether or not some people don't get other poster's humour seems appropriate, go ahead on......as Leon Russell would say.

i can see by going back and reading the thread all the way through that numerous people understand why the thread was started and that's a-ok with me.

angie, i was called many hurtful words while a child. i'm with you, woman.......love ya, pat