Emoticons blow...
and that is my contention.
In just about every conversation I have in some chat program, some douchebag has to exchange words with stupid-looking emoticons that says just that word he/she was typing, only it's animated and it is making my testicles have cancer and it's giving me an epileptic seizure. Cut the bullshit. Please. Noone likes your moving, flashy emoticons and you're not trendy and innovating using them. You're just annoying.
When people send me these emoticons, little, flashy animations sayings stuff like "COOL", "JEPP", and other words implemented in their 40-word vocabulary, I sometimes check out what they wrote to bring forth their little animation. And it is just the word they emoticons display! It's not parenthesized, it's not in brackets, etc.
Who is this stupid?
Why am I bothered by this? Do people do this shit to me intentionally just to piss me off and write things like this about it?