El Reg commentards offered extra iconography Last September, in the wake of a rather unpopular redesign of the El Reg comments icons (an outrage subsequently dubbed "Icongate" by shaken Vulture Central staff), we asked you, our beloved readers, to suggest possible new icons, the better for you to express your feelings on our world-class IT news coverage. We then forgot …
And why does he deserve 2 icons of his own.
I like the 'Big Brother' icon and the 'suck on this' icon
The problem is it's a little like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Jacqui is gone now so all this big Brother snooping is going to stop isn't it........
A shouty shouty for me please....
could have been useful. Thanks El Reg, aside from this glaring omission. Anway, to the meat of what I'm trying to say: who is the pedantic nazi grammar dude? He looks like a Stalin/Elvis cross to my untrained eye.
Pint as it's gone 11am and it really is time for one.
btw if anyone has a pair of glasto tickets going spare, then the pint icon would also apply!
@ Richard Cain 1, @ Robert Ramsay : Of course it is ! Many thanks.
Mouse-over pops-up "Pedantic grammar nazi alert". Surely that should be Nazi with a capital "N" ? And isn't "grammer Nazi" a Proper Noun so should it be capital "G" as well ? I'd argue that should be hyphenated too, "Grammar-Nazi", but that may just be my old schooling.
So I get to use Jimmy in anger :-)
And cue the debate on whether Proper Noun is a Proper Noun.
...of censure can I ask why, after all this time there is still no "Me, in my underpants, contemplating the biscuit crumbs in my navel" icon? I have SVG artwork, ready to go, as well as original 12 megapixel HDR imagery for those who appreciate the extra colour and texture.
I don't understand exactly what more I need to do. I have no choice but to take my El Reg account and continue to use it to post unhelpful, obtuse, and irrelevant comments. You were warned. You had a choice. You have no-one else to blame. I am sorry. You chose this destiny.
I had no icon, which i voted was good, unlike some who voted it was bad, but i couldnt stop because I had to go, wtf i thought to myself as i got a fail, i was happy when i should have been sad, my heart was still happy, even though i was in flames, blow them up i thought but then they would be dead, IT huh i shouted whilst some troll on stupid education looked on, i then saw paris, so i got my coat, told a joke over a beer, ESCape at last, I felt welcome until a warning popped up of a bug, which was hazardous, but it wasnt worried about hazards i was worried about badgers till i spotted pirates, and no sign of ross kemp, alien technology and rise of the machines and some dude left me using linux, i thought bill was a saint but after the warning of bugs he was a devil and the other guy is no saint either hes a devil.
Nonsense courtesy of icons.
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fuck I'm still so angre that it hasn't been fixed...
Grr now wheres my Im sooo friggign angry icon?
ahh that'll do.
(for those wondering the actual text box is about 1/3rd of the size of the rectangle surrounding it. [if you must try to fill the box! 30 w should do it.])
All Hail the Mighty, (sometimes) Merciful Moderatrix, who Makes Mincemeat of Miscreants and Manages the Mob of us, the unruly, unwashed commentards! I thank you for the education, you so thoughtfully provided for me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E10Bp_mPXXA).
Of course, I have only the opinions that you deign to allow me to hold. However I 'reckon' that this should be your icon, and so I dedicate it to you. It has a nice double meaning, in that it obviously represents the adoring heart, but if you squint a bit could also stand for the freshly-whipped backside of an incautious commentard demanding a new icon. I'm assuming you use a whip with a nail in the end, for extra 'impact'...
Actually an icon for 'I have no properly thought-out opinions, but I reckon that I know more about engineering than the person/company portrayed in the above story' would be quite welcome... Perhaps a sliderule being shoved up the arse of an architect would do quite nicely?
It would appear to be a closeup of a computer keyboard stained with some sort of brown liquid, probably caffeine-based.
Incidentally, the bloke with the horrendous moustache is some Soviet-era Georgian called Dzhugashvili, who used to be cited to psychology students as a probable example of the very rare mental illness of pure paranoia.
We don't believe it without piccies.
@AC 11:28 GMT
Is that a penguin?
Looks more like a Dodo...
Oh, I thought you said it looked like a PEDO...
@Sarah
We use these things in an arch, satirical, once-removed kind of way.
Except in your case.
FAIL!
OUCH! Spanked by the Moderatrix!
Anyway, that pint should be a tall single malt, neat!
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