Can we have an Omega smiley?

[IanB]

OK, here's one more try at a good gif, right size, transparent background (I hope):

The test resistance is 30, and hopefully this looks OK.

[IanB]

Let's try with the darker background: 30

i was thinking a good smiley text would actually be :ohm: rather than the Mathjax syntax?

[tautech]

It's cool if you have the vocabulary to express yourself well with few words, not all can. Reminds me of my departed father in law whose most pointed one word reply was pillock. I'd never heard the term until I met him a few days after meeting my future wife.

The dead horse IMO is a much kinder way of addressing a member than  that can more easily be taken offence to.

I can see your point and I am sure most people find the dead horse frightfully amusing when used in some contexts.
Bring back Pillock I say. Classic.

BTW for the uninitiated and non native English speakers. Pillock means "stupid person". Think Jeremy Clarkson. I think James May said it when commenting on the incident when he (JC) punched a producer.

It wasn't just the word itself, it was the way and when the old fella used it, always with some feeling.
When it was mentioned at his funeral it brought those gathered to tears, most at some time had heard him use it.

[b_force]

I don't see why we need to delete smileys.
Heaps of space, we can easily add a few more IMO.

(I actually like the boxing one, I don't like many from the left to the middle, which I never ever use, because they look almost the same)

[tautech]

It wasn't just the word itself, it was the way and when the old fella used it, always with some feeling.

Exactly. That's the good thing about it. It lends itself to being said with feeling and effortlessly contemptuous. It's like I have the perfect word to describe you and it takes no effort at all to say it.

He made me laugh when he used pillock on my kids in their early years when they'd done the stupid things that kids do and again when he'd describe the way he'd dealt with some idiot at his work. Usually the last thing they heard when they left his office was pillock.
For kids the tone was of love, for adults when he really meant it it was with venom. 
Just as you say wilfred....classic. 

[T3sl4co1l]

I propose the next smiley addition be:



At this point we may want to throw the extra / less used / huge and bulky ones into a "more emoticons" toolbox.  I...think that's a standard forum option?

Tim

[Zero999]

I think there should be an FU smiley.

[MK14]

I think there should be an F* smiley.

Why ?
Surely this would maximise the chance of flame wars, online hate attacks, and other troubles to break out ?

This post might annoy you, so...

[Zero999]

I think there should be an F* smiley.

Why ?
Surely this would maximise the chance of flame wars, online hate attacks, and other troubles to break out ?

I wouldn't say that was the case on the other forum I used to post at which had an FU smiley (not ETO by the why, that's just where I uploaded it). It was used to flame inferior products and companies, rather than forum members, for example: "Ahgh I hate Vista. It's so annoying and bloated. "

This post might annoy you, so...

Now that smiley is annoying. lol

[MK14]

Now that smiley is annoying. lol

Sorry for that.

Present:

[tautech]

I propose the next smiley addition be:



At this point we may want to throw the extra / less used / huge and bulky ones into a "more emoticons" toolbox.  I...think that's a standard forum option?

Tim

Reviving this thread in the hope another symbol can be added and easily available for use:

Greek letter mu

We all know and use it as micro with F and H

Alt + 230 should embed it within text but not all know the Alt codes.


Do we need any others ? 

[Andy Watson]

µ  ?
Guess it depends on the character set of your browser - it's not guaranteed that everybody sees the same thing.

I assume the \$\LaTeX\$ thing works \$\mu\$ ?

[tooki]

Every major browser has handled Unicode adequately for many, many years now. (And your browser charset setting matters only for pages that don't declare the charset used, which is now rare, and violates the HTML standard.) It's flabbergasting that this forum is still limited to some 8-bit character set somewhere in the toolchain, and it's equally flabbergasting that more effort has gone into hackish workarounds than a proper fix.

Getting Unicode fixed once and for all would not only allow for Greek characters (and phonetic, and other foreign and symbol characters) to work, but emoji as well on any halfway recent OS.

[IanB]

Reviving this thread in the hope another symbol can be added and easily available for use:

Greek letter mu

As indicated by Andy, mu is not a problem: µV, µA, µF

[tautech]

µ  ?
Guess it depends on the character set of your browser - it's not guaranteed that everybody sees the same thing.

I assume the \$\LaTeX\$ thing works \$\mu\$ ?

Thanks Andy, we can see the syntax and how to use it now but to have one to use with a click would be easier for everybody else wouldn't it ? 

I'm thinking newbies and the like.

[Andy Watson]

but to have one to use with a click would be easier for everybody else wouldn't it ? 

I'm not against the idea, just slightly surprised that it's considered a problem. Typing Alt-Gr and the m key works for me.

[tautech]

Reviving this thread in the hope another symbol can be added and easily available for use:

Greek letter mu

As indicated by Andy, mu is not a problem: µV, µA, µF

Maybe not it may seem but if we had a smiley for it the \$\mu\$ might correctly get used more rather than the lazy u or am I  ?
This is an engineering forum isn't it ?

[IanB]

I just paste the µ from the Character Map (on Windows, but I assume Linux has similar).

[IanB]

...the lazy u...

I don't know how far you will get with that. Then we will need to get people writing 240 V instead of the 240v I see so often. Many people don't seem to "get" accurate technical notation.

[tautech]

...the lazy u...

I don't know how far you will get with that. Then we will need to get people writing 240 V instead of the 240v I see so often. Many people don't seem to "get" accurate technical notation.

That's probably where I'm going with this, somewhat in an attempt to lift the standards of what we often see here and if it's easier to do with another symbol in the smileys you'd naturally expect more to use it.
We need to think of the diverse range of experience and ability of members and despite this most use u. 

I do too only if I'm typing but anything hand written I use mu.

IMO as probably the most used Greek letter, mu needs adding to the smileys.

[T3sl4co1l]

...the lazy u...

I don't know how far you will get with that. Then we will need to get people writing 240 V instead of the 240v I see so often. Many people don't seem to "get" accurate technical notation.

Or more specifically, "240 V".

Tim

[IanB]

Or more specifically, "240 V".

Tim

I suspect that if I write 240?V (with thin space), the forum will show it as 240?V.

(And it did.)