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We are put out some feelers to determine whether you, our beloved readers, fancy some extra comments icons to add to the mighty arsenal available to better express your feelings on topics of international import. It's been 18 months or so since we last had an iconography shake-up, and your input proved invaluable in the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    popcorn

    popcorn

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    1. Grikath
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      Re: popcorn

      This one would see heavy use...

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    2. g e
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      Re: popcorn

      My first thought.

      Thoroughly seconded.

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    3. GregC
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      Re: popcorn

      Yup, agreed

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    4. Psyx
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      Pint

      Re: popcorn

      We also need a bacon sandwich.

      Popcorn is nice and all, but isn't a bacon buttie a better nibble?

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    5. Anonymous Coward
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      Mushroom

      Re: popcorn

      Bollocks to popcorn, commentards.

      Think what could be achieved with .wav "icons".

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  2. Lockwood

    Return of the ! Badgers

    Banging head against wall, for where facepalm doesn't quite cover it?

    That evil robot face burn it with fire thing from the Technologic music video for when our metal overlords are jsut about to strike?

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    1. Haku
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      If animated gifs are allowed...

      Self head smash

      Self head slap

      DEATH TO TECHNOLOGY!!

      What the hell am I looking at?

      Frickin' lasers

      No

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      1. Oninoshiko
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        Re: If animated gifs are allowed...

        ugh animated gifs.

        Just kill me now.

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        1. David Given
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          Re: If animated gifs are allowed...

          Good idea --- how about a 'kill me now' icon?

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      2. Fatman
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        Re: If animated gifs are allowed...Self head slap

        I would suggest that an image of Rush Limbaugh banging himself with a microphone be used instead of the image proposed.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      "metal overlords"

      Yeah! Right! Oi! Eighties, pipe down.

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  3. Anonymous Custard

    Lohan

    As an update to the Paris icon, and in honor of SPB's latest.

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  4. M Gale

    Custom

    Let users upload a selection of their own 32x32 bitmaps. Banhammer available in case of penis.

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    1. Peter Simpson 1
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      Re: Custom

      "Banhammer available in case of penis."

      OW!

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      1. M Gale
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        Re: Custom

        Brings back memories of the moderatrix and her gleefully-administered emasculations.

        Come back Ms Bee, it's just not the same without you!

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  5. IHateWearingATie
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    Sort the troll icon

    ... it's rubbish. Needs to be far more troll-like (take inspiration from The Hobbit)

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Sort the troll icon

      Are you new to the Intarpipes?

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    2. jonathanb Silver badge
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      Re: Sort the troll icon

      I agree. A troll should look something like this

      http://www.shopatnorway.com/images/840170_LA_troll_norway.jpg

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      1. Lockwood
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        Re: Sort the troll icon

        I think that successful troll has been successful.

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    3. Lone Gunman
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      Re: Sort the troll icon

      Depends whether you want a Nordic furry troll or a Discworld rock troll.

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    4. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Sort the troll icon

      "Sort the troll icon

      ... it's rubbish. Needs to be far more troll-like (take inspiration from The Hobbit)"

      Or a fannyboi, now there's a TROLL for you!

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  6. El Presidente

    Male Chicken Icon

    For obvious reasons.

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    1. SuperTim
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      Re: Male Chicken Icon

      Yes, or the end of a bell...again for obvious reasons!

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    2. Z-Eden
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      Devil

      Re: Male Chicken Icon

      Agreed. And said chicken should appear being visibly throttled...

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    3. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Male Chicken Icon

      And:

      A snout in a trough (for the sort of graft that the UK now does so well)

      A bishop's mitre (for all sorts of religious and unscientific beliefs)

      A justice statue with scales that don't balance (where there's one law for us, one law for them)

      Some police line tape (for "nothing to see here, move along!")

      And most importantly, what about the ability to combine up to four icons? So if discussing some spurious technical angle to Margaret Moran's expenses, we could have a snout in a trough, a thumbs down, an imbalanced justice, and some police tape.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Male Chicken Icon

        "A bishop's mitre (for all sorts of religious and unscientific beliefs)"

        Also acts as an alternative to the male chicken - possibly for religious scandals?

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      2. Fred Flintstone Gold badge
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        That's another one: police tape

        I think a police tape icon would actually be good too.

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  7. ukgnome

    Yes Yes Yes

    We need a fandroid, Popcorn, kamikaze

    and for the yanks - an asshat

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    1. Captain Save-a-ho
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      Re: Yes Yes Yes

      and for the yanks - an asshat

      Would it be legal to use David Cameron's image?

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      1. LateNightLarry
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        Pint

        Re: Yes Yes Yes

        Better yet, Mutt Romney or Paul Ryan, aka the Lyin' Twins...

        A nice glass of wine for those of us with slightly more sophisticated tastes would be nice too.

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  8. h4rm0ny

    Bring back the old ones...!

    I would like to have Steve Jobs with a halo back again.

    Also, can we have a different icon than the Anonymous mask for anonymous posts. They're not the same thing.

    Also, can you put a block on Bob Vistakin using the Linux logo? Some of us Linux users find it embarrasing.

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    1. Andy 115
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      Re: Bring back the old ones...!

      Surely the Anonymous icon should be a chicken?

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    2. jonathanb Silver badge
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      Re: Bring back the old ones...!

      And a flying chair

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    3. Anonymous Coward
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      @h4rmony

      Most Linux users have a lot more to be embarrassed about then Bob Vistakin ...

      As for icons - ditch the whole thing. It's just irritating and childish.

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      1. sabroni Silver badge
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        Re: It's just irritating and childish

        Yup!

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    4. Joe K
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      Re: Bring back the old ones...!

      Another vote here for bringing back the old ones, they were much better.

      The angel/devil ones now are awful, the fanboi one makes no sense, troll guy is from 4chan, and we really REALLY need the El Reg gravestone back.

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  9. Mint Sauce

    Playmobil

    For when only a re-creation of an incident will do :-)

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    1. Psmiffy
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      Re: Playmobil

      Definitily a Playmobil icon ...

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  10. Anonymous Coward
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    Definitely need icons for

    ennui and schadenfreude.

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    1. frank ly
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      Re: Definitely need icons for

      You're thinking about Apple/Samsung aren't you?

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      1. mhoulden
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        Meh

        Re: Definitely need icons for

        Wouldn't a Tweedledum and Tweedledee one be more appropriate for out of control lawyers?

        (One change I'd like would be to change "Anonymous Coward" back to "Anonymous Vulture". This is not Slashdot and sometimes there are good reasons to post anonymously)

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    2. g e
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      Re: Definitely need icons for

      'Buddy Jesus' perhaps as in 'That's karma for ya' ?

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  11. wowfood

    Trollface updates

    Add in other trollface type meme images, including but not limited to

    Cereal guy

    poker face

    rage face

    me gusta

    Facedesk (possibly animated)

    popcorn

    lolipop

    rotten apple / apple core

    broken android (best example http://www.iadea.com/sites/www.iadea.com/files/images/broken-android.jpg )

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  12. Harvey Trowell
    Mushroom

    Ooh, ooh! Please sir, can we get our hand grenade back?

    I miss the hand grenade icon. It allowed a warmer and more personal response than nuking from orbit.

    Also, how about a "Where's the bacon angle?" icon, possibly featuring a perplexed pig.

    Finally, perhaps an icon of a toilet obscured by a red ring with a diagonal slash, indicating an objection to toilet humour etc, to be used whenever that Hard Reg chap feels the need to squeeze a peurile and lunch-ruining bodily functions gag into a console review and we need to remind him that El Reg isn't Viz.

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    1. Fred Flintstone Gold badge
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      we need to remind him that El Reg isn't Viz.

      Spoilsport. After me trying to encourage that view..

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    2. Tom 13
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      Re: Ooh, ooh! Please sir, can we get our hand grenade back?

      Oooh! oooh! Not just any hand grenade. The Holy Hand Grenade. As an animated gif.

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  13. bag o' spanners
    Terminator

    A maggoty apple. (All purpose)

    A bowler hat to represent the establishment view.

    A Shoreditch Triangle...in case of breakdowns.

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    1. dotdavid
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      Joke

      <- And there I was thinking this was a Shoreditch Triangle...

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      And one for rank, steaming hypocrisy. I favour a picture of Tony Blair.

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