You may call me a curmudgeon or a scrooge or any other damn thing you like.

I like how this forum works: software upgrades happen and we don't notice a disruption (yay!), we are civil with each other (yay!), and I have learned a hell of a lot in the past few days (double yay!). This is a pretty good group of guys to belong to. My only complaint? Smilies. I can't abide the things. They are just too unbearably cute.

\(^_^)/ Bah.

I mean, here we are asserting that the wearing of the kilt demonstrates our masculinity to ourselves, to women, and to other men. But we use smilies to do it? How manly is that? Is it just me, or do these two facts seem contradictory?