Facepalm 10/02/2009 07:45 PM CDT
We want it.

We need it.

Please make it.



Rev. Reene

"Shard by shard she rearranges the world.
It looks the same, she says, but it is not.
It looks as they expect, but it is not."
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Re: Facepalm 10/02/2009 10:15 PM CDT
This.

I would also like to see the facepalm verb expanded to include a double facepalm, usable when grouped or with some kind of cooperative acceptance and messaging system.

Caelumia gives you "that look". Do you want to facepalm with her? Type facepalm in the next 5 seconds to confirm.

>facepalm

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3517/3464488770_622e8e81d3.jpg

Because sometimes it's necessary for a whole room of people to facepalm in unison. It seriously is.



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"Ridicule may lawfully be employed where reason has no hope of success."
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Re: Facepalm 10/02/2009 10:17 PM CDT
I approve of this suggestion so hard.



Rev. Reene

"Shard by shard she rearranges the world.
It looks the same, she says, but it is not.
It looks as they expect, but it is not."
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Re: Facepalm 10/03/2009 12:06 AM CDT
Can it come with optional bleach shots?




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Re: Facepalm 10/03/2009 01:50 AM CDT
This is relevant to my interests.
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Re: Facepalm 10/04/2009 12:26 PM CDT
Slap self does basically the same thing.


You slap your forehead!

At least for the basic facepalm.

Shadeau Moonith,
Player of.

--
Badtooth slips an ice pick in his spidersilk garter, tightening the ribbons securely below his knee.
>gasp bad
You gasp at Badtooth!
>wave shade
You fan yourself.
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Re: Facepalm 10/04/2009 03:24 PM CDT
Oh, look who's back.

We know slap. We want facepalm. They're not the same.



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"Ridicule may lawfully be employed where reason has no hope of success."
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Re: Facepalm 10/04/2009 08:37 PM CDT
Yah, I dunno bout you but when I /facepalm, I'm not slapping my forehead.
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Re: Facepalm 10/04/2009 08:50 PM CDT
<<Yah, I dunno bout you but when I /facepalm, I'm not slapping my forehead.

Palm held centered over mouth or thereabouts, fingers splayed over the general eye area, head tilted down and shaking slightly is what I picture. Its body language is mildly saying 'What an idiot' about someone else. Forehead slapping is a visual, self-directed 'D'oh!'

On that note...

<</slap <self> = /facepalm 'light'

/facepalm

-Evran

P.S. I'm amused that I'm analyzing body language in a text game.

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Re: Facepalm 10/04/2009 09:34 PM CDT
Jack Benny!
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Re: Facepalm 10/05/2009 12:54 AM CDT
>Oh, look who's back.

I've been here. I just don't post too much.


Shadeau Moonith,
Player of.

--
Badtooth slips an ice pick in his spidersilk garter, tightening the ribbons securely below his knee.
>gasp bad
You gasp at Badtooth!
>wave shade
You fan yourself.
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Re: Facepalm 10/05/2009 12:58 AM CDT
>Its body language is mildly saying 'What an idiot' about someone else. Forehead slapping is a visual, self-directed 'D'oh!'

I'd never realized the ambiguity until the facepalm request threads, but I've always slapped my forehead (and kept my hand there) to express violent dismay somewhere in the continuity of violent expressions of dismay: headdesk, facewall, facefault.

Now I don't know what people are thinking when my character slaps her forehead. It's very distressing.


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Re: Facepalm 10/05/2009 01:15 AM CDT
I bet it's a regional thing. People here will smack their foreheads too rather than put their actual face in their palms.


Shadeau Moonith,
Player of.

--
Badtooth slips an ice pick in his spidersilk garter, tightening the ribbons securely below his knee.
>gasp bad
You gasp at Badtooth!
>wave shade
You fan yourself.
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Re: Facepalm 10/05/2009 07:57 AM CDT
For me it's always been a hand to my face with the index finger going along the top of my brow, covering my eyes and a gentle shake of the head with a sigh. I've never slapped myself. I'm from the west coast. My boyfriend also does it almost the same and he's from the southern midwest.
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Re: Facepalm 10/05/2009 08:12 AM CDT
Instead of facepalming, I just call people stupid.

That works for me.


- Paragon Korsik Rippentropp, Most Noble Paladine

Crusader against the Innocent
Defender of All That is Wrong


Trinean says, "He's tougher than Dametri."
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Re: Facepalm 10/05/2009 09:52 AM CDT
>For me it's always been a hand to my face with the index finger going along the top of my brow, covering my eyes and a gentle shake of the head with a sigh. I've never slapped myself. I'm from the west coast. My boyfriend also does it almost the same and he's from the southern midwest.

Same here, and I'm from the northeast. I notice people on the west coast do it too.
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Re: Facepalm 10/05/2009 04:00 PM CDT
Korsik says "Hella".
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Re: Facepalm 10/05/2009 05:46 PM CDT
WHAT YOU SAY?

WHY YOU DO THIS?!


- Paragon Korsik Rippentropp, Most Noble Paladine

Crusader against the Innocent
Defender of All That is Wrong


Trinean says, "He's tougher than Dametri."
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Re: Facepalm 10/06/2009 01:30 AM CDT
> WHAT YOU SAY?

Someone set us up the bomb.
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Re: Facepalm 10/09/2009 08:40 PM CDT
I like genie aliases.

>facepalm
>frown slightly and shakes her head with an expression of amazed bewilderment before resting her face in the palm of her hand.

You frown slightly and shakes her head with an expression of amazed bewilderment before resting her face in the palm of her hand.
>
Others see:

Leyhan frowns slightly and shakes her head with an expression of amazed bewilderment before resting her face in the palm of her hand.

Sure, it's not perfect, but it gets the message across anytime I've had to use it.
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Re: Facepalm 10/09/2009 08:55 PM CDT
SO stealing that. Why did I not think of this.

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Re: Facepalm 10/09/2009 08:57 PM CDT
Also stealing that.



Rev. Reene

"Shard by shard she rearranges the world.
It looks the same, she says, but it is not.
It looks as they expect, but it is not."
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Re: Facepalm 10/09/2009 11:26 PM CDT
Also stolen.

This might just be the first unofficial verb.
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Re: Facepalm 10/10/2009 12:13 AM CDT
lol

You're welcome?
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Re: Facepalm 10/10/2009 03:55 PM CDT
>>This might just be the first unofficial verb.

You are about 50 verbs and several years late. This may be the first popular one, though.

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