Hugs no longer allowed on the forum!

[Serial_Apologist]

How sad! I just referenced the emojis to add one to a post and clicked on the much-loved symbol... and there was nothing!

Is this to comply with current social distancing requirements!

[vinteuil]

How sad! I just referenced the emojis to add one to a post and clicked on the much-loved symbol... and there was nothing!

Is this to comply with current social distancing requirements!

... no - it means you can now move to the next stage -



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[cloughie]

... no - it means you can now move to the next stage -



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What? And hug from there?

[kernelbogey]

Hug emojis may only be used once the government says it's safe to do so.
(IMVVHO)

[french frank]

That's very odd. It was : hug : wasn't it? The file no longer appears in the FTP smiley folder, so it may be gone for good I think it was one the original BBC messageboard gifs which very puzzlingly seemed to transfer with the members on to our forum. But it does mean that every time it was used here it will have already been replaced by a blank space because the filepath no longer exists.

I have added new emojis, but they're never as good as the old b**b ones because I can't make them small and clear.

I will enquire of the National Cyber Security Centre whether we could have been hacked by the government, perhaps several months ago.

[Padraig]

I will enquire of the National Cyber Security Centre whether we could have been hacked by the government, perhaps several months ago.

Excellent f f. This could be the start of something big.

[Serial_Apologist]

Hug jacked - or hug mugged!

[kernelbogey]

It's that hugger-mugger at work!

[gurnemanz]

I just opened the BBC news page to read the headline: Hug but be cautious - which I interpret either as Don't Hug or Hug but dont blame us if you catch Covid.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I just opened the BBC news page to read the headline: Hug but be cautious - which I interpret either as Don't Hug or Hug but dont blame us if you catch Covid.

Indirect, oblique hugs are OK but full-on ones are discouraged

[LMcD]

To slightly misquote a very famous last line: 'This could be the end of a number of beautiful friendships'.

[Nick Armstrong]

How sad! I just referenced the emojis to add one to a post and clicked on the much-loved symbol... and there was nothing!

[cloughie]

To slightly misquote a very famous last line: 'This could be the end of a number of beautiful friendships'.

But it’s only the beginning of the line...

[BBMmk2]

Virtual hugs to everyone here!

[jayne lee wilson]

Last Autumn - pre or post lockdown, I forget - I was waiting outside Sainsburys with my bags for the Taxi home. I became aware of someone calling out "great trees!"...."great trees!".....
Looking around I saw a young woman at the cash dispenser. Thinking she may be on the Tourettes continuum, I glanced across smiling. "I can't help it...I can't help it....sorry..." She said.

She came over, carefully folding the money away, "I can't help it...".
"Its OK... its OK..", I said..."Trees are great. Hug a tree today!"
"I don't hug trees", she said. "But will you hug me, please?"

Our embrace was long, warm, and mutually needy. Finally, I pulled back as gently as I could.... regretting doing so immediately.
She walked away, looked back and said 'You're beautiful! You're a beautiful woman!"

Since you ask, she wasn't wearing a mask; I had pulled mine down after leaving the shop.

I never saw her again. I never forgot it.