No, Kim Kardashian's plump posterior's pixels did not break the App Store – just this El Reg man's mind The Oxford English Dictionary selected an emoji as the Word of the Year for 2015. Not the word "emoji" but an actual emoji. The one chosen was the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji and the OED explained it has chosen this one because it was the most popular, making up 20 per cent of all the emojis used in the UK during the year, …
The OED describes English usage; we have no Académie and our language is not prescribed.
A Good Thing too! The OED is also the most comprehensive dictionary we have. Very useful when reading something written centuries ago and the word has fallen out of use, or more commonly, changed its meaning. It must be very frustrating for the French having words in common use, but not in any French dictionary because the words were invented by the Greeks, Germans, English...
I can remember when the OED used to be a (perhaps the) real work of reference.
My copy still is. Nowhere does it appear to have reference to Kardashian's fat arse. I guess I will have admire Mrs Git's arse instead, especially since she was so very kind enough to purchase the OED for my birthday several years ago.
"People are idiots." The fact that it is a raging success on Apple's App Store would seem to suggest that it is actually a subset of people, namely those that willingly submit to the Appletax, that are the idiots in question. Of course, there has been considerable evidence that they are idiots for quite a while now.
I grieve that is this is most important news of the day in some circles. Her large posterior and mindless thoughts get more lines of press than anything else it seems. And her claim to fame and being this fount of wisdom is... ???? Hell if I know... but it says a lot about where civilization is headed.
Please stop the planet I want to get off...
Dear Internet,
I can handle funny and amusing cat videos. I can take satirical websites and know they aren't real. I understand your attempt at an encyclopedia (wiki) is at best semi-truthful and other research needs to be done, I don't mind it being mostly porn, I don't really partake but each to their own. I don't like trolls but find them mostly harmless and sad people. However the one thing I can't take is some self-righteous idiot with loads of money for no reason who is so far up her own arse she turns it into an emoji (not that I use such tools of satan). Please somehow correct this horrendous mistake by disconnecting the stupid or having a test when people log on.
Many Thanks,
P.S. Microsoft says sorry for rinsing you with 386 billion 4gb windows 10 downloads that are never going to get used.
P.P.S. Adobe just outright says sorry for flash.
P.P.P.S. Is Kim Dotcom the guy from the thumbman meme?
"... for no reason who is so far up her own arse ..."
Hmmm. Assuming that this is correct information since I just read it on t'internert ...
Would you be suggesting that this presumed factoid has any relation to the size of anything in general or particular?
No, on second thoughts don't answer that. Enquiring minds don't etc...
I very much doubt that Ms K herself turned anything into an emoji as her fingernails are too long and her brain (probably) too short for her to work a keyboard with enough coherence to produce an emoji or an app. Ms K is a product and is sold by a management team and PR department the same way as any other product. The team is busy producing more little K's for when version 1 reaches its end of life. If you do not like this proprietary celebrity there are plenty of free and open source celebrities busy promoting themselves right now. See You Tube for numerous examples. If you prefer alternative opiates then there is a glut of porn to choose from, or a fine selection of religions and political parties to suit every taste. There are even actual opiates should you be unable to adjust to more abstract distractions and require something with more substance.
So you're saying they won't be any good till Version 3.11, oscillate a bit till they peak at V7, and then engage in a series of more or less unsuccessful experiments - while still retaining the majority of the celebrity market share?
Version 2 and above of this class of product rarely achieves the awesomeness and depth of version 1 and, personally, I think this product line has already peaked and they are about to enter the degenerate stage and enter rehab, at which point they will all appear on the Oprah show, or whatever is the latest flavour of whiny and earnest, to make their confessions about how they were abused as children and daddy didn't understand them and mummy was simply awful! Perhaps they already did that and I missed it. Dunno...
I recently saw the pictures that were going to "break the internet" (they're easily available on your favorite search engine) and if I had to use one and only one word to describe her, uh, "attributes", that word would be "grotesque". She is a living caricature of the female body.
The human organism always worships.
First, it was the gods.
Then it was fame (The observation and judgement of others).
Next it will be self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgement.
You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.
Exodus 20:4-5 "You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them..."
That includes fat cows, because He knew it would end like this.
They didn't listen then, they don't listen now.
Very good. Like the US Constitution, there are strict constructionists and more sensible people. A lot depends on whether the word in the first sentence means "image", "statue or carving" or "idol", and whether the two sentences are separate or joint. I am replying because you have used the word "image" which is preferred by the fundies, whereas the Catholic Church is quite clear in its mind that the word effectively means "idol".
I personally am of the view that Kardashian is a completely harmless phenomenon provided people are not bowing down to her or worshipping her, for some value of worship. Only the most dismal prophets, like Moses and that guy with the fun bypass Elijah, would get too worried about people deriving amusement from her.
Every time a Kim Kardashian story comes up that I am in time to comment on I feel the need to admit that I quite like looking at her - from any angle.
Beyond that, however, nothing she does or says has any impact or relevance to my life and I have absolutely no concern for her one way or the other, beyond (of course) the normal concern I feel for every member of the human race who isn't Kim Jong Il, Vladimir Putin and my year 7 English teacher.
Being totally neutral however, what is abundantly plain is that she is exceptionally savvy in the ways of the media and whether you or I feel the same, millions of people around the world really do give a crap and are willing to PAY to give a crap.
I really don't get all the Kim Kardashian hate because about the worst you can level at her is that she is willing to sell herself and is relatively indiscriminate in doing so, so long as it makes money (which it always seems to). And surely that is only the concern of a very small number of people - most of whom have a 'K' pretty predominantly in their names.
The only real question I have is: what exact emotion/sentiment is economically conveyed by a cartoon-esque image of Kim Kardashian's bum? Or indeed her face? I suppose if someone sent an image/link of her bum then you could respond with an appropriate 'kimoji' but that would seem somewhat redundant to me.
Even that enormous silicon implanted arse? Well, I suppose someone has to.
FWIW, here it is in all its glory...
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/jac2cQvvpOoyqIde4AEnBQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAwO2lsPXBsYW5l/http://magazines.zenfs.com/resizer/2.0/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w800/4032054d3f8cf665a583312f466dce3e1699c064.png.cf.jpg
Good God! Is that the source of the joke whose punch line is ".. She doesn't have to put a pillow under her ass" ?
Nah ... I first heard it from an Aussie long before our minds had the risk of being kardashianised.
Course who knows she may even be a nice girl under all the hype. And silicon.
"Incredibly, the smartphone app seems to believe people will pay $1.99 for the pleasure of being able to send these little pictures. And even more incredibly, they are. It has become the top paid-for app in the Apple store in just one day."
Someone help me out here - I can't seem to find the "What the Actual Fuck! Face" emoji.
I would make a comment about black holes in reference to your astronomical comment but that might be seen as tasteless and possibly racist. So I wont.
Pompous Gits are renowned for bringing down the tone, so I would. However, Stephen Hawking beat me to it. Rotating hairy black holes. And here's a paper:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.04831.pdf
Exactly as with typefaces, you can potentially design and send them, but nobody at the other end will be able to interpret them.
Even the old ASCII-based emoticons have this - I might define for myself (((¦:->)= as having some meaning, but your messaging client will just render it as punctuation marks with no interpretation.
Who makes you look at or listen to them?
I find something a bit worrying about people who want to put women, even annoying ones, into burqas. If they were knocking on your door and shouting through the letterbox you might have a point, but as it is you just come over as intolerant of the amusements of the general public.
It was Hilaire Belloc who summarised a lot of "charitable" activity as being "The society of the rich for suppressing the amusements of the poor". And he had a point.
Even though the Germans have the wonderful word Arschbombe I seriously doubt one lady's bottom can destroy something that is based on a communications system designed to survive a nuclear attack.
On a related note, I think it would be nice to live in a world where people who actually contribute to society are famous.
Kipling, as usual with anything vaguely engineering related, has a poem about it (fame, not Arschbomben).
"Even though the Germans have the wonderful word Arschbombe I seriously doubt one lady's bottom can destroy something that is based on a communications system designed to survive a nuclear attack."
According to the very latest in scientific modelling, trapped gas can cause Martian gullies and with an arse that size who knows what might happen if there's a lot of trapped gas.
Sad indication of where we are at. At the bottom of this page, like most others today, there is a section of click bait links provided (I think) by Google. So for a story about Kim's big booty, there is a clean sweep of Kim Booty pics there. There are 6 things on the Internet I may be interested in, and all 6 of them live between Kim Kardashion's ample cheeks... I suppose in some ways that's better than a clean sweep of Viagra ads, because the whole Internet knows I am a male over 50, from an industrial country, so I must have erectile dysfunction... Or I am in extreme need of a mail order bride from some part of the world I would not dream of travelling to... I had great hope and excitement about the emergence of the Internet in the mid 90s, but this was not quite what I envisioned... That had more Brianna Frost and Kyra Augustina in it...
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