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in thread Larger profile pic than 80KB?

G'day K🛌,

Thanks for the clarifications. Much appreciated.

In general, I do not like blinking or flashing content; I find it distracting and annoying

Agreed.

After patiently refraining from using "image miniatures" for sixteen long years after my initial attempt of 2007, due to bandwidth concerns, it's been refreshing to play around with them again. So thanks for the prod. :)

As a way to repay you - as you may have noticed from the opening G'day salutation above - I've created a Unicode emoji for your kcott user name. Though we're both from Australia, I've used the US/Canadian meaning of cott (an obsolete spelling of cot) as "a simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes". In Australia/NZ, a cot is "a bed for infants or small children", but I couldn't find a Unicode emoji for an infant's bed. :) 

👁️🍾👍🦟

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Re^6: Larger profile pic than 80KB?
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 23, 2023 at 06:09 UTC
    I've created a Unicode emoji for your kcott user name.

    Oh dear ... there are some user names for which it might be better to not do that ;-)

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      "Oh dear" indeed:

      ☺️ 🍆 ☹️ 🥒 🤒 🥔 🤢

      😁 🤣 🙇 ⛈️ 💩 💨 🩲 😬

      — Ken

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Re^6: Larger profile pic than 80KB?
by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 23, 2023 at 09:39 UTC

    I have been trying to think of one for myself. The closest I came (which also included a bed/cot; although unoccupied) was:

    👌🏻🛏️🫖

    Which I think is pretty lame. 😢

    — Ken

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      Which I think is pretty lame

      I really like it for the inventive way you made it pure pictorial via the ok hand for the letter k and the teapot for the letter t.

      Googling for "ott" revealed that Ol Chiki script contains a letter with the name ott ... and it's shaped like a camel hump! ... leading to:

      👌🇨 ᱴ

      To make it pure pictorial we might try:

      👌🌊🐪 

      👁️🍾👍🦟
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        ++ Very inventive!

        At first glance, I thought the middle character was a shrimp (jumping out of the water). This led to my initial attempt at a translation:

        "OK, don't come the raw prawn with me, Perl!"

        After some research:

        • 🦐 U+1F990 SHRIMP
        • 🌊 U+1F30A WATER WAVE

        Another thought was the minimalistic Unicode (but not emoji) replacement of the current Ken with Kensp; — but that would just look like:

        — K 

        and the cleverness would be lost in the rendering.

        Post-preview footnote: Although HTML5 allows named character references without a leading ampersand, it would appear that PM does not. The markup "Kensp;" renders here as "Kensp;". I needed to change that to "K " to get the "K " you see above. Further loss of cleverness. :-(

        — Ken

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