I've noticed a peculiar thing happen on the forums. It started around the time of the contests for boys and girls. A bunch of people found out who was a boy and who was a girl. And then, all of a sudden, *hugs* emotes started popping up.

I myself find them annoying and sexist because they are only directed at women, as far as I can tell. And I never see *firm handshake* to the gents.

So, my questions are:

1) Can I please have some hugs?

2) Does it annoy you ladies?

3) Should we have more hugging?

4) Does a virtual hug feel good?

5) Please can I have some hugs?

6) Should we have some more emotes?

GOG's software doesn't even support extended unicode. As for emotes, I think they've been made obsolete by emoji. 🎄

b/g?

Here is your emote. :D

I'm happy to say I've never offered a *hug* to anyone, male or female, and I don't intend to start now! :-)

Hell of a hug, mate.

Is this the rebooting of the Conversational Free-For-All thread?

My mother taught me not to hug strangers.

Your long long distance hug reminds me of this project for some reason: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7415911.stm

1) *hug*
3) Nah
4) Depends on who is giving them ;-)
5) *more hugs*
6) Hmm... well there is also *wave* for the no hug crowd :P

(>^_^)> <(^.^<)

Uhm... what? I didn't get any of that. There were some contests? We have emotes here? There was hugging? Was there cake? Or death?

Someone promoted a cake hugging contest, then died soon after.

*hugs Breja like only a man can*

*bro-hug*