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Comment by GrumpyNl | Hacker News Reader

Im getting old, cant wrap my head around this and its getting first page at HN.

What is there to wrap your head around?

You can send people a cute little bagel when you message them. It's funny. It's entertaining. Makes life a little more interesting.

Don't lose your sense of humor, or get too jaded as you age. The world has it's flaws but I hope we can all find some small joy in things like emoji.

It's not that. The question is who cares whether the cute little bagel has cream cheese or not?

It is a good thing I suppose, it means some of us don't have bigger worries than that.

Not all that good when there are quite the few bigger worries affecting all of us... but some would rather care about what's on a bagel emoji.

Just because people care about one thing, it doesn't mean that they don't care about other things, or even that they care less about other things.

Do you routinely eat bagels dry? I don't think most of us do.

Having the emoji show a barren surface is a great insult to those of us who enjoy bagels. It was not cute until they fixed this terrible error.

> Makes life a little more interesting

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Me neither. It reminds me of a post I saw a while ago where a Google employee was super excited to announce the redesign of their salad emoji. The only difference was that they removed the hard boiled egg from the emoji because they said it wasn't inclusive enough of vegans and vegetarians.

Vegetarians eat eggs.

No, really, I would like to cosign with your comment. Who in the f--k needs a bagel emoji? Who is picky about that emoji? How did I even lose 15 seconds to commenting about this?

Who in the f--k needs a bagel emoji?

People who live in New York. Or Palm Springs. Or a few other cities I can think of would certainly use it more than the sushi emoticon.

I need it in California so I can explain why the bread toruses in Safeway aren't real bagels.

Because you care enough to make it about you and signal to the rest of us how little you ostensibly care. You found a way to feed your ego from a silly post about bagel emoji.

I know that's a hard take, but that's exactly what just happened, disgusted under a thin veil of protest. We do it all the time. ;)

I think you're giving me too much credit.

I wonder how many nouns will eventually get their own pictogram. How abstract can you go? Or verbs and adjectives, for that matter. After all, there's plenty of room in Unicode.

I mean, emoji was never meant to be serious. Why would I wanna send my friend bunch of yellow faces or a tiny image of bagel if I'm being serious? Just entertainment.

IIRC, Google fixing its magic beer emoticon was one of the high points of a recent developer's conference.

Chalk it up to where we're at in 2018, I suppose.

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