eMANticons

If you grew up in the advent of instant messaging you'll know exactly what an emoticon is. What started as a simple ":)" soon transformed into little yellow smiling faces into what are now fully moving animations. Almost every emotion can be expressed: anger, sickness, sadness, embarrassment, peacefulness, love and not to forget plain old happiness.

Now if you're an emotional type of person, emoticons are fantastic. If on the other hand you are a man then emoticons just don't cut the mustard.

In fact the use of emoticons in man-to-man communications is a huge no-no. Sending a smiley to another man is basically a public invalidation of your masculinity.

So let me introduce to you - eMANticons. Designed by men - for men.

Here are some examples you might like to use:

This is a symbol representing a flexed bicep indicating raw strength and general power.

A gun - representing a killer instinct and an ability to inflict pain.

This is a hammer, representing our ability to hit stuff and create things with ease.

This symbolises a BBQ hotplate and grill. I don't even need to explain the link there.

These are just some tasters into the world of eMANticons - the new frontier in man-to-man online communication. =()=/