Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 21 2020, @03:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the succinct-and-to-the-point dept.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay4kb/guillotine-emoji-unicode

When you want to express your complete rage at the incompetence of leadership over text, in a way that says "I would like to see their heads removed at the neck with a large falling blade and rolled into little baskets" but less literal and more succinct, an emoji would help a lot.

Sadly, there is no guillotine emoji, despite "guillotine them" being the ruling sentiment of the pissed-off proletariat for the last... well, probably many years, but more lately, as tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests around the world.

Lisbon-based artist Carrozo is lobbying the Unicode Consortium to include a guillotine in its next emoji update, and has sent an application outlining why the people need the 18th century execution machine in their emoji lexicon.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday July 21 2020, @11:06PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday July 21 2020, @11:06PM (#1024779)

    The guillotine was in use for a long time before the French made them famous.

    I saw this beauty [nms.ac.uk] at the Scottish National Museum when I visited.

    Typical Scots:

    used for beheading criminals in Edinburgh, 1564 - 1710 AD

    Really getting their money's worth.

    There are other old ones too: The Halifax Gibbet [atlasobscura.com]was never sharpened, which seems a bit harsh.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2