The day of the departure comes, and Doono, Dunno, and fourteen other Mites come on board. Everyone helps with preparations except for Dunno, who is too busy bossing everyone around and providing useless advice. The parachutes and other supplies are loaded, and sixteen seats are accommodated for. A large rubber balloon is then inflated, fastened to the basket, and filled with hot air. He and his friends begin extracting rubber, weaving the basket, and making emergency parachutes out of dandelions. He then gets into a fight with his best friend Gunky for not ending his friendships with the girl-shorties Pee-Wee and Tinkle (generally, boy-Mites did not like girl-Mites, and vice versa).ĭoono proposes to build a hot air balloon and go on an adventure. Next, ignoring the warnings of Swifty, Dunno crashes Bendum and Twistum's car into the Cucumber River and ends up in the hospital. Then he proceeds to try music, art, and poetry, but his unorthodox endeavors only irritate his friends, and he is forced to quit. First, he becomes convinced that the sun is falling and manages to scare half the town before Doono, Dunno's brainy antithesis (his name is derived from the Russian " знаю", I know) clears everything up. In Flower Town, Dunno gets into heaps of trouble. The illustration for The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends. In Nosov's universe, each shorty occupies his/her own niche in the community and is named accordingly. All fruits and vegetables growing in Flower Town are, however, their regular size, so the Shorties invent sophisticated methods of growing and harvesting them. They are described to be sized like "medium cucumbers", a quality that has earned them the name "shorties" or "mites". The three fairy tale novels follow the adventures of the little fictional childlike people living in "Flower Town". simplified Chinese: 小无知 traditional Chinese: 小無知.Both apps should allow for easy shrugging. And the best app like this for Android seems to be Textspansion. On Twitter, Justin Jacoby Smith recommends Auspex, a free utility for Windows that mimics the Mac and iPhone’s system-wide text-replacement function. ( I’m sure there is a Windows fix, but I don’t know what it is. My solution is also only possible on a Mac and/or iPhone. But then I found a solution, and it saves me having to google “smiley sideways shrug” every time I want to quickly rail at the world’s inherent lack of meaning. That makes it a kaomoji, a Japanese emoticon it also makes it, on Western alphabetical keyboards at least, very hard to type. Unlike better-known emoticons like :) or ), ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ borrows characters from the Japanese syllabary called katakana. I use it at least 10 times a day.įor a long time, however, I used it with some difficulty. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ represents nihilism, “bemused resignation,” and “a Zen-like tool to accept the chaos of universe.” It is Sisyphus in unicode. With raised arms and a half-turned smile, it exudes the melancholia, the malaise, the acceptance, and (finally) the embrace of knowing that something’s wrong on the Internet and you can’t do anything about it.Īs Kyle Chayka writes in a new history of the symbol at The Awl, the meaning of the “the shruggie” is always two-, if not three- or four-, fold. In its 11 strokes, the symbol encapsulates what it’s like to be an individual on the Internet.
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