Imo, "fu*k off" is too hot [angry] an expression & a gesture for "talk to the hand"/don't even go there" [which seem to me to be basically the same gesture/saying]

You're not hot when you this cause being hot takes up energy and gives it to your adversary. Instead of hot, you're cool, or cold as ice. Actually, "icing" someone is what we* would call freezing someone out {not talking to him or her/not acknowleging their existence]

* African Americans teens, grown-ups where I lived when I was a teen {New Jersey, 1960s]

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Jeri, I'd love to see the don't go there symbol that you've seen. I'm not likely to use such a symbol very much but there's been some times on Mudcat where I would have used such a symbol to indicate that I was through talkin with a Mudcat guest or a Mudcat member. Not having such a symbol, I just said talk to the hand, or just igned [ignored] her or him.

I figure for these symbols [or any symbol, for that matter] to be useful, they not only have to make some modicum of sense, but people have to agree to use them for that specfic meaning and only that meaning. Once people agree on what a symbol will look like, and what it means, then they use it. It either catches on, or it doesn't.

Just playin around with typing keys, what about this symbol for talk to the hand/don't even go there?

x
the x is the person you want to x out [act like there not there. the < [whatever it's called] means that your looking away, and the / [whatever it's called] means that your hand is up in to block their energy from coming to you.

I'm not wedded to this symbol. I'm open to another one for that gesture/saying or none at all.