You can use the google translation of the forum. Unfortunately the translation is awful. Even people names are translated to English.
This is the link for translation.
Our history with the smileys started with the old days of e-mail. You know, ye olde ASCII only days. Culture is not so diverse through the world. The "frybread" of Native Americans is called "kolac" at my hometown (or "lokma", "gödek" * ) and I couldn't resist it when I was a child.