Can't stand the thought of being seen in public with a tilde, is that it? There should be a special level in Hades for anti-tildites like you, grrrrrrrr. -
That's when they need the most tenderness and attention! You don't want to reject tildes; it causes them to just dash out there and throw themselves into the arms of the first set of parenthesis or brackets they meet, the next thing you know they're doing every asterisk or ampersand in the neighborhood!