Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn’t translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.
Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.
CRISPR is neither a refrigerator compartment or a Nestle candy bar
Nothing can beat the baseball stat TOOTBLAN
Thrown Out On The Basepaths Like A Nincompoop
BofA
What’s BofA?
It’s related to SugON.
What’s SugON?
SugON Deez nuts.
😔
What, no votes for ‘goatse’?
I’ll uh show myself to the logout button now
Is that an acronym? Now I want to look it up…
…You’re going to need some eye bleach after that.
I hate “lol” as punctuation. If you’re legitimately laughing out loud, fine. But, I really hate:
“can I show u something lol”
“I gave it to David lol”
If it’s coming out of a teenager… passable.
If it’s coming out of an adult… please act your age.
lol
I’ll act whatever age I please thanks.
Then you’re gonna hate my use of “lololol” instead of “hahahah”, both of which i use essentially interchangeably in texts.
That’s a bit annoying, but at least it represents laughing. What I hate is when it’s just used to “lighten the mood” and doesn’t represent laughing at all.
And, the proper way is “jajajaja”, as my Spanish-speaking friends have taught me.
I always liked the 5555 in thai.
I agree lol
NAMBLA. Those chuckle fucks at the North American Man/Boy Love Association really made it difficult for us members of the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes.
Absolute freak show of an organisation. (Theirs, not yours.) The first time I read about it I thought it was onion-level satire but, sadly, it wasn’t…
I too thought it was a South Park joke at first.
Is… is that a pedophile advocacy group?
The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors[2][3] and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion.
North American Man/Boy Love Association is very pedophilia focused and they should be disbanded.
IKR required a search to figure out. Autocorrect takes care of these typical phrases. Imo the only one I like to use is imo for some reason.
CAPTCHA is pretty bad, apparently it’s Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
Source: http://www.captcha.net/
Edit: I also dislike www, it’s annoying to say 👎
People in my old company used to genuinely say dub dub dub as in “double-u double-u double-u”. Fucking dicks 😂.
It’s the correct way to speak a URL… dub dub dub dot something dot com == https://www.something.com
Correct way is to double-u, not dub.
Correct way is to treat “www.” as silent and not even say it or type it. Then if a URL doesn’t support non-www URLs, don’t do business with them.
Extra credit: block www.* on you pi-hole or other DNS filter so you avoid those sites that force-redirect domain.com to www.domain.com.
Ah crap that’s what I say.
I’m only messing, it just gets on my tits that’s all.
Mtg. A lot of posts and articles use it for Marjory Taylor Green an it always confuses me, I keep trying to figure out what Magic the Gathering has to do with Jewish space lasers.
Tap to deal 5 damage to target creature or player, then add three recharge counters to Jewish Space Laser.
During the untap phase, if there are any recharge counters on Jewish Space Laser, instead of untapping remove one counter. Otherwise, untap as normal.
I haven’t played Magic in 25 (maybe 30?) years, but you captured the tone for sure. Do you work for Wizards?
FTW. For years I thought it meant “Fuck The What”. Even now that’s the first thing that comes to mind and have a hard time remembering the actual meaning.
There’s also FTFY, which I thought was a way of throwing offence at the topic and the person that brought it up
It’s used so frequently for offences that I’m not surprised at that.
After “fuck the what” it started to mean “For the win”. What else is it supposed to be?
What else is it supposed to be?
- fear the whales - because sharks are not enough.
- ferry the warriors - how else will they reach Hades?
- fuck the West - yes, I had to politicise this.
- feed the woodpeckers - hipster version of granny throwing popcorn to the pigeons.
- feel the wetness - this is sounding like porn already.
This list gets progressively more FTW.
It means fuck the world. But some jerk made it for the win and ruined all my fun
Fuck the world.
But it’s normally For the win?
not an acronym, but ‘Est.’ as in ‘Established xyz’. i read it as ‘Ever Since The/Time’
Growing up I always thought it meant estimated
Same. Like, it’s your company, you don’t know for certain when it was founded…?
Might be unpopular, but as a non-English native I hate that Americans need to abbreviate everything into acronyms. POSTUS, SCOTUS, AWOL, ASAP. If it’s not catchy as an abbreviation it needs a new name. I don’t mind it so much in small settings, but when you read anything about America and all the comments are full of acronyms it’s like a puzzle I never asked for.
I hate all TLAs
How about FLAs?
FLA itself is TLA.
Zuko?
FLOSS; only because I can only pronounce the second word as leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeber.
TBF
To Be Fucked.
