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The most annoying thing in Mumsnet...

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sea74 · 27/12/2010 11:41

Can i be a little critic, please???
Please, allow mw!
I love this forum, but i really cannot stand the acronims.
DH....for example... Dear Husband...and maybe you are just thinking about divorcing him....

Am i the only one to think this?
Ok, now you can kill me, but i just cant stand AIBU....DP....SF.... NS... FFS....

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Original poster

sea74 · 28/12/2010 13:54

Is it for this reason you are so rude? Because she was rude to you?

I would not dream to say fuck off to someone that has never spoken to you before. From your messages i can see you dont have any brain, therefore you can disappear.

To the other ones, ok, i will try to adjust to it.

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PressureDrop · 28/12/2010 09:41

lol! My mother would call you a whinging hag, if she were alive.

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sea74 · 27/12/2010 23:09

Pressuredrop.
You can tell your mother to fuck off, not me.
TY (thank you)

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whydobirdssuddenlyappear · 27/12/2010 22:05

I don't know HOW it happened. I mean it's not as though I don't spend a lot of time on the internet...

PartialToACupOfMilo · 27/12/2010 22:04

Not that she uses MN (as far as I know!) but my four year old DN shouted O.M.G. as she opened her Christmas present from us this morning! I think acronyms are here to stay

BaroqinAroundTheChristmasTree · 27/12/2010 22:00

oh another "oops this is RL and not words I'm writing to go screen" victim

whydobirdssuddenlyappear · 27/12/2010 21:59

There's nowt wrong with the MN acronyms.
Just please, all of you, never do what I did and (absent-mindedly) say LOL instead of actually laughing...
DH looked at me like I'd grown another head.

BaroqinAroundTheChristmasTree · 27/12/2010 21:56

hahaha sea - that's what I we all said

no "H" for husband is for when they're being a dickhead and you hate them and want to leave them, DH is for just talking about general complaints/lovely stuff, exH - well is exH obviously.

The "D" often gets dropped of put in "'s when it's not positive

There's a list up ^^^^ with all of them on.

\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms\quick link to it here} HTH

now YABU so FGS STFU .........IYKWIM

PressureDrop · 27/12/2010 21:53

Oh fuck off if you don't like it, FFS

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sea74 · 27/12/2010 21:52

I will never use them in real life.

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clutha · 27/12/2010 21:51

i was just commenting on this today!

im a member of a few forums and their are well known abbreviations common to fora in general.

but the ones on here?
what the heck are they about???
they mind boggle me, defintley make it difficult to follow threads at times.
and then when you find out what they are acronyms for, you think why would you have an acronym for that????
why dear husband???
surely you would just have H for husband, or OH for other half, for examples?

then you get DG, YABU, etc, etc.

my fiance joined after i did, but the abbreviations put her right off coming back after a couple of days
she is member of a few forums as well, and also hasnt had this problem before.

dearprudenceandtheivy · 27/12/2010 21:49

They take a bit of getting used to at first, but they are useful shorthand - and much better than text speak.

mylifewithmangers · 27/12/2010 21:47

PMSL SNR

bibbitybobbitysantahat · 27/12/2010 21:46

Blimey! And you find that the most annoying thing about Mumsnet?

supernoodlesrock · 27/12/2010 21:42

FGS IMHO YABU

BaroqinAroundTheChristmasTree · 27/12/2010 21:39

there's only one answer - spend more time online (not just Mumsnet - just about any old forum will do) - in short while you'll find yourself thinking in acronyms in real life and even referring to your children as the "DS's" to RL friends

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sea74 · 27/12/2010 21:38

Dont use hubby.
Dont use DH.

Husband.

Ps: ps is one of the few acronyms people know straight away.

Anyway, i am not against acronims in totu. I am just against overuse.

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BoysAreLikeDogs · 27/12/2010 13:07

heh heh heh

DanceInTheDark · 27/12/2010 13:02

BALD i was just going to type that!

BoysAreLikeDogs · 27/12/2010 13:01

FlamingoBingo · 27/12/2010 11:56

YABU. Get used to it.

FlightoftheCrimbleTree · 27/12/2010 11:55

That's one I really object to. PS.

Katisha · 27/12/2010 11:54

Took me a long time to be able to bring myself to use DH, DS etc. But now I don't notice it.
And agree that hubby is utterly utterly ghastly word.

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sea74 · 27/12/2010 11:54

Tortoiseonthehalfshell , i dont but then when i read a topic they make me give up reading...

I am just asking to be a bit....frugal with them.

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BaroqinAroundTheChristmasTree · 27/12/2010 11:53

you need to spend more time online then sea if you find it hard to read

I some of us find ourselves thinking DH, DS, DC, FGS, in real life as we're so used to them

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