My FIL just sent me a whatsapp

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I spent yesterday teaching him and MIL so they could join the group chat

I am sat cuddling my long long awaited rainbow baby DD. Many many losses before her and a fairly bumpy start when she arrived.

Anyway it says " thank you for helping us. I want you to know I would have sold my sex to see you have a baby." Then "soul, sold my soul"

It made me howl with laughter then tears. They can be a tricky pair, very old fashioned and stubborn, but today I feel loved. Even if autocorrect needs some work....

Any family text errors with you recently?

Hahaha! Congratulations!

Ah that’s lovely.

Mil used to use wtf in texts until I mentioned that it’s meaning. Mortified she thought it meant- well that’s fantastic!

Aw that’s lovely!

Beautiful. No stories to top yours, just wanted to say congratulations

That’s so sweet, I bet he’s having a massive cringe. Be kind when you next see him, ge’s Probably really embarrassed!

Oh bless!!
But congratulations to you and your OH and all the family

Nothing similar but loving the fact that you have your baby.

Ah that’s a lovely message to send.

Many people used to think “LOL” meant “lots of love” and added “LOL” to text message responses to bad news like sickness and bereavements. Oops 😬

A www thank you. I count my blessings every day.

Laughing at WTF!!

I'm sure I saw a joke where the mum puts lol after telling family aunt has died, not realising it means laugh out loud rather than lots of love.

My nieces and nephews are loving them being in the group chat. Middle generation have set up a middle generation only one

The 'WTF' story is hilarious!!!!

Not a text related one but my MIL calls any messy cupboard a 'glory hole'

I think lol did use to mean lots of love, way back in the beginning of text talk, late 90s?

Bless your FiL! So funny!

@FrowningFlamingo where do they get this stuff!! Mine taught my DH, his 3 brothers and then my nephew that angel delight was called foof!! So my nephew launched into a story in the pub one night at dinner about how much he loved foofSIL and I could not contain the laughter.

My phone autocorrected favourite "aunt" to favourite "c^#%"
Didn't go down well with Aunt Edith

Many people used to think “LOL” meant “lots of love” and added “LOL” to text message responses to bad news like sickness and bereavements. Oops

My Aunt does that. Can't get through to her at all that people dont read it as lots of love 🙄

Frowning.. That's the older version of glory hole, my Gran used to say that as well. Not sure when the meaning changed

Mil used to use wtf in texts until I mentioned that it’s meaning. Mortified she thought it meant- well that’s fantastic

My granddaughter was horrified that I at 70 knew what wtf and a lot of others mean! Did she think that acronyms are a new thing!! BURMA across a letter flap springs to mind.

Every time I type "ta" it autocorrects to "ya" so I repeatedly sound like a 1980s yuppie.

Or even BURMA for SIAM.

My exs stepmother, when his father died received a text saying how much she loved his father and how she couldn’t believe he was gone ending the message with lol I didn’t know what to say! She thought it meant lot of love 😧

I like these

Very long awaited 1st grandchild and FIL texts. So pleased about the baby but when can you can terminate. Language barrier. He ment deliver

Funniest I had with my mum was, she text me to say "I need to speak to you, can you call?"

So I WA her "phoning" and called the landline (because I know she prefers that to speak on).

She answers:

"Van...Van...is that you??" (no hello or anything)
Me: "yes, mum"
Mum: "why are you phoning on two phones, I can't answer two
phones, how do you phone two at once.....?"
Me: "I'm not phoning on two, I'm phoning on this one"
Mum: "but it says on the other one 'Van phoning'...?"
Me: "yes, I just typed that, it's a WhatsApp message"
Mum: "well, hold on a minute, I need to turn that off because I can't answer it while I'm talking to you"

I had a manager send me an email from the US where he was based, the content of which, meant I needed to speak to my manager (here) about.
All my manager had to say was 'why the hell is he saying lots of love, that's not appropriate'
When I told him what LOL meant, he then had to read the whole email again to try to figure out the context haha.
This wasn't decades ago either! And my manager was my age!