to find the prefix "d" as in ds etc on here really irritating?

[Catnao]

I have never posted on here before, so perhaps you get used to it?

YANBU

YANBU, but...well, I'm kind of used to it now. Makes things easier to type, too and possibly reminds me subconciously that I do actualy care for the person I am about to slag off

I think that MN actually removed BD from the acronym list as it was so nauseating and clearly fluffy nethuns in tone. There may be a militant wing of fluffies who persist in using it though. It hardly infests the whole site though.

You get used to it.

BD was banned ages ago. They all say SWI instead now.

Can't we just whisper and perhaps say 'conjugal rights' when forced into a corner.

YABU. it's part of the culture here, innit

IKWYM, MMTI, YADNBU FFS

IMHOFWIW it should go. It's a PITA.

BTW, AFAIK, IIRC BDing is now SWI.

TBH IRJBASTAAJBKIROOSSBB

HTH

Is my BF being unreasonable to BF in front of her BF? That is the only one that gets me, have to read carefully to get it

Oooh....aren't people on here defensive! I have to add that I am a regular but have name changed for a certain question I have asked...the OP can query what she likes without being told to shove off!

Its a valid point..not a direct insult.

I don't much care for it either. I use it because well, I don't know why. Probably because everyone does but more and more 'dh' has become 'Himself' and 'ds1' has become 'my eldest' and 'ds2' has become 'my youngest'.

I think dear this that and the other is a bit cheesy, so I am naturally moving away from it.

However, I don't give a flying fuck what other people on here choose to put.

Except for 'baby dancing'. That makes me want to ram their keyboard where the sun don't shine

YANBU. As another poster states, it's frequently followed by "has been dipping his wick in his secretary's ink/has just thrown a brick at his sister's head/fed the dog a firework" type stuff.

I did find one slipping through my finger's last week!

I hate it but you sort of get used to it. I think that the vomit making 'baby dancing' has been dropped as a step too far!

Yeah - it is a bit silly.

Actually I came on mumsnet years ago feeling the need to find some advice/support etc and found the whole D prefix really clubby and offputting.
Espesh as I had no "DH or DP".
It just seemed really smug to me, and I didn't come back for ages, which is a shame because as a single mum with no friends with babies I could have really done with the connection to other parents.

Just saying.

Annoying, but fortunately as pointed out, not compulsary.

I used to feel the same and came over all militant by dropping the D [I'm Billy Bragg's best mate emoticon]

But I've now adopted it as shorthand, understood by everyone and as someone else said, I never translate it in my head DH just means husband.

DD, DH, DS have their origin in AOL fora, right back when Al Gore opened up the Internet (1992) for commercial use, the conventions quickly became standard acronyms on pre-existing parenting discussion fora (like misc.kids and others on Usenet). And just kept going to Graphic BBS like MN. LOL, ROFL, AF, lots of others have their origins in the original AOL explosion of online Internet access for the masses.

Just don't use it if you don't like it?
Damned, Delectable, Delightful, Dreary, Depressing... they can mean whatever you like!

you get used to it

it's irony

if you have read a few threads, got the feel of MN and not worked that out I would keep searching for that parenting forum if I were you

i was thinking its been around for ages and invented in american forums not mn, so seems right to me what ragged said
not sure why people would think it is just a mn thing really??
but if you dont like it dont use it, certain users tend to use their own version?
i just use dh, ds, its easy and convenient i dont think of it in the full version, but just think of it like "dee ess" not with the dear/darling part in it iyswim. its like lol and those kind of words, do people still these days consider it 'laughing out loud' they just become their own thing

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