Acronyms forum sins

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OK AIBU but AFAIK ATM FWIW and IIRC IME and IMHO IYKWIM
I would appreciate your POV on acronyms. Personally I find them a PITA
I know I am being OTT but it really MMTI IYSWIM. IIRC before forums and txt
we all wrote the full word. I even have friends now who say LOL FFS!

TTFN BBS :)

we should have a tongue in cheek smiley

yes, it means for fucks sake, its my favourite acronym, sometimes only a ffs will do

Oh good. One of my favourite sayings .

I don't like PMSL

it leaves me with a unpleasant image...

I've just remembered that I have a favourite acronym that I never see used on here but could be v appropriate - ABCD as in Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.. I may try and start a trend.

the military are the worst, they have a TLA language all of their own, but I must admit I do love FUBAR

OOHHH Betsy at Christmas
My son taught me a card game call FUBAR .

after a few games and losing I was FUBAR(d)

If you ever learn a computer language, you'll find that the commonest variable names in examples are 'foo' and 'bar' - derived from FUBAR.

SNAFU is another good one.

I'd forgotten about SNAFU

I love FUBAR.

Another one that I really like is "I'm having a CRAFT moment" (Can't Remember A Fucking Thing). Better than a "senior" moment, which grates somewhat.

I read TWOC as Trial WithOut Catheter...

I like CRAFT. although I'll have to say 'flipping thing' or I'll get in trouble with DH :)

I'm not a huge fan of acronyms, although I do use DH etc (clearly....). But I also think that MNers are some of the most articulate internet chatters around, and probably have better grammar and spelling, on the whole, than most people I know!

oh my goodness, I love this thread I was nearly crying with laughing.

I really am rubbish at trying to read acronyms, I can understand most of common basic 2 letter ones and some more common three letter ones, but after that they just go over my head, lol, it's always fun to try and work out what it means though xx

Some text messages I get off my youngest sister, I have to ring her to decipher for me (and I am only 33!!) xx

I don't mind them in the main - easy to write DD1, 2 etc rather than "my oldest daughter said..."

I wish I knew what some of the MN specific ones that aren't int he acronym list meant - I keep seeing them around but hav't got a clue what they mean. Anyone care to enlighten me on the meanings of

WISE
AVID
PESH

as they've been around so long I feel stupid asking!

FUBAR? SNAFU?

FUBAR

Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

SNAFU
not a clue ??

WISE and AVID mean wise and avid :o

I don't remember what PESH means

My favouite is JFDI

PESH defined on here

SNAFU is Situation Normal: All fucked up iirc.

DH likes dilligaf.

PESH isn't a MN wide thing it's a group of pregnant women who chat on a thread. They're embittered selfish hags or something. Was a joke based on an article or something.

Is it just me who finds the use of "DH" by women who's H is clearly anything but D rather strange? Then again I don't really get the need for the rather twee D anyway.

I want to know who the heroine was who put a stop to the puke-making BD and replaced it with the far more sensible and mumsnetty SWI? I lurked for a while in the BD days, then came back a year later and it was all about SWI. whoever it was deserves some kind of MN medal.

I spent many years as a UK representative at ITU meetings in Geneva. The ITU is a UN agency dealing with how telephone networks worldwide work together. When new services are defined they usually think up paragraph headings but initially leave the details blank by putting FFS there.

For Future Study.

Always made me snigger.

I like both SNAFU and FUBAR - could use regularly at work but am a year-6 teacher so probably not appropriate

Dilys - I'm unbelievably happy that BD has gone! What about AF? I always found them equally nausiating!!

I can't bring myself to write DS. He is my son, not a Nintendo handheld gaming device! Anyway, 'son' is only three letters long and doesn't require capital letters.
I can type fast so using acronyms wouldn't save me any time, though I suppose some acronyms might come in handy when having to type one-handed holding a baby.
It would be nice sometimes to read posts without having to use a glossary!