What is with the DH/DS/DD/etc? AIBU

[youareallbonkers]

Why do you all have to call your family dear/darling? It makes you all sound bonkers and if you have to keep telling everyone they are dear or darling it implies there is some doubt?

Why don't you get off Mumsnet and go and do something else instead? If it ain't broke, don't fix it....the abbreviations work for us, if they don't for you go elsewhere.

I must admit, I found the whole "dear/darling" thing a bit cringeworthy when I first arrived here on planet MN, BUT after about 5 minutes I realised it's so much bloody easier to type and I don't actually read it as dear or darling anymore. In fact if I see the word son written down I read it as DS. I even call them DS1, 2 and 3 sometimes to ther people in RL.

OP you clearly have too much time on your hands to be thinking about it so much and it is actually you, DOP, who is bonkers.

I reckon 99% don't give it a moments thought. We all know what we mean, which is the important thing and one person deciding it is bonkers doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

Having said that, I am clearly heading towards bonkersdom too, for bothering to remark on the fact that you care.

what is OH??

I have come across it a lot recently and its not on the acronym list

Niecei - don't you mean "opening poster"

and what does DOP stand for

FM - OH is "other half"

YABU, its a worldwide thing, all over cyberspace...has been for years....

oh and yes, we are ALL bonkers

jesus wept,some of you over react.hark at
oi is you who is bonkers
gerroff mn...dont come back
op is quite funny

i wondered how long it would be for someone to post if you dont like it piss off.

TaintedRose "You are being unreasonable" - not YABU lol

ahhh - yes one thing I do agree with is that we're all bonkers

• well the rest of them are - I'm perfectly sane

i never ever think of it as meaning dear or darling - the only time i've ever done that is when I was explaining to DH about the letters - I said "it means dear husband or darling husband, but i say dear because darling is [boak] but it's just DH because it's quicker"
DH likes being DH irl, too.

so nur

It's called short-hand.
just like you use & instead of and and @ instead of at and . instead of dot and www instead of worldwideweb and mrs instead of mistress and mr instead of mister....

or other clichétastic quips
dont let door hit arse as you leave
are you newbie
i'll get popcorn
not like this in good ole days
i'll get ma hardhat

DOP is Darling Opening Poster!

It's just shorthand. OH is much worse - other half? Feck off. Worst of all is people who use OH and LO and don't capitalise them. My oh took the lo to the park...very hard to read. Twats

PMSL Nickel

(or should that be pissing myself laughing )

Actually I think we ought to stop using "MN" to refer to mumsnet \link{http://www.acronymfinder.com/MN.html\lookat all those verified definitions of the acronym MN} and mumsnet isn't there

We are going to confuse people ! They may think we're talking about MuggleNet

OP I think you may been thinking about it more than the rest of us who use the dd,ds and dh shortcuts

But aside from that I do think I am bonkers but that is due to my dc

op is a silly twit to think we all hear DEAR daughter in our heads when speaking or typing it

ffs DD just means Daughter

and I am not slow

so piss off

I've only ever seen it on here and it drives me mad.

I think it's hilarious when people type 'DS' because they think it's quicker than adding one extra letter and making it 'son'

Also, some people will litter their posts with too many acronyms...claiming it saves time and then go on to type a mammoth post that could have been summed up in a tiny paragraph.

Nowt as queer as folk

you've only ever seen it on here - you obviously haven't \link{http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=DD+DH+DS#hl=en&xhr=t&q=DH+DD+Ds&cp=6&pf=p&sclient=psy&safe=off&aq=0&aqi=&aql=&oq=DH+DD+&pbx=1&fp=fb940dbb4101f61\travelled far} on the the WWW then......

And "son1" just sounds odd - prefer DS1.

Welcome to MN, we are all bonkers here.

ahh cheers baroque .. I thought it was something husband .. couldnt figure it out at all

I agree with the OP, it annoys me too, I think some of the acromyms on here are a quite irritating and I've never come across them on other sites

i think "DH" in my mind when I type it.

I sometimes forget DH's RL name and call him DH.
(although I've already said he likes it)

I even make sure he's remembered the names of our unconceived children by quizzing him thus:
Me: "DD1?"
Him: "Eleanor Katherine"
Me: "DS1?"
Him: "James Graham"
Me: "DD2?"
etc etc etc.
sorry, should that be et cetera et cetera.

"I agree with the OP"

well if you find it annoying stop using acronyms then - you can't use some and then be irritated by others - OP is an acronym.......

lol,what a lot of ire.op has proper wound some of you up with very predictable responses