to ask what Mumsnet words/sayings/things you misunderstood before you found out the real meaning?

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I thought the woo thread is about courting, until I read the thread and realised it's about woo as in ghosts!

I thought STBXH was stupid bastard ex

Pineapple, me too!!!!! Felt so stupid when I found out the real meaning, but still can't read it any other way.

I only found out now after reading your posts that it does not mean stupid bastard ex :P

I still don't know what those cookies they're giving out here mean. Or biscuits.

I thought the biscuits were lemons and thought they meant troll (which I suppose sometimes they might)

Ah glad it wasn't just me then!!

That the 'D' part of DH etc always meant dear.

Rather than the full panoply of damned, drafted, dick-brained, dog-breathed, etc

What is STBXH? Its the one I've never been able to work out!

Posie
It's soon-to-be ex-husband

Thank you!

'STBX' = Soon To Be eX (with or without H/W/P if you want to specific what sort of ex).

So separating, separated, divorcing but not yet fully disentangled.

I thought STBXH stood for

Stupid
Twatting
Bastard
Ex
Husband.

I think its quite fitting and still read it that way.

What does HTH stand for?

Hope that helps

HTH = 'hope that helps'

A passive aggressive and sarcastic phrase on MN (despite being utterly neutral on other sites)

My thought on STBXH's meaning is a bit more violent than all of yours... I thought it me and Shoot The Bastard Ex Husband...

Meant, not me and!

I kept seeing TIA at the end of posts and thought it was one poster with lots of threads signing off with her own name

I hate all the DD1, DS3 business. It sounds like a strain of bacteria. People also take it to ridiculous extremes - DSIL's DM's EXDP etc. It also annoys me when I read 'I've been NC from DM for 10 years now' - if you're NC she's not that frigging D, is she?!

It can be quite confusing when people talk about BF boyfriend and BF best friend

smoking I also thought TIA was a name...

I was on a Facebook mum page and everyone signed off with TIA... I told my friend "Tia is such a popular name round here I never realised "

I thought the 'woo' thread was going to be about things like psychics, spiritual healers and other things described as 'woo' by rational wiki!

What does WOHP mean?

Working Outside The House Parent I think

I used to think that HTH was 'happy to help' and it always really irritated me, people signing off with a smug, chirpy little "happy to help!!!".

I thought PFB was precious fucking baby. That's still how I say it in my head