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!

What is Tia?

Also where can I find the link to the anagrams now?

I get really confused sometimes because some things mean two things like df could mean dear father or dear friend so I can get half way through an opening post and think.... df3 oh she means friend not father! Yes she does not infact have 3 fathers

Ginky TIA = Thanks in advance

jennifer86

HTH can be genuine or sarcastic. It's usually easy to spot.
As in: "you're being a dick. HTH" vs "TIA means thanks in advance. HTH"

I have only just realised that is "biscuit" and means "no comment"

I thought it was actually a ring doughnut and meant "oh you are being a right doughnut" (my teens use "doughnut" to mean "idiot"). I really do need my eyes tested.

jennifer - I thought HTH is Hope to Help too. I didn't think it was passive aggressive at all.

TIA - I confuse this for Transient Ischemic Attack. But then I'm sure it's just me and my former career.

I never knew that either jennifer86 and I have written it as a genuine, I hope I helped. Also with the added

Just realised within that context, it might have been taken the wrong way!

I thought a TAAT was a tired and angry thread written by someone late at night after too much wine. I've never found the acronyms section on the mobile site and it was on a rare occasion that I used the laptop that it clicked it was thread about a thread.

In my first week I gave lots of people biscuits thinking it was a nice friendly thing to do ie oh you poor love, would you like a jammy dodger?

Instead I told lots of people they were twats or trolls

How is giving biscuits calling them a troll though?

I get really confused with sister and son.

I'll go through a thread and see that DS was told to fuck off and I think 'Wgat a horrible way to talk to your son!' Or I'll see a thread about not being allowed in the garden past 9pm and I think 'Why doesn't the OP allow their sister in the garden after 9?'

Most threads make it obvious but not always.

Dear parents and dear partner get confusing too.

It doesn't matter as it means the same but often wonder is OP opening poster or original poster?

I don't get unmumsnetty hugs. Yes Mumsnet isn't as cutesy as some other parenting boards but it doesn't mean that Mumsnet is so harsh they don't give out hugs? The phrase is just odd!

Mine has to be the best...I thought meant 'you're an arsehole'. To be fair, it does look a bit like one.

It's like 'oh shut it, have a biscuit that'll keep you quiet" - it's also used like Popcorn but we don't have a Popcorn emoji

Songbird we should have a popcorn emoji for threads that always result in a bunfight where you can use that emoji instead of writing "I'll get the popcorn" before it all kicks off. Same with placemarking - maybe a bookmark emoji would work there...

IYSWIM used to perplex me. I'd wonder why people would suggest the OP went swimming with their MIL that she couldn't stand!

I remember years ago reading about someone who wanted to throw their DS down the stairs.

Cue many pages of angst until we realised the OP omitted the word 'Nintendo'

I thought LTB meant let things be.

We don't really need a bookmark emoji though do we? We can just click on Watch this thread at the top or bottom of the page.

STBXH = Shitbag Ex Husband.

So there's a thread right now that's about a four-weeks postpartum OP wanting to ask guests to get takeaways...and people comment "cancel the cheque"

What does it mean?

www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms

To find the acronyms list on the mobile site. Just go to the search icon at the top and write acronyms.

HTH

I always thought YY was sort of like saying YES as in 'I wholeheartedly agree'. Rather than just 'I am too lazy to write the word yes in full'.

Cancel the cheque, is from a recent thread. Were lots and lots of posters didn't RTFT and kept telling the OP to cancel the cheque. Even though the OP had said on page 2 or something that she couldn't cancel the cheque as it had been cashed.

30 odd pages later there were still a few posters per page popping up to tell the op to "cancel the cheque"
It was both funny and infuriating.

Cancel the cheque is now a MN joke and is used instead of RTFT.

I get AF (Auntie Flo /period) confused with AF (anyfucker /MN Royakty)

I think the fact that biscuit = no comment is from an interview Gordon Brown (or some other politician) did on mumsnet where he refused to say what his favourite biscuit was...

"cancel the cheque"

It's fairly similar to RTFT, but more specifically when people keep giving a reply to the OP that the OP has already explained it's not possible.

It's from a thread where the OP said the cheque she sent had already been cashed, but people kept telling her to cancel it.