Can someone help with all the Mumsnet abbreviations?

[welshmam111]

Hi All

I love Mumsnet and all the brilliant discussions, but am getting totally lost with the the abbreviations, what s YANBU AIBU DH ds dd etc, some are obvious, but when people seem to start abbreviating most words I can actually read threads! Can some one help please-is it awful to say can we just use proper words and not the abbreviations? Its just so I can read and enjoy more threads :-)

I learnt one the other day ltb- leave the bastard

www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms

AIBU = am I being unreasonable.
YANBU = You are not being unreasonable

YANBU - you are not being unreasonable

AIBU - Am i being unreasonable

DH - dear husband, dear son, dear daughter etc

There's a whole list somewhere...

Click on the drop down menu round button next to TALK at the top of the page, go to "acronyms" and all will be revealed.

Can anybody explain what giving someone a biscuitmeans

next to talk at the top of the page there is a down arrow.
click on it and one of the sub titles is acronyms.

Outnotdown google 'You take the biscuit'.

STBXH - soon to be ex husband NOT stupid twatting bastard ex husband as I've been reading it for years

Aaah, thanks elephant.

Why do we have to have the whole DS DM DD thing? Would anyone actually call them 'dear son'? Is this an Americanism? It sounds horribly twee, and by the time you've capped up the letters isn't much shorter than writing 'mum' or 'son' out properly.

TSSDNCOP
the secret service does not comment on procedure
Can't say I've ever seen this one!

I'm understanding the abbreviations now but what I can't seem to do is copy and paste what a PP has said or highlight their name to reply to them?

I've never liked the 'd'h stuff. Always sounded twee to me too.

ODFOD - oh do fuck off dear
IYSWIM - if you see what I mean

ODOFD - oh do fuck off dear
An acronym that intrigued me on forums for survivors of sexual abuse was "BSD"
I was reading it as "bastard step dad"
but actually it mean "biological sperm donor" as in he's my biological father, but hasn't been a father to me

IlovePeppa Sun 27-Aug-17 19:46:35
I'm understanding the abbreviations now but what I can't seem to do is copy and paste what a PP has said or highlight their name to reply to them?
On my pc I use my mouse to scroll over the text I want to copy asnd paste, then use my right mouse button to copy it. I then paste it into a new reply.
I hope that makes some sense and helps.

Oh ok, I use my iPad so maybe that's why I can't do it.

IIRC. If I remember correctly.
AFAIK. As far as I know
FOTTOSOFAWYGTFOSM. Fuck off to the other side of fuck off and when you get there fuck off some more.

I read STBXH as 'stab the bastard ex-husband' for years. I have no idea why.

What is MILF?

IlovePeppa Sun 27-Aug-17 19:56:09 Oh ok, I use my iPad so maybe that's why I can't do it.
On my Samsung tablet I keep my finger on the post that I want to copy until I see two we arrows, I can then move them to select the text I want to copy and choose copy.
I then go to the reply and select "copy"
To get you reply in bold I put a before it and a after it. You need to do it for every paragraph.
I'm sure it is very similar on an Ipad.

Mollypolly as you asked here FWIW I have never been described in this way

HAHAHA elephant. I always wondered what that was and couldn't see it on here! Definitely not me although a fair description!