to ask what a CF is....

[jillowarriorqueen]

....and to ask for clarity on any other specifically MN terms. I have been here for years, but had a loooong break, and half the time I have no idea what is being discussed these days.

Can we have some sort of pinned thread that explains our short-hand please :)

Cheeky fucker 

CAAKE
Thought you were calling me that for a second, but I got it now

there is a magical list of abbreviations. Disclaimer: I have never read it; I just fumble along making ($(! up :)

here tis

what CAAKE said.
although whenever I see it on mumsnet my brain automatically reads it as something else a lot ruder... I guess my mine is in the gutter!

The acronym list is useful but incomplete, and the CF listed is the medical one - cystic fibrosis. Context is key to interpreting some of them!

Oh... I thought it meant cunt face 😳

Lol at cunt face. Although that works well too for most cheeky fuckers

I always thought STBXH was stupid twat bastard x husband instead of soon to be x husband

I honestly thought it meant control freak 

Now everything makes sense.

Thanks for that list. Clears up everything.

@fuckitbuckit my brain always interprets that as Stab the Ex-Husband. Similar with rtft which I always read as Read the F*ing Thread rather than the somewhat more polite Full Thread.

RTFT is, I think, derived from RTFM - an acronym used by software developers rolling their eyes at 'bugs' reported by users who've clearly not bothered checking the manual. As I doubt anyone expects users to ever read the full manual, your interpretation of the F is sound. 

It's read the full thread?! I always thought it was read the fucking thread which is a tad ruder!

I used to think LTB meant let things be