To be this thick?

[NoShitHemlock]

Obviously having a (completely) lazy day including several cups of coffee and a good nose around MN when I noticed "TIA" at the end of a post. Not the first time I have noticed this, and I thought "Cor - that Tia gets around a bit - turning into a bit of a prolific poster. It's a bit odd she keeps putting her name at the bottom of her posts tho....."

And then the penny dropped.

TIA
or for you lovely ladies who are just as daft as I am...
Thanks In Advance

Penis in vagina
Precious first born

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Precious first born
I think!

HTH means "hope that helps", hth Sometimes used in a genuinely helpful way, like RocketMan just has, but often used as a sarcastic extra kick in the teeth, as in "Yes, YABU, you are behaving like a selfish arse, HTH"

"KR" is one I've noticed recently as a sign off. Also "Best"

HTH is a passive aggressive. 'hope is helps' insult. So when an OP posts a question, or starts a discussion, someone will reply with a bald statement and end it with HTH.

So for example someone posting about a recipe for a particular dish and a poster replies back saying 'curry is rank - HTH'.

I work for a large multinational organisation which is HO in an EU country, not the UK.

In the spirit of the thread, it took me a while to figure out what your HO meant here. Especially as you used it as a verb!

@MereDintofPandiculation I have to be honest If someone signed off at work with "KR" or "Best" I would be fairly filling up the swear jar.

My friend thought that ONO after the price of a house meant OH NO! So expensive!!
She was only a teenager at the time to be fair.

I was on here for ages before I found out what HTH meant.

Also it was a very long time before I was able to work out how to use the Smilies below. Looking at them now it's so obvious but at the time I just didn't get it - just to prove I really do know.

Aaaaah!! Thanks Stealth and Asta x

Oh! I've always posted hth as a genuine hoping I've helped rather than passive aggressive thing. Maybe people have been thinking I'm quite sarky when I'm not.

When I first joined I thought writing "bump" on a thread, any thread, was a pregnancy announcement

This made me roar with laughter and because I have a really bad cough/chest infection, the laughter turned into a Not Nice Incident.

ONO, OhNo, is prolonging incident

is there somewhere that lists the abbreviations used on MN? i think i have worked lots of them out but some still defeat me

I remember watching the London Marathon for the first time and hearing "Martin Smith, 34 year old vet", "Joanne James, 56 year old vet" and thinking goodness, there are a lot of vets taking part, I wonder if there is something about looking after animals that makes you a good runner.

It meant veteran. They had all run the marathon before.

I used to think that 'TA' stood for 'Territorial Army' rather than 'Teaching Assistant'.

I've only ever seen pfb on argumentative threads - thought is must mean your perfect fucking baby! Sorry!

Took me a while to understand why people would post a . or an f then realised it was just to follow the thread (why not click follow?)

No idea what Q is.

Somebody once posted jk, and I could not see the relevance to Jeremy Kyle whatsoever.

It's not thick to not understand all the abbreviations on MN. I find them annoying and often give up on threads where there a lot of them.

MumsNet would be well advised to ask people to stop using them. I'm sure if there were no abbreviations here MumsNet readership/traffic would increase.

stiypasi Figure that one out. Or hdylta?

I am always a bit amazed at the number of children with cerebral palsy. They I realise cp stands for chicken pox :(

I come from the very distant past, where if somebody wrote “Lol” on the internet, I thought they meant “lots of love.”

I see to think Dr exclusively mean a medical doctor and was surprised at just how many people in the corporate world were ex medics ...

"Q" is used as a placemarking in posts - so the poster can find where they had read to.

cheese you don't need to post a . to follow a thread. You can just do this

I am always a bit amazed at the number of children with cerebral palsy. They I realise cp stands for chicken pox
Ohhhhhhh
I still think that the C in CF stands for that particular C word that I don't like but that gets banded about on here a lot. I have to actually remind myself that it's cheeky.