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

I've seen this loads of times, usually to piss the op off but what does it mean??

@maddiemookins16mum welcome to the club

Oh oh oh @Elliss2018 I know this one!! It means "No Comment" and I always read it in a really bitchy sarcastic tone cos thats how I roll

HTH (I am going to use this one ALL THE TIME NOW) sorry not sorry

Haha @NoShitHemlock I always read it that way too

I thought CF meant Cunty Fucker.

@Elliss2018

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1814174-to-not-know-what-the-jammy-dodger-icon-means

😂😂😂

This is why I asked for an updated list of abbreviations (search my name n posts).

Although, SOME abbreviations (long word for short words) are very generalised chat spk (speak) and have been around since the 90s (well certainly when I was doing chat online in 97).

Did you know OMG was used in war correspondence during ww2, from an admiral to Churchill... OMG (oh my god)... Is what was written in the telegram. A nice lil factoid for you

I was confused by someone complaining about MILF
...until I realised it was a typo.

I don't feel so bad now about not understanding all of these! My best friend used to write LMAO a lot when we texted and one time I asked her what does "Lumow" mean? She just went totally blank and I said "You always write it! Lumow, like miaow, it's spent LMAO but sounds like miaow/Lumow when you say it?" she absolutely keeled over laughing she thought it was so funny but I had no idea! I could have and should have looked it up but it was just one of those things, I thought "I must ask her". Duh me!!

This may be slightly off topic, but what on earth is a spoony fucker? I've only ever seen it on here, and I have no idea what one is. One who spoons excessively Ross and Rachel 'cuddly sleepers' springs to mind

*?

Spoony Fucker IIRC was poster's husband, who could not leave anything alone that the poster was cooking, but had to grab a spoon and start poking and stirring it into a mush.

@KatharinaRosalie Thank you!! I didn't see that particular post, I've just seen it referred to, so there was no context for me to even begin guessing.

I still read CF as cystic fibrosis tbh.

Except when I'm reading about actual cystic fibrosis. Them my head reads cheeky fucker.

Omg can someone please help me ?

Dd
Ds
Dh
Dp
??? What are these and all the other little short cuts please tell me

For quite a while I thought BRB meant Bath Room Break

Nah - Birmingham Royal Ballet

@MiGi777 I still us LMAO and LMFAO. Am obs showing my age here....ahhh bring back MSN Messenger

Kate again for you

www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms

I predate even msn!! I remember Chatting in very primitive chat rooms early 90's fuck I'm old!!

D = dear or darling so dh = dear husband, dm = dear mum etc. But now it’s just mumsnetspeak for husband father etc. XDH = ex (dear) husband which is just daft in real life but I do it all the time without a second thought .

was from when Gordon Brown did a live appearance on mumsnet and refused to tell us what his favourite biscuit is. Shocking behaviour.

Aridane - many years ago on Ebay we used to make blank posts on the old Community boards. They got p'd off with us and changed the format so we couldn't do it any more, when you mentioned it a while back it brought back memories.

I am going back a long time, sometime around 2002 or thereabouts. More fun than just a .

I mainly post on Style and Beauty (I am up late and this thread popped up in the sidebar) and HTH tends to be genuine - “try Estée Lauder, they have a concealer that fits your brief exactly. HTH”. I get confused when I see it used passive aggressively.

@NoShitHemlock
I know! I'm the same. Something has happened (obvs older age!) and I have largely lost touch with lots of things. My older two have done something with the TV (I agreed it!) and it now runs through the PlayStation? They have Netflix and you tube and all sorts of things going on and it's great when they're here but I've had times when I've been stuck watching X factor specials all night because that's what's come up and I haven't been able to click off it. I've called them once or twice to help me turn over! They say "mum you're so cute!" Or "you're so funny!" But the reality is I am turning into my parents now. I'm partially deaf in one ear all of a sudden, I make weird noises when I stand up and it takes me a couple of attempts to get out of my chair. It wasn't THAT long ago (20 years!!!!) that I was jumping about to Nirvana and completely up to date with everything. I get lost a lot now and I have to ask the children what's this and what's that?!!! So bad!

@Graphista
I bought my first lap top when my daughter was about 8 so I was about 30/31, that's 11 years ago and that was my first experience of the Internet. I had an old Commodore 64 as a kid and my friend next door had a spectrum. Pacman and Chucky egg was cutting edge back then! I only bought the lap top because believe it or not my daughter had handed in a handwritten piece of ENGLISH work and it was rejected as it had to be printed out on the computer. So £500 later she had the laptop to do her homework. I can remember people talking about chat rooms but I didn't see one. But yes, I feel like I predate dinasaurs sometimes here!!

Like a pp, this is mumsnet unrelated but similar.
When Play Station 1 came out, around the time dinosaurs were roaming the earth and I was young, I thought it was to do with train sets. (Play STATION, train STATION, you can see the connection?)
My friend said her dh was up playing all night, I idly commented that I didn't realise her dh liked trains! Oh the shame.