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

Re marking your place in a thread. I read from my phone and just do a slide right to left on the screen and just bookmark the thread using the "bookmark" emblem.

You're not on your own by any means - having a conversation (or trying to!) with someone who peppers their speech with "trendy" acronyms is very, very wearing.

I'd love to ask "eh?", "y'what?" and "erm....?" but I'm too much of a coward.

Just trying to top all the stupidity.

This happened in the good old offline days when I came to this lovely country (English not my first language).

At that time newsagents used to have small ads in the windows and I saw a fair few written in Polish.

And there used to be a sign next door

========= DANGER ----- HAZCHEM

I never thought about it, but it was obvious to me that Hazchem must be Polish for Danger. It even looks the part.

In the following 20 years or so I used to see the sign a lot around various parts of the country and would always think: Must be a lot of Polish people around here, too.

One day we were taking our pet to the vet and it has this sign outside and my dc asked me what it meant.

Suddenly I thought WTF and the lightbulb finally switched on right there and then.

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MiGi777 😂 yea spectrum was my first computer. My first office job used an electric typewriter! The next did use a computer but pre-Windows and green on black screen which fucked my eyesight, dot matrix printer too and adding machine (I wonder how many on mn even know what that is!) gradually email and Windows and msoffice came in and I developed my skills accordingly.

But it does amuse me certain computer things that eg dd thinks her generation "invented"

I'm pm'ing you a wee story too outing to make public

Graphista: remember telex?

Graphista - I had a job, not even my first one where there were comptometer women (and they were all women) who spent a large part of their days using adding machines.

@MiGi777 I LMFAO @ your post - I am absolutely without a doubt turning into my dad!

Having said that, I am the techy one at home (not that anyone would believe it) and I work in a fairly techy job too. And I can do alllll the emoticons (emojis are too "woke" for me) using shortcuts. Beat that you newbies!

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OMFG - how did I not know this??

Yep remember telex

I'd have loved that job using adding machines bloody love adding machines!

Didn't love playing "hunt the penny I'm out by"

Anyone who's worked in accounting will have felt my pain!

Large amounts are easy to find, anoints divisible by other numbers are easy to find but if you're out by a penny the next 2 days are screwed!!!!!

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OMFG - how did I not know this??

Another old one from the Ebay boards .

@NoShitHemlock
Haha, scary!! Its all crept up on me lately, I used to always be able to get by but sometimes now my brain melts and I just haven't got a clue!!
What is "woke???"!!!!!!

@MiGi777 dont tell anyone but I dont actually know - I think its young'un speak for trendy - will have to ask DD, but seeing as how she laughs at me for saying "same" (with full sarcasm) and "mood" (although thats more like a "MUUUUUUUM" in disgust), she might not actually tell me in case I start to use it to piss her off

I spent almost a year thinking HTH meant 'hand to hold'

Oh and CM had a different meaning on aibu compared to the conception board 😂

(Childminder usually on here, on conception its Cervical Mucus!)

lmfao

@NoShitHemlock
Aaaawww I know. My son never used slang but my eldest daughter, she made me laugh with "sick" "pen" and all that. I used to say "Where is that in the Oxford thank you!" And I'd stop her speaking like it in the house or around me basically. Especially when they all started saying "blad this and blad that" it sounded ridiculous. My youngest 6,has started saying "yeet" now and I can't remember what it means. It sounds really cute though so I haven't told her off yet!! Oh and both my twins have started saying "Hi Peeps!" And "Bye peeps!" I've never been cool but I've never been as backwards as I am now with all the new stuff!! The funniest bit is me trying to explain something new to my own parents, the eldest two just die laughing and I say "well you explain it then!"

I thought STBXH was 'shoot the bastard ex husband'

Hand to Hold makes sense! I'm dying at cervical mucus!!
Someone on here said they thought lol was lots of love and so did I for years. I'd always put that at the end of my texts and NOONE corrected me! "Oh I'm sorry you have the flu, laugh out loud."Brilliant. 🤔

I am not sure what AIBU means

One of my colleagues saw this in a reply to her and thought the email was being signed off by a different person and that someone else had accessed that person's mailbox!

A couple of years ago one police force in the Ireland couldn't understand how Prawo Jazdy was getting so many speeding and parking fines in so many different cars and in different places. Eventually a Polish speaker joined the force and informed them that it is the polish phrase for driving licence.

@NakedAvenger
No it's "stab" definitely Stab!!! 😬
@MissedTheBoatAgain
Am I being unreasonable? I'm not asking!! That is what it means!!!!!