You can just say 'my husband' or 'my daughter', you know, instead of bloody 'DH' or 'DD'. WE WILL STILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND YOU!

[MehWithBellsOn]

How refreshing would it be, just for once, to see someone here state 'my husband' instead of their 'DH'?!

It's such a sappy wet-lettuce thing to say anyway, plus half the bloody time there are threads about how someone's 'darling' husband has been found to be texting some other woman/cam girl/sex worker, etc

It's as though people here think nobody will be able to understand them unless they preface the person they're talking about with 'darling'. WHY?!

WHEN WILL WE STOP THE TWATTERY?

Original Poster are you in favour of a 'Like' button too? We haven't had a thread about how much that would improve Mumsnet for ages.

I remember someone mentioning DSS once. I wondered why they were talking about the dole office.

WTAF IMHO YABVU

I'm on a PC. No auto-complete

Which is why I specified people posting on a phone. Having said that, I am a touch typist. It takes me about the same amount of time to type husband as it would DH, because of reaching for the shift key.

[Yes, I'm that petty.]

Hubster?

Tae fuck.

And here’s me fretting over ddog usage! 🤣

@Sparklingbrook

I go for the very long Sparklingcat for my feline it takes ages to type.

It always sounds so pretty though 💫🐈💫

Haven't seen holibobs for a mercifully long time.

@Sparklingbrook

It's like RTFT is 'read the fucking thread' to me but apparently the 'F' really means 'Full'

As someone who writes software and has to document it, I can confirm it definitely doesn't mean 'full' as it's often used to refer to just the relevant section. (Customer Support obviously have to bowdlerise it for the users)

I love ALL the acronyms. I certainly wouldn't write out in full

Seconded. I always imagine sparklingcat trotting about in a glittering sunbeam.

Sheldog? Was contrary and got arsey when someone sat in her spot.

...FOTTFSOFAWYGTFOSM

You don't appear to like MN very much OP.

Perhaps you should avoid it altogether?

Oh ffs, @Lockdownennui, just because she doesn't like twee acronyms it doesn't mean she should leave the site!

Aww @JesusInTheCabbageVan she really is sparkly most of the time.

@ErrolTheDragon I love the word 'bowdlerise' I will try and shoehorn it into a conversation at some point.

I haven't seen MNHQ (Mumsnet Headquarters) post TSSDNCOP for a while.

Glosswitch on MN's acronyms:

As any regular visitor to the AIBUU^ threads will know, Mumsnet absolutely excels at scathing, clever banter, led by women who came of age when banter and “ironic” misogyny were all the rage among single men. There’s something quite delightful in finding that women – mere mummies, even – are far better at this than the overgrown lads who would use it to deflate us. Even the daft acronymss^ (DD1, DS3, DH, AIBU…) are just a form of trolling. Of course they annoy people! Mummies sitting around having these “secret” (but not very secret, and actually profoundly silly) code words for describing the shit and string beanss^ minutiae of domestic life! Truly, finding out your mummy has a sense of humour about all the shit you throw at her is worse than finding out your parents have sex.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2018/05/demonisation-mumsnet-just-latest-incarnation-witch-hunting

Op, YABU imo

@PhillipPhillop

FOTTFSOFAWYGTFOSM

I always try to pronounce that like an actual word now (like David Schwimmer with the welsh name in the tsb advert)

I’m now doing it in his fucked off sing song voice

That means that now....TSSDNCONCOP

I agree, I would just type H if I were married. Often people tell us that their DH is financially, emotionally, emotionally abusive and they don't leave out the D

oh dear....i dont think this thread has gone the way op wanted it to.....

@Neighneigh

I'd rather we focus on eliminating 'hubs' and 'hubby'

I agree. Death to hubby!

@WiseOwlOne

I agree, I would just type H if I were married. Often people tell us that their DH is financially, emotionally, emotionally abusive and they don't leave out the D

But sometimes posters will express so much, with such brevity, by referring to their 'D'H.

MN taught me IMO, FWIW, TBH, FGS/FFS, CBA, among many others, including the D everything. I don't use them outside MN but I thank MN for giving me back 5 seconds per word.

Time well spent.

@Bluebird2021

oh dear....i dont think this thread has gone the way op wanted it to.....

They never do.

@Sparklingbrook

It's like RTFT is 'read the fucking thread' to me but apparently the 'F' really means 'Full'

Haha I thought it was fucking too. Didn’t occur to me it could mean full.