OK, am I?

[Fluffyone]

To get frustrated with the sheer volume of abbreviations on this forum? I can deal with DH, DP, DC etc (although it grates to be honest "Darling Child" ) but every time I look in I see another set of initials that leave me clueless.
Is it that people are slow typists?

FFS ! YANBU ! IYWMHOWISYD ha haaaa

I can do it in a north east accent.... that ok for you?

Bytheway

Perfect

I shall give you a thread head start for fairness.

[Covers eyes]

Now post!

I agree actually. I use some of the very commonly known ones that are too long-winded to type, like YABVU, IYKWIM, IMVHO, but I hate trying to fathom some of the lesser known ones, and personally I don't find the word 'son' or 'kids' or 'Mum' too labour intensive to type.

IKHYFBICHY

Pedro, if anyone has a go at me for using that on their thread I'm gonna send them looking for you ... but I've done it...

Bytheway

Oooooh, ooooh! Where? Gimme a clue. GIMME A CLUE!

[Runs around with arms flailing above head in excitement]

Nah.

Not telling.

I agree with Pixie - they're age old acronyms which have been handed down through the MN generations (slight exaggeration emoticon!)

You can't just roll up and start moaning about them !!!!

Pixie - aye, the only Darlings I know are ex-chancellors or peter pans mates.

I call my son darling all the time...but it's more in a drawly, southern belle way- "C'mon, darrrrrlin', get those shoes on so we can go to the park." But when I type DS I hear "dear" in my head, too.

I like the abbreviations. Except when I use them in RL and people are like "OMG, GAL FFS!"

Wouldn't it be just great if everyone in 'Am I Being Unreasonable' just called their thread 'ok,am I?'

I don't like reading 'BD' but that's because it's a naff expression,not because of the acronym. It is starting to be ousted by 'SWI' which is infinitely better.

BD??? Babydancing? WTF!
whats wrong with typing SEX! Lol

Oooh, what's SWI? I think BD is ridiculous, btw. Not the acronym, the expression.

I think the idea of BD (yuck yuck yuck I've typed that TWICE now) is because it's not just sex,it's sex with the aim of getting pregnant....

SWI = Shagging With Intent.

OOOOOHHH...that makes sense. As you were

Poledra! You are a STAR! Thanks for that, it has been a mild irritant for some time.

Pedrothellama - go to the foot of OUR stairs, shurely? That's what my grandma always said but she were from Yorkshire so mebbe it's different there.

SWI = much much much better than BD, which should never have been used to describe sex. Baby dancing is what my DS does when he's watching Madagascar 2, and sex it ain't.

what does yy mean?

yy = yes yes

okey dokey then....never would have guessed that

Pixie, as I pointed out earlier, I too looked at the thread title when it was listed and didn't like it. If only Mumsnet had an edit facility...
No, I don't think that people will suddenly stop using the acronyms, but it's nice to see that some have been brave enough to admit that they find them irritating as well.
Personally, I think that the acronyms contribut to the slightly cliquey feeling of Mumsnet, which is something that doesn't bother me.

pedrothellama - thumbwitch is right - it is the foot of OUR stairs. An expression my father uses all the time, and he is a Lancashire lad. Another favourite round here is -I'll show my bottom on the town hall steps - ISMBOTTHS.