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?

Whatwasthatagain

Oh no that means Bytheway has posted a meaningless acronym somewhere randomly on a thread.

My northern mother was always very fond of the saying 'Ooooh 'ark at the pot' if she thought I said something pretentious or uppity.

Argh, Pedro! You made me look silly!

Have you found me yet?

Worst one for me is "pg" for "pregnant".

Surely it should just be "P" or "PN"?

It's not Pre - Gnant,i.e. Before Gnant is it.

no, but p and g are the two outstanding consonants in the word, so it does kind of make sense. I always use it because I don't like the word pregnant, neither the look nor the sound of it (no idea why, it's an oddity of mine)

Bytheway

No -

[matchsticks in eyes]

All acronyms blur into one after a while. Please tell me! Please! I will give you my undying devotion if you do!

Really? undying...?

I'll think about it... Off to work now, a good place to do thinking....

TTFN... bleurgh, hate that one too.

when I was a kid it was MYOB [mind your own business]

There was a girl used to work in Pimlico Tesco's with FOAD tattooed on her knuckles

it evidently meant Fuck Off And Die but her employers mustn't've clocked it

...or maybe they had