You're not being unreasonable that....

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

....x happened.
You're being unreasonable (or reasonable) to be upset that x happened, or to have reaction y to the fact that x happened.

It's probably been said many times before, but it bugs me every time.

Agree! My pet hate is PMSL - where does the 'S' come from???!

....in place of the awful 'PMSL' may I advance 'UMDTM'

(unexpected micturition due to mirth)

I feel this would work.

Was thinking the same today, Kathy - it does grate, doesn't it?

Retiredgoth, for those of us with dodgy pelvic floors, I'm afraid the "U" is generally superfluous, sadly...

PMSL

DWBTTCOMMUS

(Didn't wee but turned the corners of my mouth up slightly.)

SS (=sniggered slightly, which is probably the reality behind a great many LOLs)

Glad someone agrees.

BOWCO: Bit Of Wee Came Out.

I think it's catchy.

lmao

SEA, the last isn't going to please pedants as it's patently Not True. Or you should be in medical textbooks.

Do men ever literally piss themselves laughing?

They laugh when they have taken somebody else's piss.

Urologists must have a ball, then - laugh a minute if you're fitting catheters...

If urologists have a ball then testicologists (surely that is the correct technical term) must take the piss. It's only fair.

Orchidologists, would be more likely (the op to lop one off is called an orchidectomy - I kid you not). They just get bladdered.

And I hate that the King's College Choir pronounces the phrase "in excelsis deo" (in the Gloria Christmas carol) as "in ek-shelsis deo"... it's Latin FFS, not Italian! It should be "in ex-celsis deo"!!

Eh?

Oh shit, wrong thread!!
Soorry!!

Thready!! I didn't know that you were Spiro! I thought I must know who you were, and went a-stalkin'.

Jacks - I think that may be something to do with articulation when singing - maybe less hiss, or something. I went to the same school that our Cathedral choirboys did, and they were taught to sing "egg-shell-sis", pretty much. Same school also taught Latin... Just a guess.

Ah, sorry Habbibu! It's my Christmas name.

I love the fact that you can just pick up Jack's wrong-thread Latin pronunciation pedantry and run with it.

I am confused by the whole orchid-testicles thing. Actual orchids look much more like ladybits than manbits. Does the root mean something like 'genital'?

wrong thread! Ah - thought it was a little tangential, shall we say... What was the right thread, then?

The root word, "orchi-" is Greek and means testicle. Strangely, "testicle" comes from the Latin word "testis" which means witness. This is where we get the word "testify" from - in ancient days, men were required to swear oaths on their testicles, because presumably they were their most precious possessions . So to swear an oath a man was required to put his hand on his balls. Eventually this was changed to putting a hand on a bible while swearing an oath...

Thanks for running with my post there Habbibu!

Thanks Jack. That is so interesting. I bet we'd have less perjury in court today if we went back to the ball swearing. And perhaps nork swearing for women.

And I've just realised the consequence that, etymologically speaking, 'giving testimony' is more or less the same as 'talking bollocks'.