can people please not use CP for chicken pox

[2shoes]

CP

cerebral palsy or chemical pregnancy, depending on the context

as copied from mn

why oh why do people use if for chicken pox.

lol marla

I am sometimes called FIS which always makes me think of FISH and where's the H gone.

Fis is a bit, well nothing really. Unsatisfactory.

its like a FISH but no bones.

BC do you get annoyed with before christ?

dp cheers me dear

or only after Christ - you do have to wait a while for this second comign malarkey

My mother (who never ever thinks she is saying anything offensive) was horrified that dd's initials are RC, because it means Roman Catholic. Silly bint.

Might have missed it, but I don't think anybody has mentioned any problems that they have with DS = dear son, but DS is also used when people are talking about Downs Syndrome.

Is this because it is on the mumsnet list of abbreviation, that this one is seen to be ok?

Fimbo what would she say about my DD hers is BJ?

One of my brothers has the initials CPAP and wrote them on all his books and school stuff. My other brother ( not unpredictably)went around and added a down stroke to the first P on all his belongings.
Everything he owned was crap....

pagwatch pmsl

pagwatch, I didn't think of crap, but continuous positive airway pressure!!

sorry 2shoes..didn't mean to pyo...but when you ask posters to type out chicken pox but you don't even say cerebral palsy in RL.....do you expect people to have much sympathy?

still a bit baffled 2shoes as to why you have posted to me earlier as though you and i have never 'spoken'???

sorry Lulu, I think I was shocked that the thread had re surfaced, you know I love you.
dp whatever..

You did NOT give your daughter the initials BJ!

okey doke.. did not want to piss you off or feel you were pissed off at me..

My dad has the initials BJ

It actually enabled my first boyf to find my number (he called the most interesting set of initials to see if it was right)

You can guess how long that lasted (Not Very pmsl)

My initials are CP btw, but on MN for years they were PC (peachyclair) and I got pissed off with threads about awful PC types until in relaised I was indeed both a PC by name and nature LOL

Not in the bogawful I am a PC Microdoft wanka sense though

DS2's initials are SMP, he's atribute to staturtory amternity pay, and DS3 is HP coz he's tasty like the sauce

Not

i kept seeing CP on a thread and had to keep reminding myself it was chicken poxs and not cerbal palsey.

lisad123 thank you now I know it is not just me

MS means manuscript and CP is command post. Don't know where people are getting these other meanings from

MS is miorning sickness usually, can also be mainstream of course

BF best friend, boy friend, breast feeding......

After a few years you can get a degree in modern langaugaes after a test on MN acronyms

Abbreviations will mean different things to different people, depending on their personal experiences. It's not like people are making light of anyones experience by using an abbreviation that can have many different meanings.

I notice that no one has responded to my point about DS!!

When I was a student nurse and working in a general surgery ward, we would put signs on peoples beds if they needed any particular tests, as a reminder.

One abbreviation we used was F.O.B - faecal occult blood, once I was asked by a patient why she was being referred to as a fat, old bag - that's what F.O.B meant to her

can anybody give me alist of common acronyms on MN as i sometimes dont have a clue.
thanks