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Please can we remove BD from our acronym list?

56 replies

BitOfFun · 26/11/2009 23:45

Of all the sticks to beat us with, this has got to be the worst...

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease, nobody actually uses it, do they?

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TheFallenMadonna · 26/11/2009 23:47

God yes. Honestly. Nobody who actually uses the boards generally would think this was a MN thing.

HuwEdwards · 26/11/2009 23:49

I third it.

Bleeding ridiculous.

Tortington · 26/11/2009 23:50

i fourth it

it has been mentioned twice in the papers, and it makes me cringe

i certainly have never seen that used. It is deffo a 'hun' thing.

give it to netmums

NormalityBites · 26/11/2009 23:51

I agree it is vile

nevergoogledragonbutter · 26/11/2009 23:52

i fifth it (maybe sixth by the time i type this)

can we send AF to nethuns too?

MollieO · 26/11/2009 23:52

It was mentioned on a thread last week. I'd never heard of it previously.

choppychopster · 26/11/2009 23:52

Just said how much I agree with you Huwedwards on the "I HATE MUMSNET" thread.

I never look at the TTC topic, but I can't really imagine it being used. It's so horribly twee.

HuwEdwards · 26/11/2009 23:53

ditto 'AF'. should be replaced by 'OTB' (on the blob)

HuwEdwards · 26/11/2009 23:53

why, thankyou chopper!

MattBellamysMuse · 26/11/2009 23:55

I've never seen it used on this site.
Please get rid asap.

Tidey · 26/11/2009 23:56

I (whatever number we're up to) that. Much prefer OTB to AF as well, good suggestion.

said · 26/11/2009 23:56

Oh, I love 'On the blob', always makes me laugh. Wish someone had changed there username to that when Cameron was in.

said · 26/11/2009 23:57

their!

choppychopster · 26/11/2009 23:57

Oops! Thought that you'd started this thread Huw, but just seen that it was BitOfFun.

said · 26/11/2009 23:58

Surely we must now add PTSITIGTV??

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JustineMumsnet · 26/11/2009 23:59

I reckon - not sure how it got there anyway.

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JustineMumsnet · 26/11/2009 23:59

What's AF?

Tidey · 27/11/2009 00:01

Can we have GTPI as well as OTB?

HuwEdwards · 27/11/2009 00:01

Aunty Flo = period, (last used in Larkside to Candleford, or whatever it's called)

choppychopster · 27/11/2009 00:02

Yay! Thanks Justine!

HuwEdwards · 27/11/2009 00:02

spill, Tidey

Tidey · 27/11/2009 00:04

Got The Painters In

HuwEdwards · 27/11/2009 00:09

well Tidey, you see, I may very well and very literally have'Got the painters in', for the hall, landing and staircase, or...maybe for my back passage (har har), but I am never, literally, 'On the blob', on any blob.

So to avoid aforementioned potential confusion, we should ditch GTPI and stick (metaphorically speaking) with OTB.

Tidey · 27/11/2009 00:14

A well-argued point Huw. As long as AF is locked away in a cupboard, I'd be quite happy with any alternative.

Although there could be posters who actually have an Aunt called Flo, so the misunderstanding could've happened many times already

timelordvictorious · 27/11/2009 00:27

As a lifelong Arsenal fan, I always say that the Gunners are Playing At Home. (So, in acronym terms, GPAH)