Please can we remove BD from our acronym list?

[BitOfFun]

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

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease, nobody actually uses it, do they?

I'm on the TTC thread and we use SWI - shagging with intent. Much better

We used GOF - Good Old Fuck on our old TTC thread.

Okay - am going to be ignorant and ask...... wtf does BD stand for? Am racking my (tired) brain.

baby dancing

SWI is a good one.

Af is a bit rubbish, but can't think of another.

People DO use BD and AF on here - there are swathes of people on MN who only go on the conception boards and that is where they are used. I'm friends with people I met on the conception boards who just don't venture onto the rest of the site.

Well, at least they did use them three years ago when that was the only part of MN I went on.

I take your point, BellaBear, but it doesn't reflect the site as a whole (and is found a bit twee by the majority), so I don't see why it needs to be on the main list especially when people arelaughing-- at us

I think it's best if we just stop referring to sex altogether. We're mothers, not animals.

You're quite right of course, SOH- I don't like to mention it myself, but there are some more base types among us, and we do need to be more inclusive, non?

Of course BoF. I have mental images of all MNers I have a crush on admire and you, my dear, are a nun. I don't know why we can't round them all up in a little corner of MN and lock the door. Let their sexual proclivities cancel each other out until they slip into an existential void which we can then fill with tea and knitting. Beasts they are, filthy beasts.

I do so want an actual Friday Night topic though. I've asked several times. They ignore me. It's like having another child trying to reason with MNHQ.

I concur.

Am in agreement also. BDing is just nasty

SWI is fab. Gets my vote.

The only time i've ever seen BD used on Mumsnet is on a thread laughing at Netmums type sites. DB and AF are both horrific.

BD is just horrible. It is the kind of euphanism that went out with the Victorians.

We are WOMEN not teenagers unable to say the word SEX without sniggering.

SWI is much better as it implies humour and LUST rather than simpering wannabeemummies.

I used to have the Becoming A Parent topic unhidden and it was littered with, positively awash with baby dancing. Sorry, but there's no denying it does exist on this site.

But of course it should go!

Ka booooooooommmmmmmmm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another vote for SWI

I used to live in SW1.

BitofFun - absolutely, you are right. And I hate the acronym BD. And the phrase.
just making the point.

Cant stand BD or EWM (don't ask)

BD - lose it, please. I initially thought it literally meant dancing with your baby, which I do a lot, mainly in my kitchen and often to Primal Scream or something equally unsuitable.

And AF, WTF, what's wrong with "my turkey has had its throat cut"?

I have a friend who uses this term in real life, over dinner, whenever. Noooooooooooooo

They have gone!

Result!!! Yay high five!

Goes off to google....

Oh I am glad they've gone. Particularly because DH is a rubbish dancer