Help us update the acronyms/abbreviations list please

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello.

It's been pointed out to us a few times now that our Acronyms and abbrevations list needs updating.

So, since you're the ones who really know your AIBUs from your AFAIKs, please tell us what you think should get the chop (if anything) and what needs adding.

TTFN (not that one, pls!)

MNHQ

BOAK is on here a lot & I've no idea what it means. So can it go on the list, with the definition?

Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck

Fuck the fuck off and when you get there, fuck the fuck off again.

Or
Fuck the fuck off and fuck off again when you get there.

The first is clearly superior.

ive never seen BOAK and ive been here years a while

are you sure its not as in makes you want to puke?

I thought was as well.

Am ignoring the TWC voting as it makes me thinking about it.

IHI - im highly insulted

I was trying to work out which poster had insulted you, but couldn't see anyone with the initials IHI.

Beasknees - EBF = exclusive breast feeding / exclusively breast fed. EBM = expressed breast milk, well AFAIK...

Rubs shoulders with TWC........ XX

NWOC - Nanny With Own Child

Driven, I thought is was usually applied to Extended Breast Feeding.

Waves to TWC.

i thought of another acronym for the list

GAL - get a life

Can that be OFGSGAT? Oh for God's sake, get a life....

or even OFGSGAL ? mitts

Embarrassed to say when I started on the TTC threads, I didn't know what AF stood for. Or POAS. BD too, though doesn't seem to get used that much any more.

Ha.. yes.. I was just testing that you were paying attention..

Oh My TWC..you are all puffed up with pride at being a smartarse aren't you?

wastingaway, really? I usually see it in the context of '...my 3 month old is EBF and he...' or '...why won't my EBF 5 month old sleep through...'. I'll keep an eye out, maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick

Oh I HATE 'AF'. I really do. I use it sometimes but it makes my teeth itch.

Yes, it's as in makes you want to puke. But I thought it was an acronym. . So it's just the sound, then, and the letters don't stand for anything?

Driven it must depend on context then. My little boy is 2 now, so well past being exclusively bf and I must look at extended feeding threads more.

Yes i hate AF too, its should be changed to TMHL - the martians have landed

oh mitts MMTI (makes my teeth itch) is a good one

AF is truly boaksome. What are we all? Simpering maids? FFS

Mmmmm, well, a quick root around in the archive seems to suggest that EBF is used more or less equally frequently for exclusive BF and for extended BF. Handy!

I think wasting is right, I've got a two year old and a 10 month old...

Talking of acronyms that should be banned, I hate TMI, particularly in a thread title. Something like 'Question about piles (TMI warning)' really gets my goat, because it's not TMI, it's the information necessary to provide and answer to the question. Can see how it could be fair comment about the content of someone else post but otherwise. Argh.

Apologies DriventoDistraction but a few days ago I posted a 'TMI-piles' question - added the 'TMI' bit just out of politeness I suppose. You know, in case anyone accidentally clicked on a piles thread (not even convincing myself there...)