Annoying acronyms
rickyrider
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MTFU - the most annoying and overused acronym on sports forums? I've just read it one too many times... It drives me freaking crackers and in my opinion (sorry, that should be IMO) makes anyone who uses it look like a complete tw*t. Ranty rant rant...
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I work in the healthcare sector, which is absolutely rife with TLAs (etc), so TBH, they don't bother me - they help distinguish who is "inside" and "outside" the tent.
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What's wrong with MTFU, it's just a catch-all rather than filling the board with excuses for failure.
You lost a race because you have two broken legs? Whatever, I stubbed my toe last week. MTFU.
It's also tongue in cheek.0 -
DNA - National Dyslexic AssociationNobody told me we had a communication problem0
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dhope wrote:What's wrong with MTFU, it's just a catch-all rather than filling the board with excuses for failure.
You lost a race because you have two broken legs? Whatever, I stubbed my toe last week. MTFU.
It's also tongue in cheek.
I agree, so OP - STFU
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LMAO
. Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
Think how stupid the average person is.......
half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.0 -
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OP, MTFU! YMMV, IANAL, STFU. ROTFL.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
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OP = Original Post/Poster (in this case Rickyrider)
MTFU! = Man The Fark Up (act like a man)
YMMV = Your Milage May Vary (you may do this a different amount than I do (not a great definition))
IANAL = I Am Not A Lawyer (don't take what I say as gospel)
STFU = Shut The Fark Up (be quiet)
ROTFL = Rolling On The Floor Laughing (so funny that I am rolling around on the floor with laughter)
YOMANK = You Owe Me A New Keyboard (the reader was drinking when reading and the comment was so funny that they spat the drink over the keyboard and it now needs cleaning or replacing)FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
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rickyrider wrote:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=YOMANK
:-) Never seen that one before....Urban Dictionary has its uses!0 -
The OP needs to look up the difference between initialisms and acronyms, preferably in an English reference i.e. not Wikipedia (sic.), unless he is foreign, in which case they may be one and same ."Coming through..."0
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Bassjunkieuk wrote:rickyrider wrote:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=YOMANK
:-) Never seen that one before....Urban Dictionary has its uses!
gotta say, I actually quite like that one!0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:For a while I've been pronouncing acronyms like words.
Really really irritates people.
By definition an acronym is pronounced as a word eg SARS, ABBA, CAMRA, AWOL
If you say each letter it is an initialism ie IBM, LMAO, ADSL, TCP/IP,
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mossychops wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:For a while I've been pronouncing acronyms like words.
Really really irritates people.
By definition an acronym is pronounced as a word eg SARS, ABBA, CAMRA, AWOL
If you say each letter it is an initialism ie IBM, LMAO, ADSL, TCP/IP,
*Im off up my own ass now with the little bit of knowledge i have*
Excellent.
Who says each letter in LMAO anyway?
Losers, that's who.0 -
mossychops wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:For a while I've been pronouncing acronyms like words.
Really really irritates people.
By definition an acronym is pronounced as a word eg SARS, ABBA, CAMRA, AWOL
If you say each letter it is an initialism ie IBM, LMAO, ADSL, TCP/IP,
*Im off up my own ass now with the little bit of knowledge i have*
Well where does LOL fall then? Some people say L-O-L and others will say "LOL".
My dad did actually mis-understand LOL when first used in a online conversation with my younger brother - he thought it meant Lots of Love :-) Which did lead to some proper LOL :-)0 -
A friend of mine is a doctor and told me about the term TFBUNDY used in A&E. Is it initialisation or an acronym? It's pronounced T-F-BUNDY.
Means a person is not very well with minimal chance of survival.
Obviously a warped sense of humour is developed in these environments.0 -
My kids have started abbreviating acronyms. ROTFL has become ROFL so that it can said easier and merged with other words such as ROFLcopter.
LOL when spoken by them is nearly always used sarcastically, especially after I've said something 'funny'.
For the medics on here is it true that doctors write NBFS (not built for speed) on the clip-boards of over-weight patients ?0 -
From what I've heard, NBFS is one of the nicer ones that medics use.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
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Some I.T related ones I've been known to throw around:
PICNIC - Problem in chair not in computer
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PEBKAC - Problem exists between keyboard and chair
I also heard about "code ID10T"..... read literally as a code ID-10-T :-)0 -
I can live with acronyms/initialisations in general, but get seriously, and quite unreasonably, irrittated by some phrases. My particular unfavourite of these is 'at the end of the day', and I will automatically assume anyone who uses it to be an idiot, and deal with them accordingly. They often rapidly proceed to prove me correct.
When I was but a youngster, and everything was in black and white and you could go on a world cruise for a halfpenny and still have change, my old man told me that anyone who used the phrases 'these days', 'back in my day', or the word 'nowadays', especially in the context of 'kids these days', would be spouting boll*cks, and little over the intervening years has suggested to me that he was wrong.
Another one that annoyed the hell out of me was old people constantly telling you that 'we didn't have tv in my day, y'know, we had to make our own entertainment (this would be in the 60s or 70s). I know perfectly well that you didn't have tv then you stupid old farts, it wasn't available in South Wales until 1952; and if some of what I've heard you do is 'enterainment' I am obvously using the wrong dictionary.0 -
My boss often say "at the end of the day" in meetings. I just reply by saying "it's night". He still hasn't got the hint, the man's a fool.
Another medical abbreviation is NFN used in the psychiatric ward to describe the severly challenged. Short for Normal For Norfolk.0 -
Veronese68 wrote:Another medical abbreviation is NFN used in the psychiatric ward to describe the severly challenged. Short for Normal For Norfolk.
just found a few more quite funny medical ones:
CTD – Circling the Drain (patient expected to die soon)
GPO – Good for Parts Only
UBI - Unexplained Beer Injury
DBI - Dirt Bag Index (number of tattoos x number of missing teeth = number of days since last wash)
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Bassjunkieuk wrote:
Well where does LOL fall then? Some people say L-O-L and others will say "LOL".
My dad did actually mis-understand LOL when first used in a online conversation with my younger brother - he thought it meant Lots of Love :-) Which did lead to some proper LOL :-)
I think LOL is an acronism (it's in the OED now, that means its right proper English).
Not being funny, but when you touch base at the end of the day and when all is said and done, we'll guestimate its all uber rubbish. I am actually amazed how many people nowadays write in text speak in emails and on forums. It's fine for text but very lazy and inconsiderate in written situation like that. We had a work experience guy at our place and he really didn't know that wasn't acceptable in a business email.
There is an urban legend about the LOL (laugh vs love) when someone has a text message saying "your gran passed away this afternoon. lol. Mum x".0 -
Once of my favourite acronyms is NONCE: Not For Normal Courtyard Exercise. An official term meaning someone in prison for a sexual crime who is not safe among the inmates.0
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My pet-peeve with LOL is the usage of it on the end of completely un-comical facebook status updates. I know using that and looking at some people is setting yourself up for a fall but I've never really understood the need to use it in some cases:
"Picking up the kids from school LOL"
NO! Picking up the kids ISN'T FUNNY unless you are PHYSICALLY picking them up in which case it may be mildly amusing.....0 -
rickyrider wrote:Veronese68 wrote:Another medical abbreviation is NFN used in the psychiatric ward to describe the severly challenged. Short for Normal For Norfolk.
just found a few more quite funny medical ones:
CTD – Circling the Drain (patient expected to die soon)
GPO – Good for Parts Only
UBI - Unexplained Beer Injury
DBI - Dirt Bag Index (number of tattoos x number of missing teeth = number of days since last wash)
Gotta love UBI
The NFN one relates to inbreeding, common among teachers also IIRC.
Medical lingo:
http://www.messybeast.com/dragonqueen/medical-acronyms.htm
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