CP does not mean:
- Cyberpunk
- Club Penguin
- Cleft Palate
- Cerebral Policy
- Conservative Party
If you're on a Unix terminal it means "copy," anywhere else it means what Josh Duggar is into.
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Especially since the Bureau of Land Management is regularly talked about in my field.
I have no issue with the civil rights movement tho
Due to anti-DEI policies the agency is now called All Land Management
BotW will always mean Best of the Worst to me. Zelda fans should just get over it and spell it out every time. And I like that game.
Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.
SRS/GRS is absolutely everywhere as an acronym. It stands for Sex/Gender Reassignment Surgery
HRT too (Hormone Replacement Therapy)
never thought of the anime as bsd. sorta funny. I have to admit magic the gathering became so popular all of a sudden in the news.
Not annoyed, but i enjoy annoying red hats by taking about how much I appreciate BLM. As soon as they start spouting off I start talking about how we camped on Bureau of Land Management land out west and it was great.
Alternatively, how Brennan Lee Mulligan is a great GM
Also Game Master > General Motors
I read GM as Grand Master (chess). You’ve bastardised it now.
Grand Master (chess) > Game Master > Literal dog shit > General Motors
Better? ;-)
Perfecto.
Muchas gracias
It's weird seeing news articles about the SEC that have nothing to do with college football.
The Southeastern Conference was founded in 1932. The Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934.
You mean size exclusion chromatography, surely.
MTG it's a trading card game and not some dumb ass politician.
I try to pronounce it "Empty G" with a slight emphasis on the "p".
Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I 'worked on WAP in the early 2000s'.
What is WAP, if not wireless application protocol?
a pop star made a popular song about it, I too was lost but someone pointed it out.... Wet Ass Pussy
OMS! I don't want to know what ass pussy is!
Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken
I love how someone uploaded a video titled "Virgin asshole destroyed by BBC" to pornhub, and it was a video of Ben Shapiro losing his shit after badly failing at debating one of the BBC hosts.
A lot of british women I knew just loved BBC.
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D2 is either a type of steel or a great game in 8th grade.
LFG used to mean Look For Group in a lot of games. Now it's let's fucking go.
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AC -- alternating current, ass crust
DTF -- downtime failure, discreet time fourier, down to funkyland
SMB -- server message block, some mammamia bros
IANAL -- i am not a lawyer, sure you do
So many people think Mac is an acronym for whatever reason, as in "Do you use MAC or PC?".
I don't know why they think this. It was never formatted that way in any of Apple's marketing materials.
It really annoys me. In my head when I read it I hear "MAC" pronounced in the voice of Gilbert Godfrey.
I'm guessing they're confusing it with MAC addresses? They probably saw the term somewhere and wrongly assumed it had something to do with Apple Macs.
Macintosh Apple Computer
MAC stands for MAC Apple Computer. It's a recursive acronym.
True, although it's more formally known as an Apple MAC Apple Computer, or Apple Mackintosh Apple Computer Apple Computer.
With Apple standing, of course, for Applied Possibility and Permutation Learning Environment.
MK, Mortal Kombat, not Mario Kart.
CH, Chapulín Colorado, not Christina Herrera.
SNK, Shin Nihon Kikaku, not Shingeki no Kyojin.
SNK - Saturday Night Korea!
Another one that came to mind is TF2. I like Titanfall 2 more than Team Fortress 2 but I associate the acronym with Team Fortress 2.
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CS2
Counter Strike 2 or Cities Skylines 2?
CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.
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FTP: free to play, file transfer protocol
SRS: Serious, sex reassignment surgery, social responsiveness scale, etc
LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie
first time I experienced LOL was way back, Early 1990s. When AOL was still in 1.x for the Apple. My buddy and I broke into his brothers work computer and were playing around online in the chat rooms. They told us it was Loser On Line and it was a long time before I understood that wasnt what it was.... those jerks
AOL: Absent, on leave
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All the time. Like at some point SC stopped meaning StarCraft and started meaning Splinter Cell. And don't let me get started about the famous roleplaying game PoE. Yes, or course I mean Pillars of Eternity and not Path of Exile.
For me, SC means Supreme Court and PoE means "Power over Ethernet" lol.
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