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I'm running into this more and more with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Bungo Stray Dogs.

I was wondering if anyone else has run into anything similar?

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's weird seeing news articles about the SEC that have nothing to do with college football.

[–] Ozymandias1688@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

You mean size exclusion chromatography, surely.

The Southeastern Conference was founded in 1932. The Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934.

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

[–] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Cannabis CBT and in turn THC, that's all I know the CBT acronym for

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Lupus@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie

League of Legends

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

AOL: Absent, on leave

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I had a kinder experience and was told LOL was Leg of Lamb. That just left me confused.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

bruh it's South Carolina

[–] remon@ani.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair "SC" was replaced by "SC:BW" within like a year.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I was late to the party. The only acronym I ever used was SC2.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry, can't read PoE as anything besides Permit Office Enforcement

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[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

SC is soundcloud to me

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Lol, i can't think of PoE as anything but Power over Ethernet.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

CS2

Counter Strike 2 or Cities Skylines 2?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Linux Kernel has a specific one, whereby DRM doesn't mean Digital Rights Protection, only thing I could think of.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

yeah, I still get confused with that one

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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It's not annoying, only quite funny, but every time I see CSM (Chainsaw Man) I can only think of Coño'e su Madre / Cocha'e su Madre (Motherfucker in Latinamerica).

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

SNAFU, how it went from chaotic situation to make a blunder?

Also, why are Americans so obsessed with acronyms?

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Also, why are Americans so obsessed with acronyms?

My guess would be WW2 and the US Army. The military likes to keep messages concise, so they love to use acronyms. For many service men, the Army was their first experience outside of their small towns. When the soldiers entered the civilian world they brought their training with them. AWOL [Absent With Out Leave] is still a common expression here. SNAFU [Situation Normal, All Fouled UP] and FUBAR [Fouled Up Beyond All Repair] went from being gags to part of the common speech.

Bonus =https://youtu.be/FTBcu34fpHc

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

MK, Mortal Kombat, not Mario Kart.

CH, Chapulín Colorado, not Christina Herrera.

SNK, Shin Nihon Kikaku, not Shingeki no Kyojin.

SNK - Saturday Night Korea!

[–] Retreaux@lemmy.world -1 points 20 hours ago
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