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?
A group of separatist rebels in the Philippines formed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
MILF, for short.
In Berlin there’s a car hire company called “Miles” (very handy, you can book and pick up a car in minutes) and they have a bunch of vans with a “damaged” e. So now it says Milfs. Hoho.
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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.
SC is soundcloud to me
Sorry, can’t read PoE as anything besides Permit Office Enforcement
PoE is power over ethernet
PoE = Portal of Evil which was a directory of weird-ass websites.
For me, SC means Supreme Court and PoE means “Power over Ethernet” lol.
Nah, Supreme Court is abbreviated as SCROTUM.
Nice
bruh it’s South Carolina
To be fair “SC” was replaced by “SC:BW” within like a year.
I was late to the party. The only acronym I ever used was SC2.
Lol, i can’t think of PoE as anything but Power over Ethernet.
CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.
“Changed Block Tracking” for me.
Cannabis CBT and in turn THC, that’s all I know the CBT acronym for
I think you’re thinking of CBD
probably, i don’t like acronyms for this exact reason
Central business district?
Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken
Duh, it’s British Broadcasting Chicken.
Huh, I though it was British Black Chicken!
Those of a vintage beyond even my own will know that it stands for “Broken Biscuit Company”, which I believe originated on BBC radio with The Goon Show. Now that’s not an acronym, but it is another word that’s picked up an unfortunate extra meaning in recent years.
A lot of british women I knew just loved BBC.
This! It’s so frustrating trying to fill my hen house
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.
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.
Ever play D2?
Two sided dice, for binary decisions in DnD? Sure, I’ve flipped a coin
Ah man another one of these is Monster Hunter World (MHW) and now the new game Monster Hunter Wilds (MHW). 🤦
I mean TF2 was kinda old by the time the first Titanfall came out.
True, but still a very active game.
You just reminded me the confusion I had trying to figure out if people are talking about Battlefield 2 or Battlefront 2 years ago
As a dude who loves Transport Fever 2, you better believe I get this wrong a lot.
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.
LucasFilm Games
Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I ‘worked on WAP in the early 2000s’.
I’m working with data, where we have a concept called “write, audit, publish” (also abbreviated WAP). I’m laughing on the inside everyone I hear anyone talking about it.
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!
Ask your mom for me. She knows 😏
Leaving out the hyphen totally changed the meaning !
Moist butt cat
MoistCr1tikal?
Wide area progressive, when slot machines across multiple casinos contribute to one combined jackpot.
LETS GO GAMBLING!!!
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
LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie
League of Legends
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
I had a kinder experience and was told LOL was Leg of Lamb. That just left me confused.
AOL: Absent, on leave
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.
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).
CS2
Counter Strike 2 or Cities Skylines 2?
For me CS2 is Counter Strike 2 and CS:2 is Cities Skylines 2. No idea why though.
I guess it is suppose be C:S2 for Cities Skylines because that is where the colon is in the name.
You’re right, my bad, I remembered wrong.
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
SNAFU, how it went from chaotic situation to make a blunder?
Also, why are Americans so obsessed with acronyms?
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.
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I don’t mean the military acronyms, those make the most sense of all.
I mean all the other, you just need to see the reat of the comments, video games, names of celebrities and politicians, others are used as euphemisms. Now you can even read news articles were only use the acronym of whatever without mentioning a single time what that acronym stands for.
I meant that when the ex-soldiers entered the civilian world they brought the idea of acronyms with them. They looked around and created new ones because that’s what they thought was appropriate.
Also texting on Nokias happened, many were invented to save clicks.
Furthermore it’s arguably natural for organizations to be abbreviated/initialized and it’s not an American phenomenon, as evidenced by the кгб and фсб; or the YPG, KSB, YPJ; ETC.
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
