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?
I remember being annoyed when PS2 suddenly was a gaming console and not a line of personal computers from IBM.
Yes, I know it’s PS2 vs. PS/2 when written out, but no one ever says PS-slash-2 when speaking.
LoRa - to me it’s Long Range Radio and has been for a decade. It has some fucking AI slop meaning that recently came up, now.
Isis used to be the fake spy agency Archer worked for. Damn those middle-eastern radicals stealing the name!
Before that, Isis was an Egyptian goddess and a hot superhero with crossovers to Shazam
OK, I’ll bite. Pedant time.
“BSD” isn’t an acronym. It’s an initialism.
Acronyms are pronounced as a words rather than reading the letters, and, well, you’d be beatboxing if you pronounced BSD as a word.
It’s not pronounced buzzed? I’ve been saying Freebuzzed wrong all this time???
Hey, that’s my job
- Part time job
Therapy be wild taking CBT for cognitive behavioral therapy when it’s been cock and ball torture for so, so long.
“Therapist said I needed CBT. I just walked out. That dude’s fucking crazy if he thinks Imma smash my nuts.”
My shop we sell cheese and bacon traveller pies, abbreviated to CBT…
SWIFT is not a programming language it’s a trading protocol that runs the global financial markets which I’m working very hard to forget but still it deserves respect.
But the name of the language isn’t an acronym it’s just the word swift.
Doesn’t change the fact that people think it’s the same thing lol
DP is Diet Pepsi
Dr. Pepper
Ummm…no it isn’t. Sorry
It’s dog park.
CP does not mean:
- Cyberpunk
- Club Penguin
- Cleft Palate
- Cerebral
PolicyPalsy - Conservative Party
If you’re on a Unix terminal it means “copy,” anywhere else it means what Josh Duggar is into.
Cerebral Policy? We could use some of that
cheese pizza
I used
cpto refer tocode pointerat work. Got very weird looks…
Ooh I’ve got one! I wanna do a poll within this thread, so please respond with a spoiler tag so you don’t influence anyone’s answers.
But what does IMHO mean to you?
Comment below and then come back and read this:
spoiler
To me it means in my humble opinion, but it seems more and more these days I see people referring to it as in my honest opinion.
Is this a coincidence? Or a commentary on how people have gotten more rude or self centered? IDK, I’m not qualified to answer. I just think it’s really interesting that it means both things, and it completely changes the vibe of what you’re saying if someone interprets it one way or the other.
BLM
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
BARREN LANDS MATTER !
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”.
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)
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?
Wide area progressive, when slot machines across multiple casinos contribute to one combined jackpot.
LETS GO GAMBLING!!!
Moist butt cat
MoistCr1tikal?
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!
Leaving out the hyphen totally changed the meaning !
Ask your mom for me. She knows 😏
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.
Duh, it’s British Broadcasting 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.
Huh, I though it was British Black Chicken!
A lot of british women I knew just loved BBC.
This! It’s so frustrating trying to fill my hen house
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
