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DrizztLink
10/14/2025
05:06 PM
#1
WFH is White Fouse House. I hate it.

ATM is Ass to Mouth. I don't hate it quite as much.
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Hambo
10/14/2025
05:09 PM
#2
MLM Men who Love Marketing
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CBT...
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ReturnOfDevsman
10/14/2025
05:10 PM
#3
That really popular Rockstar game is R2D2, every single time.
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DrizztLink
10/14/2025
05:11 PM
#4
Hambo posted...
CBT...
That's one that would pop up at college a lot.

Never found an appropriate way to explain why I'd giggle to myself at the concept of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
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Evening_Dragon
10/14/2025
05:13 PM
#5
DrizztLink posted...


ATM is Ass to Mouth. I don't hate it quite as much.

There's a thick line when it comes to these kinds of things. You're either having a real good or real bad time.
And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life?
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Hejiru
10/14/2025
05:28 PM
#6
Not sure if anyone else does this, but I read ROFL in my head as roffle.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...
That really popular Rockstar game is R2D2, every single time.

Also this.
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A_Good_Boy
10/14/2025
05:30 PM
#7
Hejiru posted...
Not sure if anyone else does this, but I read ROFL in my head as roffle.
That's how you're supposed to pronounce it if you want to say ROFLcopter.
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Evening_Dragon
10/14/2025
05:32 PM
#8
A_Good_Boy posted...
That's how you're supposed to pronounce it if you want to say ROFLcopter.
roflcoptr goes SOI, but it's not pronounced soy at all
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Awakened_Link
10/14/2025
05:33 PM
#9
Hejiru posted...
Not sure if anyone else does this, but I read ROFL in my head as roffle.

Somewhat similarly, whenever I see Ocarina of Time abbreviated as "OoT", I always read it in my head as "oo oo tee" for some reason (double "o" sound repeated twice), even though it would just be the regular letters pronounced as they are. seeing the "Oo" together in the abbreviation like that tricks my brain ig, lol.
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UnholyMudcrab
10/14/2025
06:20 PM
#10
Umm, akshually, those are initialisms, not acronyms.

I did have an answer to this that I was thinking about a while back, but now I've gone and done the thing where when that information actually becomes relevant, it leaves my brain entirely.
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DrizztLink
10/14/2025
06:21 PM
#11
ur face is an initialism
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SpawnShadow
10/14/2025
06:22 PM
#12
For some reason, I always misread "fl. oz." as " floral ounces" instead of " fluid ounces".
"Cynic, n. - A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
tankboy
10/14/2025
06:29 PM
#13
I work for a government agency that sent out an email titled "FAP Survey". Furniture assignment pool.
GetMagnaCarter
10/15/2025
07:53 AM
#14
S&M is Sales and Marketing
T&A is Time and Attendance

for some reason I tend to misread these as something else
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BlueAnnihilator
10/15/2025
07:59 AM
#15
In my head, I always read LMAO as lamo
Gamespoht
10/15/2025
08:42 AM
#16
Fuck
The
What?
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TakashiMifune85
10/15/2025
09:03 AM
#17
Hejiru posted...
Not sure if anyone else does this, but I read ROFL in my head as roffle.

Roffle Mao. Forever and always.
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MartavisBryant
10/15/2025
09:03 AM
#18
Hambo posted...
CBT...
I regret looking this up
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haloiscoolisbak
10/15/2025
09:08 AM
#19
Gamespoht posted...
Fuck
The
What?

Yep. For so long too
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KJ_StErOiDs
10/15/2025
09:13 AM
#20
CoH. Usually said posters referring to Company of Heroes , but I know it as City of Heroes.
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ATfire567
10/15/2025
09:21 AM
#21
FTW for me too, but I always read it as Fuck The World which has a negative connotation instead of the proper positive one.
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MartavisBryant
10/15/2025
11:02 AM
#22
I just saw FMA in another topic, and my mind went to...something else
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loafy013
10/15/2025
11:05 AM
#23
tankboy posted...
I work for a government agency that sent out an email titled "FAP Survey". Furniture assignment pool.
I know it's done of purpose, but one of the best rings in Dark Souls is the FAP ring (favor and protection).
The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes. That's fact.
Everything else, is theory.
archizzy
10/15/2025
11:06 AM
#24
Im a sports junkie and whenever I see something about soccer on espn at the bottom about USMNT my mind sees TMNT and I think about ninja turtles.
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MartavisBryant
10/15/2025
11:08 AM
#25
archizzy posted...
Im a sports junkie and whenever I see something about soccer on espn at the bottom about USMNT my mind sees TMNT and I think about ninja turtles.
Yep

Every time
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SwayM
10/15/2025
11:12 AM
#26
Not me, but most people on the internet when it comes to "gif"
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darkknight109
10/15/2025
11:13 AM
#27
"He's just like me fr fr" is pronounced "He's just like me, France France".

And I will not stand for anyone saying otherwise.
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ReturnOfDevsman
10/15/2025
11:18 AM
#28
darkknight109 posted...
"He's just like me fr fr" is pronounced "He's just like me, France France".

And I will not stand for anyone saying otherwise.
Lol

Reminds me of taking European history and abbreviating all the countries and major events to take notes faster.

Some were pretty straight forward. FR: French Revolution.

Someone had to point out to me why Aus-Ho as an abbreviation for Austria-Hungary was awkward though, lol.
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Hejiru
10/15/2025
12:28 PM
#29
tankboy posted...
I work for a government agency that sent out an email titled "FAP Survey". Furniture assignment pool.

In education, they have a big important report for each student at the end of the year called the Cumulative Report. Usually just called the cum for short. (pronounced kyuum as in cumulative).

So if you walk into a teachers room after the year ends, youll see a folder labeled CUM in big bold letters.

Its an abbreviation instead of an acronym, but still.
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Evening_Dragon
10/15/2025
02:33 PM
#30
Hejiru posted...
In education, they have a big important report for each student at the end of the year called the Cumulative Report. Usually just called the cum for short. (pronounced kyuum as in cumulative).

So if you walk into a teachers room after the year ends, youll see a folder labeled CUM in big bold letters.

Its an abbreviation instead of an acronym, but still.

Lmao
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darkknight109
10/15/2025
05:25 PM
#31
Hejiru posted...
In education, they have a big important report for each student at the end of the year called the Cumulative Report. Usually just called the cum for short. (pronounced kyuum as in cumulative).

So if you walk into a teachers room after the year ends, youll see a folder labeled CUM in big bold letters.

Its an abbreviation instead of an acronym, but still.
Oh, we have that in my industry as well.

Every asset in oil and gas needs an Integrity Management Plan, or IMP. That includes pipelines, which have a Pipeline Integrity Management Plan. Meaning that when you're laying pipe, you have to make sure you have a PIMP if you don't want to break the law.

Related: This is "Pipey", the internal mascot of one of our large clients that they actually used on official communications.

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nocturnal_traveler
10/15/2025
05:34 PM
#32
DrizztLink posted...
WFH is White Fouse House. I hate it.
Never heard of that one.



ATM is Ass to Mouth. I don't hate it quite as much.
ATM can also mean Automated Teller Machine, as well as At The Moment. I can see people getting quite confused with this acronym.
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UnholyMudcrab
10/15/2025
05:40 PM
#33
nocturnal_traveler posted...
Never heard of that one.
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nocturnal_traveler
10/15/2025
05:41 PM
#34
UnholyMudcrab posted...
Work From Home
Still haven't heard of that one .
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DrizztLink
10/15/2025
07:38 PM
#35
UnholyMudcrab posted...
White Fouse House
ftfy

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sfcalimari
10/15/2025
07:46 PM
#36
There's a guy called BlockThatKick that people would often refer to as BTK. Took me a while to realize people weren't accusing someone on gamefaqs of being the BTK killer.
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lorddrakath1522
10/15/2025
07:52 PM
#37
C'mon people, CBT means closed beta test, the hell you people thinking?
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Robot2600
10/15/2025
07:53 PM
#38
DrizztLink posted...
ftfy
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InitialFatigue
10/15/2025
08:17 PM
#39
...

Left out the "ism" 'cause of the character limit.
MartavisBryant
10/16/2025
10:53 AM
#40
Baniel Bay-Lewis
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DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC
10/16/2025
10:56 AM
#41
KJ_StErOiDs posted...
CoH. Usually said posters referring to Company of Heroes , but I know it as City of Heroes.
My CoH brother! /emholdtorch
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Metal_Gear_Raxis
10/16/2025
10:57 AM
#42
Hejiru posted...
Not sure if anyone else does this, but I read ROFL in my head as roffle.
For what it's worth, Maeve's rave skin in Paladins (RIP, also yes the skin's called Raeve) just says "ROFL" for her laugh emote, pronouncing it that way.
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doshindude
10/16/2025
12:00 PM
#43
CNC and CBT, they have multiple meanings depending on industry, don't get them wrong lol

nocturnal_traveler posted...
Still haven't heard of that one .

Very common term, surprised you haven't heard of it.
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DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC
10/16/2025
12:17 PM
#44
BBC

Of course, the refined and classy inhabitants of CE know it stands for Big Broadcasting Corporation.
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nocturnal_traveler
10/16/2025
06:35 PM
#45
doshindude posted...
Very common term, surprised you haven't heard of it.
Me too.

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...
BBC

Of course, the refined and classy inhabitants of CE know it stands for Big Broadcasting Corporation.
Really? I thought the first B stood for British . Of course, there's that other acronym...
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BakonBitz
10/16/2025
07:04 PM
#46
MartavisBryant posted...
I just saw FMA in another topic, and my mind went to...something else
....Full Metal Alchemist?
I know what you mean tho, lol
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DrizztLink
10/16/2025
07:16 PM
#47
Find My Alps?
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