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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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[–] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 83 points 2 months ago (3 children)

MTG it's a trading card game and not some dumb ass politician.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

I try to pronounce it "Empty G" with a slight emphasis on the "p".

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

CP does not mean:

  • Cyberpunk
  • Club Penguin
  • Cleft Palate
  • Cerebral ~~Policy~~ Palsy
  • Conservative Party

If you're on a Unix terminal it means "copy," anywhere else it means what Josh Duggar is into.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Cerebral Policy? We could use some of that

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[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I 'worked on WAP in the early 2000s'.

[–] Una 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What is WAP, if not wireless application protocol?

[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

a pop star made a popular song about it, I too was lost but someone pointed it out.... Wet Ass Pussy

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[–] GrassCat@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Duh, it’s British Broadcasting Chicken.

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[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

SRS/GRS is absolutely everywhere as an acronym. It stands for Sex/Gender Reassignment Surgery

HRT too (Hormone Replacement Therapy)

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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."

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

My shop we sell cheese and bacon traveller pies, abbreviated to CBT...

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Due to anti-DEI policies the agency is now called All Land Management

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[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I read GM as Grand Master (chess). You’ve bastardised it now.

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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

MAC stands for MAC Apple Computer. It's a recursive acronym.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago
  • Part time job
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[–] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isis used to be the fake spy agency Archer worked for. Damn those middle-eastern radicals stealing the name!

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Before that, Isis was an Egyptian goddess and a hot superhero with crossovers to Shazam

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[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

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.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago

You just reminded me the confusion I had trying to figure out if people are talking about Battlefield 2 or Battlefront 2 years ago

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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (4 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 10 points 2 months ago

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

League of Legends

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[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 2 months ago (11 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.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For me, SC means Supreme Court and PoE means "Power over Ethernet" lol.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, Supreme Court is abbreviated as SCROTUM.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

CS2

Counter Strike 2 or Cities Skylines 2?

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A group of separatist rebels in the Philippines formed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

MILF, for short.

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] razorsoup@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago
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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

CBT

Cock and Ball Torture and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

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[–] orochi02@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

PDF file must be one of the Most brainrot offenders

[–] WaHao@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
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