YWNBAM/YWNBAW. Besides being transphobic (it's short for 'you will never be a man/woman'), I always automatically attempt to read/pronounce acronyms as if they were words, and this one sounds really stupid.
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Yikes, I've never seen these ones before but I hope they're confined to the back alleys of the internet and you don't see them too much
Not me but my spouse hates recursive ones, like GNU. Hates them so much, active vocal expressions of dislike. Anyways the setting I'm making is filthy with recursive acronyms for no reason.
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PICNIC. problem in chair, not in computer.
I always know it as a PBCAK error (problem between chair and keyboard)
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GABOS.
Prison lingo. Acronym for 'Game Ain't Based On Sympathy," first heard in the Louis Theroux documentary "Miami Mega Jail".
Louie: Don't... don't you feel sympathy for that person? For that other inmate you extorted?
Inmate: GABOS, man... GABOS.
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I hate "lol" as punctuation. If you're legitimately laughing out loud, fine. But, I really hate:
"can I show u something lol"
"I gave it to David lol"
See, I feel like I have to do it to show some levity, since tone doesn't come across through text.
There's a big difference if you're talking with a friend about something stupid they did, and saying "You're such an idiot lol" and "You're such an idiot." One is teasing them, the other is chastising them.
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TBF
To Be Fucked.
"www" for World Wide Web has always bugged me. World Wide Web is three syllables, WWW is nine.
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