What acronyms get on your wig?

Balanadan

**** the D.A.A.?

Do you hate the D.U.P.?

Cover your ears when you hear the Y.M.C.A.?

Does a lack of R.E.S.P.E.C.T. infuriate you?

F.A.Q.s not answering your questions?

Worried your missus prefers B.B.C., while you prefer R.T.E.?

xi5yvm0owc1s2b

Balanadan wrote: »

Worried your missus prefers B.B.C.

That may not mean what you think it means.

TheValeyard

Well to be fair, D.U.P is understandable since they are a complete shower of cnuts.

ED E

Adriana Ancient Badminton wrote: »

That may not mean what you think it means.

corner of hells

Adriana Ancient Badminton wrote: »

That may not mean what you think it means.

I tip my to you , sir .Good show.

Atoms for Peace

Would you kiss a BMW?

Omackeral

Adriana Ancient Badminton wrote: »

That may not mean what you think it means.

He knows exactly what he's doing ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

xi5yvm0owc1s2b

By the way, OP, if something annoys or irritates you, it's getting "on your wick," not "on your wig." Just FYI.

beejee

Idk m8 bt lol @ English! imo ymmv wiv roflmao so stfu yolo

Luv dat stuf

pavb2

Don't know why but NIMBY is a bit annoying

beejee

Berties_Horse wrote: »

IMO, this thread is FTB.

M8 ur l8, my jk wuz gr8 roflmao ghdf cvd jury's kit! @4jfdg huffy jff imo!!!

TheValeyard

Ken.

beejee wrote: »

M8 ur l8, my jk wuz gr8 roflmao ghdf cvd jury's kit! @4jfdg huffy jff imo!!!

Mod-When using any language other than English please provide a translation for others.

orourkeda1977

pavb2 wrote: »

Don't know why but NIMBY is a bit annoying

Nimby as a word or nimby as a phenomenon

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

Nimby as a word or nimby as a phenomenon

Has to be as an acronym; being the topic. And as a phenomenon it would be nimbyism; which in itself is a noun that is not an acronym, although derived from one.


WAGs is one that I dislike because it seems to have a built in disrespect to it.

pavb2

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

Nimby as a word or nimby as a phenomenon

Both, but more so the phenomenon as it can be a bit self centred unless of course you're Bob Geldof or Lily Allen who took in all those refugees.

Spook_ie

Which WIG

WIG Wing In-Ground (effect)
WIG Wireless Internet Gateway
WIG Warszawski Indeks Gieldowy (Poland)
WIG Wolfram-Inertgasschweißen (tungsten-inert gas welding)
WIG Wireless Internet Gateway (microbrowser based GSM technology)
WIG Within Grade (salary)
WIG Wildly Important Goal
WIG Whitehall & Industry Group (UK)
WIG Workforce Involvement Group (UK)
WIG What Is Goth?
WIG Wrasawzki Indeks Giedowy (Warsaw Stock Exchange Index, Poland)
WIG Without Information Given
WIG Western Independent Greenhouses (est. 1984; Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Spook_ie wrote: »

Which WIG

WIG Wing In-Ground (effect)
WIG Wireless Internet Gateway
WIG Warszawski Indeks Gieldowy (Poland)
WIG Wolfram-Inertgasschweißen (tungsten-inert gas welding)
WIG Wireless Internet Gateway (microbrowser based GSM technology)
WIG Within Grade (salary)
WIG Wildly Important Goal
WIG Whitehall & Industry Group (UK)
WIG Workforce Involvement Group (UK)
WIG What Is Goth?
WIG Wrasawzki Indeks Giedowy (Warsaw Stock Exchange Index, Poland)
WIG Without Information Given
WIG Western Independent Greenhouses (est. 1984; Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada)

There are 680 defined uses for CAD as an acronym.

looksee

Trouble with acronyms is you look them up on Urban Dictionary and an hour later you are still reading definitions. Well! Fancy that!

Ubbquittious

ASHP (Air source heat pump)

PingTing comes for Fire

T.L.A

AllForIt

POTUS

y0ssar1an22

PATRIOT Act. They so badly wanted to call it the patriot act that they sandwiched in whatever words vaguely fit.

the_pen_turner

ATM machine
PIN number

emeldc

Giancarlo Gentle Reaction wrote: »

Has to be as an acronym; being the topic. And as a phenomenon it would be nimbyism; which in itself is a noun that is not an acronym, although derived from one.


WAGs is one that I dislike because it seems to have a built in disrespect to it.

I heard someone in Kilkenny once refer to the hurlers girlfriends as the HAGS

Balanadan

Adriana Ancient Badminton wrote: »

By the way, OP, if something annoys or irritates you, it's getting "on your wick," not "on your wig." Just FYI.

Have you ever worn a wig? Pretty annoying if stuff gets on it.

Aglomerado

the_pen_turner wrote: »

ATM machine
PIN number

Pleonasms!

LOL - does my ****ing head in

StreetLight

When people post the word LUAS in capitals, thinking it is an acronym. It's not, it's just a regular Irish word - Luas.

StreetLight

StreetLight wrote: »

When people post the word LUAS in capitals, thinking it is an acronym. It's not, it's just a regular Irish word - Luas.

probably the most ironic name they could have used for that slow piece of shít.

Tell me again how 'Luas' means speed, as I'm hurtling down Westmoreland Street at 5km/h, passed out by toddler pedestrians and old ladies on zimmerframes.

LLewellen Farquarson

Adriana Ancient Badminton wrote: »

By the way, OP, if something annoys or irritates you, it's getting "on your wick," not "on your wig." Just FYI.

VOX FTW!

lbc2019

Some of those are initialisms tho

selwyn froggitt

UKIP

dudara

DH, DD or DS - as in darling husband, daughter or son

Three More Big Sleeps

StreetLight wrote: »

When people post the word LUAS in capitals, thinking it is an acronym. It's not, it's just a regular Irish word - Luas.

Conversely, when mainstream news outlets (which should know better) refer to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as "Nasa" and not "NASA". NASA refers to itself as NASA.

Edit: I've just checked the Guardian's style guide

"Use all capitals if an abbreviation is pronounced as the individual letters (an initialism): BBC, CEO, US, VAT, etc; if it is an acronym (pronounced as a word) spell out with initial capital, eg Nasa, Nato, Unicef, unless it can be considered to have entered the language as an everyday word, such as awol, laser and, more recently, asbo, pin number and sim card."

@Streetlight: your "Luas" assertion still stands

Cee-Jay-Cee

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Well to be fair, D.U.P is understandable since they are a complete shower of cnuts.

Its spelled C U N T S

Aglomerado

Deleted User wrote: »

LOL - does my ****ing head in

or worse again"looooooooooool."

I also detest YOLO. Carpe diem for idiots...

xi5yvm0owc1s2b

The standard naming convention for institutes of technology in Ireland is [Town] Institute of Technology. But that would have left the Tralee Institute of Technology going by the acronym TIT, so it's called the Institute of Technology Tralee instead.

Aglomerado

Adriana Ancient Badminton wrote: »

The standard naming convention for institutes of technology in Ireland is [Town] Institute of Technology. But that would have left the Tralee Institute of Technology going by the acronym TIT, so it's called the Institute of Technology Tralee instead.

Same for Tallaght! Waterford did well though.

The Pheasant2

Backronyms piss me off even more - they're invariably dumb and I struggle to understand how people fall for them. Things like fúck actually being an acronym for "fornication under consent of the King" or Adidas being an acronym for "all day I dream about sports".
Even worse they're often reported and promulgated by "Interesting" "Facts" pages.

Just stupid.

764dak

Acronym: "an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA).Compare with initialism."

Initialism: "an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g. BBC).Compare with acronym."