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CBT
Cock and Ball Torture and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
for me cbt means changed block tracking. I used to work on developing vm backup software
A group of separatist rebels in the Philippines formed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
MILF, for short.
In Berlin there's a car hire company called "Miles" (very handy, you can book and pick up a car in minutes) and they have a bunch of vans with a "damaged" e. So now it says Milfs. Hoho.
PDF file must be one of the Most brainrot offenders
I'm aging myself here, but WoW used to stand for "Winds of War", an expansion for Heroes of Might and Magic IV. Then, World of Warcraft was released...
MTG it's a trading card game and not some dumb ass politician.
I also see 'meeting' abbreviated as MTG. Which, is now what I call it when I send texts to my friends to play Magic. "Hey, got time for a MTG MTG?"
I try to pronounce it "Empty G" with a slight emphasis on the "p".
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CNC :(
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.
Where I am it universally refers to a railroad company, Canadian Pacific.
Cerebral Policy? We could use some of that
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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."
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Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I 'worked on WAP in the early 2000s'.
I'm working with data, where we have a concept called "write, audit, publish" (also abbreviated WAP). I'm laughing on the inside everyone I hear anyone talking about it.
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.
i thought you were talking about the old mouse and keyboard connectors
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
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Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.
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I use dbt at work, meaning both data build tool, as well as dialectic behavioural theory
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.
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POV is just not point of view anymore. In modern social media it mostly shows something where there could be a POV, but now you see it in 3rd person because people don't care about what POV means.
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.
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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
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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
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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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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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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.
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.
As a dude who loves Transport Fever 2, you better believe I get this wrong a lot.
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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.
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