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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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[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cannabis CBT and in turn THC, that's all I know the CBT acronym for

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

I think you're thinking of CBD

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Central business district?

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 1 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.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

i thought you were talking about the old mouse and keyboard connectors

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] razorsoup@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

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

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

Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 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.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 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 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago (3 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.

[–] Axman6@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s not pronounced buzzed? I’ve been saying Freebuzzed wrong all this time???

[–] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Nobody dared telling you.

If you ever have doubts how other stuff is pronounced, just axman.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago
  • Part time job
[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't an initialism a subcategory of acronym by definition?

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

Other way around. Acronyms are a subcategory of initialisms, specifically the ones that can be read as if they're words.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

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.

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

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

BARREN LANDS MATTER !

[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

DNF: Disjunctive normal form, Dandified YUM

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's Did Not Finish in racing

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I put DNF stickers on items around the house, to remind myself that not everything exists for sexual gratification.

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Una@europe.pub 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is WAP, if not wireless application protocol?

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

OMS! I don't want to know what ass pussy is!

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 2 months ago (2 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 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Sorry, can't read PoE as anything besides Permit Office Enforcement

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 0 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 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

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