Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn’t translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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    There’s also FTFY, which I thought was a way of throwing offence at the topic and the person that brought it up

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      I’ve been told what it means yet every time I see it my brain goes “for the and I can’t figure out the last 2 letters. And I have to look it up to be reminded that it means “fixed that for you”. But every time I forget and I have to look it up again.

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          Haha I love that

          But Fuck that & Fuck you.

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        Maybe you’re more of an ft4u kinda guy

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        Same.

        For the fucking year?

        Free Eggos ftfy! Alright!

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      It’s used so frequently for offences that I’m not surprised at that.