BGR
A friend and I were on our way home from a night out. It hadn’t been a particularly raucous night, in fact I think I’d been on apple juice all evening. We had been waiting in Trafalgar Square for ages and finally the bus came. We got on and sat down. Three boys got on after us who had the distinct appearance of computer nerds. Now, I don’t have a problem with computer nerds but I think it goes a long way to explaining what happened if we understand this fact about them. They were very excited, as though they had only just discovered a world outside of computers.
“BGR!” one of them was saying. “BGR! Huh, huh, huh.”
“What does that mean?” one of the other boys asked.
“Bloody good result!” he replied.
The other two loved it! They grinned and started going “Yeh, totally! BGR! BGR!”
And that, my friends, is a true story.
VLT
It may not definitely have been this. It could have been VBT. Anyway, I was watching a programme the other night about telescopes and space etc and they kept on talking about a VLT and how powerful it was, etc etc. By the time someone said the actual words, I’d figured it was some sort of telescope and was imagining maybe it was named after someone or something important, like the Higgs-Boson.
No. What the acronym actually stands for is ‘Very Large Telescope,’ (or possibly Very Big Telescope).
How uninspired. A very large telescope. So they just call it that. The VLT. The very large telescope.
DLF
Now I love Narnia. Every Christmas (December 16th, to be exact), I get out my box set and get reading. I love Aslan. I get frustrated by Edmund in book 2 but by book 3, he’s back on my good side. Susan is endlessly boring and mumsy but her total destitution in book 7 still seems harsh. Lucy is fabulous and never a disappointment.
Apart from once. In book 4, Prince Caspian, they are on a journey by boat and Trumpkin the dwarf, who was sent to find them calls them ‘little children’. Lucy returns the insult by referring to him as her ‘dear little friend’, which then becomes ‘the DLF.’ And they keep calling him it through the whole book. The DLF. I just think it sounds silly.
BFBFF
Are you ready for this one?
Best Facebook friends forever.
Hilarious.
lazylauramaisey 
Posted by Rincewind on November 15, 2012 at 07:56
At least I knew about the VLT but then I do like astronomy and follow it frequently but BFBFF??? Really… That is so so sad.. WTF and BRB until next time.. 🙂
Posted by lazylauramaisey on November 16, 2012 at 07:44
Yup. BFBFF. True story. I’m ROFLing so much right now.
Posted by Alt-Shift-Enter on November 15, 2012 at 13:03
All these acronyms are a total LOB. VLT indeed!
Posted by lazylauramaisey on November 16, 2012 at 07:45
Ooo. You’ve got me there. What’s LOB?
Posted by Alt-Shift-Enter on November 16, 2012 at 07:53
Load of bollocks
Posted by lazylauramaisey on November 16, 2012 at 07:56
Amazing! I’m DEFINITELY using that one!
Posted by Trying to be Conscious on November 15, 2012 at 18:01
BFBFF lol!
I’m quite behind with acronyms in general. Once, someone texted me: “I’m OMW”; it took me ages to figure out it meant “on my way”.
Posted by lazylauramaisey on November 16, 2012 at 07:47
I’ve never even heard of OMW. I’d be stumped if I saw that one. I love it when people say text acronyms in real conversation. I’ve overheard OMG quite a few times. And TTFN loads!
Posted by MarinaSofia on November 16, 2012 at 09:22
I am now officially ancient and over the hill, as I am complete and utter rubbish at acronyms. Even when I was working in the corporate world, I had trouble keeping my initials sorted, making sure they didn’t spell something rude. Maybe there is a form of dyslexia regarding acronyms? Then again, if I share it with David Cameron (of LOL fame), not sure I want to admit to it…
Posted by lazylauramaisey on November 16, 2012 at 14:02
Oo. How did I miss this David Cameron LOL story. What’s the gossip?
Posted by MarinaSofia on November 16, 2012 at 18:57
Apparently, he thought it meant Lots of Love instead of Laugh Out Loud and always ended his texts to Rebeccah Brooks like that. LOL!!!
Posted by lazylauramaisey on November 17, 2012 at 07:40
Nice! One of my friends also used to do that 🙂
Posted by kindredspirit23 on November 16, 2012 at 17:36
It is truly amazing what lengths people go through to shorten what they have to say. I find these not only amusing, but also pointing toward a time of no words….scary.
Scott
Posted by lazylauramaisey on November 17, 2012 at 07:38
Yeh I know. It doesn’t really save SO much time saying VLT that it’s worth having the acronym. I also once worked in a restaurant where they said CAYG all the time, as though saying ‘clean as you go’ would just be faaaar too much effort.
Posted by standrewslynx on November 20, 2012 at 18:08
The acronym that most annoys me?
k
As in “okay”.
Which is already abbreviated to OK by most people in society.
I’m proud to say that I surround myself with a high calibre of friends who DON’T send me text message replies comprised of a single “k”, but I did receive one from an acquaintance once. Why?! You’re charged by the number of texts, not by the number of letters…
Posted by lazylauramaisey on November 20, 2012 at 18:51
Yeh, what’s with ‘k’? It’s Okay. O! There’s an O! like it’s really conserving so much energy to just drop one letter from the word! How’s London treating you?
Posted by standrewslynx on November 21, 2012 at 06:48
London is treating me very well, thanks. I really like the city, but haven’t had as much time as I would like to properly explore it…
Posted by rambler5319 on November 21, 2012 at 09:57
Also being in the field you’re in it could be mistaken for potassium if I remember correctly
Posted by standrewslynx on November 21, 2012 at 10:23
True (you remember correctly), although potassium is abbreviated to capital ‘K’, most of the reprobates who condense okay leave it as a small ‘k’.