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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    IANAL but you should RTFM because PEBKAC.

    (IANAL is my favorite ever acronym because it’s funny dammit… I was just looking for an excuse to sneak it in somewhere in this thread. RTFM is a fine acronym but I have such a negative association with it because it’s almost exclusively used by assholes. PEBKAC is just an elitist acronym whenever not used ironically.)

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      I, also, ANAL.

      Totally agree on RTFM, I almost exclusively see it used by people who really need to put you down to feel adequate. Same thing with the assholes who answer a question with a LMGTFY (let me Google that for you) link, who think they’re clever but have entirely missed the point of asking for input from actual humans.

      I don’t know PEBKAC and I’m kind of afraid to look it up.

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        PEBKAC

        Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.

        Like that time my uncle told me his laptop wasn’t charging and I discovered that he’d plugged a phone charger into the headphone socket.

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          Also occasionally PICNIC for problem in chair, not in computer.

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          Oh, ok, I remember that now, thanks.

          I’ll see about forgetting it again because it irritates me lol.

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          Everyone knows how to Google today, this isn’t 1992 where the internet was new and we had to teach search engine usage in school.

          People ask questions in forums (online and otherwise) because they want answers from people who don’t need to Google it. They’re asking for a real interaction with a real human being who knows what they’re talking about and can be asked follow up questions.

          It’s hard to believe, but there are still people out there who just want the human interaction more than a clinical answer.

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      PEBKAC

      Every time that I see this acronym I’m tempted to pronounce it as ['rʲefkas], then I remember “ah, it isn’t Cyrillic”.

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      PEBKAC is just an elitist acronym whenever not used ironically.

      Nah, that’s IT people venting due to the overpopulation of (L)users.

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      A cool turn on that one is by the Arch Linux Wiki, which calls it Read The FINE Manual. Owning to the fact that this particular wiki is quite excellent. I use Arch BTW.