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What is your least favourite acronym? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 10 months ago by thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

NAMBLA. Those chuckle fucks at the North American Man/Boy Love Association really made it difficult for us members of the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Absolute freak show of an organisation. (Theirs, not yours.) The first time I read about it I thought it was onion-level satire but, sadly, it wasn’t…

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 10 months ago

I too thought it was a South Park joke at first.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is... is that a pedophile advocacy group?

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors[2][3] and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion.

North American Man/Boy Love Association is very pedophilia focused and they should be disbanded.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that was about what I thought it was...
Same with the attempt to make people call pedophiles "MAP"s instead. (For those who haven't been made aware of the abbreviation; it is meant to stand for "Minor Attracted Person". While it's a more broad term than pedophile, since it includes the other age ranges (Something like hebephile and such, I don't remember them all, learned about it from a joke a comedian told), for normal conversations I think pedophile works fine for talking about everyone attracted to people below a certain age of which we (society) deem them capable of consenting to some things)