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"Could someone please explain to me: 1. Why is my brain able to decipher what this says?" (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP
Pretty much how I feel about right wing (even adjacent to RW) folks. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2020 #1
Did you get it or have to look it up? Nevilledog Sep 2020 #3
Aw hell no! I had to look Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2020 #5
My brain can't decipher it Sanity Claws Sep 2020 #2
... Nevilledog Sep 2020 #4
Hah! I had to use your answer! TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #11
So that is what it is short for Sanity Claws Sep 2020 #16
I got it - Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #19
I'll say! Nevilledog Sep 2020 #21
I do have to interpret my daughter's cryptic texts . . . n/t Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #22
Translated for wypipo aidbo Sep 2020 #6
It loses something in the translation Clash City Rocker Sep 2020 #10
It's not the same but for some reason aidbo Sep 2020 #13
Easy Rice4VP Sep 2020 #7
lol. I got it ecstatic Sep 2020 #8
I didn't get that one but I get a lot of them. nolabear Sep 2020 #9
hey I got it right away! Skittles Sep 2020 #12
I gave up after DFW Sep 2020 #14
... Nevilledog Sep 2020 #15
I think it's for those of us who use profanity... OneGrassRoot Sep 2020 #17
Strike three for why I shouldn't have gotten it (even though I did). Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #20
I grokked. Solly Mack Sep 2020 #18
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, that's why I don't fuck with him? MartyTheGreek Sep 2020 #23

Ms. Toad

(34,060 posts)
19. I got it -
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:51 PM
Sep 2020

So if it's a generational thing, or a black thing, as a white woman in her 60s I must be pretty good at camoflage.

Nevilledog

(51,079 posts)
21. I'll say!
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:52 PM
Sep 2020

To me it would seem more related to people who text a lot and use copious amounts of abbreviations.

 

aidbo

(2,328 posts)
6. Translated for wypipo
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 06:51 PM
Sep 2020

I do not associate with people who associate with other people who I do not associate with.

 

aidbo

(2,328 posts)
13. It's not the same but for some reason
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:13 PM
Sep 2020

I am reminded of Groucho Marx’s ‘I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member’

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
9. I didn't get that one but I get a lot of them.
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:08 PM
Sep 2020

We use them here to an extent but I think about six letters is my max.

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