there's a turn of phrase i can't wrap my head around, and it's "to have a chip on their shoulder". I think it means something about the thing being a topic they can't let go, but apart from that, idek. can anyone explain?
I think it means that someone is so confrontational regarding a particular issue that it is as if they have placed a literal chip on one shoulder and is daring any tough guy to try to knock it off.
There's also the meaning which is more along the lines of generally angry at the world for perceived unfairness. Like this one guy I know who literally cannot shut up about losing ANY game ever, and if he loses then that just means the other guy cheated or got lucky and didn't deserve it because he's a skillless noob and also thinks that affirmative action stole his jobs, etc.
I bugged my parents for more medical acronyms and my dad's favorite is "gomer", or Get Out of My Emergency Room, for hypochondriacs.
Gamers are fucking atrocious about acronyms. In ways that I have had to argue with people in tournaments that they may not use acronyms to register deck lists. The game in this case was Yu-Gi-Oh! and the offending acronym was C.E.D. The problem is there were two cards that this acronym was commonly used for. One was Compulsory Evacuation Device which was not an amazing card, but very solid and so some play in the 1 and 2 count. The other was Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End. This is one of the most powerful cards ever printed in the game. With another card, it created an "infinite" loop that left your opponent helpless while you smacked them around for good measure. It was limited, so you only ever saw it at 1 count. Does anyone else see the problem if I get a decklist that says "CED x1". /Piper has ridiculous stories
okay idk if it's common or not but I've been seeing @Vast Derp use the phrase "dead dove" lately and idk what the hell that's supposed to mean.
It comes from this clip: Fandoms have adopted "Dead dove: do not eat" as a tag for fiction that doesn't subvert any tropes, it is exactly what it says on the tin.
so there was the the time that my life became an abbott and costello sketch because of "ikr" i kept seeing it on gaia a bunch and so i turned to my friend and asked, "hey kenzie, what does 'ikr' mean?" and she goes, "i know right?" and i go, "you don't know either?!" and then she pauses, confused, and then she's like, "no, i know right?" and i'm like "okay, no i get it, you don't know what it means either!!" eventually she manages to get through to me that ikr stands for "i know right" i then proceeded to forget we had this conversation three separate times and do the entire routine all over again, until i had to make a text file on my desktop that said "IKR= I KNOW RIGHT STOP ASKING KENZIE" but on the plus side, after the text file i never forgot what it stood for ever again
literally every time i see the abbreviation iirc i have to google it, it's completely beyond me to remember what it is and it's so frustrating lmao
Military has more acronyms and abbreviations than even they can keep track of, and different variations within. Prime example is the Intelligence Scale for Newbies Newb: New guy. Generally well meaning. Not a fuckup, just new. Noob: Okay, kinda dumb. We've explained this a couple times already. Hopefully just a little dense. Nub: Non Useful Body. How did we let this one get past bootcamp. Dumber than a sack of hammers. They keep giving my husband the Nubs, because apparently he's really good at fixing them, or making them realize that maybe they really aren't cut out for playing with nuclear reactors
i always took it to mean basically the same as when someone has a sore spot about something, which is when someone had a bad experience with something relating to a certain topic and they lash out or get defensive whenever it's mentioned. the chip on their shoulder being like when you chip pottery, and there's suddenly a hole or crack in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_on_shoulder interesting story there. summary: once upon a time, shipyard workers got to take home scrap lumber. they took too much scrap lumber. the shipyard ordered them to carry it under their arm instead of on their shoulder, since they can carry less that way. after being told this, all the workers tucked their scrap lumber under their arm, except one guy, who put his scrap lumber, or 'chip', on his shoulder and was like "it's mine by law, i'll carry it in my ass if i want, fuck y'all." after that, it became a way of proposing a fight; putting a wood chip on your shoulder and daring someone to knock it off. so, colloquially, it's when someone not just has a sore spot, but goes around presenting people with the sore spot and waiting for an excuse to fight about it.
Re YMMV: I never could work out what the words actually meant. I think I still don't really understand it. Re FUBAR: Became 'foo' and 'bar' in C programming and stood for variables or functions in example programs or snippets of code. And for some strange reason I love wtf and gtfo. They just have this ring of authenticity, so expressive.
@jaob YMMV means Your Mileage May Vary, which is used to indicate that something is the experience of the person saying it, but that other people may have different experiences. I think it comes from something to do with cars. What I personally don't understand is the term moirail. I have come to realise through reading on this forum that if you call someone that it basically means that they're your best friend?
It's from Homestuck, and it's more like a non-sexual soulmate. You complete each other and calm each other down and help each other through hard shit.
