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Do you remember the scene from "theres something about mary"?
Zippers. Pure evil.
CIA/NSA/FBI
LOVE
Level Of ViolencE
Bad Flowey!
MILF
YOLO
YMMV
OTOH
ETC
⅗ of those already fit the statement. No I won't be elaborating on which.
456,976 total combinations.
Who's going to start putting together the dictionary of evil acronyms?
Eh, task ChatGPT with it.
Make Ambrose Bierce proud!
EVIL - Elon's Vile Incel League
YYZ
Do you mean acronyms or initialisms? I can't think of any 3 letter acronyms which are groups or agencies. All the ones I can think of are initialisms.
I know what an initialism is and I definitely know the difference! It's you who doesn't because you won't explain in detail real quick!
Acronym is said like a word (NASA, FEMA). Initialism is just the letters (FBI, CIA).
Well, yeah, everyone knows that. Jerk.
IDK
E.V.I.L.
Elegant vigilantes in lingerie?
EVERY
VILLIAN
IS
LEMONS
Lemon stealing whores.
Evil Villains In Love
Go on....
There was a miscommunication on the phone, they ended up sending the gravy seals.
I once genuinely got asked in the middle of a meeting with our client at work: "When will our SLA and KPI be BAU? Do we need more SQEP?" Had no idea what any of that meant other than SLA so just blagged my way out of that one.
I've got a friend that, when cornered by acronym soup, starts discussing very detailed analytics for whatever they're talking about. He says the acronyms don't matter as long as the audience is sufficiently bored by whatever your answer is.
Was your blagging successful? Did you come out the GOAT, or was it a SNAFU?
I think so. Nobody BBU so hopefully.
ITYM TLAs and FLAs
YES
Yarn esthetic syndicate
That’s the beauty and curse of language. It is constantly morphing and changing depending on public sentiment. I truly believe in another 40-60 years, “fuck” will be a perfectly normal word for a 6 year old to say instead of “oops”.
Oops and fuck do seem mostly interchangeable.
For example: "get oopsed"
Kinda clunky but still works.
"get oopsed"
That's how we ended up with a 6 year old in the first place.
I'm going to oops you silly
Marry, Oops, kill
Motheroopser
I think get oopsed has legs. Going to try it out on my kid next time he tries his luck with me in Nidhogg.
Why not 5-letter acronyms? I mean, "NSDAP"? Arguably the most evil acronym of all?
Just a lot more of them.
How could something positive like inclusion equality and diversity be used for evil? /s
There is no way that someone could take the joy doge brings and use it for evil. /s