Not Safe For Work

November 21st, 2011

I am not a great lover of acronyms.

Some I can tolerate but others really boil my piss.

LOL and OMG are probably the worst and whenever I see them I have to skin a puppy or set a kitten on fire.  I fucking HATE them with a vengeance.  You have been warned.

One that confused me for a while was one I would see before a link to a page, picture or video – NSEW.

What the fuck have the four cardinal points of the compass go to do with anything, except maybe giving directions?  Even then, it is unusual to send someone North and South simultaneously, not to mention East and West. Was the page, picture of video showing someone being quartered?

Some time later I discovered it wasn’t NSEW, but NSFW [or else there were a lot of ham fisted typists around].

Now NSFW is a different kettle of muskrats altogether.  That obviously stands for Not Safe For Work, whatever that means.

This Not Safe For Work thing always puts me in mind of some unfortunate worker whose computer screen is repeated on a massive plasma screen for all the office to see.  He or she also has 300W quadrophonic speakers so that the slightest beep on the computer will make the windows rattle.  It was never like that in my place of work – I could put whatever I liked on my screen [and frequently did] and no one would be any the wiser.

If there is someone out there whose screen is five foot wide for the world to see, then I dedicate this video to you.

Just make sure you give those 300W speakers full welly.

14 Responses to “Not Safe For Work”

  1. Brianf UNITED STATESon 21 Nov 2011 at 1:59 pm

    OMG!  That vid made me LOL.  I’m ROFLMAO.  That was 22 funE!
    I gotta’ jet so TTFN
    http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms

  2. tt UNITED STATESon 21 Nov 2011 at 3:31 pm

    Not So Fast Woman ?

  3. Not Green IRELANDon 21 Nov 2011 at 3:54 pm

    The lovely Nigella (sigh) can talk dirty too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtS2Ikk7A9I

  4. Doc UNITED STATESon 21 Nov 2011 at 3:58 pm

    Wish I’d seen that vid when I was 10.

  5. Grandad IRELANDon 21 Nov 2011 at 4:45 pm

    Brianf – Could U transl8 please?

    TT – Not So Funny Wordplay?

    Not Green – They all seem to be hung up on smells?  Mind you, I would sniff Nigella’s brisket anytime..

    Doc – Film wasn’t invented back then.

  6. Brianf UNITED STATESon 21 Nov 2011 at 5:53 pm

    http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms
    2 transl8 just click on link

  7. tt UNITED STATESon 21 Nov 2011 at 6:03 pm

    Not Sharp Foolish Wicklowian.

  8. Grandad IRELANDon 21 Nov 2011 at 7:29 pm

    Brianf – Holy shit!  Someone had waaaay too much time on their hands?

    TT – Can you hold on please while I search Brianf’s link for a suitably obscene reply?

  9. Slab IRELANDon 21 Nov 2011 at 10:28 pm

    SNAFU (Situation Normal: All Fucked Up)

  10. Grandad IRELANDon 21 Nov 2011 at 10:31 pm

    SAMFUTU

  11. Slab IRELANDon 21 Nov 2011 at 10:36 pm

    SUSFU  (Situation unchanged:still fucked up)

  12. Slab IRELANDon 21 Nov 2011 at 10:40 pm

    http://yyg-yyg.blogspot.com/2010/12/cheongsam-samfu.html
    Fuckin SAMFU to you too, Hah!

  13. Slab IRELANDon 21 Nov 2011 at 10:44 pm

    http://www.samfu.org/ Here’s a better one. Maybe someone can form an Irish version as we really need our future saved.

  14. Grandad IRELANDon 22 Nov 2011 at 3:05 am

    Jayzus, Slab!  Where do you get these weird links from?

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