It's been getting very intense on here the last couple of days, so lets try to lighten things up. I just cannot read another 3000 word web site paste!!

Being from the UK many of the acronyms and abbreviations used by the predominately USA based users are lost on me. I get the easy ones:

PWP - People with Parkinson's
PD - Parkinson's Disease
Meds - Medication

After that I am struggling so come on PWP help me please.

Any contribution's welcome including new ones.

My suggestion for a new one with more P's in it:

PP - Painful Pasters (that's a joke before anyone takes offence!!)

I am British so I have a strange sense of humour, well being British I guess I am just strange! And being a PWP makes me even stranger.

Thank you

Chris

Okay Chris,

You asked for it!! I am sure that you will get tons of responses on this one!

I only know a few.........but others on here know many!

Here's some fun ones for im:

LOL - Lots of Love or Laughing out Loud

BRB - Be Right Back

LMAO - Laughing my a-- off

yw - your welcome

ty - thank you

sec - means one second (but usually more!)

k - means okay

MYOB - Mind Your Own Business

and there are many, many more!

Mary

Chris, here in Spain PP are the initials of the right-wing political party Partido Popular and, yes, they would fit the profile of painful pasters!

My personal favorite:

BYOB Bring your own booze!

The religious right,
Vicky

I'm with you Chris. Although I am married to a PWP, I find myself too depressed at times and that's when I plunge ahead and write stuff, hit that send button, and wonder "why the hell did I do that"? After I read what I wrote, I come out sounding like a whinning baby. I always enjoy your reading your posts, so keep up your attitude.
When I try to follow some of those long postings, I start to get a glaze over my eyes and can't continue. I want to know what they mean; however, I get too bored and overwhelmed. A few jokes wouldn't hurt and Steve is great with keeping it light no matter what difficulties he's been dealing with. This isn't to say this isn't serious business, just sometimes a breadth of fresh air is necessary and something to put a smile on our faces.
Sometimes out of curiosity, I will read messages that people write when they're looking to meet someone and I don't even know what kind of person they're looking for because they have abbreviated everything and I can't figure out what the abbreviations stand for. Good thing I'm not trying to date again, I would be Abbreviation Deprived Illiterate.

So that would be ADI then Maureen.

Chris

Yes, Chris, Brilliant Of You. That could be BOY!

Maureen

BOY

Chris lol

Chris, you have no idea how long it took me to figure out what lol means. I was sitting at my desk and when I had the epiphany, I said to myself, God, you are really stupid. I kept getting emails from people, but I wouldn't ask what lol meant, because sometimes the message wasn't all that funny.

When I had my first job at 18 for a large corporation in NYC, I had no knowledge of corporate abbreviations. I had a boss I hated and when I would go into his office to get papers from the outbasket, he would have F/U on everything. Being the genius I was, I thougt he was cursing me out and I would think what's his fff'n problem? It finally dawned on me he wanted to Follow Up!! I look back and think how could I have ever been so dumb. Now I share this embarrasing story with everyone.

Maureen

This current world of Text messages, chat rooms, internet forums and corporate speak has all gone acronym/abbreviation crazy and I am sure there are times when we all think what is this person talking about.

There is no hope!

But at least this thread has been declared a PP free zone.

C