#11

aha really?!

#12

yours is more fun

#13

I probably should have gone through it first to pick out the useful stuff to make a decent sized list in the opening post, but just starting to look through it now I don’t particularly want to be reading through some of that stuff and wouldn’t wish it on any new user to have to get their head round it either.

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#14

Discobot is worth putting on the list, but I am unsure of a succinct explanation.

#15
  • second breakfast / Day Job
  • NERD!
  • save it for Thursday
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#16

will it benefit me to know what RTF means

#17

Old DiS/New DiS: the former refers to the original forums before they became the latter in September 2016 when the boards migrated to their current form on Discourse. [more detail necessary?]

Discourse: the host (?) of the DiS boards.

cba: can’t be arsed

#18
  • Winter II
  • Justin Casablancas

EDIT: probably would be wise to have a subsection for self-doings

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#19

Respect the format! (Usually of an Ask Me Anything thread)

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#20

thank you

#21

RTF: respect the format (used primarily in Ask Me Anything threads to call out someone breaking the format, also used in other threads with a stated format)

Edit: or what ccb said much more concisely before me.

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#22

EDIT: a revision to a post made in the brief window after submitting the post and editing no longer being possible.

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#23

Thanks @colon_closed_bracket, these were the kind of things I was blanking on. I was just about to go into a random old day or evening thread to look for common things.

#24

Le Tournoi: where two or three people make the same response in quick succession, someone responds with Le Tournoi. (Citation needed)

#25

X years old, Y was: (if someone could do an intelligible definition of this it would be great, mine rambled to much).

#26

Walked in on some unexpected beeves?
grandpasimpsonturnsaround.gif

#27

Can someone explain ‘eggs’? (As used in the thread tagging).

#28

Someone used it on one of the first threads of newdis I think, probably one about breakfast or food or something, just absurd to attach it to other threads and so has naturally snowballed into the most popular tag.

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#31

a joke used in response to a user describing something they did as a child to make it sound like they were an adult.

for a more in depth explanation see here:

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#32

working from home