Diner Frequently Used Acronyms

[Surly1]

Thanks to Diner Step Back, here is a list of Frequently Used Acronyms often in play here in the Diner Forum.
This is a form of shorthand to refer to phrases that frequently occur in the discussion of the various aspects of Doom.

This is only a start and is not meant to be encyclopedic; it's meant to be a living doc. I urge any admin or mod to add, update and refine this list.

BAU- Business as Usual
DD- Doomstead Diner
CFS- Common Fking Sense
EROEI- Energy Return on Energy Invested (sometimes called EROI, Energy returned on Investment)
FOAD - Fk Off And Die
FWIW- For What It's Worth
HTH - Hope That Helps
htf or HTF - How the fk
IMO- In My Opinion
LMFAO - Laugh my fking ass off
LOL- Laugh Out Loud
J6P - Joe six-pack
MSM- Main Stream Media, or the wholly corporate-owned media, mouthpieces of status quo
SUN- Sustaining Universal Needs project
TBTF- Too Big To Fail (as in banks)
TEOTWATKI- The End Of The World As We Know It
TPTB- The Powers That Be, the entrenched status quo of banks, government and cronies
TSHTF- The Shit Hits the Fan, generally preceded by "when"
wtf or WTF - What the fk? or Where the fk or Who the fk

NTE - Near Term Extinction
NTHE - Near Term Human Extinction


Often referred-to Diners and bloggers
AG- agelbert (sometimes referred to as AB)
GM- Gypsy Mama
GO- Golden Oxen
JHK- James Howard Kunstler
JDW- JD Wheeler
LD- Lucid Dreams
RE- Reverse Engineer
SL-Snowleopard
UB- Uncle Bob
WHD- William Hunter Duncan

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[RE]

We do have a Glossary of Frequently Used Diner Acronyms.

Surly's original list heads up this thread.  I am going to copy/paste it and add a few more.  In the future, if I use a new acronym, I will add it to the list also, and then provide a Link below my signature of RE to the latest Acronym List.

Other Diners who use acronyms may also add to the list.  I did not add any of the New Diners acronyms for their user ID.  Diners will need to add their own as I am sure to forget somebody.

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Latest List: 2/25/2017

AFAIK- As Far As I Know
BAU- Business as Usual
BDTD- Been There, Done That
DD- Doomstead Diner
CF- Collapse Fatigue
CFS- Common Fking Sense
EROEI- Energy Return on Energy Invested (sometimes called EROI, Energy returned on Investment)
EU- European Union or the Blog Economic Undertow. (determine by context)
FOAD - Fk Off And Die
FSoA- Fascist States of Amerika
FWIW- For What It's Worth
GSIB- Globally Systemically Important Bank
HISC- How I Survived Collapse serial novel
HTH - Hope That Helps
htf or HTF - How the fk
IMO- In My Opinion
IMHO- In My Humble Opinion
IYHO- In Your Humble Opinion
LMFAO - Laugh my fking ass off
LMFAOPIMP- Laughing My Fucking Ass Off Pissing in My Pants
LOL- Laugh Out Loud
J6P - Joe six-pack
MSM- Main Stream Media, or the wholly corporate-owned media, mouthpieces of status quo
NBL- Nature Bats Lat (Guy McPherson's Blog)
OPBs- Other People's Blogs
OWS- Occupy Wall Street
OFW- Our Finite World (Gail Tverberg's Blog)
POTUS: President of the United States
SCOTUS: Supreme Court of the United States
SUN- Sustaining Universal Needs project
TBTF- Too Big To Fail (as in banks)
TEOTWATKI- The End Of The World As We Know It
TPTB- The Powers That Be, the entrenched status quo of banks, government and cronies
TSHTF- The Shit Hits the Fan, generally preceded by "when"
wtf or WTF - What the fk? or Where the fk or Who the fk
ELE- Extinction Level Event
NTE - Near Term Extinction
NTHE - Near Term Human Extinction


Often referred-to Diners and bloggers
AG- agelbert (sometimes referred to as AB)
GM- Gypsy Mama
GO- Golden Oxen
JHK- James Howard Kunstler
JDW- JD Wheeler
LD- Lucid Dreams
RE- Reverse Engineer
SL-Snowleopard
UB- Uncle Bob
WHD- William Hunter Duncan

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