I still remember way back in the day when my mom would listen to NPR on the drive to school. They had a segment on this new fangled thing called the internet and what kind of sex pests were in chat rooms. They used the example "got any GIFs?" as a coded message where GIF = "girls or females". I was 12 and I knew that GIF was file format, and even I didn't know that, I would know that "i" can't possibly stand for "or" in an acronym. I haven't trusted a thing from then since.
I still remember way back in the day when my mom would listen to NPR on the drive to school. They had a segment on this new fangled thing called the internet and what kind of sex pests were in chat rooms. They used the example "got any GIFs?" as a coded message where GIF = "girls or females". I was 12 and I knew that GIF was file format, and even I didn't know that, I would know that "i" can't possibly stand for "or" in an acronym. I haven't trusted a thing from then since.
Reminds me of a phenomenon :
“every subject that I am knowledgeable in - I discovered journalists were retarded. So why do I trust them for other subjects”
That's the Gell-Mann effect for you, nothing exposes these idiots more than listening to them talk about a subject your knowledgeable about.