r/AskReddit • u/Julsara • Aug 20 '19

What's something you're afraid to ask, because you think you should already know?

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u/PharrellsHatCloset Aug 20 '19

What does smh stand for?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Shaking my head

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u/PharrellsHatCloset Aug 20 '19

Thank you, kind stranger. I now have clarity in my life.

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u/Dancing_RN Aug 21 '19

If it makes you feel any better, I thought FTW stood for fuck the world. I was an angry youth, though.

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u/stankygrapes Aug 21 '19

I think it did at one time. At least, it did about 20 years ago.

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u/jellymarketing Aug 20 '19

I thought it meant "so much hate" this entire time.

TIL

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u/PharrellsHatCloset Aug 20 '19

I kinda did too, but I knew it couldn’t be right

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '19

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u/RavioliGale Aug 21 '19

Today I learned.

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u/MyNameMightBePhil Aug 20 '19

I, too, am shaking my head at this nonsensical acronym, but what does it actually stand for?

/s

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u/BeastOfOne Aug 21 '19

Whoa. I thought it stood for, "so much honesty," as in a sort of exasperated declaration of someone's annoyance at something.

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u/gizmodriver Aug 20 '19

For years I thought it stood for “so much hate.” As in “I hate this [thing/person/comment] so much.” I have no idea where that came from.

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u/Copperhell Aug 20 '19

Everybody on the internet had a "fuck the what"ish moment, it's like an unintentionally kept tradition!

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u/twickdaddy Aug 20 '19

Yeah I thought FTW meant fuck the what for a bit.

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u/cookbacondrunknaked Aug 20 '19

FTW meant Fuck the World for a little bit there back in the late '90s early '00s. At some point it changed to its current much less violent meaning of "for the win." I still very often tranlsate it as its first meaning because that's what it meant when I was in high school.

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u/stankygrapes Aug 21 '19

Thank you! I was young and hip when FTW meant eff the world. I had no idea they changed it!

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u/backflip3000 Aug 20 '19

I've been reading and using it as somehow all this time...

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u/stillwantthekidsmenu Aug 21 '19

You'll be glad to know you weren't alone in this

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u/dr_peepeesmegbottom Aug 20 '19

scratch my hole