you know who used initials? the Nazis, that's who.

[arely staircase]

ever heard of the 'SS'? Well, they were big time Nazis and they didn't always take the time to write things out. Is that how you want to be? Like a Nazi?

Don't like it?

Start a thread.

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Secret embedded meaning of initials: Part VII

lmao

[Cirque du So-What]

10. Careful

We're none too enamored of Roman numerals 'round here either.

[OregonBlue]

2. What does SS stand for? Could you spell it out for me?

[Diclotican]

16. OregonBlue

OregonBlue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel Is at least the original wording of the organisation

Diclotican

[JDPriestly]

17. Schutzstaffel per William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pages 143-145.

[OregonBlue]

32. I guess I should have used the sarcasm button.

[JDPriestly]

34. I got it. Just thought it was an interesting factoid.

[Fuddnik]

23. Sargeant Schultz

I know nothink!

[NuclearDem]

3. Not another Case White privilege thread.

[Throd]

4. I drive an Olds 88. The Aryan Nation uses 88 as an image in their tattoos.

H is the eight letter of the alphabet, so 88 = HH = Heil Hitler

I guess I should remove the emblems from the car so nobody gets the wrong idea.

[arely staircase]

5. you should remove them from all Olds 88s

Save the owners the trouble.

[salib]

8. My old VW Type I (Beetle) had an "Emergency 88" switch

My friends joked that it was an 88mm gun (common for the Germans in WWII). Seemed to just be emergency flashers.

[Leme]

6. and the celebrity magazines use intials also..so it must mean something

MM,LL,KLG,BK,JB, EH,WG,BW, KK,BB,MJ,............

[NuclearDem]

7. What'd you say about my mother?

[Leme]

9. I learned from OP

that people with initials are Nazis....take it up with him/her.

[arely staircase]

11. people with initials, people using other's initials, etc. nt

[U4ikLefty]

12. Putin uses initials?

...or was that Gaddafi? I dunno, which one is "Hitler" these days?

[SecularMotion]

13. WWHD

What would Hitler Do?

[WhiteTara]

14. Here I thought Twitter had

reduced all words to their least number of characters.

[msanthrope]

15. Greenwald's middle initial is "E," FYI. I wonder if the Nazi's would have called him "GEG."

[Hissyspit]

18. I remember well people calling Greenwald Gigi.

Then switching to GG when called on it.

While some have assuredly referred to him by his initials without malice, plenty of posters have not.

Some people write JA for Assange, but funny how it is not nearly as common as GG for Greenwald.

It's a cute game some are playing and plenty of people aren't falling for it.

[AnalystInParadise]

26. I think you are the only one playing a game

it's initials, not rampant homophobia

[Hissyspit]

28. Well, you would be wrong.

I spent plenty of time in threads after the Snowden revelations last summer and know exactly what many posters were up to. Not everyone, but many. When someone is using Gigi and then switches to GG in the same conversation after getting alerted, it would be silly not to recognize what was going on.

[Tom Ripley]

19. LMFAO

[Hissyspit]

21. It would be funny if there were not a history to this.

[Whisp]

20. just wait til JR from Dallas hears about this!

or is he dead?

SEE! he was KILLED by the Acronym Monster.

[JDPriestly]

22. If you spoke German, you would understand why the NAZIs liked initials.

German words are long. The language is phonetic so it is actually easy to learn.

But think of all the misspelled words on the Teabaggers signs, and then you understand that a lot of conservatives are unable to spell. I think it has to do with their short attention spans. That may also explain why they want easy, slogan answers to questions about complex issues. It may also explain why Ayn Rand's extremely simplistic philosophy appeals to them. -- Short attention spans -- explains their ignorance.

[treestar]

24. If my name were Sally Smith

and I was referred to as SS on DU, how much trouble would there be over calling me a Nazi?

[Fuddnik]

25. How about DU?

That sounds very sinister.

[RandySF]

27. Oh for Pete's sake.

What about FDR, JFK and JBJ?

[tandot]

29. You better go to AtA and ask Skinner to change "The DU Lounge"

to "The Democratic Underground Lounge" ...

I am pretty sure they'll be very thankful that you made them aware that they are Nazis for not writing it out.

Oh wait ... darn it ... I wrote AtA instead of Ask the Administrators ... that would make me a Nazi, too

[CrispyQ]

30. I call BS on this thread.

[Leme]

35. you asked Barbra Streisand?

Bob Seger ?

[Rafale]

31. Enough of this...

Enough of this anti-German propaganda.

Your pal,
R

[Niceguy1]

33. I feel so much safer now

That the abbriavtion nazis are on patrol