Today's really really stupid question....

[Pat A]

What does LOL mean? You all keep using it in messages on the forums! Sorry for being really thick - put it down to my age! (or the fact that I can't sleep at nights!)
Pat
(I am a newbie after all!!)

[John Smith]

Hi Pat,

Don't worry, we all have to learn these shorthands sometime!

LOL = Laughs Out Loud
ROFL = Rolls On Floor, Laughing
LMAO = Laughing My A**e off

You'll also come across

BTW = By The Way
FWIW = For What It's Worth

And a few others. Just ask if you get stuck, but once you get in the swing of it, many of them are easy to work out by their context!

[Pat A]

Many thanks John - and there was me thinking it was "lots of love"!!! (but couldn't quite get the context!)

[GarethB]

Lots of Love is exactly what it means with some of the nut cases we have.

Sorry that should be wonderful people

[Andrew MacLean]

Well thank you. At last John has been censored by his very clever rude word sniffing software!

I am also grateful for the little glossary. I think I knew about LOL, but the others were a mystery to me.

Andrew

[GarethB]

There are ways round the filth filter

And I do not been bribing the moderator

[Simon Hare]

pmsl