Harry does Something Commendable Shock!

eazybee

To repeat:
I have never seen RTFT used before, which is why I googled it and the unpleasant meaning appeared.
Why not use the words?

Yes. I understood you the first time, and replied in a timely and appropriate manner

maddyone

I didn’t know what RTFT meant either, I must have led a very sheltered life and my response was ‘Oh gosh.’ As I said, sheltered .

Maddy the f is for full.

But if this carries on much longer, I really will be swearing.

I’m also wondering if I will get an apology for being accused of plumbing the depths of respectability.

Tbh, I’m not that fussed, but it would be nice

I didn’t know what RTFT meant either, I must have led a very sheltered life and my response was ‘Oh gosh.’ As I said, sheltered .

Why not use the words

Perhaps for the same reason that people use abbreviations and acronyms for many thousands of other phrases?

To repeat:
I have never seen RTFT used before, which is why I googled it and the unpleasant meaning appeared.
Why not use the words?

Yes many use that swear word, I think using it in public is offensive and ill mannered

I don't think it's about age as my very elderly neighbours eff and blind all day. I just don't feel anyone on here is particularly aggressive and the f8cking version sounds very confrontational. I think I've spent too much time indoors

Could it be the context that indicates which version is intended? For example I've just RTFT would indicate "full", whereas just RTFT ! possibly with a poster's name would be the unacceptable (to some).
I don't mind it and I believe I've posted WTF? sometimes.
So actually some of us on GN do use the swear word versions of things. (I know! shocking isn't it!! And us supposed to be respectable Grannies!!!)

I thought it was read the Financial Times. I’m obviously more intellectual/superior to you lot. ??????

Maybe Gransnet need to update their acronym list so there is no confusion. I can't imagine any of us are posting RTFT meaning the swear word version.

I didn’t know what RTFT meant until I googled it,

RTFT means read the fucking thread? Well! I never knew that! I always thought it was read the full thread. I suppose it all depends on how your mind works though..... I've learnt such a lot on GN lately

You're not the only one JaneJudge I didn't know that either.

I have never known RTFT to mean fucking, maybe I am naive

eazybe because I didn’t, okay?
Why does anybody use any abbreviations?

Why not write: "having read the full thread. "?
Saves any confusion.

When I searched for the meaning, not knowing what the initials stood for, the unpleasant version appeared.

OK then, I'll update my post.

Harry praised the vaccine developers.

Harry criticised anti-vaxxers.

Harry is married to Meghan.

Meghan is friends with one of the presenters on Fox News.

One of the presenters on Fox News has shared info about M&H.

Fox News may have carried some anti-vax info (allegedly)

Someone mentioned before - allegedly saying things about your granny and her family that some people disagree with, is hardly in the same league as spreading misinformation about health interventions that could cost the lives of millions.

Definitely need some perspective here.

What am I saying? Its an M&H topic....

Anniebach

I didn’t know what RTFT meant, thanks eazybee I looked it up.

It’s a pity GransNet has sunk this low, but suppose it can be
expected

Annie I have not ‘sunk this low’

It has everything to do with this Lucca. Ladyleftfieldlover posted about H's speech broaching the subject of the media propagating miss information about the covid vaccine, and H&M use the media to propagate miss information about the RF.

It was my understanding that the Fox News presenter was a friend of Meghan's Alegrias, so much so that she knew that 'phone calls between H, his father and his brother before H came back for the D of E's funeral hadn't gone well.

Not something you would share with someone you've only met once.

In the context of my sentence, the word f*cking would not make sense, whereas the word f*ll did.
I’m not going to us disparaging terms about my own thread, now am I?

It was I who used the term RTFT
The F stands for Full.
If I wanted to write the other word, I would have done so.

Is everyone okay now?

Now I'd pay good money for that

She did a great job of hiding the tattoos at the awards.

Professor Green could do a read the whole thread rap

Anniebach

I didn’t know what RTFT meant, thanks eazybee I looked it up.

It’s a pity GransNet has sunk this low, but suppose it can be
expected

Read the Full Thread ??

She repeated herself, in a puzzled manner

But I do know what you are talking about. Bandwagon, anyone?

I didn’t know what RTFT meant, thanks eazybee I looked it up.

It’s a pity GransNet has sunk this low, but suppose it can be
expected