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Hissyspit

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28. Well, you would be wrong.

Reply to AnalystInParadise (Reply #26)

Sat May 24, 2014, 04:13 PM

May 2014

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.

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you know who used initials? the Nazis, that's who. [View all] arely staircase May 2014 OP

Secret embedded meaning of initials: Part VII DontTreadOnMe May 2014 #1

Careful Cirque du So-What May 2014 #10

What does SS stand for? Could you spell it out for me? OregonBlue May 2014 #2

OregonBlue Diclotican May 2014 #16

Schutzstaffel per William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pages 143-145. JDPriestly May 2014 #17

I guess I should have used the sarcasm button. OregonBlue May 2014 #32

I got it. Just thought it was an interesting factoid. JDPriestly May 2014 #34

Sargeant Schultz Fuddnik May 2014 #23

Not another Case White privilege thread. NuclearDem May 2014 #3

I drive an Olds 88. The Aryan Nation uses 88 as an image in their tattoos. Throd May 2014 #4

you should remove them from all Olds 88s arely staircase May 2014 #5

My old VW Type I (Beetle) had an "Emergency 88" switch salib May 2014 #8

and the celebrity magazines use intials also..so it must mean something Leme May 2014 #6

What'd you say about my mother? NuclearDem May 2014 #7

I learned from OP Leme May 2014 #9

people with initials, people using other's initials, etc. nt arely staircase May 2014 #11

Putin uses initials? U4ikLefty May 2014 #12

WWHD SecularMotion May 2014 #13

Here I thought Twitter had WhiteTara May 2014 #14

Greenwald's middle initial is "E," FYI. I wonder if the Nazi's would have called him "GEG." msanthrope May 2014 #15

I remember well people calling Greenwald Gigi. Hissyspit May 2014 #18

I think you are the only one playing a game AnalystInParadise May 2014 #26

Well, you would be wrong. Hissyspit May 2014 #28

LMFAO Tom Ripley May 2014 #19

It would be funny if there were not a history to this. Hissyspit May 2014 #21

just wait til JR from Dallas hears about this! Whisp May 2014 #20

If you spoke German, you would understand why the NAZIs liked initials. JDPriestly May 2014 #22

If my name were Sally Smith treestar May 2014 #24

How about DU? Fuddnik May 2014 #25

Oh for Pete's sake. RandySF May 2014 #27

You better go to AtA and ask Skinner to change "The DU Lounge" tandot May 2014 #29

I call BS on this thread. CrispyQ May 2014 #30

you asked Barbra Streisand? Leme May 2014 #35

Enough of this... Rafale May 2014 #31

I feel so much safer now Niceguy1 May 2014 #33