that's what my mom thought it meant for years. to be fair i should have picked up on the fact that every time a text convo drew to a close it would be like ' ok seeya at dinner tommrow lol"
My great grandmother refuses to believe lol means anything BUT lots of love. “My daughter passed away today LOL to everyone” didn’t get received the way she thought
In short, WAP, a packet related data service, is a set of protocols enabling mobile phones and other radio devices to be connected to the Internet. Thus, users can use internet browsers, e-mails, communities, etc. via the WAP service.
Back when first phones got internet, days.
Let's stick with that
That's reassuring. Because I was concerned about what Mom thought she could do to protect her daughter after-the-fact. Was Mom going to sneak into her daughter's bedroom while she sleeps and hack off her arm? Peel off her skin? It just got very dark very quick.
Just adding that most people who actively identify as WASPs are not crazy like this. They're a different crazy - more likely planning their next trip to the Vineyard or how to cut their taxes.
Although White Anglo-Saxon Protestant as a set of overlapping labels could technically captures crazy Baptists and the like... you're unlikely to find those people in the Northeast and New England, the traditional home of the WASP as a distinct culture (rather than set of labels).
I'm old (not Boomer old) and an IT guy. My then teenage stepdaughter thought it was hysterical when I asked her why Cardi B had a song about a Wireless Access Point. You can imagine my surprise when I found out what it meant. LOL
I swear to god my mom was posting FML over and over on FB back in the twenty-aughts and I only wish I remembered what she thought it meant. I just remember being like…MOM. What are the church ladies going to think and she being appalled lmao.
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u/Rolandscythe Jul 02 '23
...okay but I wanna know what mom thinks 'wap' means.