What is FUD

Get FUD   

Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt.

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Take a few days off Geek...

Urban Dictionary told me FUD was Scottish slang for a lady's naughty parts...

Fallacious Urban Dictionary.


Really? An innocuous word like "Fud" means that? Plus, Fuddy Duddy Fudge is the name of a nice, tasty confectionery shop:http://www.fuddyduddyfudge.com/About_Our_Fudge.html Makes me salivate just like one of Pavlov's dogs.


 I have yet to find any evidence that corroborates your statement...

Urban Dictionary told me FUD was Scottish slang for a lady's naughty parts...

Citation needed!

I have yet to find any evidence that corroborates your statement...

Citation needed!

Really? You guys know how to use google, right? Are yall trolling?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=FUD+Scottish+slang

If you just google FUD, it's the third link.

It's the fifth link for me. First link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt,  followed by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fud, then some restaurant grill thing, another "encyclopedia" definition, (http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/FUD.html) and finally the urbandictionary entry you note.

Are yall trolling?

*Y'all*. Or more properly, You all.

Third link? You mean this?
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=31588572

Isn't it "Weegie" rather than "Weedgie", after all there is no "d" in either glasgow or glaswegian.

And just because it's slang, doesn't mean to say it shouldn't be spelt properly... Number of times that I've seen "choob" spelt as "tube"... Doh!

Anyway...

My favourite slang term from Glasgow has to be "fud". It's so easy to use.

"Fud"
"Fuddy"
"Fud Features"
"Fud Face"

etc.

Och reit Ah hae tae teel ye oaps Ah jist accidentallied mah fud. Ah wear a kilt but Ah dornt hae a fud. An' Ah hae magically developed a Scottie accent after readin' th' abune link.

Third link? You mean this?
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=31588572

I got the link to urbandictionary he mentioned as the fifth hit. My guess as to the difference is locale. Also, that could explain why you don't see it at all.

I always use http://www.google.com/ncr so as not to bias search results towards a particular locale.

I always use http://www.google.com/ncr so as not to bias search results towards a particular locale.

With that I get it as the third link...

Fully Undetectable.

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I always use http://www.google.com/ncr so as not to bias search results towards a particular locale.

Google still uses your individual search history to better arrange search results. At least I think they have - if they haven't yet, I read somewhere that that's what they will be doing.

Fully Undetectable.

That's as bad as XML being Extensible Markup Language. What wasn't it called EML?

Google still uses your individual search history to better arrange search results. At least I think they have - if they haven't yet, I read somewhere that that's what they will be doing.
That's as bad as XML being Extensible Markup Language. What wasn't it called EML?

Actually, the original list of candidates was:
XML- Extensible Markup Language
MAGMA- Minimal Architecture for Generalized Markup Applications
SLIM- Structured Language for Internet Markup
MGML- Minimal Generalized Markup Language

It is on the mailing list where the discussion took place, and a local poll of these names, that Jon Bosak suggested previously the use of X instead of an E. Although it's not "officially" declared as the reason the acronym came by; but the E-mail reads:

In my opinion, the U-combinations [referring to previous suggestions, which presumably had u's) won't fly, but if we allow "X" to stand for "extensible", then I could live with (and even come to love) XML as an acronym for "extensible markup language", and I hereby now throw it into the list of current proposals.

More to the point, XML was first created around the mid nineties. Look at similar emerging technologies at the time. DirectX, ActiveX, Internet marketed as "extreme speed" etc, things like the XFL ("Extreme Football League") etc. Also, you can think of the X mathematically, as a placeholder for anything, which is sort of what XML is about, too.

Also, EML was sorta-kinda already taken by Extended ML.

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Thanks for the explanation, I think.

Also kpac, think about windows XP. EXPerience.