OOOO - That'll leave a mark ;-)

Geez that's been my attitude for most of the week.

Thanks for correcting the "Don't"(Major)...

I thought ...I get the rest... So PRINT THE T's.

Lol

perfect! I want one

A guitar version is available through Temu, Amazon .... and maybe elsewhere.

I think my friend who shared it with me saw it as a guitar shirt and sent me that image. I thought it was a shirt but when I pointed out to him that the D seemed to be off in the first image (the original image was off by a fret) he sent it back a few minutes later. I think he just made it as an image in some graphic software like ppt or something.

But it’s pretty funny because it is a good use of the acronym plus tablature and unique to banjo in this instance.

Just ordered the guitar version off amazon.

There is definitely no royalty or ownership of it should someone make a few or take orders to have some made for the forum.

I absolutely don't get it.

Tongue-in-cheek Bill: 

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FWIW, the chords are:

DGAF

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I absolutely don't get it.

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Apparently, you're not wasting enough time on "social mediums," typing in responses to off-the-wall other responses with your thumbs on the image of a teeny keyboard on the screen of your cell phone and looking for ways to communicate words with the fewest possible key strokes.

The acronym "D G A F" is used to communicate "Don't Give A F-Chord".  This is a popular attitude communicated among ardent social mediums participants.

So put that banjo back in its case and trade in your flip phone for a "smart" phone -- and you too will be able to type D G A F.  Then buy a t-shirt that is supposed to make you laugh.

Made me laugh!

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Originally posted by Bill H

I absolutely don't get it.

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Apparently, you're not wasting enough time on "social mediums," typing in responses to off-the-wall other responses with your thumbs on the image of a teeny keyboard on the screen of your cell phone and looking for ways to communicate words with the fewest possible key strokes.

The acronym "D G A F" is used to communicate "Don't Give A F-Chord".  This is a popular attitude communicated among ardent social mediums participants.

So put that banjo back in its case and trade in your flip phone for a "smart" phone -- and you too will be able to type D G A F.  Then buy a t-shirt that is supposed to make you laugh.

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No social media for me besides linked in through work.   But I do love my smartphone.   Although I didn't buy the t shirt-I'm not sure it actually is one at this point for banjo.   But I do think it is kind of funny to adopt a common syntax from one medium into another.  Sort of a basic element of humor.   Like "who's on first" taking a phrase and converting the who into a formal name.  Or Tesla having the names model S 3 X and Y spelling out sexy with the 3 reversed.   I tend to see the t-shirt without the guitar chords or banjo chords on CrossFit athletes at the local gym but just with the letters.   I think it's actually a brand of clothing for them with a middle finger between the G and A.   

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Originally posted by Bill H

I absolutely don't get it.

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Apparently, you're not wasting enough time on "social mediums," typing in responses to off-the-wall other responses with your thumbs on the image of a teeny keyboard on the screen of your cell phone and looking for ways to communicate words with the fewest possible key strokes.

The acronym "D G A F" is used to communicate "Don't Give A F-Chord".  This is a popular attitude communicated among ardent social mediums participants.

So put that banjo back in its case and trade in your flip phone for a "smart" phone -- and you too will be able to type D G A F.  Then buy a t-shirt that is supposed to make you laugh.

Thanks for the translation. I am not very good ith the abbreviated language that is so widely in use today.

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Ditto ^^ for me.   I find I use "Acronym Finder" fairly regularly w.r.t. BHO posts.   Dunno, maybe I'm aging faster than most of the other "old white dudes" (?) that frequent the site.  

Bit of a curmudgeon here. What bugs me most is the verbal "shortcuts" that take as much effort and time as (or even more than...) saying the actual word or words! The practice seems more a fad than anything else.

^^ Is their primary use in speaking or using a keyboard/texting?   

Fwiw,* I've been using w.r.t. for 60+ years .... I recall a teacher from jr. high "clueing us in" for taking notes in class .... might have even mentioned secretarial shorthand.    And for hunt-and-peck typists/keyboarders surely it saves time.

* my use of this one probably parallels my BHO** "journey."

** Geez ... I can't help myself!!  

At the company where I work (big company with 150k+ employees and 93 countries) we have thousands of acronyms. Some slide decks are almost completely acronyms. I keep track of them in my notebook to refer to. Every project, team, program, new product etc has an acronym and they exist by the thousands. You really have to internalize them or you can’t even understand what is going on. Early this morning on a call with some team members in India the name of the call was the “quarterly PMO PDG DMOM update” and every side was charts of more than a dozen teams all named by acronyms: OCTO, DMG, EDS and more and then status of all these different projects and programs on the x axis. I think 2/3 of the speech was acronyms. So it’s a part of life for a lot of work. I’ve heard the US military is even worse

There appears to be two different classes of acronyms.  The first is for labels of things, such as IRS for Internal Revenue Service, DPW for the local municipal Department of Public Works, name of a computer system,  name of a business task group, etc.  These are used in both speaking and writing, and aid in speed and ease of communication -- once  you know what they stand for, of course.  That's the material on the charts referred to above.  Say the letters "I R S" instead of "Internal Revenue Service," or "U C L A" for "University of California, Los Angeles."

The second class of acronyms is for a sequence of ordinary words, phrases that are common enough to be recognizable, but are referred to only by the first letter of each word.  AFIK, these phrases developed in typing e-mails and phone texts, to reduce the effort of putting in fill-in phrases, IIRC.

I've never heard anyone actually speak the letters of the second type, such as saying  "A  F  I  K".  They always just speak "as far as I know."  But they will type texts as AFIK.

The military uses both kinds, both types -- acronyms for labels and acronyms for phrases, such as SNAFU  (situation normal, all F-chorded up) and FUBAR (F-chorded up beyond all recognition).  Whether or not any of these are being printed, or have ever been printed, on O.D. t-shirts, I don't know.

^^^ I've been seeing Whisky Tango Foxtrot shirts for years now.

But are they government issue  (GI)?

I just thought it was a funny use of chords and a cultural phrase.