That sounds like a perfecty reasonable solution.
We have a spiral notebook with all of the login(s) and passwords. Its starting to get a little too tattered – I’ll need to pick up a new notebook and transfer the ones we still use.
#oldskool 
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BTS also means “behind the scenes” if you are a movie/pop culture aficionado. I used to get so confused why there were so many allusions to the Korean boy band in Hollywood (I knew they were popular but not that popular) until I grew the extra braincell to figure it out.
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I wasn’t aware of the movie meaning, but the Kpop connection is impossible to avoid 
It’s so neat how acronyms can mean different things, depending on context.
Language is a wonderful thing.
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Nope, I’m with you!
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But yet describes every company and every group hobby (including internet and social media groups) in which I have ever participated.
I see it more as a group who share common interests tend to develop acronyms and verbal shortcuts for things which the group discusses regularly.
(Hell, even my family has verbal shortcuts and inside jokes that outsiders dont always understand)
This is my point. Why create “outsiders” in the first place? I kind of get not wanting to type out “the proverbial shit ton of butter,” since it’s a long phrase, and that acronym actually gets used with some frequency. But others seem useless EXCEPT as a way to confer special status on those “in the know.”
I hope I get a special HO badge for my super-special status here. Can it be food-shaped?
Pwetty pwease?
You’re lucky I don’t block you for this alone.
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Am I, tho?
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My point is that it evolves amongst members of a group NOT to be exclusionary, but because we all know what we are referring to and it becomes its own microdialect.
By your argument, all localized slang or industry jargon is by definition bullying…and Im just not
t buying that school of thought.
I’m not saying that at all. Every group and industry has its particular parlance. But that happens when a phrase is used so frequently that everyone starts abbreviating it. And a lot of this not that. I make a lot of over easy eggs, but I’m not about to try to make OEE a thing. Because that would just be me. Trying to make OEE a thing.
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I wonder who first started using HBEs. Or BLTs 
I have no clue what HBE stands for.
You could check the OP (original post) 
All kidding aside, I will do my best henceforth to limit my use of abbreviations.
Thank you all for your valued input, as ever 
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Hemoglobin E
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I’m still utterly stunned you’ve never seen this very common abrevation for hard-boiled eggs, which is mos def not a HO creation.
Isn’t it great to learn new stuff, tho? I personally enjoy all the things I’ve learned here so far.
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I think I haunt the wrong threads.
