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What Does SMH Mean? A Movie Podcast: 1994 - The Best Year For Movies... Ever?

Quite The Thing Media's newest podcast features Stephen Purdon, Jack Shaw and Colin McMillan talking movies.

There will be guests, insider knowledge, nostalgia, trivia, bad language and laughter. Will the lads accept some of the one-star reviews from around the internet, or will it just make them angry that some people have internet access?

In this episode the guys discuss their favourite movies of 1994 and the best Scottish movies of all time. Stephen also provides some insight into working with Ken Loach and competing with Martin Compston for roles.

Check the podcast's site and blog at whatdoessmhmean.com - every one-star review for every number one box-office movie of the 1990s.

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What Does SMH Mean? A Movie Podcast - Coming Soon!

Quite The Thing Media's newest podcast features Stephen Purdon, Jack Shaw and Colin McMillan talking movies.

There will be guests, insider knowledge, nostalgia, trivia, bad language and laughter. Will the lads accept some of the one-star reviews from around the internet, or will it just make them angry that some people have internet access?

Check the podcast's site and blog at whatdoessmhmean.com - every one-star review for every number one box-office movie of the 1990s.

Movie Guy trailer voice provided by the ever-talented Paul Rich, from Cold Callers Comedy - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cold-callers-comedy/id437588267

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Another slang trend making its rounds of late is TBH, a term that encourages online users to express sincerely how they feel about a person or an idea they post. For example, someone might post a photo and others might respond with: “TBH, you are sexy AF (as f**k) and I’d like you to HMU (hit me up)” or “I’ve never told you this but TBH, I think that thing yo do with your sausages when you fry them and add cheese is pretty cool.”

As you can imagine, TBH carries both the power to lift another person up (which it often does) with kind or favourable comments or—with just a few clicks—TBH can go south and crumple another person if others opt to post morose comments (all shrouded in the virtuous effort “to be honest,” of course) e.g. “tbh your breath smells like s**t and you should go get a breath mint”.

TBH has become so popular, some entrepreneurs have attempted to create a TBH movement of sorts by introducing a TBH app, and a TBH blog. The TBH app prompts users to join the TBH social network to “find out what your friends honestly think about you.”

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HMU is the abbreviation for “hit me up”. It’s a quick way to tell someone to contact you or make plans in the future. For example, you might say to a friend, “HMU when you want to play Mario Kart.”. Some people also use it to convey that someone asked them for something, such as, “He HMU asking for money”. This usage aligns with the definition of “hit up,” which is common real-world slang for someone asking you for something.

The phrase “hit me up” is inseparable from ‘90s hip-hop culture. During that decade, many people (not just drug dealers) used one-way pagers to communicate with one another. “Hit up” grew out of the very specific rules of paging. Rappers used the phrase in hundreds of popular songs, and it started to have a variety of meanings. Now, the phrase is closely associated with cellphones, which are, arguably, the modern version of pagers.

The history of our little abbreviation, HMU, isn’t nearly as interesting as all that. See, it came out of nowhere, and first appeared on Urban Dictionary in 2009 and totally exploded into popularity by the end of 2010.

It’s easy to use and will be understood by most people. Therefore, you could say, “HMU when you get home”. Again, it’s a straightforward abbreviation, so you don’t have to worry about any weird grammar or anything. If you want to describe a situation in which a friend or acquaintance messaged you out of the blue, you could say, “He HMU just last week”. As with other informal internet abbreviations, you might see it in lowercase (hmu), as well.

Can also mean “Hold my unicorn.”

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What Does SMH Mean?

"Shake My Head" / "SMH" is very frequently used in diverse forms of digital communication, especially in internet communities. The abbreviation is widely familiar in internet culture - and common enough that some people will say SMH in their speech as they might LOL or OMG.

The tone of SMH often implies an impatience with a perceived unnecessary stupidity of a person or process. SMH is often issued to preface what the user is disappointed or frustrated by (e.g., smh… My flight got canceled and can’t be rebooked). GIFs of people shaking their heads captioned with smh are popular on GIF keyboards and can be sent via text message or attached to tweets as a reaction image. The hashtags #smh and #smdh are popular ways to tag exasperation on social media.

SMH is also intensified, most commonly as smdh (shaking my damn head) but also smfh (shaking my f**king head), and smmfh (shaking my motherf**king head).

Less often, SMH will stand for so much hate, showing or commenting on disdain, or scratching my head, used for puzzlement. The internet slang is not to be confused with the common abbreviation of the Australian newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Spike in usage in 1995 in the book: Theoretical, Experimental, and Numerical Contributions to the Mechanics of Fluids and Solids.

Word of the day from Merriam Webster is "Quisling" - noun - one who commits treason: traitor, collaborator.

Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian army officer who in 1933 founded Norway's fascist party. In December 1939, he met with Adolf Hitler and urged him to occupy Norway. Following the German invasion of April 1940, Quisling served as a figurehead in the puppet government set up by the German occupation forces, and his linguistic fate was sealed. Before the end of 1940, quisling was being used generically in English to refer to any traitor. Winston Churchill, George Orwell, and H. G. Wells used it in their wartime writings. Quisling lived to see his name thus immortalized, but not much longer. He was executed for treason soon after the liberation of Norway in 1945.

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Every month, 250,000 people open Google and ask; "What Does SMH Mean"? Three million people per year struggle with this modern abbreviation. Therefore, Jack decided to take deep-dive into acronyms, contractions, and initialisms in this new podcast. Etymology is the study of the history of words and is something Jack enjoys. However, he is no expert and like millions of people each year, he can struggle with: HMU, TTYL, ROFL... Basically, the abbreviations used on most social media.

Abbreviations are obviously not new! They can be found in ancient Greek inscriptions and medieval manuscripts. A large amount of the information in longer communications, such as emails, is unnecessary. In other words, knowing abbreviations and acronyms is pretty useful. Jack is here to guide you from the "DABs" for "Digital Audio Broadcasting", through the “DNs” for “Dominus Noster” and back to "DFTBA" for "Don't Forget To Be Awesome".

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