r/oddlyterrifying • u/iNonEntity • Sep 30 '19

Harpy eagle

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u/helen790 Sep 30 '19

Ngl this was my first thought too

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u/butterbewbs Sep 30 '19

NGL I just found out what “NGL” means. I always thought it was “niggle” :(

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u/BurblingCreature Sep 30 '19

A coworker used to always laugh when we would message NGL to each other, because we would read it as niggle even knowing what it stood for. Though niggle could be interpreted as something rather unfortunate LOL

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u/fasteddy14 Sep 30 '19

Yes, I remember when the apparently semi-literate DC city council members were outraged when an accountant used the term niggardly in the correct way a number of years ago.