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Right. I've had enough of the pretentious knobends in my life who only refer to each other by nicknames they made up.

I will NOT call Gemma 'Tilf'. For she is neither a Tiger nor Wolf, or indeed, an amalgam of both. She is Gemma. That is her name.

I will NOT refer to anyone by their nicknames, unless it is a genuine one bestowed by peers due to them being earned or deserved.

If you meet me, introduce yourself to me using your real name. Then, once I have that memorised, you can explain why people might call you something else. Then I will make the call.

GRRRRRRRR!

Hmmm... so I sense some strong feelings on these nickname things. Poor experience with nicknames as a lad?

Nope. Never really had one. My name isn't especially common (being Ross) so generally speaking, it wasn't really required to distinguish me from a similarly named peer.

I just hate self appointed ones. Is there anything more wretchedly self aggrandising than that?

agreed. self appointed ones are rather lame.

Better not tell Snoop Dog and his pals that.

Self appointed beats the one most people give to me- "freaking hole."

Why the hell not?

Being from 'Da Hood' doesn't make a self appointed nickname any less pretentious.

Who? What? Who's from the hood?

Aye I'd have though that with mine as its also not common and yet I've still had nicknames.

Real name: Denzil (and aye that was a right laugh down in Kernow I can tell you, 15mins down the road from Jethro's place as well.)

Nicknames..
'John' in school because apparently I was too focused when playing football so folks nicknamed me John from 'John Rambo.'

'Dennis' two of the staff here in the shop call me Dennis because I call myself Den most of the time, and they assumed wrong and it stuck.

'Druchii' a few gamers I know call me this because of my obsession with the race and Dark Elves in general.

'Shae' the name of my Main in WoW, Well its Shaedrah, but everything is shortened there to speed things up when typing. A couple of folks also call me that out of game now even though they know my real name and we converse elsewhere as I suppose its easier to remember.

I hate nicknames. They are usually bestowed by some jerk who is trying to be cool and has a secret desire to control everything around them despite being the least worthy of such.

All my friends call me Waffle. I have no idea why, but I think it's an in-joke about me that started in primary school.

I'm called Mac these days, mostly because my real name appears to be analogous to nerd.

BrookM wrote:I'm called Mac these days, mostly because my real name appears to be analogous to nerd.

Your name is Urkel?

Jin wrote:

BrookM wrote:I'm called Mac these days, mostly because my real name appears to be analogous to nerd.

Your name is Urkel?

feth no.

My friend Richard's self-appointed nickname is "Big Greasy Dick". He's very tall and works in a McDonalds.

Sometimes it felt like everyone I knew in school was called Macca. If you had the "Mc" in your surname, it was just always Macca. I know about 27 Maccas. Is that just a scouse thing??

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Right. I've had enough of the pretentious knobends in my life who only refer to each other by nicknames they made up.

I will NOT call Gemma 'Tilf'. For she is neither a Tiger nor Wolf, or indeed, an amalgam of both. She is Gemma. That is her name.

I will NOT refer to anyone by their nicknames, unless it is a genuine one bestowed by peers due to them being earned or deserved.

If you meet me, introduce yourself to me using your real name. Then, once I have that memorised, you can explain why people might call you something else. Then I will make the call.

GRRRRRRRR!

Word of advice. If you're going to write a pretentious post don't start it with..

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I've had enough of the pretentious knobends

...unless you're bieng ironic which I don't think you were.

Jr High: "Bird" - tall and lanky in Jr. High, my running is awkward as well.

My mom: 'Baby Huey' 'Bubba' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Huey
actually pretty funny

What's wrong with nicknames? Mine's A.J. [although that may be due to my name being Artimus James]

People call me "Moron" and "freak",do those count?
lol.

From Nothing Nice to Say. I wish I had a cool punk nickname too.

I didn't haveanicknamein school. In the army while in Korea the called me Pip short for Pipboy since I played the orignal Fallout so much when it came out when I was over there (1997, god am I that old now). Itstick with m friends from Korea, but since then I have not had a nickname. But sometimes I was called a heartless c*cks*ck*er or a d*ck when writing tickets or arresting someone when I was a cop but that is par for the course.

Imagine if your name was Nick.

Or you suffered from identity theft, and your name was nicked.

Is that the same Doc?

/jk

My nicknames Jumper because Parker in french mean jumper or something.

See, these sort of nicknames work. It's something others call you, not something you call yourself.

For example, my friend Paul is known to me as Deacon. Deacon is his surname, and thats what I've always called him.

But self appointed ones really get on my tits.

A guy in my gaming club is called "The annoying Guy"

He shouts in your face all the time, and waves his arms around alot, also he painted his chaplin white, and when me and my friends told him, they are meant to be Black, he shouted at us and ran off. I think that counts as an nickname.

Also i know a guy called David, but alot of people are called David so we call him his surname "Coleman".

I get called pickets. In cricket when a batsmen scores a run you put the number scored in the book, so a player might have a score like 1 3 4 2 1 1 4 2 6 1 for a total of 27. As a younger fella I was a pretty defensive player so my scorecard would often read 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 or something fairly close to that, which is meant to resemble a picket fence.

Funny thing is it was around ten years ago I first got the nickname. I'm a reasonably aggressive batsman these days so it doesn't really apply anymore, but the name is still there. People even call me it without ever knowing why or that it even relates to cricket at all. One of those things, I guess.

That is a way cool story Sebs.

*Applauds*

Cheese Elemental wrote:All my friends call me Waffle. I have no idea why, but I think it's an in-joke about me that started in primary school.

That is a cool nickname. Nothing wrong with nicknames, and Snoop dog is not a nickname at all. It could be considered one, but it has become more of a brand
than a nickname.

The Dreadnote wrote:My friend Richard's self-appointed nickname is "Big Greasy Dick". He's very tall and works in a McDonalds.

I would call him Fascist Metal Penis... mainly because I would actually laugh when hearing it.

akira5665 wrote:That is a way cool story Sebs.

*Applauds*

Agreed.

TBH, most people call me "G", simply because they are too stupid to say my Italian name correctly.

I am also known as Ye Olde Trolle and "That Git over there"