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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 23 minutes ago

If my children are all psychopaths, they might actually appreciate a name like this.

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 77 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Not bad…. Not bad

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Hate-on for musical Mermaid Deadpool?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think they’d care.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wish I could be so lucky.

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Probably slightly less than they already do.

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd imagine that mine would end up like royal names, I'm the weirdest cunt, my child would be the 2nd weirdest cunt and so on

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[–] josefo@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

It's... ok?

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

It's reasonably acceptable I guess, what people would hate me for is making jokes about getting a gnu name...

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That will entirely depend on people remembering JarJar Binks so I don't know

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just say "only the 90s kids remember Jar Jar Bings!" and everyone else will forget. Well the 4th movie at least they will still remember 5 and 6.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

meh not that bad compared to most other names

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, they don't hate me, but they do get tired of French people sounding out our shared username and then making jokes about it.

[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dude, you misspelled your name it should be: "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🫡 * in a very arrogant French accent*

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Le plus drôle c'est que je parle français. Très amusant, n'est-ce pas?

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

Hon hon hon

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Oh, and Talking Heads fans calling them "psycho killer."

[–] stardustsystem@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

They'd better Run run run run run run awaayyyyyyy

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[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is basically what happened in the Netherlands in the past.

I once met a woman whose family name was Boschpijper. Bosch means bush and pijper means dicksucker.

Those nicknames were kind of a joke, but then they followed in official records, but nobody cared. Then, after some generations of them having been written down, they were suddenly something important. And now the family of Boschpijpers have carried their name with pride for several centuries.

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[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Less than I hate the urologist who was supposed to prevent this.

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[–] gigachad@piefed.social 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They would probably find it pretty cringe

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Think about it though. In like 100 years, the irony will wear off, and you'll have Millers, Carpenters, Smiths, and fucking Gigachads. It'd work, it just might take awhile.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

My cats will be fine with it.

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[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey you kids, get off my WLAN!

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 35 minutes ago

If you’re still using some old and insecure encryption, you’re basically inviting the kids to practice their skills with your WLAN. If you notice that they’ve figured out how to crack WEP, it’s time to move on to WPA and see how long it takes them to find a way in.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

You changed your name to latrine?

It used to be shithouse.

Good change!

[–] Zathras@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

"No, that was not Zathras, that was Zathras. There are 10 of us, all of family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you pronounce. Zathràs, Zathrás, Zathrâs.. You are seeing now?"

Babylon 5

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

literally using my surname as my username RN

[–] LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Captain 🫡

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Everyone can finally choose "dr." option when filling out flight ticket forms guilt free and probably fly free on Canadia Airlines at least once.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Moderately irritated by having to explain "it's literally j j j all js like the word all J's but not this part" all the time

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[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Could be worse I guess, right /u/SatansMaggotyCumFart

Do they get all my usernames, or just the one on Lemmy?

On the upside, I think this username wouldn't be hard to spell out for people. There's no downside, mine is a perfect username.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

As long as they find their own pocket rocks, I think we're peachy.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My kid would genuinely love it, it's right up his alley in terms of humor. My sense of humor is generally quite a bit darker, but I thought of it and it made me chuckle so I used it.

I just asked him what he thought of the username pooptart and he started giggling and went on an ADHD fueled set of concepts that ended with "what if you pooped a car?" But by then my own ADHD was only barely listening.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

With normal letters or forever with the goofy ones? 🤔

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[–] Beebabe@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Quite a bit, but it could be worse.

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[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They would be wondering whyiI haven't embraced the lifestyle, only adopted the name.

[–] Nomad_Scry@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

And they'd be mad about inheriting my poor vision.

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[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

They're cool with it

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

well, I'm snipped so that's not a problem, but if we decided to for some reason adopt, they probably wouldn't love it. I wonder if tabbed browsing would ever go away and it would be a surname based on something that everyone forgets (there are more obscure examples but for example Cooper, Cobbler, Fletcher, Bowyer, Tyler, Taylor, Brewster, etc.)

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's literally "TheSloth", so I think we'll all be OK.

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