Good peeps; Are you happy with your name? (your actual name, not your screen name)
If your answer is no, then what would you have preferred to have been named?
Incidentally, has anyone here changed their name by deed poll? |
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It's ok. Never wanted to change it. It can have different spellings so I do have to spell it for people which can be a pain.
I think the most annoying part is that it was quite a popular name about 25 years before I was born. So you hear my name and think it belongs to a 60 year old woman. Means you can buy ready made trolley tokens and handkerchiefs with my name on it already though. Silver linings eh  |
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Im 2 minds about my name, my surname is pretty normal and its dutch so i dont really have a problem there..
My middle name is pretty shit, Shelley, after Mary Shelley the author, got me bullied a fuck ton through school
My first name?  its pretty unique, a few ppl around the world have it, men, women, as a first or last name, and from all sorts of places from the US to Thailand. While i try to accept it for its uniqueness, much like myself in general, i also dont like it for that very reason as well. Also got bullied a lot for it too.
If i could choose, something a little more normal, ive always liked the name Jack, Jensen would another choice as its very similar to my first name. If i wanted to be really bold, Jaeger, following the germanic background with my last name and i think it sounds pretty cool, and is the germanic equivalent to Hunter which is an ordinary name for a boy |
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"Im 2 minds about my name, my surname is pretty normal and its dutch so i dont really have a problem there..
My middle name is pretty shit, Shelley, after Mary Shelley the author, got me bullied a fuck ton through school
My first name? its pretty unique, a few ppl around the world have it, men, women, as a first or last name, and from all sorts of places from the US to Thailand. While i try to accept it for its uniqueness, much like myself in general, i also dont like it for that very reason as well. Also got bullied a lot for it too.
If i could choose, something a little more normal, ive always liked the name Jack, Jensen would another choice as its very similar to my first name. If i wanted to be really bold, Jaeger, following the germanic background with my last name and i think it sounds pretty cool, and is the germanic equivalent to Hunter which is an ordinary name for a boy"
Wow, that was a some critical analysis. You could write a thesis on the subject I think. I enjoyed reading it |
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"It's unique and I don't like to stand out but on the whole.. Yeah, I'm happy with it. It's a talking point anyway."
Couple it with my married name.. Geez people look at me like I've married my husband just for a passport. It doesn't even work like that  |
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"Im 2 minds about my name, my surname is pretty normal and its dutch so i dont really have a problem there..
My middle name is pretty shit, Shelley, after Mary Shelley the author, got me bullied a fuck ton through school
My first name? its pretty unique, a few ppl around the world have it, men, women, as a first or last name, and from all sorts of places from the US to Thailand. While i try to accept it for its uniqueness, much like myself in general, i also dont like it for that very reason as well. Also got bullied a lot for it too.
If i could choose, something a little more normal, ive always liked the name Jack, Jensen would another choice as its very similar to my first name. If i wanted to be really bold, Jaeger, following the germanic background with my last name and i think it sounds pretty cool, and is the germanic equivalent to Hunter which is an ordinary name for a boy
Wow, that was a some critical analysis. You could write a thesis on the subject I think. I enjoyed reading it "
I could write a thesis on a great many subjects
Despite how i look in my profile pic, im deceptively intelligent  |
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"Im 2 minds about my name, my surname is pretty normal and its dutch so i dont really have a problem there..
My middle name is pretty shit, Shelley, after Mary Shelley the author, got me bullied a fuck ton through school
My first name? its pretty unique, a few ppl around the world have it, men, women, as a first or last name, and from all sorts of places from the US to Thailand. While i try to accept it for its uniqueness, much like myself in general, i also dont like it for that very reason as well. Also got bullied a lot for it too.
If i could choose, something a little more normal, ive always liked the name Jack, Jensen would another choice as its very similar to my first name. If i wanted to be really bold, Jaeger, following the germanic background with my last name and i think it sounds pretty cool, and is the germanic equivalent to Hunter which is an ordinary name for a boy"
Do I know your name? |
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"Im 2 minds about my name, my surname is pretty normal and its dutch so i dont really have a problem there..
My middle name is pretty shit, Shelley, after Mary Shelley the author, got me bullied a fuck ton through school
My first name? its pretty unique, a few ppl around the world have it, men, women, as a first or last name, and from all sorts of places from the US to Thailand. While i try to accept it for its uniqueness, much like myself in general, i also dont like it for that very reason as well. Also got bullied a lot for it too.
If i could choose, something a little more normal, ive always liked the name Jack, Jensen would another choice as its very similar to my first name. If i wanted to be really bold, Jaeger, following the germanic background with my last name and i think it sounds pretty cool, and is the germanic equivalent to Hunter which is an ordinary name for a boy
Do I know your name?"
I dont know.. do you? |
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"I recently changed the name of my penis to ‘sarcasm’.
There was a reason, not just off the cuff.
Is the reason because nobody gets it? "
We have a winner |
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"Im 2 minds about my name, my surname is pretty normal and its dutch so i dont really have a problem there..
My middle name is pretty shit, Shelley, after Mary Shelley the author, got me bullied a fuck ton through school
My first name? its pretty unique, a few ppl around the world have it, men, women, as a first or last name, and from all sorts of places from the US to Thailand. While i try to accept it for its uniqueness, much like myself in general, i also dont like it for that very reason as well. Also got bullied a lot for it too.
If i could choose, something a little more normal, ive always liked the name Jack, Jensen would another choice as its very similar to my first name. If i wanted to be really bold, Jaeger, following the germanic background with my last name and i think it sounds pretty cool, and is the germanic equivalent to Hunter which is an ordinary name for a boy
Wow, that was a some critical analysis. You could write a thesis on the subject I think. I enjoyed reading it
I could write a thesis on a great many subjects
Despite how i look in my profile pic, im deceptively intelligent "
Best way, you can then take everyone by surprise |
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"Im 2 minds about my name, my surname is pretty normal and its dutch so i dont really have a problem there..
My middle name is pretty shit, Shelley, after Mary Shelley the author, got me bullied a fuck ton through school
My first name? its pretty unique, a few ppl around the world have it, men, women, as a first or last name, and from all sorts of places from the US to Thailand. While i try to accept it for its uniqueness, much like myself in general, i also dont like it for that very reason as well. Also got bullied a lot for it too.
If i could choose, something a little more normal, ive always liked the name Jack, Jensen would another choice as its very similar to my first name. If i wanted to be really bold, Jaeger, following the germanic background with my last name and i think it sounds pretty cool, and is the germanic equivalent to Hunter which is an ordinary name for a boy
Wow, that was a some critical analysis. You could write a thesis on the subject I think. I enjoyed reading it
I could write a thesis on a great many subjects
Despite how i look in my profile pic, im deceptively intelligent
Best way, you can then take everyone by surprise "
I take ppl by surprise in more than a few ways |
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My name is fairly common in my age group, there were lots of us at school, by lots I mean at least two others in my year group. Can be spelt a few ways. Tis Ok, I quite like it when I hear it on others. Hate my surname  |
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"Also, a thought occured, do some of you agree that we grow into our names? Like how you look at someone and think "yeah youre definitely a Steve""
For this to happen my name would have to be dickhead |
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Mine is boring and very old fashioned , I am so ancient that I’ve never met another one in this country, although I’ve heard of a couple in the media.
It’s very common in my generation in my birth country, always at least 2 per class throughout my education.
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"Also, a thought occured, do some of you agree that we grow into our names? Like how you look at someone and think "yeah youre definitely a Steve"
For this to happen my name would have to be dickhead "
Well.. you could be called Richard |
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"Also, a thought occured, do some of you agree that we grow into our names? Like how you look at someone and think "yeah youre definitely a Steve""
I’ve met a few Dave’s who REALLY DO, very much in accordance with the stereotype, sit in the pub all day telling tall tales of their sexual conquests and how they know of a geezer who knows a geezer who got a blow job off the Queen or such like |
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"Also, a thought occured, do some of you agree that we grow into our names? Like how you look at someone and think "yeah youre definitely a Steve"
For this to happen my name would have to be dickhead
Well.. you could be called Richard "
I know a few Richards.... |
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"Also, a thought occured, do some of you agree that we grow into our names? Like how you look at someone and think "yeah youre definitely a Steve"
For this to happen my name would have to be dickhead
Well.. you could be called Richard "
That works |
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"Also, a thought occured, do some of you agree that we grow into our names? Like how you look at someone and think "yeah youre definitely a Steve"
For this to happen my name would have to be dickhead
Well.. you could be called Richard
I know a few Richards...."
I think most women know a few Richards |
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Despite how i look in my profile pic, im deceptively intelligent
Best way, you can then take everyone by surprise
I take ppl by surprise in more than a few ways "
Well you know what they say, live a little and all that. Everybody likes a nice surprise I am sure.
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I started calling myself by a different first name when I was 19 and changed back to my birth surname after I divorced in 1987. My daughter changed her name completely by deed poll, my son has done the same, twice, my 18 year old granddaughter has changed hers and if my trans grandson follows his path, he will probably change his also. |
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My names pretty run of the mill though I've got two thoroughly unnecessary middle names that I could happily do without. There's a tendancy nowadays for folk I don't even know (or they would know better) to add a bloody "y" to my first name, and that absolutely boils my piss, buy in its real form I'm happy with it. |
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but never thought about what I'd like to be called either, funny enough, because well, I am who I am, and am called what I'm called...
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