Irrational hatred of men who....

[DirtyDennis]

... have nicknames which are basically adding "ey" or "o" to the end of their first or surnames.

For example, Tom becomes Tommo, Dave Barnes becomes Barnesey.

Nicknames that are descriptive or bring to mind a particular incident don't bother me as much.

But the "ey" and "o" brigade just make me want to spoon out my own eyeballs.

It's just so whheeeey, lads, football, banter, lager, tits, banter, lads, wheeeey

FUCK OFF

I can't share this with anyone IRL because it makes me sound mental

We all go by our given names in our family, even though some are traditionally shortened, however every one of us gets called by our surname with a y on the end, even me by my boss. It's just a name which random people suddenly start using even if no one has said it in front of them. It's a mane which lends itself to an added y.

My husband says it has been the bane of his life but often lads can't say they don't like something as that just makes it twice as bad. None of us use it voluntarily, we'd always give our given names.

I don't like it but it doesn't overly bother me; it is definitely worse for dh and ds.

I don't mind this. I've never had a nickname and my name doesn't lend itself well to that. Always felt a bit left out!

Yes to this although it’s women I see do it. I have a few on social media like Sarah diamond smith, Chloe crazy smith. They are professional women so should know better it just makes them look daft.

I saw a "Claire 'Wino' Brown" commenting on a job vacancy this week.
Bet the employer was " she sounds great!"

My dp has the ey nickname which a lot of his mates use..in fact him and his brother are known as the .....sey brothers. And yes they love thier football.

However he's not keen on it at all, when I first met him he was introduced as ...sey and he very quickly corrected them with his proper name.

He's also not your typical beer necking, one of the lads either but he was given the nickname in school and it's stuck

Banksy?

Hate this too.

I have noticed ex public school type men always call each other by their surnames or versions of.

Horrific

I'm another who finds the lengthening thing odd.

But I'm also not a fan of the "-zza" form (eg Garry becoming Gazza).

When I was at university the men had a (to me) annoying habit of referring to each other as "the boy...". So Robert would be "the boy Robert". I've a feeling that may derive from football commentary.

My SiL waged (and won) a big campaign to get her nickname of Fliss for Felicity ( I can see how that would work) changed to Flizz.
Which I found silly but I find her a bit silly too

I was also cross because my aunt suggested to my parents that they call me something that's a boy's name with a couple of extra syllables on the end.

I'm obviously not giving my real name but imagine Bobbyrina being a common name for a girl.
She told them it was good because it couldn't be shortened except to Bobby. Quite cute and ok for a girl or a boy.

For the rest of her life she called me Bob.

I hated it!

(She really wanted a nephew, didn't she? )

Oh I hate this too. All this, Smithy, Jonesy business is so juvenile. Also adult women who have silly nicknames. Margaret in her fifties known as ‘Miff’.

Ooooh OP you should definitely not move to Australia 😂😂 its all nicknames here- mostly shortened but also lengthened eg Jamesy, Jack-Jack ... these are standard along with Smithy etc.

I don’t mind it 😀

This morning I remembered the suffix STER gets used a lot for nicknames. E.g. Margaret/Magster and so on.