to skim over posts by NEW MNers with bland names?

[MardyBra]

Names like Gemma82 or yummymummy1.

There's so much choice. Obviously I'm a sucker for a bad pun. But I love the variety of names on here - great song lyrics, obscure references that I feel compelled to go off and google (and never google again in the case of dragon butter), bizarre word combinations and so on.

There are some notable exceptions but normally I make an assumption that if a poster can't think of an interesting name then they won't have anything interesting to say.

Yes I like jj's name too. You lot are not being bland enough.

(reminds me of that Goodness Gracious me sketch).

Well my real name isn't Susanne.Susanne is a character from abook I really enjoyed :)

Pan isn't my real name either. Just 'fessing up.

i'm not really karl marx. hope that's ok

is my name fluffy enough to be in the shit and fluffy section? I got told my head looked like a my little pony when I dyed it

my RL name is Arsey though

Ah now that would be telling, Mardy!

at all of you using names that are not your own.

I am, of course, really a three-inch high knitted teddy bear....

I really am a vernicious knid.

So I would advise you all to be very, very nice to me.

I am really I

Mine doesn't even mean anything. I just like the sound. And it seems to fit in rather often with the vibe of AIBU...unintentionally chosen, promise

Gemma is very 80s, yes!

I'm rereading that one at the moment, Susanne , she's a great character.

Mine's from my first Dungeons & Dragons character but I want to find something more interesting.

My nn is not my rl name, merely my favourite film baddie. I am nowhere near as despicable as he is.

I really am a girl.
Boring but cba to change now

anyone describing themselves as a yummymummy i would roll my eyes at but they might have something to say that is interesting

I combined 2 friends' names; similar to mine. Fluffy & girlie..hahaha yes.

I also like the large number of Jilly Cooper referenced names out there. I wanted to be MrsCampbellBlack but someone had taken it

I can handle mummy but mummie makes me grit my teeth - TOO cutesy. Although Mummiehunnie's posts aren't cutesy at all.

Does mine pass the Mardy test? Purely out of selfinterest.

I wish I it could be more interesting but inspiration always fails me on the name change page.

. my name says it all!

I am Spartacus

If you have a sexy username it looks wrong on a bereavement thread. If you have a wet sounding, nursery school cutesy name it looks wrong on a sex thread. If you have an angry name it sounds wrong on a bland thread. If you identify with one image it looks wrong on the wrong thread.

So hooray for bland usernames! I used to use a silly name on an American website, it was a phrase about breasts I read in a book, I thought I was being literary and clever, but I got massive amounts of female posters hating me on sight because they thought I must be well endowed in the breast area and was showing off about it. And the male posters got all slathery at the mouth. Beats me how anyone can get breast-obsessed in a print medium, but seemingly the Yanks could, they seemed to have an udder fixation. Yucccch. It taught me a lot. Like, only ever use bland meaningless usernames. One size fits all. My name wouldn't look out of place on a bereavement or a sex thread. So there.

You're all fine.

I must go and do some work.

Flame me if I come back in the next two hours.