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.

I think most people ignore the 'D' and just see it as an abbreviation for son/daughter/husband/etc. I always imagined the 'D' to be tongue-in-cheek anyway.

I saw on one thread that you could change it to BH (bastard husband) which made me chuckle. I have to admit that I do use them but only because I kind of thought it was what one did on MN.....

On the plus side, all this talk of names has made me realise that herbietea is herbie tea. In my head it was pronounced her-bee-ett-ee-a.

(Honestly, I can read).

How silly of you In-ert-ee-ah

YABU.

I'm fine with dd, ds, dh too.

One of the things I liked about MN was that, thanks to namechanging and there not being those "novice", "intermediate", "expert" type tags alongside everyone's name on each of their posts, it wasn't immediately apparent who was new and who was top dog. Likewise you don't have the "Started by" bit under each thread title so everyone has an equal chance of their thread being opened.

Grovel... I read your post and i likeee your name

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Getting sniffy about names just isn't in that same spirit imo.

I do not really look at peoples names just the title the only two I remember of the top of my head is xenia because she has a very strange opinion about some things like ''its her way or the highway''
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and fabbychic cause she makes me laugh.

I could not name one other person on here.

MissPenteuth - I know. I'd blush, but I can't even do that on the phone due to inadequate brackettage.

I have been tested and found wanting on this thread (looks shamed via the medium of unsuitable brackets)

Not "hunnish" at all, youngwoman.

I think we're too hung up on hunnery though, really I do.

What - only skim over the NEW MNetters with bland names!! Surely that's newbie-ist!!! Raspberries to you!!

164 posts and no-one has mentioned the importance of capitalism.

disloyalists

I've nothing much to say to the oldbies/newbies thing, but I've sometimes wondered about the name porcamiseria - wouldn't that translate as Pork of Misery?

Is that kind of like the opposite of Nice Ham?

Chaos I wanted to but thought I might get flamed for being too pedantic.

OTH, I did actually laugh out loud at that. (Still refuse to write LOL though....)

I am a capitalist convert Chaos - I started out as rustybear, but when I reverted after the whole Attila thing, I became RustyBear - my iPad now puts in the capitals automatically, so it's no extra bother...

Ha ha Chaos. I thought you wanted a political debate on the merits of the free market.

OTheHugeRaveningWolef

its an italian swearword! it does mean miserable pig but as I love it so much...... my other fave is porcaputtana, pig whore!

Oh no I like all lower case despite being Queen Pedantry.

It may be something to do with lack of assertiveness

My next name will be ALL IN CAPS and no-one will mess with me.

porca So we have Misery Ham and Slutty Ham? Can I buy those in Waitrose? I quite fancy some Slutty Ham

OTH I have the biggest girl crush on you right now. :o

idolikecapitalsasitsmuchhardertoreadthenamewithoutthem.

Karlmarxthespot is officially my new favourite name EVER