to think that user names should be easy to type or easy to shorten?

[MardyBra]

You know who you are...!

Oh do you now?

does it make you want to stab them in the head, face, neck and chest in a sustained and frenzied brutal attack?

bibbity. You're fine if you don't mind being shortened a bit.

The amount of funny spellings my name has attracted is, well, moderately large.

TenderlyLovinglyByAGoat is not passing the Mardy test.

YANBU.

I am referred to as Jack

I tend to shorten people's NN anyway. No bother to me how long or short they are.

I don't mind if people shorten mine either.

It's possible to shorten most things. Psammead is difficult because it's hard to see how many letter ms there are in the middle.

Not Hit then?

There is no way, I could be arsed to type out your full name Endo. However long does it take you to log in?

I tend to use the first letter of their names;

HTRJ-although I probably wouldn't recognise my name like that!

Net mums is worse with all the numbers

Wonders how many "m"s one could possibly squeeze into the middle of a word>

Now there's a good example.

Are you:
Woman
AFucking or
AFKW?

I do love the username which shortens to BDSM. I always thought it was a reference to her kinky sex-life and my image of her totally changed when I read that it was not.

Does my name pass the Mardy test?

It's BelleDameSansMerci isn't it? She has a different image when referred to as Belle.

Broom As long as you don't mind me calling you Broom.

A pas for Stranded

pass

I quite like being called broom, I don't know why

On a forum I used to use years ago, there was a poster called "Come Up Next Time"

It made interesting reading when the Moderators warned everyone not to shorten it

I like your user name Broom. It's also useful as a prompt. (Now where the hell are my tweezers...)

Mine is fine. I'm never certain about shortening names when it means you end calling the poster something unpleasant.