to want to be called "samandi" not "sam" in posts

[samandi]

sam is not my name ... neither is samandi, but that's besides the point :-) but seriously, it's only seven letters, not twenty

I get warm and fuzzy when I get a "Mards".

I am SO SORRY saman

Samamd
Sandal
Sandman
Saniman

Er, OP.

Hadn't realised just how important you are!

Sorreh!

MrsK! There you are! I've missed you.

I get called Blathers all the time. Blaths too. It's never occurred to me to be annoyed by it

People call me heffa, it makes me smile because I am currently the size of a house (26 weeks pg) so I think it's quite fitting!!

I'm not wild about being abbreviated to 'Dum' (the MNetters that know me call me Spiro), but I can totally understand why people do shorten it to that.

Really not worth getting worked up about imho.

I know I've never called you Sam anyway,because I've never noticed you before this thread.

I don't like my real name being shortened in real life,but I quite like it when I see a 'Hilda' namecheck. unless it's a nasty comment

Hello Blathers, lovely to "see" you

shlurp my friends' kids call me 'auntie gin' it's LOVELY.

MrsK - I changed for two reasons. One, I couldn't be bothered to keep typing out BecauseImWorthIt all the time and two, there was an utterly twattish poster who used the posting name BecauseImPerfect, and I kept thinking "Surely I didn't post that? Was I pissed?", and I really, really, really didn't want people to think that I was him/her!

And BIWI was what people were using. I'd also started to think of myself as BIWI. [must get a life emoticon]

Much easier, and actually much more unique.

YABU - and you bloody well know it

I like being called Feegle, but don't even mind when I'm addressed as Feeble, or Freegal, etc.

Have a Kalms and chill OP.

YABU.

I get called Meerkat. I would prefer Merkin.

I got therapy though, now things are looking up. I'm ok with Meerkat. Still get ruffled at being called Meercat though. That's NOT my name. Anyway, I found the therapist on Google. You should give him a call. I feel he could really help you.

I am often called Flibberty.

Today I have been called Flib

Should I hold out for Bert?

When I was TrillianAstra I liked it when people shortened me to Trills - it felt friendly.

BIWI is "beewee" if you meet her in RL :o

glad you dont mind mrs d - mrsdevere as thats what i call you on the returned :)

Waves at Tr

On the rare occasion that anyone notices me, I'm usually addressed as tinier, but someone did call me Clanger once. It felt funny but nice, like having a proper nickname.

well I get shortened to step, which makes me laugh, because it means something quite different

but most people don't notice and don't care which is fine because it just amuses me

ha ha - that should be but maybe is more appropriate!

A bit like Trills, I shortened mine to Fenton from OhChristFENTON as mostly people called me that anyway.

I only just recently 'got' MrsDeVere when I watched Little Britain for the first time.

I will never be able to see that name again without thinking of that character.

Calling me gibber makes sense.
The rest isn't actually my name.

I like gib though it makes me feel loved needy and --ignored

Having said all that, it's rare anyone says my name

Maybe because I come across as crap at posting. I wonder why

Presumably it's not the fact that people shorten her nn that the OP is bothered by, but the fact that her nn means "Sam and I", therefore Sam is someone else, not her? Like if your nn was "ZacsMummy" and people called you Zac, it'd feel a bit weird because Zac is your son's name, not yours.

You could change your name to MeandSam OP. Although then people would probably shorten it to Mean, which would possibly be worse

Oh yes, Trills. Anything else would just be wrong!

I get Eve, LtEve, Lt, LED and LtEveDallas. I don't mind any of them :)

I don't particularly like Dallas, as it's a surname and so it feels kinda rude - but the only people I've noticed doing it have been actively trying to be rude to me, so that's OK