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[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t think they’d care.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish I could be so lucky.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

https://www.usa.gov/name-change

Assuming you're American, based on your username and instance. Hope that helps.

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd imagine that mine would end up like royal names, I'm the weirdest cunt, my child would be the 2nd weirdest cunt and so on

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, they don't hate me, but they do get tired of French people sounding out our shared username and then making jokes about it.

[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude, you misspelled your name it should be: "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🫡 * in a very arrogant French accent*

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Le plus drôle c'est que je parle français. Très amusant, n'est-ce pas?

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh, and Talking Heads fans calling them "psycho killer."

[–] stardustsystem@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

They'd better Run run run run run run awaayyyyyyy

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[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Less than I hate the urologist who was supposed to prevent this.

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[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

My cats will be fine with it.

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[–] gigachad@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They would probably find it pretty cringe

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Think about it though. In like 100 years, the irony will wear off, and you'll have Millers, Carpenters, Smiths, and fucking Gigachads. It'd work, it just might take awhile.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey you kids, get off my WLAN!

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

You changed your name to latrine?

It used to be shithouse.

Good change!

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Moderately irritated by having to explain "it's literally j j j all js like the word all J's but not this part" all the time

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

With normal letters or forever with the goofy ones? 🤔

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Definitely goofy.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

They'll have to type out the unicode galaxy on every form.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago

It's reasonably acceptable I guess, what people would hate me for is making jokes about getting a gnu name...

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My kid would genuinely love it, it's right up his alley in terms of humor. My sense of humor is generally quite a bit darker, but I thought of it and it made me chuckle so I used it.

I just asked him what he thought of the username pooptart and he started giggling and went on an ADHD fueled set of concepts that ended with "what if you pooped a car?" But by then my own ADHD was only barely listening.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The name's P00ptart...

JAMES P00ptart.

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[–] Zathras@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

"No, that was not Zathras, that was Zathras. There are 10 of us, all of family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you pronounce. Zathràs, Zathrás, Zathrâs.. You are seeing now?"

Babylon 5

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could go either way: Good sense of humor but it could still be a problem when it comes to being professional.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 1 week ago

Imagine getting terrible medical news from a Dr. Fartswithanaccent.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's literally "TheSloth", so I think we'll all be OK.

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

literally using my surname as my username RN

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't have kids, but I imagine they'd be pissed to have to write out such a long name: Jennifer Grasshopper_Mouse? That shit would go aaaaall the way across the page.

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[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I get lots of compliments on my username. Came up with it in the 90s and I feel like it aged well.

[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It is the word for little bat in my language, so I'm good.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 1 week ago

Ahhhhhhh, they won't know any difference.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're going to be elated, hysterical, I'd even say!

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[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is basically what happened in the Netherlands in the past.

I once met a woman whose family name was Boschpijper. Bosch means bush and pijper means dicksucker.

Those nicknames were kind of a joke, but then they followed in official records, but nobody cared. Then, after some generations of them having been written down, they were suddenly something important. And now the family of Boschpijpers have carried their name with pride for several centuries.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

The prophecy will come true and they'll die in the next Great Depression, aka, the "Big Sad", so yes they'll hate me. Or maybe if they like dark humor / are nihilist, they'll quite enjoy the username because at least the death would be a "username checks out" moment.

[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Could be worse I guess, right /u/SatansMaggotyCumFart

[–] ShyFae@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

She would love it

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Having the name "to melt" in their native language is not the worst

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

They wonder whether I shagged a devil or one of my ancestors did

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Mediocre audio sound quality compared to better codecs out there, but works on almost anything and the patents are expired.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Well, I'm gonna have to brush up on my Metroid lore.

[–] cryptTurtle@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

hopefully they like dead things

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

they're the ones who have killed me.

[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

I've used this name in public as a new identity. I think once my kids know i used it as a form of self identity, they'd either partially adopt it or choose their own name as well.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Probably a bit weird, but it could have been much worse

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

They're cool with it.

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