Nicknames

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There was a lad I knew called Slippers because apparently he had sex with a girl once whilst still wearing his slippers.

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Trigger, or Trig among my close friends.

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If you’d known two people who’d done the same thing then abandon reply

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I heard of a guy who’s nickname was ‘Bingo’ because every week when his Mrs went to bingo he used to rent a porno video from the video shop. This was some years ago.

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Nicknames are… bad names

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Ah this is the stuff we’re after. Wonderful.

I actually thought about starting this thread some months ago because I remembered a classic of the genre amongst my mates but now I’ve forgotten it and can’t remember what it is.

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alright DeMarco Shitgate

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that’s not very nice

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Wasn’t he in The Polyphonic Spree?

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Mine have generally been variations on my name. Nothing exciting.

Memorable ones from school:

Slug - looked like that kid from that advert who said ‘I wanna be a slug’. Still in use today.

Ched - his name was Chad and he had a massive head.

Facial Features - kid who never smiled at anything.

Brailler - kid who pretended to be blind when we had a supply teacher and that a piece of old fence wire was his special braille reading tool. Think we were about 7 years old at the time.

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Big fan of nicknames that are (assumingly) longer than the person’s actual name

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Yeah, feels like it’s really been earned then.

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^this, when addressing Mrs CCB’s parents. Still feels really weird calling them by name, for some reason.

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Just call him Daddy-O

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I never had a nickname myself, but one of my friends is known as ‘lofty’, not because he is tall (which he is), but because he was off school for a week with concussion after the loft hatch fell open onto his head one morning.

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And Mumsie

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I feel bad for this one, but at scouts there was a guy who was terrible at sports, surnamed Goodwin. After a game where he did terribly, I shouted “cheer up, Badlose” and it stuck. he’s still called that, or the shortened version “Baddie”, to this day.

My nickname at school was inexplicably “Beeldz”.

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Used to teach loads of Thai students, who all go by a nickname. Thai people have a long grand formal name (sometimes given by a Buddhist monk), and an unrelated nickname for everyday use that their parents pick.

Lots of them are just the Thai names of different animals, birds or plants, but loads of English ones mixed in too. Also lots of people named Bum (dimples) or Poo (crab) who hurriedly have to come up with a new name for English.

Ones I have met:
Golf (“just because my dad likes golf”)
Best (“does that mean something different in Thai?” “No, it’s Best as in English Best”)
Pinky
Pancake
Game
Joke

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Have to do this on a weekly basis. Have the explanation of my nickname down to a fine art but I still hate explaining it and the “everyone calls me this” bit.

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