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I’m Romanian and I recently came across the definition of bangmaid which fits me perfectly, so that’s how my username came to be.

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[–] shplane@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

“Mario Twins” I think it was called. A silly flash video by Group X from the early days of the internet

[–] sailormoon@lemmy.world 4 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 minutes ago
[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Two nicknames I got when growing up.

One was because I used to carry my granddad's Zippo lighter and fidget with the opening and closing mechanism.

The other I can't reveal without doxxing myself and it is NSFW.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 33 minutes ago

I'm kinda fat and bog is my nickname

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

I misspelled specific ocean.

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

When I was a young warthog, I needed my first username. I thought to myself "what's cool, that I can base my name on?" "Gansters are cool!" "How about Al Capone? He's cool. He is even a good person. He invented milk expiration dates or something like that." "But I can't just have that name, I have to make it cooler. I'll write it using l337 speak."

Thus, my username "alkpwn" (plus some numbers because it was taken on Xbox live) was born.

Quickly, I realized people didn't always understand it. They would have trouble pronouncing it when they saw it in halo 2. From "Al capn" to "Alk pawn", I got all sorts of pronunciations.

My friends ended up just shortening it to Alk. And here we are.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 points 32 minutes ago
[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

Asphalt ploughman. I love wandering around city streets. Night and day.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 54 minutes ago

I play games, was 7 at the time so wanted to seem grown-up, and my first name is Harry.... Yeah, creative I know

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I'm basically ADHD in a meth pipe. And no, I don't do drugs.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago

Mine started as a gamer tag. I wanted something that sounded cute and unassuming, it was fun to see scrolling text announcements like "Ninja_AssassinX was killed by Coco Puff's rail gun".

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

A character in a short story about superheroes I wrote in high school

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Medic = paramedic

Pig = typical male

Baby saver = I've delivered 2 babies and helped my team save a 9 month old from drowning.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

The movie Old by M Night Shyamalan. That characters name was just so funny.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] snake@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

First time I notice PgUp/PgDn are at the wrong place. The Simpsons dropped the ball on this one.

[–] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

WE MUST FEED!!!

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I really liked Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Well I'm sorry, that doesn't sound very fulfilling

[–] romanianbangmaid@reddthat.com 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It’s great actually. It’s exactly what I was looking for. I love it.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

oh, alright then

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 2 hours ago

Well, I am my own inspiration I suppose.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I had no idea... literally... in Swahili.

[–] Dunbar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Skip to the 1:00 mark. My buddy and I sold weed in high school, and we also loved this movie, so we called each other Santiago and Dunbar.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

The first two spoken words in this awesome Amiga game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tQHKbCxnGQ

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I grew up with the OG winamp and was trying to dissociate with the handle that I've been using across the web for 25 years, so...

[–] Sudomeapizza@lemm.ee 6 points 4 hours ago

Give me pizza or else

[–] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Just felt cute

[–] MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago
[–] TorJansen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I am a big fan of the game Prey, and mixed it up with pokemon :-)

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'm an annoying vegan. Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour, earthling ed?

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