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I don't mean my username! Yours!

I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking 'guess' or saying ':)' or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person's username?

Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone's name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people's weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.

Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?

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[โ€“] sup@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] Communist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mine's insanely on the nose... i'm not very creative.

[โ€“] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Mine is too. I completely understand.

[โ€“] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Creativity is not equally distrubuted in your regime. Does not seem very communist to me.

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[โ€“] Annies_Boobs@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Some may get mine others may think Iโ€™m a weirdo.

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[โ€“] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would be extremely surprised.

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

a man should clean himself

[โ€“] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Kobayashi's long last brother?

[โ€“] ColonelPanic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the nerds on here will probably get it quickly ;)

[โ€“] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Faulty operating system with an army?

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[โ€“] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mine should be rather apparent. I lack creativity.

[โ€“] Theroddd@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Gotta have those calcium programms

[โ€“] arbiter@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Steve@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

My username means, I am Steve.

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[โ€“] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Two small hints for mine: 1. Latin, and 2. it has nothing to do with the smoking chimp avatar.

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is literally no mystery to my username.

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, if someone doesn't know what didactic is, it is a mystery! It's a big word! Which that someone would be me. I feel like it's in the back of my brain but I've forgotten off the top of my head.

[โ€“] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yay, time to explain! You may be familiar with the term autodidact, someone who crafts their own curriculum and teaches themselves subjects without relying on the guidance of other humans.

So, didactic means to be used for instruction, to teach.

I can interpret my name in two ways I think. First, is that I am an instructive dumbass; my incompetance and consistent foolishness provides lessons, learning from my mistakea. Second, I am a teacher who is also a dumbass.

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a fun one! Plus having alliteration makes it more fun.

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[โ€“] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well now my username just feels boring haha

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

a small russet potato! and 08, would be a bit young if it was when you were born, so when you graduated school? Could just be a number of course

[โ€“] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It just means there are 7 other russjr's on here.

Kinda weird.

[โ€“] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh god, I don't know how I'd be able to compete with the others!

[โ€“] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Thunderdome rules: 8 russjr's enter, 1 russjr leaves

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