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Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 24 Oct 2023 (aussie.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Sometimes I deal with people with really fucking fun names

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to keep a mental list of users with incredible/dirty names when I worked on an IT helpdesk. Some absolute doozies out there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Couple decades ago a coworker almost made it all the way through a call with a mister baumhal without slipping.

Almost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I always wonder why people keep their funny names. If I was a member of Buttnutt, Assdingle, or Tittslap family I would be changing my name the instant I was 18. No way would I go through life like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Grocock…. Met 2 people with that last name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

There is a client I have to deal with named - I shit you not - Rusty Shackleford.
Every interaction i have to physically fight down the urge to scream SHASHASHA in his face

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Has he ever surprised anyone with pocket sand?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think you should be telling us their name. That’s private information.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You're right, updated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I had a teacher at school called Miss Sidebottom. I was close enough with her to ask her one day whether she got teased for her surname.

That was the day I learned that the name Sidebottom is a powerhouse in the AFL. Both her brothers played and she had other relatives in the sport also. So no, she wasn't teased at all.

I still hear the name Sidebottom around the sport, some nephew or something I assume. It always makes me think of her. She was a great teacher.