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I may have t-shirts older than OP.
Tbf, having a shirt for over 40 years and not have it completely disintegrate is pretty impressive!
But yeah, for a minor history buff, I'm TERRIBLE with dates 😂
Thank you for taking good natured ribbing... good...naturely. Cheers.
No worries lol, laughing at yourself is one of the funniest things you can do 😁
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I'm not very good at judging how long ago things were 🤷
I'm pretty sure 1990 was ten years ago.
this sounds right
It’s true. I know because I looked it up in my gut.
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One of my first handles was "Necro_File."
I just meant, like, a 404 error. A dead file.
I didn't know about necrophilia. 🤦♂️
Same. I used my school username "1831942". Later, I found out that was the date the American Nazi party was founded...
On the 83rd day of January in 1942?
18th day of March 1942
That makes a lot more sense. I dunno how I didn't see it
Yknow what. Maybe I got I trolled a decade ago lmao.
I did the exact same thing. I've been using the name for decades and recently found out about this. My initial reaction was, "Fuck them. I've had this username for years and I'm not gong to change it just for them." Unfortunately, while I know that it isn't related to them, no one else does. It sucks that they get to take possession of it like that but I prefer the inconvenience of changing usernames over the mistaken association with that shit, so I changed the ones I could and abandoned the ones I couldn't.
My randomly assigned 4 digit discriminator on Discord back when I joined was "1488". Didn't know it was a Nazi calling card until one of the members in the community I was participating in tried to get me banned over it.
Fortunately it only took a month or so with Discord support to get them to change it. I contemplated buying nitro so people wouldn't think I was a nazi lol.
I know that's not the definition being referred to, but it being called a discriminator is tragically hilarious in this case 😁
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I go by Klear these days, but originally picked King Klear as a nick, since I liked Shakespeare and Serious Sam. Obviously.
Anyway, there's someone out there taking my name on certain sites, so I use KKlear as a backup. I'm always joking that I don't know what I'd do if KKlear was taken as well...
In my country we have a chain of stores owned by the K-group, the K comes from 'Kesko'. The used to have small, medium and large stores. The small ones were one K stores, mediums were two K stores and the large ones were three K stores. I shit you not, there used to be huge lighted signs outside the large ones that read 'KKK-Supermarket'. You can find pictures of these on the internet still.
Torille!
Krusty's Komedy Klassic
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United States federal ambulance regulations got the unfortunate designation of "KKK" (edition *a, b, c, d etc). So now when I search for information for both compliance and product purchasing I have to figure out a way to enter things into a search engine that won't get them blocked at work or get me on a list I don't want to be on. Recently the term triple k has been usable but a lot of products still start with the three letters and then their model number, worse yet many have a space between the three letters and the number.
my brother's email ends in '88' because it's his fav number. he likes it because it looks like two sideways infinity symbols. he's had his email too long and it used it for too many accounts to (easily) switch to a new one. so you're not the only one lol
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I once had a meth head start a conversation with me in Clash of Clans because of my username.
Ehh, then a lot of Chinese people are nazis. We love the number 8. I've got 88's in some user names.
Also bonus cause I'm born in 1988
My city has a Chinese grocery store that's just called 88. It's considered a lucky number.
My username has absolutely nothing to do with drugs, but everyone thinks I've done crack. Never tried cocaine in any form.
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