Let’s make it popular among the cis folk to change names from time to time cos it’s metal as fuck.
*Especially* if you were born in the 1900s.
“Who… who are you?!”
“I have had many names, over millennia…”
Jaddy mag das.
teilten dies erneut
⇧
Vaneshi
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Emily 'Feeds Spiders' Velasco
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Bill, I saw an old Facebook post from you and people were calling you Jim. Did you used to be called Jim?
Yeah.
So you changed your name to Bill?
Well, actually first I changed it to Mike, then to Bill.
Jim, then Allen, but you're Bill now.
Yeah.
Okay.
Tim Chase
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •craignicol
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •四
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •*laughs* I 110% support the right for everyone to rename themselves (within reason, don’t want racist names or dictator names) with ease.
But I do not have the faintest what I’d change it to:) I groan every time a game wants me to enter a name. :)
Sean Kleefeld
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •David Byrne told us years ago...
"Transmit the message to the receiver
Hope for an answer some day
I got three passports, a couple of visas
You don't even know my real name"
youtube.com/watch?v=jLwZvg46jm…
- YouTube
www.youtube.comSpooky Roknrol
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •@stevewfolds
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •discattes used laptop emporium
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •*explaining to my old IRC crew*
"its me! no yeah I'm not an anime cat anymore, im a pink diskette"
Curious Magpie
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •MacCruiskeen
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Sam Kington
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •I want people who get married to think of a new name that’s theirs. Like, if John Smith and Andrea Burnett get married, maybe they decide that they’re now John Smurf Smith and Andrea Smurf Burnett, and their children will be e.g. Noah Smurf and Olivia Smurf.
Schools worrying “wait, are you obviously a parent of this child?” can be reassured because you share a name. People wondering “what happened to this person I used to know?” are also reassured, because surnames don’t change.
Simply Simon
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Spooky Owlbear 🎃🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •I have gone by many names over the millennia. Some know me as Kevin. Others, as Beryllium.
But the name that abides ...
is ...
The Dude.
James
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Jaymi Elford (she/her)
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Momo
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Nanoraptor
Als Antwort auf Momo • • •@momo Now that's neat! I've known a couple other folk where the guy's done that.
Did you get any odd pushback from anyone else, or weird presumptions from government departments/docs/official Stuff?
Momo
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •I mean my birthname was used back in school to give me a nickname that could be read as a sloppy penis which I didn't want my potentially kids having to go through. I got a few comments from my more traditional colleagues about it and my grandma mentioned at the wedding that if my grandpa was still alive, he would be devastated.
Ah and the registrar before the wedding asked me at least 5 times if I'm absolutely sure, that this is what I wanted, until I ask her if she's also doing this with the women who take over their future husbands surname. Then she mumbled something about them prussians but I guess that is what you get when you have your wedding in bavaria. 😅
DerPumu (he/him)
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Steve in Ventura
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Daniel Brahneborg, PhD 🇸🇪
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Martin Rundkvist
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Half-Sunk Shattered Visage
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •It's not all that rare. In the UK it used to be normal that your name was whatever you chose to be known by, but this has been complicated in recent years by banks and airlines (amongst others) starting to insist on your name being whatever your parents put on your birth certificate.
We knew one woman who completely changed her name every couple of years, along with her exotic hats. The names got increasingly complicated and difficult to pronounce, though she is admittedly a bit of an outlier.
dan 💾
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •David McMullin
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Off topic, but curious:
“1900s”? Are people saying that now? To me, born in that century, 1900s always meant the first decade of it, 1900-1909.
But 1600s or 1700s mean the whole century. 1800s is something I don’t hear that much. I suppose it could mean the whole century, but I don’t think you’d say it if you’re talking about the 1860s or later. Is there a rule for this kind of thing?
Leela Torres 😷
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Alaric Snell-Pym
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Miakoda
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Funny, he still wouldn't call me my name, but at least I could simply refuse to respond. lol
Miakoda
Als Antwort auf Miakoda • • •"Ok, if I hear you call me, I will"
"You didn't hear me right behind you?"
"I don't know who the fuck [old name] is. 🤷♀️️ Do they even work here? I'm Miakoda. *taps badge*"
Miakoda
Als Antwort auf Miakoda • • •Same work place, I had a coworker who insisted my name isn't feminie enough, and kept shortening it wrong to a form he felt was more feminie.
"Not feminine enough? The fuck you want me to be called?! Flower McVagidamsel?!"
lol Yes, that is indeed what I said to him.
I'm not sure why that place had such an issue with my name. It's not a weird name or anything.
Nanoraptor
Als Antwort auf Miakoda • • •Nanoraptor
Als Antwort auf Miakoda • • •@hellomiakoda you just reminded me of someone who went by an internet nickname I heard of decades back - she was Flash everywhere. And was told she could not use anything but her legal name.
So she changed it to Flash.
This is the kind of thing more of must happen. I’m glad you did too :D
Adara Astin
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •I am in this post, I am 100% in this post.
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AspiringLuddite
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Some call me ... Tim.
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MarjorieR
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •Willow (she/her)
Als Antwort auf Nanoraptor • • •yes! I'm cis and changed my name earlier this year. In part inspired by my trans son and friends picking their own names and being their authentic selves.
I've long said everyone should get at least one free name change.