• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    For context: This happened in a German speaking country.

    Friend of mine thought it would be cool to have Bladesaw as a gamer tag, but he was a kid and his English wasn’t great, so he spelled “saw” with German phonetics: “Bladesau”.

    Until he was at some gaming event where he entered some competition and was called up to the stage as “Blade Sau” (Fat pig).

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    7 days ago

    As a child, I loved the x files. I wanted a cool name for AOL. Thought I was clever picking the character Deep Throat, I was so cool. Didn’t realize till later what it also meant.

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        7 days ago

        I think the context makes it clear I was going for “this guy is interested in little boys which is gay”, not “gay people are interested in little boys”

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    8 days ago

    My friend had an AOL name ending in “420”. My mother asked me about this person. I had no idea why she was so curious about his birthday.

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      Years ago I was reviewing resumes with my boss. He handed me one and asked for my input.

      The email address ended in 420. I told my boss that either they and Hitler had something in common or they probably won’t pass a drug test. My boss asked for an explanation and I pointed out the email to him. He just took the resume and binned it.

      So yeah, don’t put 420 in your email even if you share a birthday with Hitler.