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Quote:I need to make sure people are willing to stop calling me Jdub before picking a new username. People can vote or recommend other usernames until the regular season is over.



But Jdub does have to be retired if I change my username, even if you don't create a new nickname to replace it. Without the letter W in my username, there would be no reason to keep calling me Jdub because it is based on that. You don't need a handbook to figure that out.

But Jdub, what if I keep calling you Jdub even after you change your name?

Quote:That may be true, but does not mean what people do is right. Unfortunately people think what they should do is irrelevant if no written rules exist. I have no problemn with a nickname sticking forever if I like it and it makes sense even after something changes. But Jdub would not make any sense after a change is made, so people are wrong to think they should keep calling me that. If people keep calling me Jdub, it is only to maintain the status quo for their benefit because we are creatures of habit. People need to think about this: Are they calling me Jdub because they want to or because I respond positively to it?

Neither of your questions will give you the right answer.

Quote:But Jdub, what if I keep calling you Jdub even after you change your name?

 

Why would you keep calling me Jdub if I change my username? I already explained very clearly multiple times why doing so would be idiotic.

Quote:Why would you keep calling me Jdub if I change my username? I already explained very clearly multiple times why doing so would be idiotic.

You really don't grasp how the whole nickname thing works, do you? You don't get to pick your own nickname...they happen organically.

Quote:You really don't grasp how the whole nickname thing works, do you? You don't get to pick your own nickname...they happen organically.

 

What I can't grasp is the idea that nicknames can't die when they lose their meaning. If everyone called me Cat Lady and I got a dog when my cat died, would you not change it to Dog Lady since I no longer have a cat? (Just hypthetical, that's never going to happen.)

Quote:What I can't grasp is the idea that nicknames can't die when they lose their meaning. If everyone called me Cat Lady and I got a dog when my cat died, would you not change it to Dog Lady since I no longer have a cat? (Just hypthetical, that's never going to happen.)

Nicknames start out with a reason, but then it just becomes you. What you are talking about is descriptions, not nicknames.


I call my niece Pumpkin because when she was a little girl her favorite toy was a stuffed pumpkin...had it for several years, couldn't sleep without it. She's now a grown woman and hasn't has that toy in forever...should I stop calling her pumpkin because it doesn't "fit" anymore?

Quote:Nicknames start out with a reason, but then it just becomes you. What you are talking about is descriptions, not nicknames.


I call my niece Pumpkin because when she was a little girl her favorite toy was a stuffed pumpkin...had it for several years, couldn't sleep without it. She's now a grown woman and hasn't has that toy in forever...should I stop calling her pumpkin because it doesn't "fit" anymore?

 

If she remembers that toy and how important it was to her, of course not. But it would mean nothing to her if she was under five years old back then.

BTW I am not arguing nicknames are bad. Sometime years ago I started calling my cat Patricia Pattycakes (as in pattycake pattycake baker's man) because she has a sweet purrsonality. She responds to both names. But she likes it and is still a sweet cat, so it is not the same as calling me Jdub if my username is Teal Cats or Buckeye Jaguar. 

Quote:If she remembers that toy and how important it was to her, of course not. But it would mean nothing to her if she was under five years old back then.

It means something to her because that's what I call her, not because of a toy that she may or may not remember.

Quote:BTW I am not arguing nicknames are bad. Sometime years ago I started calling my cat Patricia Pattycakes (as in pattycake pattycake baker's man) because she has a sweet purrsonality. She responds to both names. But she likes it and is still a sweet cat, so it is not the same as calling me Jdub if my username is Teal Cats or Buckeye Jaguar.

What is it about Jdub that you don't like? I know you've said something about it being one letter off from "dumb" but that's just silly. Lots of words are one letter away from being something else. Doesn't change the meaning of the orginal word!

Quote:What is it about Jdub that you don't like? I know you've said something about it being one letter off from "dumb" but that's just silly. Lots of words are one letter away from being something else. Doesn't change the meaning of the orginal word!

 

There is no "dub" in Woman. The letter W is pronounced double you, not just dub. So it totally takes away the word that makes my username special. The whole reason I created this username was people called me sir and male pronouns, so I lose my identity on the board when you don't use the letter W. Does that make sense?

Quote:There is no "dub" in Woman. The letter W is pronounced double you, not just dub. So it totally takes away the word that makes my username special. The whole reason I created this username was people called me sir and male pronouns, so I lose my identity on the board when you don't use the letter W. Does that make sense?

Being called Jdub does not change your username, if the woman part is special to you...it's still there. There is only a handful of posters that call you Jdub any way, and they all know you're a female. And as far as being called sir...I've got a blonde bunny as an avatar and my user name is bchbunnie and I still get called a guy by posters that don't have a clue.

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The whole reason it started was everyone called me JW. So logically if I take the W out, they have no reason to use "dub."

 

Logic lol when the hell did we start using that around here

Is this real life?



This is your winner thread. You'll never top it:


http://jungle.jaguars.com/index.php?/top...ch/page-19

Quote:Being called Jdub does not change your username, if the woman part is special to you...it's still there. There is only a handful of posters that call you Jdub any way, and they all know you're a female. And as far as being called sir...I've got a blonde bunny as an avatar and my user name is bchbunnie and I still get called a guy by posters that don't have a clue.

 

Really, I thought everybody knew you are female. Although everybody knows I am a woman now, the newbies we get every year wouldn't without the word woman in my username. When someone called me sir, my real name was in my signature. That is why I thought without the word woman, lady, or girl in my username, there will always be posters who think I am male. The "dub" does not mean female. It really does not mean anything. So to me it loses the part of my username that was the basis of creating it and, therefore, a loss of my identity. A nickname is supposed to be based on who you are, not take your identity away.

 

Think about the nicknames some NFL guys have or had. Jake the Snake, Cadillac, Slash, Pinball, Superman, Banger, A-Train, Babin the Barber, Colt KIller, Mean Joe Greene, Johnny Football, and maybe Bortles Kombat were all based on what players did during games. The Refrigerator was based on the player overeating throughout his career. Jdub has the opposite effect by removing the word woman.

Quote:Is this real life?


This is your winner thread. You'll never top it:

http://jungle.jaguars.com/index.php?/top...ch/page-19

 

I am not trying to top that one here, but if I stay signed in long enough I probably can.

Quote:Logic LOL when did we start using that around here?

 

When I registered as MarkBrunell1997 at the latest. FBT was not a moderator at the time.

Quote:Really, I thought everybody knew you are female. Although everybody knows I am a woman now, the newbies we get every year wouldn't without the word woman in my username. When someone called me sir, my real name was in my signature. That is why I thought without the word woman, lady, or girl in my username, there will always be posters who think I am male. The "dub" does not mean female. It really does not mean anything. So to me it loses the part of my username that was the basis of creating it and, therefore, a loss of my identity. A nickname is supposed to be based on who you are, not take your identity away.

 

Think about the nicknames some NFL guys have or had. Jake the Snake, Cadillac, Slash, Pinball, Superman, Banger, A-Train, Babin the Barber, Colt KIller, Mean Joe Greene, Johnny Football, and maybe Bortles Kombat were all based on what players did during games. The Refrigerator was based on the player overeating throughout his career. Jdub has the opposite effect by removing the word woman.

 

The "Fridge" nickname was based on him being as big as a refrigerator, not really because he over ate. That's how he got his nickname.

 

If all he did was over eat, they probably would have called him something else.

 

Bortles Kombat is really based on his name more then anything else, same with Jake the Snake.

 

So nicknames can come from many different things, and as we all know, sometimes they can even be negative.

 

Sometimes all you can do is embrace your nickname, but if you really hate it, you just need to learn to ignore it and just not answer or respond to it.

 

Very few get to pick their own nicknames in life or on message boards.

Quote:Really, I thought everybody knew you are female. Although everybody knows I am a woman now, the newbies we get every year wouldn't without the word woman in my username. When someone called me sir, my real name was in my signature. That is why I thought without the word woman, lady, or girl in my username, there will always be posters who think I am male. The "dub" does not mean female. It really does not mean anything. So to me it loses the part of my username that was the basis of creating it and, therefore, a loss of my identity. A nickname is supposed to be based on who you are, not take your identity away.


Think about the nicknames some NFL guys have or had. Jake the Snake, Cadillac, Slash, Pinball, Superman, Banger, A-Train, Babin the Barber, Colt KIller, Mean Joe Greene, Johnny Football, and maybe Bortles Kombat were all based on what players did during games. The Refrigerator was based on the player overeating throughout his career. Jdub has the opposite effect by removing the word woman.

I don't think you ever under think anything, but I do think you are putting a little too much thought into this... maybe it's just me, but unless I read something completely ridiculous, I don't even look who posted it... if you think people take you more or less seriously based on your gender, or even really care what your gender is in the first place, I would say you are making a mistake... at least on this boar, I would hope most people who read this board just read for content, not to see who posted what.