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[helmacon]

I think you might be reading into it a bit. Some people (me included) just look at other people when they pass. It's nothing creepy, but if I am in a public environment I have the right to take note of who I am sharing that environment with. Most people don't even notice. Usually they are just looking at the ground or phones or friends, but if someone does look back at me, I nod at them. It's just a courtesy, and less creepy than just staring back or looking away without acknowledging them. Maybe you both just happen to be people who look around?

[Arx]

Someone I know called one of her friends Shaun for something like two years. His name is Dirk.

[itisnotlogical]

I only tend to get names down on the third or fourth time I meet somebody. I'm not a very social person in meatspace so I guess I don't spend a lot of brain time on things like that.

I forget my own name and face with startling frequency though so maybe I'm just kinda dumb.

[i2amroy]

I know a guy who greets me every time we pass by a slightly wrong name. Like, just two letters off. It's always at a time when it would be awkward for me to correct him :v

Honestly the rule for these things is that it's always going to be awkward, and it's only going to get more awkward the longer you wait. Things like correcting people on your name (or asking people to remind you of their's) is like ripping off a band-aid; you just need to grit your teeth and do it, at which point the problem will be resolved. Just tell the person what your name actually is, and then tell them that it's partially your fault too for not catching the mistake earlier or something similar to help distribute the blame and go on with your life in a decidedly less awkward way.

[TempAcc]

I call people using slightly wrong names all the time to see if they go through the pain of correcting me or end up adopting the nicknames I put on them. Then I keep doing it, regardless of what happens.

I love people.

[i2amroy]

I call people using slightly wrong names all the time to see if they go through the pain of correcting me or end up adopting the nicknames I put on them. Then I keep doing it, regardless of what happens.

I love people.

I had a friend who did that and it was pretty funny; at least until people started ignoring him until he called them by the right name (which was funny for me, not so funny for him ).

[helmacon]

I call people using slightly wrong names all the time to see if they go through the pain of correcting me or end up adopting the nicknames I put on them. Then I keep doing it, regardless of what happens.

I love people.

I had a friend who did that and it was pretty funny; at least until people started ignoring him until he called them by the right name (which was funny for me, not so funny for him ).

Time for a small WTF story.

10th grade, latin class. I was sitting there minding my own business just working on some stuff when this guy I was kinda friends* with stood up and walked over to me. He stood there watching me work for a second, and then he declared "From now on, i'm gonna call you Spanky."

I looked up at him and calmly said "Please dont"
"Naw, it's gonna be a thing now. Your Spanky."
I told him it would never be a thing, it would never catch on, I would just ignore him until he used my correct name.

I underestimated his commitment to this. He started spreading it among the student body, and everyone started calling me that.
I figured, so what? It's just a thing, it'll be gone in a month or so. I'll just keep ignoring it.

By the end of my senior year, half my teachers were calling me Spanky.

*see, frenemies. nope, looked it up. Frenemies seems to imply backstabbing or double timing. We both genuinely liked each other at times, we were just constantly dicks to each other and hated the others guts. Pretty up front about it.

Edit: For reference, this same class and kid produced this video during that year, featuring the latin teachers intro for his video instruction.

[hector13]

10th grade, latin class.

[Helgoland]

Hey, I had Latin for a pretty long time too. It's a thing in some places.

[Dunamisdeos]

10th grade, latin class.

They offered this at my high school.

[Eric Blank]

We literally only had Spanish.

It was a small town school, though.

[pisskop]

Spaniah and Italian and, more often nowadays, Chinese are common here.

latin at better Schools or towns.

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hey, you guys ever think about keeping a journal forlater reading?

ive done so a few times in my life, thank the Freudian psychiatrist for forcing young pkop to keep a dream journal.

but i havent done so in years.  amazing the dumb crap you obsess over in daytoday life

[TempAcc]

Dahir Insaat is still a thing.

[Neonivek]

Dahir Insaat is still a thing.

Dahir Insaac don't care a CRUD! about any War crimes.

[helmacon]

It always get's me how there are these russian defenders in the comments of all videos like that, and they just spout anti-american bs, play the victim card whenever anyone disagrees with them, and generally do the worst job of representing thier argument.

Feels like a paid supporter thing...