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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Other General Discussion => Topic started by: beatroot on January 02, 2018, 04:24:13 pm
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Like the title says, how did you get your username in the first place? Keen to hear all your stories 8)
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Like the title says, how did you get your username in the first place? Keen to hear all your stories 8)
Previous username: was part of my old school email back in HK
Current username: My name and b-day :)
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My name. :o
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fantasticbeasts was the first thing that came to me, and the 3 is part of my birth date :-)
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Katie -nickname mainly used by family (especially my little brother) and some friends.
Rinos-My last name. :)
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I had a former username, but then I changed it cause I was getting random messages (some nasty) from a former forum :P
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zsteve and heidi discovered that I was insane :o
Also my previous one was used on my year 12 jacket 8)
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My name is Caleb.
I like dogs.
Dogs bark.
Calebark.
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I mean, I've seen heaps of forums and used at least two prior to coming on here. And I played a lot of games before. But by then I just hated all of those names so I thought "hm, what could I use on this forum". Especially given that HPL was on here.
Was scrolling through a few pages whilst thinking about this and saw that the OG 3 had just used their own names. However like 70%+ of the user database I read jakesilove as "Jake is love" the first time so I didn't think about my surname and just grabbed my first name. I felt relatively comfortable doing so more or less because the community was pretty friendly even at the start.
And well, Ace mostly comes out of the fact that somehow, the ace of spades just happens to be my favourite solitaire card (how cliche). But it sounded cool as well, because in one of the games I played, the Lvl 65 PvP set was called the "Sky Ace" set or something.
I always planned to incorporate "ace" into any future gamer names I had. But the forum beat the games to it.
P.S. This doesn't work one way Bea. You need to mention your's
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My name. :o
is not Joseph.
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Probably one of the best scenes out of Bones - clears up one of the strangest usernames on here hopefully! 8)
Watch the magic here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0M2t77CV61A
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hmm kinda took it because I thought it would've already been taken LOL
lowkey-highkey not a great fan of my username but missed the boat for changes :(
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Usually all my usernames have something to do with cookies, particularly because I have a strange obsession with cookies and cream ice cream. I couldn't just have cookie as my username, so I decided to add something aesthetic to it...leading to cookiedream! ;D
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I am one of Scout Jean Louise Finch's biggest fans. Could anyone tell? ;D
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Probably one of the best scenes out of Bones - clears up one of the strangest usernames on here hopefully! 8)
Watch the magic here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0M2t77CV61A
I remember this scene! Just never made the connection :P
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OMG this is the thread for me.
SO, at a school camp in Year 8, we were making scones, (see my username and picture). We were getting all the ingredients ready to mix in a big bowl. I was in charge of putting the salt in. It said we needed x TEASPOONS of salt, but I had a mind blank it and put in x CUPS; which resulted in possibly the worst disaster in culinary history.
After that, people call me Sconey.
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Back in late primary school, my best friend and I wanted to something verrrrry nerdy together, (surprisingly it was to do with physics) but we needed a username for it.
My username comes from combining my best friend and I's name (blason) and we just slapped the "duo" part at the end to make it totally original!
I kept it as I loved how it looked character-wise, it seems so neat and tidy in my opinion.
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It's a coincidence that occurs whenever you play any game involving swords. Let me ask you a question.
What happens when a sword kills?
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Mine's a reference to one of my favourite songs from my favourite band called 'Addict With A Pen', which is so emotional and deep I love it. I just made it more school related and because I'm relatively a nerd in my school, I thought I was an 'Addict With a Textbook'. My friends also mock me that I'm actually a calculator and I hand out calculators for free? And that my favourite novel is a methods textbook? ???
I think sounds pretty corny but hey, I love the AN community and I know they don't judge. :P
EDIT:
One of my favourite bands as well! ;D
Yes, Jess!!! :) <3
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Mine's a reference to one of my favourite songs from my favourite band called 'Addict With A Pen', which is so emotional and deep I love it. I just made it more school related and because I'm relatively a nerd in my school, I thought I was an 'Addict With a Textbook'. My friends also mock me that I'm actually a calculator and I hand out calculators for free? And that my favourite novel is a methods textbook? ???
I think sounds pretty corny but hey, I love the AN community and I know they don't judge. :P
One of my favourite bands as well! ;D
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I drink a lot of coffee.
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P.S. This doesn't work one way Bea. You need to mention your's
Your wish is my command Rui :P
I used to have a different username but changed because it had parts of my last name. The name ‘beatroot’ comes from my Year 7 classmate Josh who kept calling me ‘beetle root banana’. Then my friend Ellen and I decided to call each other by food names. I called her ‘Melon’ and she called me ‘Beatroot’ (as inspired by Josh). Ever since, I’ve had the same nickname.
The name ‘beatroot’ is also a reference to my full name ‘Beatrice’ which sounds semi familiar to ‘beatroot’
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I really like snow and it's awesome, hence snowisawesome :P
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Life is totally a constant struggle.
Like I always struggle at finding out the answer to things.
Like if you punch yourself and it hurts, does that mean you're weak? or you're strong?
Think about that.
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I'm horrible at picking usernames, so i just wrote my name backwards and added the first 3 numbers that came to my head
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Origins of surname and then shortened :P
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I don’t even have a good story. I use Phoenixfire as my username for a lot of games. Phoenixfire was already taken on here, so I added an extra X rather than think of a different username.
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When I first made my account, I never dared think that I'd be posting on the forums. My initial username was literally my first and last name. I wasn't sure if I wanted my whole name out there, so I e-mailed Jamon (three times, because since I didn't get a copy of the message, I thought that it didn't send), and I gave him a bunch of name suggestions. Rodero was the chosen username, being my the first 2 letters of my first and surname. My surname is two words.
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Umm.... Don't really know? Prickles - i moved from New Zealand, and they don't have echidnas, they have hedgehogs. They are honestly the cutest little thing, we used to feed them cheese!
Prickles - spiky at first, hard on the outside, but when you get inside it's a sweet little furry cute thing.
I don't really know why I chose it actually, just did.
P.S. Can't wait to hear Brenden's
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P.S. Can't wait to hear Brenden's
He’s said why before 😂😂
Shit... How to explain this.
First I was sort of like
"Fuck, what's my name again?"
And then I was like
"Oh yeah"
So then I like, wrote in my name and stuff
And then yeah I pressed enter and BOOM. Brenden.
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It's my name... and I like snapping rulers ;)
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I created this name when I created my Twitter account and has now stuck as my personal brand. I was thinking of ideas and the thought of potato hater crossed my mind since I do hate potatoes so passionately. It is the only food I truly refuse to eat. Also, it rolled off the tounge so nicely. Since then I have been potatohater Taylor on every online platform, the differences between them being whether Potato hater was 2 words or one, and weather I added the Taylor to the end. So by luck of the draw it seems that this time I am simply potatohater
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Because my favorite online novel writing author has the nickname of "infinityHusing"so I just take the front part "infinity"and Wen is part of my given name
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I love Dr. Seuss, and when trying to think of a username for AN I was thinking about Dr Seuss, and Marvin K. Mooney just seemed to fit perfectly. shrug :P
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I just want to know where jamonwindeyer got his username from.
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@Brenden can I change my username
I dunno what I want to change, But I know I shouldn't stay the same. I dunno what I want to do.. :P
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I don't remember where my username came from. I failed literally every chemistry unit 1 & 2 sac. I dont even know what spectroscopy is.
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@Brenden can I change my username
I dunno what I want to change, But I know I shouldn't stay the same. I dunno what I want to do.. :P
Hi. View our thread regarding username changes here.
When you think of one, contact us and we'll consider your request :)
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My username is basically the first letter of my name and my surname ¯¯_(ツ)_/¯
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If I remember correctly, my then 5 year old sister named a toy rainbowsparkles and I borrowed it from her...
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Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear the crazy king :D
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i loved this game in primary school and seen as i am nearly finished school it fitted....
kinda just rolled off me fingers but..... it kinda went a bit wrong!!!
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Oh man what a story.
So, when I started uni, I was in a room filled with scary people I wanted to make friends with. One of them asked me what my name was, and before I could respond, another guy said, "it's Keith". So, I just went with it. At the time, I wanted to do a Facebook cull anyway, so I deleted my Facebook and remade it with the name Keith. From then on, people have called me Keith.
Next moment, I went to a trivia night ran by the same people. The theme was time travel, so for one round they made each question a movie poster, and you had to say what movie the poster was of, and what year the movie came out. To make it more exciting, they took a picture of my face, and put it on all the character's faces. The picture they took, though, literally looked like my face was melting. So, I then became a meme to that group of people, called "meltingkeith".
So, meltingkeith became my name for a lot of my accounts. But, when I started doing work with AN, everyone had a laugh over what my name actually was. So, eventually, they settled on the in-between - meith. So, for AN, I made my account name meltingkeith with the m and k swapped so I could get the meith in there - and became keltingmeith.
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mini:
So one of my kind of defining features for a long time was being short. On the first hike I went on as a scout my hiking pack was taller than me. One of the older scouts taller than me even when he was kneeling and I was standing. On muck up day I wore my grade 6 shirt and jacket (the company responsible for them apparently didn't realise how small grade sixes can be). I grew a lot in year 9, but people who had known me for a while still thought of me as very small and it had become part of my identity.
turtle:
Turtles are my favourite animal, and I have taken that a bit further than most. I have a plethora of books on turtles and fake turtles. I have turtle magnets, turtle candles, a turtle compass, turtle games, turtle jewelry etc. In primary school I memorised the scientific names of some of my favorites such as dermochelys coriacea (leatherback sea turtle), chelonia mydas (green sea turtle), chelodina longicollis (eastern long neck turtle).
Perhaps due to the oversized hiking pack, love for the ocean, independence and/or tendency to be overly defensive, I have also been compared to turtles on occasion.
I had also briefly considered using my pottermore username or a reference to hufflepuff but decided against this.
Edit: In consultation with admins, my username was changed in 2019 to be more recognisable for the QLD expansion. I still felt attached to my previous name of 'miniturtle' and had started to be referred to as 'mt' by some of my friends on the forum - so I decided to add 'MT' after Bri to keep that piece of my atarnotes history with me :)
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Obscure football related irony
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The first letter of my first name, and random numbers because I’m lazy and not clever/creative enough to think of something cool 😅
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If there's ever an argument between my teachers and I, it would be my immense hatred for MaQu.
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It's a secret. Like my sic poetry skills.
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(You'll never know.)
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Well I had my old account but that was my first and last name because so upon realisation that people didn't do that I changed it to my club penguin username I had 12 years ago (I've used it across the board since but it's a cute origin ahah)
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My username comes from an old game called Clash Royale that I used to play. My name in that game was PolyDeniz^2 - Deniz is my name and I chose poly as a prefix because its related to maths. The game is based around strategy, so I thought that if I used a maths related prefix I could initimidate my opponents by making them think I was mathematically intelligent. So my username for Atarnotes came from that, I chose to omit "Deniz" because I don't want people knowing my identity when I ask dumb questions on here.
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Deniz is my name ... I chose to omit "Deniz" because I don't want people knowing my identity when I ask dumb questions on here.
I don’t think it works when you tell us your name 😂
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I don’t think it works when you tell us your name 😂
Shhhhh... Just don't tell anyone. I trust you ;).
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One of my friends had the idea to make all of our squads "online names" a country then a fruit
i used to be mexican kiwi
but now i am SPANISH PEAR
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I wasn't happy with the other ideas for usernames that popped into my head, but Birb sounded meme-ish in a way and simple, so why not. :P
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but Birb sounded meme-ish
Can someone please grab @kiwiberry's attention?
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I wasn't happy with the other ideas for usernames that popped into my head, but Birb sounded meme-ish in a way and simple, so why not. :P
Can someone please grab @kiwiberry's attention?
HAHAHA i approve
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A password generator of all things.
But it serves the purpose of being memorable, unknown and has no links to my actual life :)
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Snakes be silly, my dude. Garden of Eden lying on the ground lil ropes.
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mine is boring...i want to change it :'(
but only admin can :(
i just wanted something fairly anonymous and then put the yr i was born: username2000
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Dr Seuss!!!
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Jake Silove’s Chemistry lecture in 2016 was my first intro to ATARNotes and he looks like Justin Trudeau ;D
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Jake Silove’s Chemistry lecture in 2016 was my first intro to ATARNotes and he looks like Justin Trudeau ;D
I love this story.
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Bump! Lots of new users. Sometimes I look at usernames and think, "what's the story behind that?"
Have at it. ;D
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I love cats (and other animals, but cats in this example). Cats have whiskers. 'Whisker' was already a taken username on many sites, so I resorted to whysker. Sounds weird when I think about it, so now I'm whys :)
I've thought about changing it in the past, but I guess it kinda just stuck.
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I love cats (and other animals, but cats in this example). Cats have whiskers. 'Whisker' was already a taken username on many sites, so I resorted to whysker. Sounds weird when I think about it, so now I'm whys :)
I've thought about changing it in the past, but I guess it kinda just stuck.
This is why I love this thread. Never would have picked that haha.
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Went to a random username generator and picked the first thing it spat out
What're the odds, huh? ;D
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As you can probably tell by my username, I'm a Pokemon fan :), but there's a bit more to the story. I was hooked on playing this online battle simulator around the time I made this account, and I kept having to make new accounts on the simulator because I kept forgetting the password (why the remember password feature is my bestie and I always have to reset 25 passwords every time I accidentally reset my cookies.) The usernames used to constitute of [adjective]_[pokemon name], and at the time, it was fun_jirachi, which I incidentally use for a few other things now.
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I love learning about evolution! Like evolution of humans and animals. Where did we come from and all that jazz! :)
And I also really love biology, all things biology.
Evolution+Biology=Evolio!
I smushed up the words together and got an amazing product!
;D ;D
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Oooft well mine is kinda sad I guess ahhaa. It was the day before one of my accounting sacs and I was freaking out because I had done literally no study and my motivation levels were dropping throughout the year to the point where I basically gave up on all my subjects. So I still remember the night before the sac at around 11:30pm I created this account and made a post (which I have since deleted due to embarrassment/the amount I cringed when I read it back) where I basically ranted about how I needed motivation to study and I couldn't find any.
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Mine comes from the following:
My name = Komal +
Comb +
email = mail
and there you go 8)
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I love biology (esp immunity).
Nuff said
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I love biology (esp immunity).
Nuff said
I feel super ignorant because I still don't get the reference haha.
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I feel super ignorant because I still don't get the reference haha.
This is actually sad.
Macrophages are a type of white blood cell.
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This is actually sad.
Macrophages are a type of white blood cell.
Thank you kindly.
Would you believe I didn't do Bio after Year 10?
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It's just a name variation.
I'm a less cool version of Joseph41. :'(
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It's just a name variation.
I'm a less cool version of Joseph41. :'(
J41's irl name isn't Joseph tho
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J41's irl name isn't Joseph tho
Hence being less cool. :P
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It's just a name variation.
I'm a less cool version of Joseph41. :'(
No shame in that. ;)
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I like owls and birds. The numbers were just random because I thought I should have numbers.
I told my mum my username and she said everyone will think I was born in 1983 or something because when people put 2 numbers in their email it means they were born in that year
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My name is an incredibly modest product of:
Erudite (meaning knowledged)
The
Pa (meaning father)
Such as to reflect that I am, in aspiration, the father of the knowledged - a teacher if you like.
but actually my name is just a friend's (not from AN) username (aperture) backwards, chosen as such cause I'm #incrediblyinventive
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I got this name while deciding my username for gmail.
Looking up at the starry sky at an airport, I was like "Man imagine just hitting that outta the sky" --> "comets are like really fast baseballs" -->"Strike the comet' --> "Comet striker"
Idk I made that shit up when I was like 12 so :P
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aw, i love threads like this. mine came from a fascination with flying and aeroplanes, so: flight logs.
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Mine comes from a potentially unhealthy interest in Tolkien, and I find Turin (or Turambar - Master of Doom) a particularly fascinating character, though not I suspect particularly like me...
I was reading the Fall of Gondolin recently. Did you know that Tolkien had a fight with Balrog and fatal plunge scene more than two decades before he started writing Lord of the Rings? With golden-haired Glorfindel as the gladsome protagonist?
So where were we? Ah yes, Tolkien. Great writer. Pity so much of his work remained incomplete and had to wait long after his death for publication.
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I was thinking about school when I made mine, thought I love school!
Typed tocoolforschool.
Thought that's a great name when I want a 98+ Atar! Thought oh well, pressed sign up.
Thus I am stuck with my name! ;D
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Ionic - cause I do chemistry ...
Doc- Because I think I want to be a doctor
ill find out soon enough if my username actually reflects me :'(
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jk as in just kidding, and okay, mix, boom jkay. just kidding okay? it just sounds nice. my name also starts with a j, and i'm always okay, so jkay?
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My chinese friend came over and he was so shocked and disappointed that I was eating my cereal with chopsticks that ever since my nickname became chopsticks
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My name is Sarah and when I was younger I often got called Sare-Bear. I used to hate it as a nickname (I prefer Sezza) but I kind of like it as a username.