I don’t mean my username! Yours!

I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking ‘guess’ or saying ‘:)’ or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person’s username?

Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone’s name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people’s weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.

Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?

    • NinaOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’m not nerd enough! Obviously thinking of a colonel in distress, but everytime I read colonel I think of a middle school friend who would not believe me that it’s not pronounced “ko low null”

      • ColonelPanicEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        You got pretty close by accident because it is a wordplay on the pronounciation of colonel! And like your friend, I initially thought it sounds like “ko low nell” for a very long time until I realized that English pronounciations are just guesswork sometimes :D That’s why the word is now stuck in my mind forever (alongside town names like “Gloucester”).

        • NinaOPEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Wow, that’s so funny that a silly memory from my childhood could get it that close!

    • LvxferreEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I didn’t get it without reading other comments because my spoken English sucks major donkey balls (or should I say… colonel donkey balls?), but now I got it.

  • CommunistEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Mine’s insanely on the nose… i’m not very creative.

        • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Thank you! I will readily admit to ignorance. I apologize for the tired stereotyping.

          Yeah. I see how the concept of equality gets distorted through the pervasive lens of capitalism, or just the materialistic view of things.

          Political equality would necessarily strip away expectations of ability or productivity. Expectations are itself often violations of boundaries, just forced upon people.

  • comfyEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    This is probably my least enigmatic pseudonym, but maybe someone will have something to say about it.

    • NinaOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Well, it means comfy, but I think you probably meant it as a vibe based on your avatar, however I pictured a worn beige recliner. Pretty ratty, but comfy.

      • comfyEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Hah, I don’t even have a fireplace, candles or a warm drink. I’m a fraud!

        spoiler

        yes, it is a vibe. but in hindsight, I also like to treat it as a reminder, or a goal. It’s the internet, why make it any angrier? Make a site a home.

    • NinaOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Hey, if someone doesn’t know what didactic is, it is a mystery! It’s a big word! Which that someone would be me. I feel like it’s in the back of my brain but I’ve forgotten off the top of my head.

      • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yay, time to explain! You may be familiar with the term autodidact, someone who crafts their own curriculum and teaches themselves subjects without relying on the guidance of other humans.

        So, didactic means to be used for instruction, to teach.

        I can interpret my name in two ways I think. First, is that I am an instructive dumbass; my incompetance and consistent foolishness provides lessons, learning from my mistakea. Second, I am a teacher who is also a dumbass.

        • NinaOPEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          That’s a fun one! Plus having alliteration makes it more fun.

          • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Yes, I think so.

            The self-deprecation might be a little fatiguing, and it is a lifetime habit I am trying to extinguish.

            Still, it enforces the wisdom to never take myself too seriously, and that I always have something to learn.

    • NinaOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      a man should clean himself

    • NinaOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      a small russet potato! and 08, would be a bit young if it was when you were born, so when you graduated school? Could just be a number of course

      • Che BananaEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It just means there are 7 other russjr’s on here.

        Kinda weird.

      • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Certainly a good guess! It actually comes from the fact that my name is Russ[ell], and my name comes directly from my father so I’m “Russell Jr”. Then the number 08 comes from my birth date, which is the 8th of March!

        • NinaOPEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Ah! I didn’t think about 08 ever being simply the day of your birthday instead of year, that very interesting.

    • NinaOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It means you like being stonewalled :)

    • BarbarianEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Arrr me matey! I can’t walk the plank, me wings’ll get in the way!

    • NinaOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Agreed! For yours, seems like a pirate captain that will not shut up, even if that’s closer to Blah

  • ryukoEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Mine isn’t very interesting, but sure

    • NinaOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I can’t remember any characters named ryuko, but sound familiar. in a bastardization it can be girl/young dragon.

      • NinaOPEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        maybe it just didn’t load but I didn’t see that avatar when I guessed!! I can’t believe I forgot her name.