You know, it's probably a, "but this is the name on the credits!" thing.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Sep 14, 2011 12:44:47 pm PDT #26203 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 12:45:32 pm PDT #26204 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
but this is the name on the credits!
That's entirely legally driven, though.
javachik - Sep 14, 2011 12:46:35 pm PDT #26205 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I'm with you guys on the name thing. I HATE when people call me "Nan" and I don't answer. I try to take it in the spirit that they're trying to call me something endearing or to show affection. But I am not nor have a I ever been a "Nan". To family and long time close friends who knew me as a tot in Hawaii, I am "Nani" (pronounced "NONNY") but not to anyone else.
Cashmere, I am sorry about your brother. You're right, it's not safe for him to continue living with your parents.
Amyth, I am so hopeful that those horrendous seizures remain only in your past.
And that's what I hope for Perkin's c, too.
Toddson - Sep 14, 2011 12:46:59 pm PDT #26206 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I came across someone whose real name is Meara ... brightened up my day, although it wasn't meara.
And Cash, I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this. But I'm glad your parents have someone who can deal with it. Living with someone who's willing to attack you is scary.
Kate P. - Sep 14, 2011 12:50:09 pm PDT #26207 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
amyth, that is exciting news that you totally did not mention just now! I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you!
Cash, I'm sorry about the situation with your brother, and I hope he's able to get into subsidized housing soon.
Every now and then at work, someone who doesn't know me (usually a publicist) sends me an email addressed to "Katie." I just don't respond. It's not my name, and it's not that hard to find that out. (OK, my mom and a few cousins get to call me Katie, and very occasionally my husband. That's about it.)
Allyson - Sep 14, 2011 12:54:09 pm PDT #26208 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
People constantly call me by my last name. I correct them. They apologize and I say, "no worries, it's worse when it happens to my brother."
Liese S. - Sep 14, 2011 12:55:47 pm PDT #26209 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
After being named something presumably unnicknameable, I kinda want to name my kid Elizabeth so they could be Beth, Betty, Bessie, Bess, Bette, Betsy, Liz, Lisa, Eliza, etc.
The SO went out on a get back on the horse drive to pick up some produce overload from our friends. Apparently he is coming back here with a motherlode of veggies.
Amy - Sep 14, 2011 12:56:27 pm PDT #26210 of 30001
Because books.
Man, I'm easy. People call me Aim, Aims, Amy, whatever, doesn't bother me. Possibly I just like it when people talk to me.
Amy - Sep 14, 2011 12:58:52 pm PDT #26211 of 30001
Because books.
But I do think people should specify what they like to be called! I didn't mean otherwise, just that ... I'm a name slut apparently.
Vortex - Sep 14, 2011 1:01:07 pm PDT #26212 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
So being greeted with "Stephieeeeee" made me go from pleasant to evisceration in 0.4 seconds.
oh, how I feel your pain. I had a meltdown with a "friend" who insisted on calling me Stephie. I constantly told him that I hated hit and he'd always say "oops!" He made the mistake of doing it after my dad died. Who was, of course, the only one allowed to call me Stephie.
Said friend does not do that anymore.