Club G40 => General Chat => Topic started by: scotsjohn on October 17, 2012, 02:26:17 pm
Title: What's in a name?
Post by: scotsjohn on October 17, 2012, 02:26:17 pm
The rise of the PC brigade seems to have seen the death of the nickname. "I felt demeaned" " I felt de-valued", "I was a victim" goes the mantra (although the 400 was quite smart).
Over the years though we've probably heard quite a few worthwhile ones from the witty to the downright abusive which used to be part of life's great tapestry. We've all heard of Teflon the non stick welder for instance but what about "Blisters". Blisters always appeared after hard work was over. "Nimrod" was always looking for a sub (subsidy/loan). "Hippo"was 100 kilos and black. "Ripcord" had dwarfism and a hunched back and "Superboot" who suffered from Polio as a child and had one leg dramatically shorter than the other, had a platform soled toe-tector long before the advent of the platform shoe. "Tunc"is self explanatory and the arcane "Peggy"a poor bastard who had no bladder control and had to resort to a clothes peg.
None of these guys took any exception to what they were called, in fact,it seemed to give a boost to their personna. So what's it like today? Anything like that out there or are we all walking the line?
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Post by: Karlos the jackyl on October 17, 2012, 04:23:39 pm
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Post by: DKnight on October 19, 2012, 11:07:07 pm
i have no idea what is going on here? the initial post really tho what was it about?
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Post by: scotsjohn on October 20, 2012, 01:11:35 pm
Nicknames Dan. Are they still allowed? Anyone got any funnies/nasties?
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Post by: PeteG40 on October 20, 2012, 01:48:54 pm
I get called Cain dingle, cos i look like him Samg40 gets called frodo, cos he looks like him Hayesey gets called chief wiggum as he looks like him Dknight gets called teenwolf cos he looks like him Yoof gets called big head, as he's got one. Robin gets called chairman yau, as his name is robin yau and he's chinese.
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Post by: g40will on October 20, 2012, 01:58:38 pm
i know a lad who is known as spina bifida by every one bifida for short duno were it came from ; D
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Post by: AlexG40 on October 20, 2012, 04:42:04 pm
I get called Juggo. It's hardly original but it's better than the other things I get called.
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Post by: scotsjohn on October 20, 2012, 05:24:12 pm
Wonder what faux pas you commit or abberation you have to get called spina bifida; assuming you don't have spina bifida. It's the history that's the entertainment sometimes. A guy who lived in a block of bedsits near where I lived was known as Rooster behind his back. Apparently he had a penchant for buying whole fresh chicken then binning it after a couple of days.
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Post by: ereeiz on October 21, 2012, 04:26:35 pm
I went to school with a mate named Russell. I don't think I've known anyone with as many nicknames;
His mum thought he looked like a mole when he was a baby, so he was called that for about the first 20 years of his life.
He once mentioned his dad had raced his bike at Mallory at the weekend, so for that reason alone he was called Mallory.
He was also known as all sorts of variants of his name; Russell dussell cookamuscle Dussell The Artist Formerly Known As Dussell (or TAFKAD for short) The right honorable Mallory cookamuscle of Dusseldorf
He decided he liked the name Billy (his middle name's William) so started calling himself that. That's stuck for a while, but not before his previous name he got somehow; Minge. Pretty sure that would have been a creation of his own as well.
Exciting stuff.
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Post by: Yoof on October 22, 2012, 07:31:26 pm
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Post by: AlexG40 on October 22, 2012, 09:15:54 pm
^^ Love it.
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Post by: scotsjohn on October 24, 2012, 10:16:45 am
[quote author=PeteG40 link=topic=9131.msg64281#msg64281 date=1350737334 Robin gets called chairman yau, as his name is robin yau and he's chinese.
100% Chinese I hope. Back in the eighties I had a close friendship with a Mrs Yau. Her first name was Jacki, she was Scottish and a lovely looker. Unfortunately she had a real broken glass Glesca accent...a wee bit off putting. She also had a lovely wee boy who looked totally like his Chinese dad. Hmmm!
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Post by: Yoof on October 24, 2012, 01:08:34 pm
Robin's not 100% cockle picker- his mum calls him a banana as he's yellow on the outside, white on the inside :D
Although she give me & hayesey free fish cakes, so it's all blessed.
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Post by: scotsjohn on October 25, 2012, 12:47:38 pm
That's as good as it gets on all fronts. A total lack of PC can be so refreshing nowadays. I started this thread off after being told about a guy who worked in a food processing plant in Linconshire. He leaned over a conveyor belt and his overall caught in the belt and eventually pulled in his dong before shutdown. When he was released by his fellow workers, his dong was pretty sore and purple in colour. They started calling him "Bluebell". Against his union man's advice he decided to take his employers to an Industrial Tribunal for allowing his fellow workers to demean him. Bad move; tribunals are of course open to the public and the press.
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Post by: vwmk3jon on November 02, 2012, 01:05:15 pm
wouldnt take alot to find out which factory it was. all there seems to be round here!!
my mates all have silly nicknames.....
wills is bread (last names warburton) jons is ribcage (skinny fucker), jaw (he got his broken!) or kiddy (surnames kidrowicz and he really has no standards for the birds he'd try and pull!) craigs is ging (hair colour) matts is rubberlips (has lips like a black guy!)
mines just coey. simple really.
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Post by: jez1272gt on January 16, 2013, 03:28:16 pm
haha a few i know very well as good mates...
Joe H - Baby Chick as his receding hair line is leaving a fluffy bit at the front. Joe G - Gay1 as he used to take an hour or so in the mirror before going out for a night out. Jason - Ivan as when he gets too drunk he turns into Ivan the Terrible. Rob - Dog - know one really knows. Marc - Piggy as his diet and eating habits are nothing short of that of a pig.
Some of them have stuck pretty bad, Gay1 and Piggy cant shake them for love nor money which is comical bearing in mind they have had them for over 10 years now... we joke that they will be called by these names at their weddings!
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Post by: scotsjohn on January 16, 2013, 07:18:48 pm
Got a good one a couple of weeks ago that I should have put in.
D'artagnon !
The guy's Scottish, but with heavy jet black hair and dark brown skin, he could be taken for Iranian or Iraqi. With a little bit of Glesca speak, he was referred to as the dark tan yin. It didn't take too long for the name to stick and he's quite delighted with it being called Dick.
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Post by: scotsjohn on February 14, 2013, 02:07:25 pm
A wee bit sideways on the topic but car names; anyone know why you shouldn't drive a car that's called a Pajero?
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Post by: scotsjohn on February 15, 2013, 08:31:51 pm
No takers on this? Mitsubishi had a pickup called the Shogun. They put out the Pajero 4x4 then noticed the distinct lack of enthusiasm for it in the Spanish speaking countries. Hardly surprising as Pajero is Spanish for WANKER. Urgent re-branding saw the Pajero become the Shogun, the Shogun become the L200 and that left them with the problem of the LITTLE WANKERS, the MINI PAJEROS, the smaller petrol powered 4x4's whose name escapes me at this time.
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Post by: Fred on February 17, 2013, 01:14:31 pm
I used to work with a guy who pulled on some tube made into a billet for joining and welding it together and when it came free, he stabbed it into his forhead about an inch above his eyebrows right in the center.
When it healed up it had a center ring about 8mm diamiter and loads of little lines coming to the ring from about 20mm out from center all the way round.
He was duley named Ringpiece.
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Post by: scotsjohn on February 25, 2013, 08:35:09 pm
Wonder if he went home and told his missus "guess what the guys at work are calling me now? Maybe not.