anonymousdandelion

What is the most likely reason for someone to get your name wrong?

My name includes sounds that some people have difficulty pronouncing

Because my name is "foreign" people call me a modified (e.g. anglicized) variant

There is another common name that looks or sounds similar to mine

People see my name written and read it with a different phonetic pronunciation

My name is often just so unfamiliar to people that they struggle with it

People call me by a former name/deadname/name I no longer use

Another reason

There is absolutely no explanation… yet, they manage to say it wrong anyway

I deliberately trick people into saying my name wrong because I enjoy mischief

Everybody says my name correctly :)

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Yet another poll on the subject of name errors — because all things come in threes and mostly because the notes on the other polls are very intriguing. I imagine multiple answers will be true for many of us (goodness knows they are for me), but try to choose whatever feels like the most common/prevalent reason!

Reblog, if you like, for a larger sample size to continue forcing me to wade through too many fascinating name-related notifications. But also for sample size. :-)

#my name is extremely simple#yet somehow people always get my last name wrong?#not even just the wrong pronunciation#they literally just change my last name??????#maybe because there are many similar ones but still
kazieka

so I started a new anxiety medication this past week and so far it’s been going very well except that I have extremely vivid dreams and apparently sleep texting. I seem to have sent this at 3am and i have no memory of it

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but i am Right

brewerssupplies

Let's never forget the time my players found a very old grave that had the words "Here Lies Asmodeus" on it and dug it up.

brewerssupplies

Their justification was that of course it's not actually him, and the rogue wanted to rob a grave.

brewerssupplies

To clarify: it was him. He'd been sealed there by a famous monster hunter and was gonna be part of a later plot.

dungeonmalcontent

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puckish-thoughts

THERE IT IS AGAIN!  THERE IT FUCKING IS!  i’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PHOTO FOR YEARS AND NEVER COULD FIND IT!!  THE LAN PARTY WITH THE GUY DUCT-TAPED TO THE CEILING!!  BACK IN ANCIENT TIMES WHEN PEOPLE STILL USED CATHODE MONITORS AND WHEN COUNTERSTRIKE WAS THE NEW THING.  THIS SHIT IS REAL.  THIS IS REAL SHIT.  SHIT THAT HAPPENED.

agoldenplum

Blackundertaker for the link. So kotaku did an interview with a butch of people to track down the people connected with the LAN party.

From the article.

The picture in question originates from Mason, Michigan, where a close group of friends who liked to build personal computers and organize LAN parties grew up. Through Reddit and email, we were able to get in touch with a large portion of the group, as well as obtain verification and additional images…


For the Mason alumni, the night they taped Drew Purvis to the ceiling was just an average day, another LAN party with friends.

“It was still early in the day and the LAN had already become fractured,” said Nick Wellman, another LAN goer. “There were about 10 of us there, and we were already playing three, four different games. Tyler was looking around and said, ‘I think you can duct tape someone to that I-beam.’”

At this point, the teens gathered the necessary supplies, bought duct tape on a friend’s employee discount and had the tallest attendee, Brian, hold the subject, Drew, aloft while the rest taped him up.

What you see in the now-iconic photo is actually the group’s second attempt to suspend their friend from the ceiling with duct tape. After about 10 minutes, the tape digging into his sides, Drew asked to be cut down. They revised their plan, adding pillows, and strapped him back up. Once on the beam, someone else had the idea to stack some tables up so Drew could still play on his computer.

“That is the funniest part about the picture,” Nick told us. “Gaming from the beam was a complete afterthought.”

Drew lasted about two hours suspended above his comrades before retiring to the ground (turns out a duct tape cocoon runs hot).

Are Canadians more supportive of labour union in Canada than America?

Anonymous
allthecanadianpolitics

Yes.

Canada is 10th in the OECD for Union Density (%), with 25%.

The USA is 31st at 10.1%.

1st is Iceland at 91.8%.