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TallyMan
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12 Jan 2009, 2:39 pm

Why do some people pick users names that run themselves down? Not naming any names but if people who have low self esteem give themselves negative names it just makes it worse - its like they are saying to the world "I'm a loser - kick me some more".


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12 Jan 2009, 5:30 pm

People just do things like because its fit their personalty instead of an insult most of the time.


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12 Jan 2009, 6:15 pm

A better question would be why do people pick the crazy nicknames they do ???


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12 Jan 2009, 6:18 pm

mine dont run me down its my friends nickname for me coz no one calls me by my full name which is alison they call me ali then cat coz i am apparently like a cat cuddly one minute and fierce the next :lol:

and 1989 is my year of birth :)



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12 Jan 2009, 6:19 pm

My username builds me up. :O)


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12 Jan 2009, 7:48 pm

Mine was given to me by an extremely good friend of mine (my best, in fact), and it's stuck ever since. I kinda like it.



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12 Jan 2009, 8:04 pm

LOLZ back in 2007 i was Realy OCD about pokemon soz... :lol:


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12 Jan 2009, 11:24 pm

Okay, my username is the same name as one of my favorite anime characters (Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn from Sailor Moon



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13 Jan 2009, 2:45 am

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13 Jan 2009, 2:55 am

mine comes from my name,
Cat was picked in a random draw



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13 Jan 2009, 3:01 am

Mine is Bob, and I can talk, but prefer not too :P



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13 Jan 2009, 3:27 am

Because I get misconstrued all the time for my poor choice in words, lack of expressions, and ways in which I interact.

Hell I've been misconstrued many a times on this site that it's only befitting! :wall:


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13 Jan 2009, 3:31 am

I am Spokane Girl because I love Spokane and Benny & Joon is my favorite movie.



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13 Jan 2009, 1:06 pm

Mine is my name, so there ! !!


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13 Jan 2009, 10:27 pm

I selected my name because I have nine cats. I lost one of the original nine since I joined WP, but acquired a new one. C.C. has been with us now since Christmas 2007.



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13 Jan 2009, 10:48 pm

Mine came from when I used to play D&D. We were playing a team of superhero characters, and I came up with Kate Shroud. She was blind and had powers such as blindfighting, teleporting via shadow, and shaping darkness into solid objects.