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Tema en 'Off-Topic English' iniciado por ShaeKonnit, 15 Ene 2018.

  1. tox

    tox SorriBarai
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    We have 2 employees called the same, same name and same surname.
    Their mail addresses are name.surname@company.com and surname.name@company.com, and it seems to work...
     
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  2. xagroth

    xagroth Mournful Echo

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    Well, after so many time dodging the bullet, it finally happened: Vodafone has decided to bill me a month after I decided to leave their "loving" service...

    So I took down all services the 26th of March, and now they are billing me 100 bucks for a copy of the bill from that bill, just changing dates to April 7th to May 8th...

    Considering it was the first time we left the company (my personal phone had been there forever, just with my father's family plan, now ina package with hte missus & our house) its kinda funny: 100% chance of being ripped off by the company.

    Also, after nearly an hour of trying to contact them, we only got recordings and music, so... XD
     
  3. Brother Smoke

    Brother Smoke Bureau Trimurti Representative

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    I have 3 friends named Carlos, and my brother is as well. We call them "The council of Carlos"
    I'm an honorary member because my middle name is Carlos
     
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  4. Koin-Koin

    Koin-Koin Well-Known Member

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    All of that is nothing compared to Australia where everyone's named Bruce.
     
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  5. colbrook

    colbrook Grenade Delivery Specialist

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    I'm pretty sure about 40% of Corvus Belli are called Carlos too.
     
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  6. chromedog

    chromedog Less than significant minion

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    This is factually incorrect.





    It's a 4 way split, with Bruce, Dave-O and Steve all having 30% each and "Trevor" to round it out.
     
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  7. Koin-Koin

    Koin-Koin Well-Known Member

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    Also you've got the Steve variation like Steve-O, Stevie... but mostly in bank robbery.
     
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  8. ShaeKonnit

    ShaeKonnit Well-Known Member

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    On names, I've never really been a fan of football so maybe I'll never understand, but I saw an obituary for some old player they referred to as "Jozo". I didn't catch his real name, but it's not the first weird name of that sort I've spotted.
    Mind you, round here the typical football fans seem to prefer it when names, and indeed sentences, can be spoken just by flapping their slack jaws.
    Like, "I'm watching the football" becomes "Ahm wotchun thuh fitbah".
    So we'll have full teams with guys named, Jozo, Tonka, Bonko, Mongo, Bluto, Bozo, Donka, Biffa etc.
     
  9. Aspect Graviton

    Aspect Graviton Friendly Alien Overlord
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    We have Andrews, there are three natural Andrews I hang out with regularly (including in 6 player games of Twilight imperium), and my middle name is Andrew, there is a council of andrews known as the Andii,

    Generally I just use their surnames makes like much easier, one of them even forgot another was called Andrew and kept asking the other one what his surname was so he could write it down on a form and couldn't understand why A) he was "Being so difficult" and B) why we were all laughing.
     
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  10. Section9

    Section9 Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, try having a name made of THREE first names. My first name, middle name, and last name are all commonly used as first names. It can confuse the hell out of medical staff (since every once in a while they need your FULL legal name, not just first+last).

    :laughing:
     
  11. ev0k

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    Is it a dwarves team ?
     
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  12. xagroth

    xagroth Mournful Echo

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    Well... welcome to the club. Plus, my second last name has confused people, "merging" with the first last name to turn into another entirely (blame the Spanish custom of "every common surname ending in -ez, because it's a contraction of "son of...." most of the time. Álvarez -> son of Álvaro. Fernández -> son of Fernando. Méndez -> son of Mendo [yes, that name existed one upon a time...], etc. etc.).

    Oh, at least it's not the old "Jose María" (male name) that can turn into "Maria José" (female name). Or my Wife's first surname, which comes from Portugal and is a frigging "de [insert male name here]" XDDDD
     
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  13. Brother Smoke

    Brother Smoke Bureau Trimurti Representative

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    @xagroth Just thank your lucky stars you're not Basque. I'm not but I have cousins there whose names I can't pronounce so I just use nicknames.
     
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    xagroth Mournful Echo

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    I've had Basque bosses. So no nicknames allowed XD
     
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    Brother Smoke Bureau Trimurti Representative

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    It's the only way. Any time someone makes fun of Cuban names (which are admittedly awful but at least pronounceable) I point out the Basques.
     
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    Pen-dragon Deva

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    Speaking of names, my father had a different problem. My grandfather was very frugal, and didn't like to waste, and apparently that extended to names. My dad and his three brothers didn't have middle names, even though around here, middle names are a very common practice. Every time my dad had to fill out a form that asked for a middle name, he had to explain he didn't have one. Eventually he just made a name up, and started using it. His made up middle name ended up being official on everything except his childhood records.
     
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  18. colbrook

    colbrook Grenade Delivery Specialist

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    Is it time to rebrand the company as "Carlos Belli"?
     
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  19. Koin-Koin

    Koin-Koin Well-Known Member

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    That's the kind of thing that make US studios name every single french character Jean-<something> in their movies
     
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