Both of those sound terrible, unless, what’s the molarity of the acid?
I realize you’re only fifteen years old, but some of us geezers wouldn’t mind immortality.
Really? Are you sure it’s immortality you long for and not simply a ridiculous amount of longevity? Because I’m pretty capable of amusing myself but I suspect that after the 10th millenium, even I will run out of things to do. We can’t count on Netflix to be around forever, you know.
I think it says that it gives "immorality. " This wouldn’t happen if you could take the time to wipe the baby blood off your fingers before handling the damned vials.
Heh, heh. Dunno if you planned that or not but well done.
Rhymers do not harm babies. That’s puppy blood.
Well in real life it’s not a problem because we can make a visual distinction by looking at their face.
If there was only some way for the software here to allow for a virtual ‘face’ for posters this name issue would probably never come up.
Don’t mince about. Ban anyone whose name begins with “E.”
I’ve always been suspicious of that Ed Zotti guy. What’s his angle? And that Ellen Cherry is much too nice to be trusted.
That’s not safe enough. Anyone with an “e” in their name should be banned. Just to be extra safe.
And anyone whose name starts with the same letter as anyone else’s name. I’m starting to breathe easier.
For the first time since I was named, I am very happy that my folks moved to Earth.
Gagundathar is a very common name back home.
I would truly hate it if somebody showed up here named Gagoondathar.
You may laugh but it happened in grade school on the voyage here.
I was very glad that the other person wasn’t coming here to live.
That was especially true since the other person was a female. Talk about confusion.
You’re right–that can be a problem. I have a first and a second cousin, both named Dick. We are constantly having to say, “Big Dick or Little Dick?” Little Dick hates it.
I’d have to say that you are very unacquainted with what this community believes. This has been the case forever. For one thing, it’s an obvious trolling technique to make your name look like someone else’s. And, yes, in real life, when you have two people with the same name, you start calling one or both of them by another name, by a nickname. If you have both a Robert Kelley and Robert Kelly in the same room, you will likely call one of them Bob. And why? Because, otherwise, people will get confused.
This is not some horrible occurrence that justifies starting that weird libertarian streak that seems to randomly strike otherwise non-libertarian posters.
I find it entirely plausible that two people came up with these two similar names. “Even Steven” is a very common phrase and it’s not that odd that two people would come up with a play on that phrase.
Nothing has happened to the community. This kind of thing comes up once in a while. Usually it’s handled quickly behind the scenes, and this time we have a thread about it instead. I appreciate that even sven doesn’t mind the similar name and I didn’t think she would, but it’s more about the possibility that people will get confused than about the idea that someone is infringing on even sven’s made-up SDMB name. You could probably argue that we have not always stepped in to prevent these kinds of similar names in the past, but this isn’t some kind of new trend.
Might i suggest a name that would show people that it was not even sven posting?
not even sven.
Sorry, I misread that as Not Even Seven.
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Poor Sven. Always getting left out.