I was required to tell you my first name as part of our little greeting. That does NOT give you the right to shorten it to one syllable and call me by that.
There is a short list of people who get to call me "Bri", and you sir, ARE NOT ON IT.
In retrospect, I don't believe anyone calls me that, and each time you use it it takes all my willpower not to hang up on you.
This has been a public service announcement. Now get off my phone.
No one is, not even anyone here is.
Annoy me not, please.
Seriously though if that is all the customer did then you sir are over reacting.Sig pic done with Microsoft paint, Work that doobie Pikachu.
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Kloie had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Can I call you BriBri?
/me considers....
Rrrrrrrrrrr.....
Okay, just you. No one else.
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Malbi had this to say about Pirotess:
I like to call you mister shiny bucketman!
That works, but you, despite repeated cranial injuries, are only interested in my clerical sister.
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We were all impressed when Mightion Defensor wrote:
/me considers....Rrrrrrrrrrr.....
Okay, just you. No one else.
Kloie huggles Mightion/BriBri!!!
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Elethi had this to say about Cuba:
Might, is your name Brian?
Um, yeah...
Hmmm... thought everyone knew my name...
It takes a lot of faction work for me to accept being called by a nickname. That nameless (and brainless) customer hadn't done ANY, that's why it bothered me... 
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Illanae had this to say about Tron:
Why a frown, my paladin mentor?
Illanae sobs!
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Malbi had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
I like to call you mister shiny bucketman!
I also will adopt that name for you Mightion.
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Illanae had this to say about Pirotess:
Bri is such a sweet nickname, and you will let Kloie call you that, but not me. So I shall cry!Illanae sobs!
Um... Kloie asked if she should call me "BriBri"...
You've got enough faction to call me Bri if ya wanna.
Didn't mean to make ya cry...
How can I make it up to ya?
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Mightion Defensor had this to say about Duck Tales:Didn't mean to make ya cry...
How can I make it up to ya?
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Sentow had this to say about (_|_):
Wait. So the nickname "Bri" itself doesn't bother you?
If that's the case, then to put this concisely, what the hell is the problem?
The part that bothered me about it was the customer using it every chance he got. I wouldn't consider calling strangers by nicknames, myself.
I didn't know this customer. I did not choose to know this customer. I did not like this customer feeling he could shorten my name. Everybody else calls me Brian. (outside of game, of course.) My mother sometimes calls me "Brian Andrew", but when she does, I know I screwed up...
Basically, the customer was being much more informal than I like when talking to strangers. I'm sure if someone Lyinar didn't know walked up to her and started calling her Candy she wouldn't like it, or Pammy with Illanae, etc.
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Mightion Defensor had this to say about Captain Planet:
The part that bothered me about it was the customer using it every chance he got. I wouldn't consider calling strangers by nicknames, myself.I didn't know this customer. I did not choose to know this customer. I did not like this customer feeling he could shorten my name. Everybody else calls me Brian. (outside of game, of course.) My mother sometimes calls me "Brian Andrew", but when she does, I know I screwed up...
Basically, the customer was being much more informal than I like when talking to strangers. I'm sure if someone Lyinar didn't know walked up to her and started calling her Candy she wouldn't like it, or Pammy with Illanae, etc.
Well that's just silly 
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Mightion Defensor had this to say about (_|_):
The part that bothered me about it was the customer using it every chance he got. I wouldn't consider calling strangers by nicknames, myself.I didn't know this customer. I did not choose to know this customer. I did not like this customer feeling he could shorten my name. Everybody else calls me Brian. (outside of game, of course.) My mother sometimes calls me "Brian Andrew", but when she does, I know I screwed up...
Basically, the customer was being much more informal than I like when talking to strangers. I'm sure if someone Lyinar didn't know walked up to her and started calling her Candy she wouldn't like it, or Pammy with Illanae, etc.
yep. whenever a parent uses a middle name ya screwed up. if they use a middle and last name ya really fucked up
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Falaanla Marr wrote this stupid crap:
yep. whenever a parent uses a middle name ya screwed up. if they use a middle and last name ya really fucked up
What if you don't have a middle name?
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Falaanla Marr impressed everyone with:
yep. whenever a parent uses a middle name ya screwed up. if they use a middle and last name ya really fucked up
There are several different definitions for my name. I can tell which is which by pronunciation.
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Leck thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
What if you don't have a middle name?
You're British right? Yet you don't have 5 different middle names like Lester?
( to Morty!_
I don't have a middle name, so when I was called "Pamela" I knew I was in trouble. My first husband and his parents still call me that just to make me cringe. They know I hate it. I am beyond that now though, I just laugh at their pathetic button-pushing.
What I hate is for people on message boards name-dropping my name (or others). This one guy on a different board I frequent does it all the time. If I wanted to be called Pam on the msg boards I would use that as my nick. I finally had to blow up at him for it.
So, I would never call anyone their real name unless they told me specifically to, or unless they signed their post /ooc in their real name.
(this is not because I don't like you, but because Nikki sounds far too much like some sort of cheesy vapid valley-girl name and I am not associating myself with that. Nicole works fine. Same amount of syllables, same amount of effort to pronounce, so no Nikki)
What I mean is this guy on another board that name-drops constantly. If he is responding to a post, he always uses the person's RL name, just because he knows it. To me, that is rude.
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If I were to shorten Brian, it would be to Brine, or Brain, neither of which are really any shorter than Brian.
How's it goin' Brine?
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Mightion Defensor wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
The part that bothered me about it was the customer using it every chance he got. I wouldn't consider calling strangers by nicknames, myself.I didn't know this customer. I did not choose to know this customer. I did not like this customer feeling he could shorten my name. Everybody else calls me Brian. (outside of game, of course.) My mother sometimes calls me "Brian Andrew", but when she does, I know I screwed up...
Basically, the customer was being much more informal than I like when talking to strangers. I'm sure if someone Lyinar didn't know walked up to her and started calling her Candy she wouldn't like it, or Pammy with Illanae, etc.
Could have been worse! Could have been calling you Ryan at every turn!
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Maradön? had this to say about John Romero:
See I'm wierd with diminutives.If I were to shorten Brian, it would be to Brine, or Brain, neither of which are really any shorter than Brian.
How's it goin' Brine?
Mightion scowls at you, ready to attack - he appears to be quite formidable.
I wonder how much I could get for the tongue of a blithering fool. Begone, before I decide to find out for myself.
