Are You Content With Your Username?

When you first joined WFC Forums, you had to think up a username on the spur of the moment. Then you're stuck with it forever.

Are you happy with your choice? Are you at peace with it?

If you had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would you? Could you?

Would you adjust it, or change it altogether?

For my part, I'd probably change mine for the time being to 'Bacari-Bronze of the Kremlin'

 

At the time "An Ilkley Orn Baht 'at" seemed like a clever play on "On Ilkley Moor Baht 'at" for a hornet fan living near Ilkley. But now it seems unnecessarily long. In the light of the Chief Superintendent of the Grammar Police being called simply "Keighley" (which is just a few miles away from Ilkley), perhaps I should just ask for my name to be just "Ilkley", seeing as how I am, by inclination, a Sergeant in said force.

 

I still get the odd PM from folk wanting to know about UEA, because they or their child is thinking of going there. I have to explain I haven’t set foot there in nearly 15 years…

 

My original name was 20-20Vision, but I left for a while and when I returned technical incompetence prevented me from using it again. A flood of Udinese reserves was pouring into Watford and I was unhappy as I'd never heard of any of them. Later, things were going well so I amended it.

My first thought was undoubtedly the best.

 

I adopted my username after an attempted insult by a Luton fan 20 odd years ago, when I signed up (maybe 2008?) I was still in the MSN/Hotmail phase and thought it was funny. Can't say I like it now, but also I'm not creative enough to think of anything better!

 

My name is Dave. I support Watford Football Club.

I wouldn't change it because I don't have an original thought in my head.

Simple, straightforward and hugely uninteresting. I'm sorry you've wasted your time reading this.

 

I read your name as ‘UAE_Hornet’ for about 3 years.

 

I wouldn’t have called myself my username if I was to do it all again. But not sure I can be bothered to change it now.

Especially given all of the work I’ve put into building my brand.

 

Can it be that it was all so simple then ?
Or has time rewritten every line ?

 

That’s correct our user names are our brands built up over many years, think of the chaos which would be caused if members swapped user names it would be like supporting WFC not knowing what was happening, posters would have personality changes overnight!

 

I might change mine. I haven’t been 73 for about 25 years now

 

Not really.

I chose it as it was the pub we went to before games. Now it's shut and half the people on here probably don't know it existed. I imagine people think I'm some sort of authoritarian who gives a thumbs up to slavery.

 

I associate the persons avatar to them much more than the username if that makes sense. I can scroll quickly through a thread and see an avatar that I know makes good posts and will stop to read. People changing avatars makes it weird for me, not usernames.

I'm not a fan of my 2nd username but love the avatar of Tony Coton.

 

Mine was initially named after a website I made for a school project, that I gave thought to actually trying to get off the ground - I didn’t, meaning it’s superfluous, but I’m used to it now and have nothing clever to change it to.

 

Rumour has it you were hardly ever there when you were ‘there’!

 

Why would I change it, as I am
...
The Voice of Reason

 

I chose mine as the 1963/4 season was the first one in which I went to nearly every home game. Then I got reminded the first game I actually went to was in October 1962, but I couldn’t be bothered to change it.

 

I chose mine after watching/reading Lord of the Rings for the umpteenth time and thought it would make trolls and Orcs beware.
Hadn't even thought of the obvious association with the singer

(my being about the size of a hobbit had nothing to do with it either)

 

It should be possible to challenge a username on the grounds of a material inaccuracy.

 

I chose mine because…oh never mind

 

I wish I was called MCFCMoog

 

I always think of you as the paint faced wrestler.

 

I like my user name so much I've changed my real first name to Lloyd by deed poll

 

Confess I have not ever heard of him but have looked him up and if you put the two of us side by side I would not come out of it well

 

But people do change their avatars!
What happened to the cute redhead Skyla?

I used to be a hornet avatar but changed to a moose - to reflect our club’s split personality schizoid identity.

And I used to live in SA so Sahorn is obviously a very clever play (lol) on horn and hornet although it should really be an antler from a hart not a moose which is on Watford’s crest which is of course different to a horn as horns are for life but antlers grow back but most us identify as horns for life but some may have shed their support this season in antler like fashion and I’m beginning lose my mind and disappear up my own ….​

 

I’m always right, so I’m perfectly happy with mine.

 

I remember the initial stick you got Skyla.
If you recall I was supportive and advised you to ignore the hate mail as some on here can be very nasty behind their keyboard.
I got a lot of grief when I first joined and I almost left as no one needs negativity from strangers..

 

Are/were there really such small minded people on here who would give grief and stick for that? I do hope we have moved on from there