Which usernames do you always read incorrectly?

Tuboflard (tub of lard) always reads as turbo-flard in my head.

Which usernames always catch you out?

Funkmasterp used to read as funk-ma-sterp in my head until it clicked… ?

Edit – still no emojis!?

I struggled with ‘My Heads Ashed’ until I finally twigged.

Came to say turbo flard…

I always read chapaking instead of chakaping, and what is presumably sus epic as suse pic.

Is it not Chapaking? Haha, every day’s a school day.

Edukator in my head read as Equador for the longest time. I’m starting to wonder if I’m dyslexic.

Is fathomer “fat homer” or someone who can fathom things out?

Chapaking here too.

Oddly enough I was thinking this a couple of days ago when it suddenly clicked, after seeing him (or maybe her) on here for years, that Turbo Flard is in fact Tub of Lard.

And I have no idea how macruisekeen is pronounced. Or even spelled it would appear

Oh, and Sadex Punk

debz

Isn’t sadex punk a sad exPunk?

debz? I’m now wondering if that’s dezb, or debz?

Most people say mine ?

And until I found out ahsat was Tasha backwards, I always read it as ashat (ass-hat)

@ahsat spooky. What happens if I say your name 3 times?

Ass hat

Ass hat?

Where are the emojis when we need them… 😉

ElShimano

I’m glad to have caused so much confusion 🙂

Alex Facepalm

Another guilty of reading Tasha’s name badly for ages!

Most people say mine

Sorry Tasha.

I read it as ass hat……

*Oops emoji*

I am guilty of many of these. Thank goodness ashat explained what we’d all been missing.

Suse pic, a mountain in Italy

Tired will always be tired not TI Red

Which is it, Mildred or mild red.

Isn’t sadex punk a sad exPunk?

you are correct 🙂

i think TJ used to read it as sadie spunk 😀

High-tension online

Isn’t sadex punk a sad exPunk

I think it’s sade x-punk, named to reflect changes in music taste

and it’s definitely chapaking and turbo lad.

There used to be a postierich (Postie Rich) who I could only ever see as posterior itch.

He’s long gone now, but WWASWAS used to confuse the **** out of me. I’d joined the forum too late to know that it was a reference to his old username (Weekend Worrier) from an earlier incarnation of STW. Hence he was now WW, As Was.

In my head it sounded something like Wi-Woz-Woz.

Ahsat is a woman? Well I never got that, and it will likely change the context I understand her posts in future, (although I don’t have the memory of forum history to point to specific instances)

The understanding of which also makes me think of Gnusmas, didn’t click with that reversed word until explained either..

peterfile…

There used to be a postierich (Postie Rich) who I could only ever see as posterior itch

There was a Posterior Itch as well…

chakaping, susepic and ahsat for me too

I’m sure there are a few others that aren’t coming to mind atm

*edit

breninbeener

My brain always irrationally wants to translate it to something to do with having a beer in Brenin

5lab = Flab

I blame posters for not selectively and helpfully capitalising their complex user names…

Someone once labelled me as BadlyWeirdDog. I don’t know if it was a typo or a gentle dig – I suspect the latter – but I now consciously misread my own user name. Thanks for that 🙂

Sorry for the confusion, and capitalizing would have helped, but sc-xc is right, Sus Epic. I live in Sussex and ride an epic. I guess those regular epic Evo threads have limited readership 😉

On the backwards names, Sirromj was one that didn’t make sense, until it dawned on me a few days ago that my alternative forum name could be sirromjs

Also le metal mark is one I have to read twice for let me talk to mark

Most of the above!

I also kept reading the gaza thread as Gazza, and wondered what he’d got up to this time!

And I have no idea how macruisekeen is pronounced.

Just Marcus Ericsson in my head. I like to imagine there’s an ex-F1 driver on the forum.

@ahsat for me is asshat and I think of a sombrero balance on an arse.

And I have no idea how macruisekeen is pronounced. Or even spelled it would appear

I blame posters for not selectively and helpfully capitalising their complex user names…

A few of us are of a particular STW vintage – I created this account on a Nokia 95 on a ferry on the way to Shetland in 2010. STW’s password recovery / reset was on the fritz and I couldn’t log into my old account so had to create a new one to get back on the forum.

I was watching my pint slide around the table and reading the Third Policeman so Sgt MacCruiskeen  it seemed a suitable source for forum handle. However – logins created around that date refused to show, and continue to refuse to show capitals on forum itself even though the login I created was MacCruiskeen. Theres a swathe of all lower case forums that must have been created around this time. Occasionally I get certain notifications from STW as MacCruiskeen so the data is there somewhere, it just doesnt display