Anyone else this happens to re: web names?

**De Town** · 15/06/2005, 1:50 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

I'd say that's pineapple. Don't think my hair would have been a mop even before I got it cut, though probably not too far off.

Ah i just rememer up at belfield once when a UCD fan ran onto the pitch at halftime/before the match because he had dropped something out onto the pitch and the fans started shouting "schumi, schumi, schumi"

**Gareth** · 15/06/2005, 1:52 PM

Who is the UCD fan that tends to lead the chants cos he chanted the sadest thing I ever heard.

Williams dropped the ball or something and he chanted "What a load of Wales". Audible groans and rapid disbanding of his followers SHOULD of followed. Maybe a burning at the stake....Was that you Schumi??

**Macy** · 15/06/2005, 1:57 PM

Originally Posted by DE TOWN

Ah i just rememer up at belfield once when a UCD fan ran onto the pitch at halftime/before the match because he had dropped something out onto the pitch and the fans started shouting "schumi, schumi, schumi"

That was Pineapple, obviously

**pete** · 15/06/2005, 2:00 PM

Can be weird for when people call me by my web handle when my real name in Elizabeth.

**tiktok** · 15/06/2005, 2:00 PM

Originally Posted by Gareth

Tiktok, was that the name of the lil robot in the second Wizard of Oz?

It weas, though in my defence I only found that out recently

**patsh** · 15/06/2005, 2:02 PM

Originally Posted by tiktok

It weas, though in my defence I only found that out recently

Actually looks a little like you..........

**Schumi** · 15/06/2005, 2:05 PM

Originally Posted by DE TOWN

Ah i just rememer up at belfield once when a UCD fan ran onto the pitch at halftime/before the match because he had dropped something out onto the pitch and the fans started shouting "schumi, schumi, schumi"

Don't remember that at all, definitely wasn't me though!

Who is the UCD fan that tends to lead the chants cos he chanted the sadest thing I ever heard.

Williams dropped the ball or something and he chanted "What a load of Wales". Audible groans and rapid disbanding of his followers SHOULD of followed. Maybe a burning at the stake....Was that you Schumi??

Don't remember that either

I can guarantee that it wasn't me, I'd never come up with something that bad.

**Aberdonian Stu** · 15/06/2005, 3:41 PM

It was pineapple. He was misquoting something I shouted at John Hartson when Coventry played a friendly against us a few years back.

City had a penalty and three of us were lying on the hill quite bored so I just shouted out "You're Welsh" rather disdainfully, although most of the Welsh people I know are grand, and that's what pineapple was probably trying to remember.

I can't recall ever being called by my username.

**Slash/ED** · 15/06/2005, 4:22 PM

I always get called by my Shelsweb username Jammer, but given that's my real life nickname it isn't too suprising, complete strangers have come up to me and called me it at matches though which is a little strange. I don't think anyone, ever has called me slash/ed though, thankfully...

**Passive** · 15/06/2005, 4:26 PM

People I don't know call me Passive, it's quite worrying.

**anto eile** · 15/06/2005, 4:46 PM

Originally Posted by Cosmo

Everyone has their 'web' name and their real name right? I've been going up to see drogheda play since I was a wee child, everyone got to know me, I was called with 'Dave' or 'Wheelo'.

However in the last 3 months or so, everyone up in united park seems to be calling me cosmo instead of Dave or Wheelo! Even my dads old friend who has known me since I was a baby called me cosmo last week!! I got a couple of mentions in the drogs programme this year too and i was refered to as cosmo!!

Is this the new craze, calling people by their web names?

I always preferred to leave the webworld, like eh, on the web if ye know what i mean!!

I dread bringing up my non football mates to a match or to a pub afterwards as they'll get a great laugh with me being refereed to cosmo

!!

Just wondering is this happening to everyone else or what

?

useing web knicknames names in "real-life" is embarrassing and geeky.

and pointless too really, people use webnames for anonymity on the net.using them in public is slightly contradictory

**dahamsta** · 15/06/2005, 4:48 PM

Nobody calls me dahamsta, I guess because I don't really care if people know who I am and thus sign most of my posts. It's a stupid handle anyway.

adam

**Cosmo** · 15/06/2005, 5:47 PM

'useing web knicknames names in "real-life" is embarrassing and geeky.'

That's my point - im going to have to keep my non drogs mates away from the pub after matches til this dies down

(if ever!!

)

**Gerrit** · 15/06/2005, 7:02 PM

I just use my real name at soccer boards. At other bords I tend to use "Nocturnal Me", named after a song of my favourite band Echo & The Bunnymen and I think it quite suits my gothic likes... Nicknames are handy on forums where you reveal info you rather keep hidden from people you know, on places where I've got nothing to hide I just use my real name.

**Poor Student** · 15/06/2005, 7:45 PM

No one calls me by my name but I only know very few people here. I met Aberdonian Stu at the Israel game and he jokingly noticed how it was funny we were introducing ourselves by webnames. To be honest I can't even remember his name.

I guess it depends on the name. I call CollegeTillIDie by his real name for obvious reasons, however I call Colie, Colie. Again I forgot his real name.

I have a fair idea who Pineapple is but I don't know who Schumi is. I don't know any non-UCD fans.

**tiktok** · 15/06/2005, 8:37 PM

Originally Posted by Slash/ED

I always get called by my Shelsweb username Jammer...

didn't realise that was you, why didn't you keep jammer?

**Slash/ED** · 15/06/2005, 9:05 PM

Originally Posted by tiktok

didn't realise that was you, why didn't you keep jammer?

It happened by accident really, I signed up on another football forum, bigsoccer, and here as slash/ed first and then when I went to the Shels one I thought I'd be better off useing my real life nickname since I knew a few of the people posting on there from off the internet anyway, and by then it was too late to change my name here.

**paul_oshea** · 15/06/2005, 10:14 PM

the funniest and most slagging i got, was asking the "barman" if he knew who pat o banton was.

**pineapple stu** · 15/06/2005, 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by Gareth

Who is the UCD fan that tends to lead the chants cos he chanted the sadest thing I ever heard.

Williams dropped the ball or something and he chanted "What a load of Wales". Audible groans and rapid disbanding of his followers SHOULD of followed. Maybe a burning at the stake....Was that you Schumi??

Yeah, that was possibly me - though I think it was more like "You're Welsh, and you know you are" or something like that. Aberdonian Stu has the obscure background story exactly correct though - made sense to those of us who were at the match (even though I missed it!), but obviously not to everyone else!

**Gareth** · 16/06/2005, 7:53 AM

Sorry if I misquoted but I think both quotes compliment each other in the level of woefulness

so it wasn't lost in translation.

Slash/Ed, I didn't realise you were Jammer, or I did realise and forgot

Paul "the funniest and most slagging i got, was asking the "barman" if he knew who pat o banton was". That is very funny, or its early and I am very easily amused