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I was concerned that the author might have been running into the Scunthorpe Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem).

My last name contains a naughty substring. I feel for the author and their hyphen!



Or similarly a clbuttic mistake (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clbuttic).


That used to be a mbuttive problem.


I couldn't make changes to my USPS (United States Postal Service) account for years because it kept flagging my last name, "Cunnie", as an obscenity.


I used to have that problem but it has not been an issue since the early 2000s.


I ran into it about a year ago with Verizon. No Dickinsons allowed! Sadly the only FTTH around, so I had to have support give me permission to have my name.

I can vaguely imagine how someone would _think_ its a good idea (it's not, to be clear) on a website where users might see other users' names, something like CRM SaaS. I can't understand how anyone would think that validating users' real names on a purely customer-facing website is a good idea. Maybe frustrated customers (can't imagine why) have names like FuckVerizon on their account?


„ear“? „ar“?


I’m starting to think Bruno has been lying to us about being a bear all this time


It would be rather silly to assume all bears have the same last name "bear"! It's not as if people all walk around saying "Oh hi I'm Timothy Human" "Nice to meet you, I'm Rachel Human, are we related?"

Which, come to think of it, is kind of a funny notion, and a nice reminder that despite our differences we really are all related!




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