What’s in a Name?

Random character generator.

I am Snake DeGrasse, because like Neil deGrasse Tyson, I'm really fucking smart - take my word for it. Plus, I'm cold-blooded and squirmy. I like my fish alive and whole. If it's served any other way, I'll demand to see the chef ... and bite him.

As a teen in the late 70’s I was a fan of Mad Magazine so I figured paying homage to Alfred E. Neuman fit perfectly with how I’ve felt toward these AVers the last couple of years- mad, flipping them off, and the surname all seemed apropos. Fortunately living in the Boston area I don’t cross paths with too many of them, but reading the entries from this community has been both entertaining and informative.

Well, I am still The Mustress Mhor, and I still write a blog about the village butcher.

www.the-robbing-butcher.co.uk

Ha ha. When I first read and responded to this thread, I didn't realize how long it was. Fish Guy really had our pulse measured when he originated this.

Many interesting stories and information were shared and some clarification about those who have loosely assembled here. I read every post and "liked" the comments. Sharing a "like" is something I often fail to do as my mind is usually in gear otherwise to comment or ponder what content I just read.

To summarize overall, here we strike out at the heart of some deeply troubling issues (AVER'S +), and that which can be justly identified as evil ignorance of varying/shocking dimensions. Hopefully, we help turn the light on for some. Thanks to all who participate and of course the site originator, Vaxman.

Oh. I see this thread has a lot of common interests.

I picked this name out of the air to make an anonymous account. Dip as the content scooped from a portion from a larger container or well. Or it could be a dipsheit.

A dibbler is a mechanism that plants seeds or it could be someone who can't spell dribbler (and needs a bib) . One could take a Dip from a well and water the dibbled hole of seeds.

My history is varied and somewhat Forest Gumpish being that events seem improbable even to me. My family and children have been my greatest sources of both happiness and pain. I am fairly reclusive at this point in the game. I live in a nearly vacant apartment having discarded or had stolen those "things" in life as once attained, they became meaningless in the grand scheme (whatever that is). I have no feminine touch in my existence.

Change is the only permanence in life and easier with less baggage and less bragging. Still, I am compelled to plant the seed.

I recently reread Siddhartha by Herman Hesse; a book I first read in my teens. Is that weird enough 4 yah? lol.

Ex army medic, ex anaesthetic technician, ex grass cutting contractor. Sports therapist is another ex. I have a degree in Geology with Heritage Management and retired now..I worked as a field geologist. I am an internet fraud expert with an advisory website that is a tidy income. My big retire hobby is archaeology and I discovered an amazing historical site, a water mill control complex built by Josiah Easton the Hydraulic Ram and canal man, but it goes back to mediaeval...That is just my earthly manifestation because in reality I am a demi god and a nautical man

Boy, can I empathize. My son was a heroin addict for years, but when he got into the meth, he went crazy. Almost everything you read about that drug is true. My son had so many paranoid hallucinations that we had to kick him out of our home. I have no idea what he is in jail for, but I can guess. I'm hoping he cleans up while incarcerated, but he told Mrs. F and me that if it came down to anything in life vs. drugs, the drugs were always going to win. So I have little faith that he will rehabilitate, yet I try to remain positive. Hoping the same for your brother.

Thanks, Tots.

Well, just guess!

I'm an old, married, retired guy with two sons--one a successful business owner and one a meth head currently in jail (after being homeless). I despise antivaxxers who shitpost--the others are almost as bad, but I reserve most of my venom for the former. I have an ex-friend of 40+ years who decided an anti-Trumper and a vaxxer was no longer his idea of a crony, so to say I am bitter would be a gross understatement.

I feel I am among friends here.

I am TaxTheChurches. Why? Because tax breaks for social clubs, particularly those who want to ram feed me their madness, are unacceptable.

My chili cook off team doesn’t get taxpayer funding. Why should a church.

Live in Oklahoma, listen to punk over country, spent most of my life in Asia and Africa. Finding the reality of America to be a grave disappointment.

Thank you I will. We have same idiots like everywhere else , but much smaller scale ,of course ,because my country has only 10.5 million people .

There is some social web by name seznam.cz and you can read conspiracy theories from Czech people. Btw. Slovakia is even worse that Czech r. Many my eastern Slovak realitives are fans of Putin . Eastern Slovakia borders with Ukraine .Mind blowing right?

Thank you very much ❤.

I'm true Czechoslovak , born in Slovakia ,raised in Czechia

I visited national park and saw many bears that's why I chose hugging bears avatar . I'm not good in English language that's why my post are usually so short . I really enjoying reading your posts.

My name is " cizinka" this word in my language means foreign

Great forum topic, Fishy! Pretty straightforward name choice for me...being absolutely sick and tired of the "astounding levels of stupidity", and seeing that most of the idiots were either anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-Fauci, anti-"protacol" (sic)...I decided I needed to be "Anti" something myself. Anti-phucktard expresses my loathing for the stupid and contemptible. And not to pick on stupid people per se, but those who know better yet actively choose to make stupid decisions that harm both themselves and others.

My avatar uses the icon from TWIV (This Week In Virology) that is one of the greatest sources of accurate and up to date science on all things SARS-CoV-2--vaccines, therapeutics, long COVID, etc...The Saturday "COVID Clinical Update" podcasts each weekend with Daniel Griffin are unbelievably informative and I look forward to each week's news. Can't recommend highly enough to this crowd. Note: some of the TWIV 'shows' midweek run super long & get waaaay down into the weeds of virology and immunology and would appeal to only those so inclined.

Have enjoyed reading commentary here on SAV since January that is 180° opposite the drivel in Fox News Comments sections (i.e. educated, thoughtful, often humorous, and written in English rather than Facebookese--complete with proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation). Thoroughly enjoy the disdain everyone in this community shares for the numbskulls that, unfortunately, seem to be nearly everywhere around us.

Kiki is my family nickname. Not a very exciting backstory, so I'll leave you with this:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd7v8w/this-historian-just-found-the-oldest-use-of-fuck-920

Hello Fishguy and fellow SAV friends.

My name is pretty self explanatory. I joined in January. I'd just received my booster Dec.28th so I felt vaxxed2themax.

I live in Phoenix so I've been busy trying to get medical appointments out of the way before the searing heat sets in. I'm disabled with a rare spinal cord disorder called Syringomyelia and live in chronic pain and the limitations that creates.

I have alot of free time, but lately I've been watching several video games I love on Twitch and catching up on streaming content I've wanted to watch. My favorite games are Dead by Daylight and Bloodhunt (a vampie BR) that was just released, so I've been watching that alot. I just finished season 1 of The Man in the High Castle on prime. It's pretty good and very interesting.

I'm 61 female, single and happy in my own skin. The lack of fresh meat has me checking the site once a day, instead of 3 or 4 times and frankly the AV have a very rinse and repeat aspect to their stories. Sometimes it just feels depressing to see the same stupidity repeated over and over.

Writing this has reminded me that I'm due for my second booster so I'll be booking that for after the 15th when I'm done with my current busier schedule. I appreciate this site and feel a real sense of camaraderie. Thank you to Vaxman and to all who participate. I'd be lonelier and less fulfilled without SAV and the people here that I share my rants, feelings and frustrations with the AV community and the right wing nutjobs in general. Thanks for helping me stay reasonably sane.💖

Ron Johnson is one of my state senators. He's been using anti-vax sentiment and misinformation to further his political ambitions. My profile picture is "Blacky The Crow", a character from a book series I loved as a kid. Here's an excerpt that describes Blacky's personality.

I am Nevermore, named after one of my favorite bands. Owner of a dead heart in a dead world.

My name is self-explanatory. I feel daily dismay over AV insanity. I will never understand it! And my family gets tired of hearing me go on about it, so thank goodness there is this group to vent and laugh with. I‘m also in a FB group, Christians Against COVID Denialism. They’re more polite, but venting is the function of that group too.

I used to be quite devout but over time have let go of it. I feel less & less need for religious expression, especially with the current insanity going on. 🙀

The pandemic caused me to lose my job and retire. Frankly, retirement has been great - I was very tired of that job. My kids moved out last fall, so it’s just me and 🐈 (I’m a widow). But I worry constantly about the state of my country (USA). I’m grateful to the other members here. I hope to do some traveling soon, so got 2nd booster last week.

My nickname.

I’n healthcare adjacent. In my professions there’s a lot of magical thinking and a far too large AV component. Needless to say I tend to piss off a lot of my ‘colleagues’. I’m looking for a way out but while I’m here there’s some boats that need rocking.

Also this is a special place to rant and swear and examine why all the empathy for these folks is just gone. it might be the astounding levels of stupidity, which itself is hard to get a handle on. So great to be in these group therapy sessions With you all.

I guess I'll give my dating profile as well. My name is pretty self explanatory. I love where I live, but so do shitloads of conspiracy theory believing, racist, Bible thumping, Fox watching anti-vaxxers. It's a great community as a whole though, even with the red hatted dimwits determined to screw it up. I'm a giant, so most STFU as they drive by and see my yard signs during election season.

I retired from my real career and now spend my days flipping houses and keeping whatever I can manage as rentals. I'm three times divorced and still love them all, I just insist on being impossible to live with. I kicked cancers ass and given an opportunity I'd kick Trump's ass too. I loathe whatever the GOP has become, anti-vaxxers, and liver, but I like you folks pretty well. I'm 59 next month and live with an old cat. She is a constant pain in the neck, but like QT, she refuses to die.

Wait, we don’t have to use our real names?

I am The Mustress. This is an ancient Scottish word for "wife" and that is why I chose it as my user name. It's also my user name on Twitter (@themustress) and my blog www.the-robbing-butcher.co.uk where I talk about the village butcher and all his hens.

I'm relatively new here, so this may go without saying for most of you:

@Melania's Sloppy Gash is the greatest handle. And I don't just mean on this site. I mean ever.

The second portion of my screen name is my actual last name, which opens itself up to a number of plays on words. Given the theme of the site, I thought "Viral" followed by my last name would be a fitting play here.

thaysey had it's origins in my frustration with TFG's way of starting a false story with "people are saying" but never revealing who these anonymous/fictitious people were. This was in the back of my mind when I was trying to come up with an anonymous handle for another use. Intersecting this was my fascination with the inconsistencies of the spelling of English words and I realized "they say" could just as easily be "thay sey," leading to my very first alter ego: T. Haysey. He and his relatives have been with me ever since.

I have no avatar because I haven't come up with a single image that suits me yet, but I'm sure "I'll know it when I see it."

I too am a proud badge hoor and appreciate all the effort that goes into doling them out. Thanks VM and VL.

Living in New England, I am thankfully not as exposed to evangelicals as in other parts of the country. This is a very good thing because I loathe and fear them and don't trust myself to behave around them. I found SAV about the time it was becoming obvious just how much these trumpard xtians were totally fucking up the pandemic and I was very grateful to have a community of folks who felt as I did - and who are smart and wickedly funny too. I also learned a lot about what motivates the AVers which has totally baffled me.

Since then, I injured my back leaving me in constant pain, with a paralyzed leg, and essentially bedridden. Surgery to fuse 3 vertebrae on June 7 will hopefully fix all that but SAV continues to keep me sane

So thank you all for being you!

I’m sure this is obvious but I love Anne Rice and vampire stories and movies. I couldn‘t be Lestat because I am female and the actress who played Akasha has a body to die for. It is still debatable what I love most…badges or vampire lore. I am definitely a badge hoor and got hooked on this site and now I am behind in my business and have to force myself to get organized. I am a published author and artist. I write fantasy and horror and my art is fantasy or surrealist for the most part.

Well, it's kinda a long and convoluted story. (in other words BORING.)

Most of us think of a Nimbus as a type of cloud, and one definition is not far from that. It is "gleaming beams". Think of the glow around a street light , or the sun, or even the halo around some fictional cartoon caricature (my definition anyway).

And the nut part is just what it sounds like................ to be enthused or obsessed with something,..... But less ethetrical (spelling? any help?) or interesting is the reality that for me the "Nimbus" is my 80 year old Danish motorcycle that I ride all over the Rocky mountain roads of Colorado, both paved country roads and dirt back roads. (Waving hand to the others from this fine state.)

Being the only motorcycle made in Denmark , it was produced from 1934 to 1959 and only a couple hundred have made it over to here and it is not just my therapy it is also a time machine back to when things were much simpler.

I'm, um, exactly what my username is.

I'm from New England, US. My girlfriend, also a queer butch dyke, moved from San Francisco to New England at the very start of the pandemic. I'm almost 60 years old, I have a teenager whom I gave birth to (which is really confusing to folks), and I'm a retired shepherd. I worked for decades as an art director in publishing in the NYC market, but more recently have been an office manager in healthcare practices. And that latter job is where I caught Covid in February 2020 from a patient. Survived, obvs, but now have long Covid and recently lost that job due to the effects of long Covid. Am I angry? You bet I am.

I like to think of myself as The Only Gay in the (SAV) Village, but I know I'm not. Just amusing myself. I like the movie Zoolander, so I chose Derek Zoolander as my avatar.

Anne Gillingham.

Um ...

Sorry to bore.

I used to go by poweranni. Those were my younger years. I would seriously power through just about anything (and drive everyone else crazy in process).

Now it is just remaining in my Twitter handle @Anneispow.

🤭🤣I am not particularly afraid of being doxxed. Come get me, betches.⚡😳📛😂

Thank you for the topic, @FishGuy . All the posts are so interesting and enlightening.

The story of my screen name started back in March of 2021 (when I received my first and second vaccine). I was so happy, I called my son in NYC and booked a trip. The trip was fabulous. Delta still was blocking middle seats. Everyone was masked everywhere I went. People in the various airports were so kind and helpful All the restaurants had outdoor dining (to some extent). The subways were pristine. I watched the cleaners come on between stops and clean, clean clean.

I felt like after the horrible year we had, that we were on our way out of this horrible time. As an optimist, and a Pollyanna, I felt like things were going to get better.

Then, I started hearing about all the AV conspiracy theories that followed the COVID conspiracy theories and watched the cases going up and up and up. Delta arrived and people started getting sick and dying by the boatloads. Had to get off FB and Nextdoor because all the stupid was there rallying all the other stupid.

Around September of 2021, I was just done. Really discouraged, depressed, and anxious. September was a very hard month for me.

In October, I read about the SAV website. At first, I lurked. It was thrilling to see I wasn't alone. Then Vaxman promised the Dead Poets Society badge. I was all in with writing a poem. Named myself Plague Weary because that is what I was and that is what I am. That was back in October of 2021 - still here pretty much every day and donating once a month. Less expensive and more beneficial than therapy.

So, pretty much this site and all the folks here have helped me so much. The funny, smart, talented, kind people here keep me from swirling down the vortex of depression and anxiety.

Thanks, all!

Ah. I am completely lacking in imagination and creativity. My name is . . . my name.

I've been Hotrudderedbum since my first hotmail address in 1998, and feel pretty lucky to have snagged it as it's in fairly common usage in the sailing community.

It's a Spoonerism of hot buttered rum geared to sailing.

This was my baby, named Drift, until I sold her a few years ago...

And yes, I am pretty proud of her. If interested, you can see more of her here...

owningdrift.home.blog

DRIFT is an International 500 Yawl, designed by Naval Architect Robert G. Henry and built in Bremen, Germany by Dutch yacht builder Johanne Dedood and Sohns. The International 500s are highly regar…

Since selling her, I'm just a skiffie that spends his idle hours lobstering and oystering in this...

I have absolutely no imagination, and since that is my main problem, I publish everything under my real name.

Hey, you wanna brickbat me, go ahead. I'll just ignore you. Hackers can see that I'm broke, live in a hick state and I'm older than dirt. I matter to no one.

I'd change it if I had to, but the avatar is my real being. I am a Polar Bear in my other life, and I wish the human race would be smarter about climate change because in the future, my picture and others will be all we have of the animal at the top of the food chain.

PS: @Fishguy: I love your name because there are a couple of dudes who come in from Portland to sell fish off the backs of their trucks-I call them "The Fish Guy". Inland, we can't get fresh lobster or other fish unless it's trucked in.

I like wolves, and retro pc gaming, especially the first of the "Wolfenstein" series of pc games. I originally was going to spell my name as "WolfBane", but thought it needed something a little extra, so kind of combined the two things together.

I can't remember when it happened but soon after I joined the site, and started commenting with others on here, someone suggested that I'd be a "good" Werewolf, and that kind of stuck, so I ran with it (note profile picture).

When I came across this site, my first thought was that I had finally came across rational, and sensible group people that treated the virus, and pandemic seriously, and I wanted to be a part of this community.

The community here helped me during my lowest moments, especially when I contracted covid, and immediately after my car accident, which had a profound effect on my mental health. Even Mrs WolfenBane encouraged me to engage with folk on here, as she knew it would help to heal me when she couldn't be around.

I'll finish here because I don't want to bore you all any longer, or make you think I'm a weirdo, well maybe a little weird, but maybe one day I'll also work up the courage to let everyone know a bit more about myself...😅

I am unoriginal and did not pick an interesting user name. I live in the southeast USA. I found this site when it was mentioned on something else I was reading and realized through the comments that there are people that think like me. In 2019 I was hospitalized with what the doctors thought was pancreatitis. I ended up with blood clots, started bleeding internally from the blood thinners, had respiratory failure and ended up on a ventilator in a medically induced coma. I was in the hospital for 70 days. After I came home I was diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease and went on dialysis. I received a kidney transplant in December and the AVers that bitch about not being able to get a transplanted organ because they refuse to vaccinate for Covid piss me off. I read their stories and spot the lies they spout. I am afraid to go anywhere because of dumbass Avers spreading Covid because of their stupidity.

I don't post much but I do enjoy reading the comments. I think I will try to come up with an interesting name. Suggestions?

I used to be a nicer person, pre-2016. I used to have no guns. I have never had any interest in hunting animals and never will, unless we end up in some weird shit needing to kill our own food. Post-2016, I am now much less tolerant of the intolerant and quicker to tell people to go fuck themselves. I have no problem burning bridges. Now I have guns.

I've been visiting SAV since last fall to revel in the deaths of anti-vaxxer, evangelical, mindless fucking GQP Trumptards. Since we here at SAV have long ago established that the Ven diagram between anti-vaxxers and traitorous Trumptards is a near concentric circle, I celebrate every single death of these fucking worthless specimens that need to be removed from the gene pool.

I have no patience left following the insurrection, not just for republican politicians and their worship of the Orange Wannabe-Fascist, but for the like-minded republican voters as well. There are people I've known all my life who I now know are in that camp. If any of them ended up on SAV dead from COVID, I would laugh my ass off for hours. Forget that, days or weeks I'd be laughing.

Bullet-tooth Tony is a character from the 2000 film Snatch. He is a pissed off motherfucker, inappropriate, politically incorrect, pretty funny, somewhat cultured, music lover, has a small speck of humanity left, and apparently cares for animals.

PS My previous avatar for my username was a picture of the actor from the movie. He had just answered his car phone by saying "bon jour" right after bashing someone's head in the car door.

Like I said, somewhat cultured. I decided it was unfair to have the actor's face associated with some of the ridiculous tirades that I was writing, so I changed it to a nondescript "Let's Go Darwin" logo. I guess I'm in the market for a new avatar.

I am snorgle, because to snorgle Is to cuddle an animal by putting your face against their body, and that’s one of my favorite things to do to my fur babies. Plus, the word itself amuses me. 😹😻

Hi FishGuy, I'm Hugh. I couldn't think of a good handle, so I just used my real name.

St. Xavier was the patron saint of fart sounds and oxygen tanks so I thought "what the hey! Why not?"

Also, it seemed like an appropriate name when commenting on anti-vaxxers lying face down in their hospital beds.

User name, very unimaginative Mr. Miyagi alteration. I came to this site primarily because I couldn't / can't believe the incredible amount of ignorance in our society.

Stupidity surrounds me. My only sibling,(sister) her husband, son and daughters, all anti vax. All have gotten Covid. Sister and hubby, early 60's, mild long covid lung problems. All are trumptards. My wife, anti-vax.She hates Trump,but listens to Facebook instead of science. My golf partner, huge Trumptard, not vaxed.

We don't talk politics. Every time he starts I tell him to shut the hell up I have to

do that a lot because those people never shut up.

I thought I was a radical vaxer before I came here. Guess I'm not. Appears I have a lot of company....

I chose my name after failing to think of something witty and Covid-related. I was sitting by a shelf of vinyl, pulled out a few albums and one was Tom Jones' greatest hits...I loves me some Tom Jones, it fit my personality, so that was that. I live in the Kansas City metro - Kansas side. Recovering xtian, current vegan. Sam Harris' app, Waking Up, has gotten me through the pandemic, along with this site. I went to art school for awhile. Had many jobs..some of them fun. Part-time for the last 10 years so I guess I'm semi-retired. Hobbies: making espresso and lattes (photo is of my latte art), bike-riding, gardening, standing on my head, and commenting on Doug Kuzma's post.

I wanted to have the longest name on SAV for no particular reason. Not much thought went into the name. I'm sure it's not the longest. I was born in SW Ohio and now live in Columbus. Four times jabbed and feeling great for an old half-Filipino guy.

I chose my name because I’ve been sentient for the last 6 years, and I honestly saw no path for the species to survive so much abject stupidity. I spent months feeling like I was in a pit full of venomous snakes who were frantically biting themselves, hoping I didn’t catch a stray fang in the melee. I started scrolling through SAV last September and lurked for a while before joining. It was such a god-damned relief to see so many normal, reasonable (and seriously fucking funny) people. It’s been seven months and it’s still a pleasure to “see“ you all every day. At this point, though, I’m thinking of changing my name to “Die for the Fuhrer - No One Cares” or something.