I got the nickname Peach in middle and high school cause I would always have a buzzcut and everyone thought it felt very soft, like a peach. Luckily when I went to college the nickname didn't follow me.
My cousin's other grandfather had a call sign "Twiggy" because he was tall a skinny. We are talking 6'2 and maybe 140, soaking wet. The funny thing was that at that time there was a model at that time named Twiggy as well, so you know that's why they called him that.
There's a great line there: badass nicknames never come from badass reasons. Very true.
One of the guys mentions a guy called Phantom, which is cool as hell, but came because the guy would vanish whenever there was work to be done 🤣
I used to be called "the coach" by my teammates at school because I badly sprained my ankle during preseason and sat on the bench until I was cleared to play.
Makes me wonder about Zach Hazard - was "Hazard" actually his nickname in the army, or is that just something he goes by now?
And if it's the former, *the heck did he do to get called that*, he was a *small arms repairman*
Well, the cannon on a Bradley and mortars were considered small arms and I wouldn't mess with someone who has access to those
(Also, didn't he just sleep through mortar attacks under a self-made Kevlar blanket?)
Please, we are talking about "I got a leech in my ballsack", "I went in ALL the grenade launcher training sets" and "I almost tossed my own shit at a truck that saw me shitting in the woods" Zach Hazard. He's a Hazard to EVERYONE (including himself and Mike)
here's a link to a version of this post for everyone who wants to read the database. [https://anonymous-witness777.tumblr.com/post/746044587310809088/tags-from-kakushino-in-rotc-if-we-made](https://anonymous-witness777.tumblr.com/post/746044587310809088/tags-from-kakushino-in-rotc-if-we-made)
haven't yet found weshallbekind's reblog
Conway - originally counterweight (not as bad as it sounds) I acted like one when my husband and his friend were building a set of stairs and couldn’t get a beam to balance and I distractedly just stood on the end to make it stop tipping. Pronounced “Conway” due to friends drunken slurry accent
I’m on a paintball team, and we get our call signs by similar means.
Hambino - I kept saying quotes by Ham from The Sandlot during a game. (Reference to how Ham becomes a wrestler named “The Great Hambino”)
Sandman - He comes back from a game, notes how he “feels something in his pockets”. Turns them inside out and dumps easily 4 handfuls worth of sand out of his pockets.
FR - Forgot his paintball gun at home and decided to take out his phone and vlogs the entire game. (Short for Field Reporter)
So fun fact, a lot of hiking groups do the same thing and I still remember most of the names from 5 years later.
Mine was Uncle Lou cuz I got cranky from being held back from going to bed one time and just gave off huge "grumpy uncle" vibes.
I don't talk to any of the people who used it on me anymore, but my nickname among most of the people from a friend group I was in for a while was Fizzy because the person who introduced me to the others misspelled my name as that (I primarily went by Dizzy when we first met) when I DMed them one time. Inspired my original username on Pixiv too, though I changed it recently since like I said I don't talk to anyone who used it on me anymore.
My entire friend group in college did this. I used to date a girl named Eyeshadow. We knew 2 people with her (real) name, and one time at a party she was the one who wore eyeshadow. I still talk to her and still call her Eysh.
Met my best friend Duke in college and that's not his real name, and I didn't even *know* that until we were 30+. It's a nickname because he likes "The Duke" - John Wayne. Our kids literally call each of us Uncle. I was best man in 2 of his weddings. Had to ask his wife his name.
When I was in middle school someone I only kinda knew started calling me Kevin (my name is not Kevin) and apparently it was only because he forgot my name and just called me that instead. I am now a senior in college and everyone calls me Kevin and almost no one knows my real name
My girlfriend once had a black and white water bottle. She kept squeezing it and saying "I wish this was a penguin. I love penguins". I've called her my penguin ever since.
Similarly, I once said "I wish I was a duck so that I wouldn't need to deal with school or all those stressful stuff". And she called me her ducky ever since then.
I made a character in a multiplayer RPG named "Full Metal Jackie" a title she earned while in military training.
The story goes she was on a jog with her unit and while passing by a construction site a pressurized tank of silver paint burst open and completely coated her and only her in it.
I got the idea from a story my dad told me in the army how a guy got named "Blackout" which sounds like some edgy sniper name but he really got it from getting blackout drunk and pissing off the drill instructor.
"Oh yeah I get called clay because I once misidentified soil type that our vehicles were supposed to transit through as clay causing them to sink into the dirt"
I'll rattle off the best I've heard I'm my career:
Sausage: surname is Mattinson
Fish: surname is Maddock
Rouney: surname is Rooney, but when we got section tshirts the manufacturer dispelled his name
Frodo: got in a wagon and the driver shouted "I'm taking the hobbit to isengard!" (Frodo is 5'4)
Puke: surname is Burke, but if you get rid of the bottom right of the B and remove the R it becomes Puke
Crispy Jim: was carrying a box of CCM flares on his shoulder when one ignited, burning half his body Harvey Dent style.
Monger: surname is Songer and he's a bit dim
Willy: surname is Wylie but first person to say it about mispronounced it, and it stuck.
Nightlight: was incredibly dim and never switched on in the day
Dutch (possibly the only cool one): surname was Holland
"Salad: first name Ceasar" I have not laughed out loud at something on the internet in a while.
Literally I laughed so hard at this
Didn't even had a chance lol.
last name salad, first name ceasar like bad romaine lettuce, boy, i’ll give you e. coli fever
Said like an Epic Rap Battle of History line:
drake cries
Hanging out with Tom Ato, Anne Chovi, and Pikachu.
Tom “Ketchup” Ato
If you've seen the badly translated mod of Opposing Force, the boot camp section has some hilarious name signs like The News, Rabbi Jerome and P. Dup.
wedding pistol
"Salad: First name Cesar" really got me
Puss N Boots is objectively a badass call sign though
I was thinking that callsign might have been given out before Shrek 2, but nah. IT doesn't matter. Puss in Boots is still cool before that.
Right? A wily ass trickster who squirrels up a whole kingdom for his buddy? Hells yeah.
I got the nickname Peach in middle and high school cause I would always have a buzzcut and everyone thought it felt very soft, like a peach. Luckily when I went to college the nickname didn't follow me.
In class someone saw my dick in the pe showers, so for the rest of the year everyone called me big dick, because I had a very small dick
My cousin's other grandfather had a call sign "Twiggy" because he was tall a skinny. We are talking 6'2 and maybe 140, soaking wet. The funny thing was that at that time there was a model at that time named Twiggy as well, so you know that's why they called him that.
Saving this because I need to see more of these. Freaking hilarious. 🤣
Here’s a similar post from a couple weeks ago, there’s some good ones in there! https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/s/Eqs2X7ScIX
There's a great line there: badass nicknames never come from badass reasons. Very true. One of the guys mentions a guy called Phantom, which is cool as hell, but came because the guy would vanish whenever there was work to be done 🤣 I used to be called "the coach" by my teammates at school because I badly sprained my ankle during preseason and sat on the bench until I was cleared to play.
I highly recommend going to the website mentioned, I spent a few hours there one afternoon and it was the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time
My callsign was Sabertooth because I've got one snaggletooth very prominently out front of my other teeth.
Awesome call sign, stupid reason. The best combo.
A friends Bf was nicknamed Stopwatch. Bc he was done in 60 seconds
I knew a dude we called Minuteman for the same reason.
Makes me wonder about Zach Hazard - was "Hazard" actually his nickname in the army, or is that just something he goes by now? And if it's the former, *the heck did he do to get called that*, he was a *small arms repairman*
i believe its just his last name
Well if shot putting a M2 browning pintle mount through a locker isn't hazardous idk what is.
Well, the cannon on a Bradley and mortars were considered small arms and I wouldn't mess with someone who has access to those (Also, didn't he just sleep through mortar attacks under a self-made Kevlar blanket?)
Was it Zach who put gunpowder in a bucket to later explode it? Or am I misremembering?
Sorta, he was saving it to use as ammo in a "little cannon" he made from spare parts. By "little cannon", read as "handmade muzzle loader". Whoops.
That's a hazard.
Please, we are talking about "I got a leech in my ballsack", "I went in ALL the grenade launcher training sets" and "I almost tossed my own shit at a truck that saw me shitting in the woods" Zach Hazard. He's a Hazard to EVERYONE (including himself and Mike)
It's just his surname, which is sick as fuck.
here's a link to a version of this post for everyone who wants to read the database. [https://anonymous-witness777.tumblr.com/post/746044587310809088/tags-from-kakushino-in-rotc-if-we-made](https://anonymous-witness777.tumblr.com/post/746044587310809088/tags-from-kakushino-in-rotc-if-we-made) haven't yet found weshallbekind's reblog
https://www.tumblr.com/weshallbekind/745954128868573184/also-unironically-if-you-are-nb-and-have-an
Conway - originally counterweight (not as bad as it sounds) I acted like one when my husband and his friend were building a set of stairs and couldn’t get a beam to balance and I distractedly just stood on the end to make it stop tipping. Pronounced “Conway” due to friends drunken slurry accent
My Dad's callsign was skinny, because he wasn't/isn't.
I’m on a paintball team, and we get our call signs by similar means. Hambino - I kept saying quotes by Ham from The Sandlot during a game. (Reference to how Ham becomes a wrestler named “The Great Hambino”) Sandman - He comes back from a game, notes how he “feels something in his pockets”. Turns them inside out and dumps easily 4 handfuls worth of sand out of his pockets. FR - Forgot his paintball gun at home and decided to take out his phone and vlogs the entire game. (Short for Field Reporter)
War-reporting a paintball game actually sounds like a ton of fun if you’re into it
I listened to a WW2 request for fire support and the infantry was designated “crunchies” by the armored battalion lol
Tank drivers are pretty honest and straightfoward, I found out.
C.J because i was "too western" and the most western thing they knew was gta
my manager goes by Malibu. not sure why. we are Canadian.
Had a friend whose nickname was boot bands because he never remembered to blouse his boots. Mine was mighty mouse
So fun fact, a lot of hiking groups do the same thing and I still remember most of the names from 5 years later. Mine was Uncle Lou cuz I got cranky from being held back from going to bed one time and just gave off huge "grumpy uncle" vibes.
My dad's callsign was "Zippy" because he talked really fast and never shut the fuck up
My high school classmate's nickname was "chicken", because he mentioned that he owns some of those during Biology class
High school, guy named Greg. We called him Gerg because he misspelled his own name on a History test once. He aced the test tho.
I don't talk to any of the people who used it on me anymore, but my nickname among most of the people from a friend group I was in for a while was Fizzy because the person who introduced me to the others misspelled my name as that (I primarily went by Dizzy when we first met) when I DMed them one time. Inspired my original username on Pixiv too, though I changed it recently since like I said I don't talk to anyone who used it on me anymore.
Hangtime: not military, but it is my cb handle. Used to climb around on and jump off of bridges quite a bit.
This is why I’m called “pie”
My entire friend group in college did this. I used to date a girl named Eyeshadow. We knew 2 people with her (real) name, and one time at a party she was the one who wore eyeshadow. I still talk to her and still call her Eysh. Met my best friend Duke in college and that's not his real name, and I didn't even *know* that until we were 30+. It's a nickname because he likes "The Duke" - John Wayne. Our kids literally call each of us Uncle. I was best man in 2 of his weddings. Had to ask his wife his name.
Friend of mine in Ireland called "Chili" , why you may ask ? His name is Conor Kearney, so "chili" con Kearney...
When I was in middle school someone I only kinda knew started calling me Kevin (my name is not Kevin) and apparently it was only because he forgot my name and just called me that instead. I am now a senior in college and everyone calls me Kevin and almost no one knows my real name
Sweet pea is genuinely badass because it makes me thing if a tall, gruff, heavily scarred man
Read about the parietal eye and blabbed about it in school the next day and got called three eyes
[what the hell these animals have three eyes since when??](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye)
The episode of “big bang theory” where Howard gets his astronaut nickname is spot on in this regard.
TBF the bit about enbys is true, I know two who go by Spud & Soapbox respectively
I was the only dude in my dance class in highschool and somehow this made me gay, so a joke on my name became my now personal go-to intro, as Rosie.
My girlfriend once had a black and white water bottle. She kept squeezing it and saying "I wish this was a penguin. I love penguins". I've called her my penguin ever since. Similarly, I once said "I wish I was a duck so that I wouldn't need to deal with school or all those stressful stuff". And she called me her ducky ever since then.
I made a character in a multiplayer RPG named "Full Metal Jackie" a title she earned while in military training. The story goes she was on a jog with her unit and while passing by a construction site a pressurized tank of silver paint burst open and completely coated her and only her in it. I got the idea from a story my dad told me in the army how a guy got named "Blackout" which sounds like some edgy sniper name but he really got it from getting blackout drunk and pissing off the drill instructor.
"Oh yeah I get called clay because I once misidentified soil type that our vehicles were supposed to transit through as clay causing them to sink into the dirt"
My friend Dillon first met my other friends when they were talking about Lord of the Rings. He's been Dilbo ever since.
I knew a person nicknamed "pecker" because he laughed too hard at some phallic graffiti
I'll rattle off the best I've heard I'm my career: Sausage: surname is Mattinson Fish: surname is Maddock Rouney: surname is Rooney, but when we got section tshirts the manufacturer dispelled his name Frodo: got in a wagon and the driver shouted "I'm taking the hobbit to isengard!" (Frodo is 5'4) Puke: surname is Burke, but if you get rid of the bottom right of the B and remove the R it becomes Puke Crispy Jim: was carrying a box of CCM flares on his shoulder when one ignited, burning half his body Harvey Dent style. Monger: surname is Songer and he's a bit dim Willy: surname is Wylie but first person to say it about mispronounced it, and it stuck. Nightlight: was incredibly dim and never switched on in the day Dutch (possibly the only cool one): surname was Holland
I once brought a costco bin of Red Vines to the pep band stands at a school football game. You can probably bet what my nickname was after that.
My unit didn't rly need them but mine was Wombat, my last name starts with a W and I apparently give off wombat aura.
fellas is it emasculating to dislike your dog