Posters: Introduce Yourselves Here

[Maurepas]

Hi, my name is Lydia.

It is always really startling to me when a prolific poster suddenly acquires a real-life name. I think it's that I don't really notice that I didn't know their name until I do, and then I have the strange mental readjustment of telling myself, "Ohhhhhh, yeah, people do typically have names. Right. I forgot."

Heh heh Heh. She'll always be Nana around here. Lydia is that girl on Beetlejuice,

[Nadkor]

My name is Jen, I'm 24 (although I will be 25 too soon for my liking), and I'm from Belfast, Northern Ireland, where I lived until I was 21. I live in Kingston Upon Hull, England, where I'm at university studying for an LLM in International Human Rights Law. I have undergraduate degrees in both Modern History and Law. I intend on doing another LLM, in European Public Law, if I can save enough over the summer, before going on to qualify as a solicitor.

I like music, football, drinking (beer and gin being the two usual culprits), smoking, sex, and most things generally entertaining. I very much enjoy sleeping. I also have an incredibly useless boyfriend.

I used to play hockey for a club in Northern Ireland (and was good), but then I got lazy and stopped.

I find myself interested in almost everything. I can speak French to a reasonable degree (although don't ask me to write anything), and most summers spend a few weeks in France with some friends. I'm a member of the UK Labour Party, and have been for a number of years. I wish I was better at maths (a subject I am useless at) so I could have done something more science-orientated. I tend to read on a fairly wide range of topics - law, music, history (ancient and modern), science, philosophy, politics...anything really. I love English literature, and used to have incredibly long conversations with one of my friends who studied it at uni about everything on her course. She could never understand how I knew just as much as her about it. I'm much more fun to be around than NSG would imagine, I think.

I like hiking. I once spent a month hiking around Argentina. Got pretty high up in the Andes, was fun. I also like volunteering. I spent a summer in a Romanian orphanage when I was 18, and spent the years of my Modern History degree volunteering on-and-off on a National Trust property (not one of the houses, a big farm) in Belfast

My favourite latin phrase is "tu stercorem pro cerebro habes".

Er...that's it? I think. I couldn't come close to defining myself, I prefer to leave that for other people.

I'd echo that.

And bloody hell you make me feel lazy.

Pfft.

I am lazy.

[Saint Clair Island]

I couldn't come close to defining myself, I prefer to leave that for other people.

Brief translation: snarky N. Irish lawyer chick who knows shit.

Saved you a few hundred words there. (And you call yourself lazy? ;) )

Hi, my name is Lydia.

It is always really startling to me when a prolific poster suddenly acquires a real-life name.

NS posters have real names? That's crazy talk.

I actually tend to remember the real names of NSers that I've seen -- but it's stored as information along with age, occupation, and whatever else I might know about their OOC personae. I never think of their names as a way to address them, really.

[Gravlen]

To a certain degree, yes. Also, WRITE THAT IN FRENCH!!

Je suis une machine pour rassemblement la qualification.

Possibly.

I always think written French looks like someone writing about cheese. You didn't disappoint me in that regard

Hi, my name is Lydia.

It is always really startling to me when a prolific poster suddenly acquires a real-life name. I think it's that I don't really notice that I didn't know their name until I do, and then I have the strange mental readjustment of telling myself, "Ohhhhhh, yeah, people do typically have names. Right. I forgot."

When you told me your name, I went "Cool, now I know her real name" and promptly went on to never use it at all. I think it's more suitable to call you by your screen name anyway

[The Plutonian Empire]

Hi, I'm The Plutonian Empire, recently turned 26. I like to waste time browsing (lurking ) internet forums. I don't post on NS as much as I used to. I've been here for six years now, having made insane posts at random times throughout all of these years.

I like to spend most of my time fiddling around with Celestia, a 3-D astronomy program, while listening to music, or as stated previously, lurk internet forums, and chatrooms. I still like to answer NS issues every now and then.

And I absolutely LOVE nuclear weapons, and I seriously hope for a nuclear conflict to break out someday. Until then, I can just play Civilization.

I consider myself a left-winger. I despise right-wingers.

Oh, and I currently live in Minnesota.

Yeah, that's about it.

[Nadkor]

TPE! Holy shit, I haven't seen you post in forever!

[The Plutonian Empire]

TPE! Holy shit, I haven't seen you post in forever!

Yeah, It's been a while.

I still post here every now and then. Just on the weekends though.

Glad to see I'm not the only old-timer around here.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Hi, my name is Lydia.

It is always really startling to me when a prolific poster suddenly acquires a real-life name. I think it's that I don't really notice that I didn't know their name until I do, and then I have the strange mental readjustment of telling myself, "Ohhhhhh, yeah, people do typically have names. Right. I forgot."

We become our NS names. I've met 2 NSers before and sometimes, although I know their names, I refer to them as their NS names. It's funny when I catch myself calling my husband by his screen name and not by his given name.

[Pivovarsky]

It is always really startling to me when a prolific poster suddenly acquires a real-life name. I think it's that I don't really notice that I didn't know their name until I do, and then I have the strange mental readjustment of telling myself, "Ohhhhhh, yeah, people do typically have names. Right. I forgot."

We become our NS names. I've met 2 NSers before and sometimes, although I know their names, I refer to them as their NS names. It's funny when I catch myself calling my husband by his screen name and not by his given name.

Same for me lol

When you're IM'ing someone it is much easier to call them "Pivovarsky" than "Brendan"

[Buffett and Colbert]

It is always really startling to me when a prolific poster suddenly acquires a real-life name. I think it's that I don't really notice that I didn't know their name until I do, and then I have the strange mental readjustment of telling myself, "Ohhhhhh, yeah, people do typically have names. Right. I forgot."

We become our NS names. I've met 2 NSers before and sometimes, although I know their names, I refer to them as their NS names. It's funny when I catch myself calling my husband by his screen name and not by his given name.

Nana you are and will always be.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

It is always really startling to me when a prolific poster suddenly acquires a real-life name. I think it's that I don't really notice that I didn't know their name until I do, and then I have the strange mental readjustment of telling myself, "Ohhhhhh, yeah, people do typically have names. Right. I forgot."

We become our NS names. I've met 2 NSers before and sometimes, although I know their names, I refer to them as their NS names. It's funny when I catch myself calling my husband by his screen name and not by his given name.

Correct, Lydia Nana.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

We become our NS names. I've met 2 NSers before and sometimes, although I know their names, I refer to them as their NS names. It's funny when I catch myself calling my husband by his screen name and not by his given name.

Nana you are and will always be.

Yeah, you were ninja'd by Maure on that.

[Zoerb]

Hi, i'm Matt. I'm rather new and just starting to realize just how damn addictive NS is. I'm a highschool senior from western New York. I'm far left economicly and centrist socialy. I love politics, military history, and engineering.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Hi, i'm Matt. I'm rather new and just starting to realize just how damn addictive NS is. I'm a highschool senior from western New York. I'm far left economicly and centrist socialy. I love politics, military history, and engineering.

Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is Futile.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Hi, my name is Lydia. I'm 30, recently got married to an NSGer, Galloism, and moved to the state of Arkansas. I was born and raised in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain and lived for the better part of 2009 as Buffett & Colbert's neighbor in PR.

Confound my lack of transportation.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Nana you are and will always be.

Yeah, you were ninja'd by Maure on that.

Bah, he should go stuff his beard in a modem.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Yeah, you were ninja'd by Maure on that.

Bah, he should go stuff his beard in a modem.

That's one of the things I remember the most about our buddy Maurepas. His beard.

[Nadkor]

I couldn't come close to defining myself, I prefer to leave that for other people.

Brief translation: snarky N. Irish lawyer chick who knows shit.

Saved you a few hundred words there. (And you call yourself lazy? )

Not a bad effort.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Hi, i'm Matt. I'm rather new and just starting to realize just how damn addictive NS is. I'm a highschool senior from western New York. I'm far left economicly and centrist socialy. I love politics, military history, and engineering.

Hello Matt, and welcome to Hotel California NS.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Hi, i'm Matt. I'm rather new and just starting to realize just how damn addictive NS is. I'm a highschool senior from western New York. I'm far left economicly and centrist socialy. I love politics, military history, and engineering.

Run while you still have a future.

[Zoerb]

The door... it keeps geting further away... i can't... it keeps pulling me back...
I'm stuck...

[The Norwegian Blue]

It is always really startling to me when a prolific poster suddenly acquires a real-life name. I think it's that I don't really notice that I didn't know their name until I do, and then I have the strange mental readjustment of telling myself, "Ohhhhhh, yeah, people do typically have names. Right. I forgot."

I still call Neo Art by "Neo" half the time, even when we are sitting across from each other eating.

I do, too.

(Well, okay, I've never yet called him by his screen name to his face, but I've totally done it when talking about him to other people. I make sure not to call him by his screen name to his face specifically so I can keep teasing him about how he's addressed me by mine. )

Also, former-NSGer WC Imperial Court and I talk on the phone probably something like 8 hours a week, and we begin every phone conversation with, "Hi Dubsy!" "Hi [abbreviated form of my former username*]!" despite having known each other's real names for years now.

*I think almost everybody has figured out who I am by now, but it's still fun catching the stragglers going, "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just got the joke behind your username!" so I figure I might as well maintain the mystery a little longer.

[Saurisia]

I am Saurisia, and I am obsessed with Dinosaurs. There two sides to it: there's the innocent childish obsession you'd expect from a six year old, not a sixteen year old, and there's also an outright fetish towards female Anthro Dinosaurs (which, in my opinion, are sexy). I am a Scalie overall, basically.

[Great Valencia]

Im Great Valencia, and im a communist all the way. Im a former US Marine, and I like tacos. No matter what, I come up with a valid reason that the USSR and Russia are the best nations in history. Hooyah! (I know Marines are Oorah, but Hooyah is cooler)

[The Norwegian Blue]

It is always really startling to me when a prolific poster suddenly acquires a real-life name. I think it's that I don't really notice that I didn't know their name until I do, and then I have the strange mental readjustment of telling myself, "Ohhhhhh, yeah, people do typically have names. Right. I forgot."

When you told me your name, I went "Cool, now I know her real name" and promptly went on to never use it at all. I think it's more suitable to call you by your screen name anyway

It suits me, I think. It's funny how something that was simply a silly name for a country turned into an actual good name for me without that ever being my intent.