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A quick trick I forgot to mention in the tailstock thread.

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bogstandard:
Hi Webs,

I think it is because you hadn't signed off with any name that you were just called W.

To a few of us old timers, calling someone by their surname (yours could have been Webster) is very impolite. So W was the safest route to go until we had confirmation from yourself.

If someone uses a very long webname, sometimes it is a lot easier just to abreviate it.

Mine becomes just Bogs, or John if you are asking something technical, but BS is pushing it a little bit.

Bogs

sbwhart:

--- Quote from: bogstandard on April 25, 2009, 02:11:36 AM ---

To a few of us old timers, calling someone by their surname (yours could have been Webster) is very impolite. So W was the safest route to go until we had confirmation from yourself.

Bogs

--- End quote ---

A few years ago when the UK was very class oriented calling someone by the surname was a way of keeping them down the pecking order. When I first started work at a Goverment run factory all the worker were refered to by there surname, there was about five different classes of canteens and wash rooms that you could only use depending on your status, and I can remember when I first went into an office job being told off when a took my jacket off on a hot day because it lowered the tone of the office.

Thankfully those days are long gone.

Stew

Brass_Machine:

--- Quote from: websterz on April 24, 2009, 09:44:10 PM ---You guys calling me "W"...that's what we called George W. Bush. Not sure it's very flattering.  :doh: Please take that in the intended lighthearted manner in which it is intended. Just call me webby or webs...everyone does.  :thumbup: :beer:

--- End quote ---

Nah. I didn't make that connection at all. I get called all sorts of things... some I wont mention in polite company!  :lol: Depending on the forum it is anything from: Eric, Brass, BM...

Eric

John Hill:
In my dim distant past when I had a job that used to take me to places like the UK Civil Aviation offices I would get really pissed off at being called by my surname.  Then I began to say "I am sorry but I think you are confused " (then pause while they furrowed their brow) "but my name is John,  Mr Hill is my father",  it usually did the trick.  Another I sometimes use but only in a light hearted way "I am sorry but I think you are confused, 'Sir' was a bastard I knew in the army".  Actually I was never in any army but I did once wear a blue uniform with an eagle on the cap.

websterz:

--- Quote from: John Hill on April 25, 2009, 04:18:46 PM ---In my dim distant past when I had a job that used to take me to places like the UK Civil Aviation offices I would get really pissed off at being called by my surname.  Then I began to say "I am sorry but I think you are confused " (then pause while they furrowed their brow) "but my name is John,  Mr Hill is my father",  it usually did the trick.  Another I sometimes use but only in a light hearted way "I am sorry but I think you are confused, 'Sir' was a bastard I knew in the army".  Actually I was never in any army but I did once wear a blue uniform with an eagle on the cap.

--- End quote ---

Were you just a boyscout or were you the troop leader? :lol:

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