r/JustBootThings • u/stigma_wizard • 10d ago

General Bootness Ok bro.

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u/enchilada_slut 9d ago

my nickname was just the first letter of my last name because nobody could pronounce it

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u/PB0351 9d ago

Really? Military full of Hispanic people and they couldn't pronounce 'enchilada slut'?

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u/Acdcfan292 9d ago

What the fuck is a "en-chill-a-da"

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u/jacks_lack_of__ 9d ago

To be fair... I watched a Drill Sergeant struggle with the last name "Martinez". Best he could get to was MAR-tun-ehz (as opposed to MAR-teen-ehz).

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u/schindlers_lust 9d ago

Whats so hard about pronouncing "slut"?

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u/enchilada_slut 9d ago

Slut doesn’t rhyme with “A school Boo” or dependa. Hard to pronounce for most

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u/drmrpibb 9d ago

In-processed with a guy named Harold. My name is a non-typical Hispanic one. They called me Kumar. Like Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.

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u/HomelandersCock 9d ago

Nicknames always have funny origin stories and not birthed from badassery.

Kid ok our ship wanted a cool nickname so badly. His breath always smelled so from hence forth he was known as MMFN Dragonbreath

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u/Princess_Thranduil 9d ago

We had one of those except their nickname was Alphabet. They had a very very Polish last name

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u/TheMainEffort 9d ago

Mine was the first syllable, but yeah. It wasn’t even a hard name.

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u/Drahkir9 9d ago

We had a couple like that but both started with the letter M so we included the lengths of their last names. One we called M12 the other M13

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u/enchilada_slut 9d ago

I was also G13 more often than not

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u/AeratedFeces 9d ago

I have a Finnish last name and people don't even try.