Grumpy Old Git 😅 - I would enjoy a fitness industry book that includes a chapter about gym nicknames and how to come up with them! 🤔
I only recently discovered that, ever since one of the guys at my boxing gym learned I’m from northern Germany, I’ve been named "Holstein Kiel" (name of the northernmost club in the German Bundesliga, but I am not even from that city!). Evidently, learning my actual name was deemed unnecessary.
Ha! It's a good job that our internal thoughts are edited before our mouth clicks into gear. One of the schools I worked in as a teacher had a long tradition of nicknames for the staff, mostly cruel and originating from the students. They became so engrained that amongst the staff they almost replaced our real names. I was lucky, mine was quite benign. lol.
Grumpy Old Git 😅 - I would enjoy a fitness industry book that includes a chapter about gym nicknames and how to come up with them! 🤔
I only recently discovered that, ever since one of the guys at my boxing gym learned I’m from northern Germany, I’ve been named "Holstein Kiel" (name of the northernmost club in the German Bundesliga, but I am not even from that city!). Evidently, learning my actual name was deemed unnecessary.
Ha! It's a good job that our internal thoughts are edited before our mouth clicks into gear. One of the schools I worked in as a teacher had a long tradition of nicknames for the staff, mostly cruel and originating from the students. They became so engrained that amongst the staff they almost replaced our real names. I was lucky, mine was quite benign. lol.
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