HowardandHilda
The 1980s BBC sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles featured a couple called Howard (played by Stanley Lebor) and Hilda (Geraldine Newman) who always wore identical or near-identical clothes and did everything together – a pair of amiable twits. This entry’s dedicated to them.
Ever been on a forum where a couple are sharing a username? Confusing, isn’t it?
You see a posting that looks interesting and respond to it, then think nothing more about it for the time being. Then a couple of weeks later you’re involved in a discussion with the same user (apparently) and make a reference to the previous postings – only for them to blankly deny all knowledge of the previous discussion. Only then does it emerge that two people are using the same identity to post, often at different times and each of them with no idea what the other’s posted. Disconcerting for other users, to say the least; and it can lead to all sorts of totally avoidable arguments.
It’s polite to other forum users to maintain your own username, no matter how loving your relationship with your other half. After all – c’mon, have you really merged so completely that you can’t maintain a distinct personality of your own?
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