[jambutty]

Originally Posted by cashman

personally i think its pathetic objecting to abbreviated names, could understand if it was insulting but owt else just pathetic, IMHO.

It is even more pathetic, lazy, disrespectful and insulting to call someone by a name other than their own.

Would you ask your greengrocer for a pound of CP’s?

Would you call your boss by his initials or his abbreviated name to his face, unless it was the norm?

This whole issue is a puerile sub-conscious attempt to try and establish an infantile superiority over the person you name. Old fashioned foremen would often mis-name a new employee as a means of establishing who is boss. Tradesmen would also employ the same tactic when addressing their apprentices.