Those of you who share a name with a celebrity, how do you deal with it?

SBJ@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 424 points –

I share a name with a very famous professional athlete. I don't even think about it usually but as soon as I have to give my name to someone I can pretty much count on some remark about the athlete by the same name.

I've dealt with this in many ways over the years but my most recent method is to pretend to have never heard of that famous person by the same name. That makes the conversation awkward and they usually move on.

Also, if you meet someone who shares a name with a celebrity, keep these things in mind:

  • There is nothing you can say about it that is funny or clever. We have heard it all before. Just don't.
  • If you do have something to say about it that is truly original and absolutely hilarious, see the previous rule.
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It's terrible. I'm the one who have to deal with the consequences every time that woman makes a bad decision.

She is a great actress though.

There are worse people to share a name with haha you lucked out on that one. I guess she still has time to do something awful though

Maybe she's up to some of her wacky shenanigans again, like making her coworkers wear pink to set every day and fining them if they don't or pretending to be a fake account of herself to "organically market" her latest movie and mess with a bunch of 30 year old tech workers on an obscure forum just because it's funny or something.

Who knows.

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