Is it normal to give everyone weird nicknames/speak baby talk?

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I bet you're a very nice person and everything, but if I had to spend a day around that I'd shoot you, sorry.

lol i like this.

Weird nicknames is ok. Baby talk...I don't know how anyone puts up with you.

I don't really give friends or family nicknames, but I do with kids. Currently, one of the kids I'm working with I call Monkey and I can't really remember why. I also call kids Possum, Munchkin, Poppet, Bubby, and all the usual honey, sweetheart, etc. Despite being taught NOT to in uni. Stupid fuckhead teachers, the kids know their damn names, a nickname isn't gonna hurt.

My grandmother always had rude nicknames for our friends. Maybe that's why I don't have nicknames for friends, unless they choose it themselves :-S

Not so much the baby talk but i hardly call people by their actual name. Especially considering I've asked a few times for people to kindly say my full name, rather than the shortened version of it and the bastards didn't listen. So fuck you. I wont say your name at all, douche nozzle. :)

None of my friends are known by their first names, we all go by last names. For example, I am known as Dunham.

As far as the baby talk, as long as it is kept to a minimum and not done all the time it can be okay. I had a girlfriend that would do that from time to time and it was rather cute!

At the risk of sounding like an imbecile, I actually find baby-talking and using childish nicknames very cute. To me you sound fun... other people probably can't stand you though :P

It's normal except for the baby-speak.

I told my brother he was a "joobie woobie, cotton headed, tomato-nosed, mongy pongy, doo doo, boo boo piss head" on the phone. I then called him "scruffy, scruppy, poogie and woogie" in a text message.

I forgot to mention that I like to poke and squeeze people on the stomach. Finally, I like to pinch jaws and say "yes you are! Yes your are a yittle wittle wabbit!"

yes, I give my friends nicknames as well. Its fun.

I think it's normal to do this with family. If you're doing it with other people, though, you should make sure that they're comfortable with it.

i think you sound pleasant. i'd tickle you just to hear that adorable giggle of yours.

I'm 19, and I literally call all my friends bub, bubbins, bubbs, bubba etc.

None of my friends are known by their first name. Everybody gets a nickname. Girlfriends usually get them too. Two of my friends are known on Facebook by their nicknames, not their real name. I like it. I feel like I christened everyone. A few people on IIN have been given public ones (howamnotmyself will always be "flying squirrel" from that animal post here), some of you have private ones (generally uninspired), and some have imagery. Not saying who, but someone here will always be known in my mind as Napoleon.

Worst is when someone has a private nickname and you stumble into them as you walk around a corner. With your mind still addled, there's a chance you use the nickname. And yes, I have done. :/