On: Number of pubs in England and Wales falls to recor...

[thaumasiotes]

One obvious theory is that 'tamade' never learned British English; the username appears to be Chinese.

I doubt you're required to be a British national in order to invest in British pubs.

[seanmcdirmid → thaumasiotes]

Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username (maybe Japanese phonetically, but that could easily be a coincidence), but I would let them speak for themselves.

[umanwizard → seanmcdirmid]

It is Chinese: https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary....

[seanmcdirmid → umanwizard]

Ah, ok then. To me it looks like “your mom’s” and then cutoff.

[thaumasiotes → umanwizard]

seanmcdirmid surely knows that; I assumed he was saying it was unlikely to be used as a username. But I don't know why that would be.

[thaumasiotes → seanmcdirmid]

> Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username

Context is pretty much everything; the only Chinese username I can more or less reel off from memory is '基妮真特么老油条... sabibibi', and I may be forgetting parts of it, but certainly there's plenty of swearing.