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Coohoolin posted:My kids are getting gaidhlig names, it's been discussed. I went to school with a kid named Tadgh. Because it was a small town and we had all known each other since kindergarten, the whole class would get defensive about the proper pronunciation of his name to substitute teachers. "Tad-g?" "TADGH! It's like tiger without the "er"!" Although that kid was also valedictorian, son of one of the few doctors in town and his family were the only Asian kids in the whole school. Irish dad, Korean mom. They were a very accomplished family. The dude's probably an astrophysicist by now. Since I've been working on a family history book at work, I've come across a lot of interesting old names. Merritt, Caspar, Philomena, Wilhelmina, Magdalena, Letisia, Odilia, Gustava, Marcella... there was even a Philomena Wilhelmina and a Philomena Maria in the same family who both went by Minnie. I think the other side had a Wilhelmina Magdalena who went by Minnie as well. Gustava went by Gussie. Marcella went by Sally. It's neat seeing what the popular names were over a hundred years ago.
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I know a dude who named his kid after a Star Wars character. Very disappointing, but he’s a friend so we don’t say anything
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extra row of teeth posted:Imagine going to school as a little kid and hearing "part of your wooooorld" every day from the first day of Kindergarten to High School graduation day. It is a good way to make your kid irrationally hate a song. I know from experience.
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Midnight Voyager posted:It is a good way to make your kid irrationally hate a song. I know from experience. I’d say that’s a pretty rational reason
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areyoucontagious posted:I know a dude who named his kid after a Star Wars character. Very disappointing, but he’s a friend so we don’t say anything hosed up to saddle a kid with the name Bigger Luke.
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areyoucontagious posted:I know a dude who named his kid after a Star Wars character. Very disappointing, but he’s a friend so we don’t say anything Um, teacher, my name has two “u”s
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Feb 23, 2018 04:09
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I heard second- or thirdhand about a couple that named their kid Sephiroth 
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One of my little brothers is named after either a mythological figure or the car his parents owned at the time, and the other was called by his middle name even before he was born so I'm not sure why they bothered with the first name. Hippies, rednecks, nerds or just idiots?
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Feb 23, 2018 04:23
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Well, Perry Saturn made it work. He wrestled, did meth for a while, and then got clean.
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Feb 23, 2018 04:28
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extra row of teeth posted:I wouldn't even name a Chihuahua Guppy for fear of emasculating him. That mom is loving psycho. Brooke is a perfectly normal name! 
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Feb 23, 2018 04:29
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I don't like my boring name ;_;
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life is a joke posted:I don't like my boring name ;_; I was hoping brain name would be 'Pons'.
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Feb 23, 2018 04:44
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My parents named me Lucy thinking it would be common, and my sisters Emily and Hannah thinking it would be unique. Clearly they did lots of drugs. It's not so bad except every 6th person has a dog named Lucy and wants to tell me about it at length.
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Feb 23, 2018 04:52
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One of my coworkers made her daughter's middle name Khaleesi
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Feb 23, 2018 05:04
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We named our son Jack. It's the older Chad
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Feb 23, 2018 05:13
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My parents named me after their dog.
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chitoryu12 posted:Is it wrong to be concerned with the amount of sexual partners my (40F) son (18M) seems to be having? He seems to have a new girlfriend every week, sometimes more. I am not really sure how to deal with this anymore. The incels were right! Chads do exist!
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Tender Bender posted:One of my coworkers made her daughter's middle name Khaleesi I assume she thinks that's the character's name and not her title? (I don't care when normal people think that's her name. But it is a lot funnier from someone who likes the show enough to name a child after it.) dividertabs fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Feb 23, 2018 |
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Feb 23, 2018 06:24
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They probably just liked the word, there's no shortage of people named Princess
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Anne Whateley posted:They probably just liked the word, there's no shortage of people named Princess I heard somewhere that 'Sarah' is an old hebrew word for 'Princess' so it's probably not a new trend.
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Feb 23, 2018 06:41
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Anne Whateley posted:They probably just liked the word, there's no shortage of people named Princess Plausible but there's no shortage of people who think she's named Khaleesi. Because that's how Jorah always addresses her.
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My name has an insulting word as part of it, and in addition was a popular name for rich people a few years earlier. I hear it a lot in comedies as one of the high-status villains that wants to close the rec center or whatever.Patrick Spens posted:Yeah, she hosed up majorly, but if he's not going to put the effort into forgiving her, he should just dump her. I don't know if he is or not, but even if he's trying his best, she might be inadvertently reopening the wound. 1. If she tries to keep talking about it and he just wants to forget. "Honey, how many times do I need to say that you're perfectly adequate!" 2. If she tries to compliment his penis in any way, it's going to have the opposite effect. This might last forever. Anyone who asks you if there's anything you would change about someone you're committed to is not your friend.
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The whole humdrum insistence on boring names (not TOO modern but not TOO old fashioned but also not TOO trendy) leads to a lot of really gross cultural minority policing as well as my office being chock full of people with the same first name which can get annoying when trying to distinguish them. You name your kids when they're babies and you just have little way of knowing whether they'll actually be into their name later or not. Some kids will rock a weird name, others elide it. Some wish to have a more dashing name, lots of famous people go by names weirder than the ones they were given by their parents. Sometimes a name could suddenly end up strongly associated with some event or person or character after it was given, often not in a good way. That mom's a dysfunctional jerk about it--let the kid use the nicknames they want to be called by, and let people who hate their names change them when they grow up--and that's why her daughter's so angry about it, I bet it's a stand in for a hundred other dysfunctional jerkeries she's endured all throughout her life. I have an uncommon first name and a mash up of three aunt name parts as a middle name and I think it's great. I have another sister named after a grandma whose name was also a mash up of three of her aunt's names and it's a pretty cool name too! Maybe that's why I like naming pets so much, you can name them all sorts of fun ridiculous things and nobody gets too ruffled about it.
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areyoucontagious posted:I know a dude who named his kid after a Star Wars character. Very disappointing, but he’s a friend so we don’t say anything
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Feb 23, 2018 07:03
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Knew a girl back in college and her name was "Dragon". Her mom took classes with her.
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Feb 23, 2018 07:03
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conflating kids to pets is probably a big sticking point of how families like that got to this point
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Feb 23, 2018 07:04
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I grew up poor. Childhood classmates: Buckingham, Lestat, Ozymandias, and Blade (his parents were figure skaters) Kids should get a free name change at the age of majority. But I'm biased. My first and last birth names were both shared with anime characters.
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DominoKitten posted:The whole humdrum insistence on boring names (not TOO modern but not TOO old fashioned but also not TOO trendy) leads to a lot of really gross cultural minority policing as well as my office being chock full of people with the same first name which can get annoying when trying to distinguish them. You name your kids when they're babies and you just have little way of knowing whether they'll actually be into their name later or not. Some kids will rock a weird name, others elide it. Some wish to have a more dashing name, lots of famous people go by names weirder than the ones they were given by their parents. Sometimes a name could suddenly end up strongly associated with some event or person or character after it was given, often not in a good way. That mom's a dysfunctional jerk about it--let the kid use the nicknames they want to be called by, and let people who hate their names change them when they grow up--and that's why her daughter's so angry about it, I bet it's a stand in for a hundred other dysfunctional jerkeries she's endured all throughout her life. She named her children Chameleon, Sulci, Guppy, and Upton. I think I speak for, at the very least, Guppy when I say that your desire to seem unique does not override your child's desire to have dignity.
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Saeku posted:Blade (his parents were figure skaters) Did they ever try to ice skate uphill?
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Anne Whateley posted:They probably just liked the word, there's no shortage of people named Princess There should be 
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dudeness posted:Did they ever try to ice skate uphill? 
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Guppy sounds like a good name for a large, friendly dog, perhaps a golden retriever. Certainly not a small dog and definitely not a person.
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Guppy is also the name of a really lovely character in Dickens' book, Bleak House. There is nothing wrong with wanting to give your child a unique name. However, you've got to balance that desire against your child's best interests.
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Ha, apparently being called Guppy is also an indignity suffered by Hugh Jackman.
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Our newborn is three weeks old and my (24/F) Fiance (27/M) admitted he won't stop cheating on mequote:Instead of refusing to stop cheating on me, he asked me to have a threesome and if we could have a “girlfriend”. We've been together 2.5 years ...well that's a new one.
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"He lost my Norco prescription at the car wash" might be the bleakest sentence I've ever read in my life.
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DominoKitten posted:Our newborn is three weeks old and my (24/F) Fiance (27/M) admitted he won't stop cheating on me 
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Excuse my ignorance, what's Norco?
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quote:Again my family got involved and it was a huge mess they were trying to get me to get out but again the situations at their places aren’t ideal. Welp, things wouldn’t be perfect, better stay in this flaming dumpster.
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kru posted:Excuse my ignorance, what's Norco? it's a painkiller with hydrocodone in it. there's no way that dude didnt just sell it and pretend it was "lost"
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