[Closed] Does your child's name give away his class?

I was nearly a Giles. The fact that I wasn't I give thanks for daily.

My wife was at school with an brother and sister pairing of Everhard and Ophelia.

And their surname was, Dick...

There's a study been made (I think it was in Freakonomics) where identical CVs were given 'white' names and 'black' names. And the black named-CV's were offered fewer interviews.

Of course we judge on names, just like we do on looks and body language - how else do you assess someone you've not met before? Basic risk assessment from the days we lived in caves.

I have to admit that, as somebody else mentioned, I judge people by their bikes. Well, not exactly, but if I see somebody on a nice bike, and they're wearing trackies tucked into their socks / baseball cap / anything by g-star raw, often with a fag on the go (can you tell I live in Barnsley?) I usually think 'you've nicked that you scrote'. Oh and Phil, they're crap names for kids. My suggestion would be 'kid dynamite'. He'll sound a bit like a boxer, so there'll be no bullying problems when he gets older. Winner winner chicken dinner!

Everhard Dick? Surely not.

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I wanted to call our kids Tarquin and Pharquar or at least any Surname for a Forename, but alas ’r lass said ‘Naye’. I think Rupert and Tristran are so please we went for common names, so that they would not stand out in the playground.

I named my boy Sue - how do you do.

I loved Seb Coe's quote, when asked why he became a runner.

When you go to school in Nottingham and your parents have called you Sebastian, you learn to run fast"

😆

Well, I shot a man, in Reno I think it was, just to watch him die. Top that!

We wanted Welsh names that non-Welsh people would still know how to spell and pronounce.

grum - Member

Everhard Dick? Surely not.

I work with a Donna Gall and another colleague has just named her daughter Luna King Dick

Torquay Boys' Grammar School circa mid 90s.

Chris Peacock
Dicken Hares

I sh** you not.

when they're at school with 5 other Jacks and Isabellas they won't thank you

We used surnames at my schools - not common now? Mine's about as rare is they get so that's helpful I suppose.

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Stoner Jr v1.0 has an old family name that's quite rare - at least it was until I found out there's a character in Home and Away so named

I think you mean Dawson's Creek. 😀 Don't worry though, just popular culture.

The best I have come across has to be a boy called Dixie Pink Dicks. As if calling a boy "Dixie" or "Pink" wasn't bad enough!

Other funny names going around are Deo (Deoderant or God?), Diesel, Rainbow... I could go on 😀

I quite like "Bronwyn" or "fair of breast" is you prefer

Just to prove silly names get properly shared around, there is an academic I have come across called "Brick" 😀

We used surnames at my schools - not common now?

Only if your forename is Tarquin, Oscar or Rufus (SWIDT?)

Rainbow is the surname of some friends .They are not hippies either

Just been driving down the motorway and bought a couple of diet cokes. One was "named" Jordan and the other Kerry. Hard to know quite what to do!?!?!

My only 2p, there was a statisctic about hard vowels in them (or some such), basicly a disproportionate number of successfull people were Sam's and James', etc.

I have two Daughers -

Amelia Grace Righelato-Sutton (Millie)
Charlotte Louisa Righelato-Sutton

I'm Sutton and my wife is Righelato.

See, I'm all for equality, and not making your wife take your surname, and giving your kids double barreled names, but where does it stop? They can't do the same when they marry or they'll have 3 surnames (4 if the bloke already has 2).

See, I'm all for equality, and not making your wife take your surname, and giving your kids double barreled names, but where does it stop? They can't do the same when they marry or they'll have 3 surnames (4 if the bloke already has 2).

Ah, but he's thinking ahead there. The obvious thing for them to do in such a situation is to keep the last bit of their surname (to double barrel) and drop the more complicated first part 😉

My girls are called Burberry and Ellizabeth-Duke. Gets to be a bit of a mouthful so kept it simple with my son, JJB.

I think you mean Dawson's Creek.

I have no idea if that's worse or not.

Anyway, you can shut it - you and your "Cook's Tour of Britain" named offspring 😛

Stoner - Member
I think you mean Dawson's Creek.
I have no idea if that's worse or not.

Anyway, you can shut it - you and your "Cook's Tour of Britain" named offspring

When the Heated Wing Mirror classes attack...!

😉

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9vuz8_the-two-ronnies-placenamed-people-s_fun#.UdcZwMu9KSM

I've just watched that original youtube video at home. Not all of it obviously because my computer is still working on account of I've not thrown it across the room.

I've never, ever hit a woman. But you know what? I'd make an exception in her case.

I've never, ever hit a woman. But you know what? I'd make an exception in her case.

You do have just enough time to delete your post. 😐

I've never, ever hit a woman. But you know what? I'd make an exception in her case.

men like you why i don't like men..

She's a nasty, nasty person. Obviously I'd really not hit her but that's some nasty, nasty shit coming out of her mouth.

men like you why i don't like men.

* it is clearly meant to show his dislike of her views rather than an actual threat of violence.

I don't like women like her but that doesn't mean I don't like women.
Still, I'll be the bad guy out of this.

Nope, fair enough. It was a shit thing to say. I'll bugger off.

well I know samuri was being hyperbolic.
No need for the hand ringers to get all frantic about it.

For reasons of my own sanity I refuse to watch more than 7 seconds of her.

it was but i think those that know you from on here would have taken it how it was meant. It is not the best choice of phrases though but neither was the reply [CG aside]

Katie Hopkins and Jeremy Clarkson seem made for each other.

I didn't want to hit her, but I just messed her face up anyway.
(S'on another thread)

No need for the hand ringers to get all frantic about it.

Not sure if this includes me but I was restrained with my comment. samuri, imo, seems to have made an inflammatory remark that I would not associate with him. Violence against any person or animal is not acceptable.

I really don't understand why some people are getting so wound up by this woman, I genuinely found the whole clip highly amusing and entertaining. What is more amusing than watching someone make a prat of themselves on national TV ?

I do feel sorry for her children though.

See, I'm all for equality, and not making your wife take your surname, and giving your kids double barreled names, but where does it stop? They can't do the same when they marry or they'll have 3 surnames (4 if the bloke already has 2).

The Spanish and Portuguese have it sussed. A person born into a Spanish/Portuguese-speaking family is given two surnames, the first being your fathers surname (which he gained from his father) and the second being your mother's surname (which she gained from her father).

For example - Alberto Contador Velasco, Joaquim Rodríguez Oliver & Ayrton Senna de Silva

Occasionally you end up with 2 surnames the same ie Rigoberto Uran Uran

Shes on radio 5 live now coming out with some corkers

[i]Violence against any person or animal is not acceptable.[/i]

Don'tbesilly. He just typed some words!
The space bar on this laptop isn't very good.

Well, it was interesting viewing. Doubt if she'll see the contracts flowing in on account of her being a Grade A, Gold-Plated, Double Barrelled Triple Distilled, Supersize, Heavy Duty cretin.

Tyler had obviously offended her somehow. He probably pointed out that India is a geographical reference....