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For various complex family reasons, I'm either Jim or James depending on where you first met me.
Yey, got a question right on the Million Pound Drop! ... India.
My daughter's name is Miri. It's her Korean name and its meaning suited her perfectly, so we kept it. I was asked by a woman when we first brought her home, why we didn't give her a 'proper' name, but she got a very short answer from me. The poor kid gets called Mary, Moira, Mira, Merry and every other variation you can think of. We don't care. It's her name and it's pretty. That woman in the video is the lowest form of snob I've ever met. I'd be upset if my children wanted to play with hers!
Robert wrote: "I'd be more likely to judge the parent."Me too. I especially judge parents to have spelled their kids' names wrong or mispronounced them. There is a girl in my child's class whose name is Chiara in honour of her Italian father. Unfortunately, the mother insists this pronounced like Sierra.
In her defense, the woman's own mother died when she was three and was herself raised in foster care. That she has been able to pull herself together and give her kids a decent life filled with love after such a lonely start, is a pretty awesome accomplishment. My own life has been full of challenges too, but the fact of having my own mother's love has always been a solid foundation to build on. And, my real name is CATHARINE after her, which the nuns who taught my mother insisted should be spelled Catherine. But, we've been spelling it wrong for at least four generations since we had to change it from the almost impossible to spell Catriona.
http://facing50withhumour.com/2013/07...Scroll down, the tale of the B&Q greeter is sort of relevant to the thread :-)
Katie wrote: "My daughter's name is Miri. It's her Korean name and its meaning suited her perfectly, so we kept it. I was asked by a woman when we first brought her home, why we didn't give her a 'proper' name, ..."Miri was used in Star Trek, so it's a damn fine name.
Patti (Beach Bunny) wrote: "Miri is a beautiful name."No it's not :)
Englebert - that's a good name! :)
R.M.F wrote: "Patti (Beach Bunny) wrote: "Miri is a beautiful name."No it's not :)
Englebert - that's a good name! :)"
Engelbert Stewart doesn't really roll off the tongue though, does it? And around here, they'd shorten it to Bert anyway.
Jim wrote: "http://facing50withhumour.com/2013/07...Scroll down, the tale of the B&Q greeter is sort of relevant to the thread :-)"
Brilliant!
Loved the CV too
Yes, hers is one of those blogs I ask for email updates from. They're good to get in a morning, can brighten up a day :-)
I just read a Daily Mail article attributed to this horrible woman about how she chooses her children's friends. Not only are the children named, but their photographs appear and the district where they live is identified. Now, I know Katie Hopkins is a realityTV star and we should not expect her to have any impulse control, but most people who write about their children give them pseudonyms and don't allow them to have their photos published without having safety nets in place. These poor kids have to go to school with children their mother has said horrible things about. That takes training and stratgies to deal with. I know it is not a crime to be a loudmouth cow AND a mother, but she is clearly not thinking of their well-being in any way. Will child protection services in the UK look in on this to ensure Poppy, India and Maximillian know how to deal with the nastines that will come from their embarrassment of a mother?
Kate wrote: "I just read a Daily Mail article attributed to this horrible woman about how she chooses her children's friends. Not only are the children named, but their photographs appear and the district where..."10 years down the line they'll pop up on some TV chat show and reveal how bad their childhood was, then they'll spend the next 10 years milking it and trying to make a career out of it!
I personally don't agree with that woman. Full stop.
I've been away visiting family. When I picked my cousin up from school (reception class) they were calling out names. The name I heard?Isla (eye-lah)
I thought "that's okay". Until I heard her surname.
White.
Isla White.
I knew a girl called Theresa Green.
I don't think parents sit down and work it out properly when they choose names sometimes.
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I don't think parents sit down and work it out properly when they choose names sometimes.
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Annette Curtane was my Mothers old work colleague.
Katy wrote: "I've been away visiting family. When I picked my cousin up from school (reception class) they were calling out names. The name I heard?Isla (eye-lah)
I thought "that's okay". Until I heard her s..."
Is it bad that I quite like this one???
I remember years ago on Gardeners' Question Time, Professor Alan Gemmell told of a girl student he knew as Chris Lear. It was only at her graduation ceremony that he found her name was Crystal Chanda Lear. Some parents need shooting.
Ignite wrote: "I remember years ago on Gardeners' Question Time, Professor Alan Gemmell told of a girl student he knew as Chris Lear. It was only at her graduation ceremony that he found her name was Crystal Chanda Lear. Some parents need shooting. ..."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY... perhaps
Apparently someone from a couple of hundred years ago called their child 'Depressed Cupboard Cheeseboard'.
Ignite wrote: "I remember years ago on Gardeners' Question Time, Professor Alan Gemmell told of a girl student he knew as Chris Lear. It was only at her graduation ceremony that he found her name was Crystal Chan..."This morning, as my daughter was finishing her swimming lesson, they were calling the next group up and there was a girl named Mascara. Still, the issue is not whether or not any of our names reveal how stupid our parents are/aren't, or even what our names reveal about our economic class, it's whether it is appopriate to limit our children's contact with other children whose parents' are of a different class and IQ score.
In answer to Kate as well, of course its not appropriate, it never is but how do these 'controversial' actions become front page of the newpaper items. The element behind it all is shocking self publicity.
D.D. wrote: "Katy wrote: "I've been away visiting family. When I picked my cousin up from school (reception class) they were calling out names. The name I heard?Isla (eye-lah)
I thought "that's okay". Until ..."
I like Isla too DD (unfortunately the only Isla I know does my head in) but I think Katy is referring to her whole name "Isla White" not just Isla.
It's horrible that she is putting a huge portion of society under 1 label of 'worthless' or similar. Ok there will be people who live off benefits and don't do anything to add to society and maybe they will commit crimes but you can't generalise the entire 'class' by that. If they are going to the same school as her kids they are obviously working hard to provide a good life for their kids and who is this Kate to judge them for where they came from? If anything they are better than her because they had to actually earn it and weren't handed it on a silver plate.-Rant over-
Only silly name I ever heard was Wayne Kerr, which might not come across in all accents but I felt very sorry for the boy.
Basil isn't as popular as it used to be. We need more people called Basil in the world!
Would it be mean to call my future daughter Alison?
A bit Welsh Jud, I know personally John John, Evan Evans. Thomas Thomas, and a William Williams.
Yes but so much imagination ;o)
There are names I wouldn't call my children, due to experiences with people named that but I would never judge a child (or anybody) if they were called that.
I know personally of a family in the NW of England, where every living family member has exactly the same initials, K E B. The forenames are different, that's all.
So currently I am trying to sell a dear little plant (a sisyrinchium if you're interested) which rejoices under the splendid name of E.K.Balls.Who said botanists have no sense of humour.
Oh I love sisyrinchiums. Even the dubiously named. Got the tall lemony one, the low bright yellow and the 'blue eyed grass'- every one a winner!
One of my favourites too Ignite!
Will wrote: "I know personally of a family in the NW of England, where every living family member has exactly the same initials, K E B. The forenames are different, that's all."Well the family of the late President Lyndon Johnson all apparently had the initials LBJ
My mum dad and brother all have the last 2 initials AC, they marked me as different from the day I was born by giving me LC. So I left the country and now I'm LA!My mum's initials are SAC, so I can call her an old bag all I want, it's her name.
Ignite wrote: "Oh I love sisyrinchiums. Even the dubiously named. Got the tall lemony one, the low bright yellow and the 'blue eyed grass'- every one a winner!"Sisyrinchiums? I can't even pronounce that! :)
Don't worry, they're not real words, they're just things that people write :-)
When in High school my daughters befriended some dubious characters in the early years when they were all bundled into the same class. Once the children chose their options they were separated from these friends and made new ones with similar interests to them. Children eventually sort their own friends out and do not need parents to do it for them.
Mo wrote: "When in High school my daughters befriended some dubious characters in the early years when they were all bundled into the same class. Once the children chose their options they were separated from..."I think kids always choose their own friends. When I was in high school, it was actually the richest kids who made for the most drug and alcohol problems and they usually got away with it.
Kate wrote: "Mo wrote: "When in High school my daughters befriended some dubious characters in the early years when they were all bundled into the same class. Once the children chose their options they were sep..."It was ever so.
Will wrote: "I know personally of a family in the NW of England, where every living family member has exactly the same initials, K E B. The forenames are different, that's all."
Those were my initials before I got married!! Now I'm KEW
Those were my initials before I got married!! Now I'm KEW
As a kid I used to insert a random middle name when I wrote my name in a book or card or something, just to knock people off balance. ;-P