girl with 'unusual' name made fun of shock!

MagicPigDetective

https://youtu.be/1LopIroSjsU

Bellycaster

This ain't owt new! Years ago someone did nearly the same with the months of the year. They thought "Let's use the initials of the 7th to 11th months of the year" for our little boy.

JASON.

PVO_Dave

Saw a comment on Facebook just now:

”if she gets fat when she’s older, will she change her name to obcd”  

Poor kid

RandallFlagg

Bridgehouse said:

RandallFlagg said:

  At least she wasn't called @Bridgehouse now that would have been cruel

My next offspring will be called dr1v3l in your honour

Nice, that's the same as the number plate I have on the Capri.

p90fool

There's a tiny village school about ten miles from me which unlike the others is thriving, because that's where all the hippies for miles around send their stupidly-named offspring, their local primaries all coincidentally seem to be hotbeds of bullying. 

The school in question only has a couple of local farm kids who are heavily outnumbered by Cloud, Starshine, Peace and their ilk, so nobody gets their dinner money beaten out of them or their bag thrown in the river until high school. 

It's a tricky subject, shaming a five year old is unforgivable, but the parents need a slap. 

dbphoto

I went to school with a girl called Gay Gardner (short for Gaynor I presume?) and she did have a hard time.

Then again, my two are called Sia and Beau, so I can’t really judge others on what names they choose I suppose.

Teetonetal

p90fool said:

There's a tiny village school about ten miles from me which unlike the others is thriving, because that's where all the hippies for miles around send their stupidly-named offspring, their local primaries all coincidentally seem to be hotbeds of bullying. 

The school in question only has a couple of local farm kids who are heavily outnumbered by Cloud, Starshine, Peace and their ilk, so nobody gets their dinner money beaten out of them or their bag thrown in the river until high school. 

It's a tricky subject, shaming a five year old is unforgivable, but the parents need a slap. 

The only parents that need a slap are the ones who raise intolerant, bullying children.

BRISTOL86

Well I guess the parents finally got the attention they were clearly so desperately craving when they named her in the first place. 

thecolourbox

In other related news...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46398667

Bridgehouse

RandallFlagg said:

Bridgehouse said:

RandallFlagg said:

  At least she wasn't called @Bridgehouse now that would have been cruel

My next offspring will be called dr1v3l in your honour

Nice, that's the same as the number plate I have on the Capri.

I had you down as a Montego Sport kind of chap

p90fool

Teetonetal said:

p90fool said:

There's a tiny village school about ten miles from me which unlike the others is thriving, because that's where all the hippies for miles around send their stupidly-named offspring, their local primaries all coincidentally seem to be hotbeds of bullying. 

The school in question only has a couple of local farm kids who are heavily outnumbered by Cloud, Starshine, Peace and their ilk, so nobody gets their dinner money beaten out of them or their bag thrown in the river until high school. 

It's a tricky subject, shaming a five year old is unforgivable, but the parents need a slap. 

The only parents that need a slap are the ones who raise intolerant, bullying children.

Be realistic, if you go to a school full of farm kids and you're a hippy kid with a weird name who smells of wood smoke they WILL pick on you. 

Nobody is "raising" a bully, it's just inevitable with a bunch of barely supervised nine year olds who all look and sound alike when one of them definitely doesn't. 

My name is Julian, I grew up in South Wales in the 60s and 70s and went to a comprehensive school where some of the teachers were escorted in and out by the police for their own safety. 

Luckily I was big, but had to be way more aggressive than I was naturally inclined to be just because of my stupid girly name. 

Every new class or new school (we were in the RAF and travelled a lot) meant that I had to put some fucker on his arse in the first couple of weeks just for a quiet life. I have no idea WTF my seriously working class parents were thinking or where they got the name from but the song A Boy Named Sue really resonated with me. 

I stand by my earlier assertion, the parents need a fucking slap. 

Teetonetal

p90fool said:

Teetonetal said:

p90fool said:

There's a tiny village school about ten miles from me which unlike the others is thriving, because that's where all the hippies for miles around send their stupidly-named offspring, their local primaries all coincidentally seem to be hotbeds of bullying. 

The school in question only has a couple of local farm kids who are heavily outnumbered by Cloud, Starshine, Peace and their ilk, so nobody gets their dinner money beaten out of them or their bag thrown in the river until high school. 

It's a tricky subject, shaming a five year old is unforgivable, but the parents need a slap. 

The only parents that need a slap are the ones who raise intolerant, bullying children.

Be realistic, if you go to a school full of farm kids and you're a hippy kid with a weird name who smells of wood smoke they WILL pick on you. 

Nobody is "raising" a bully, it's just inevitable with a bunch of barely supervised nine year olds who all look and sound alike when one of them definitely doesn't. 

My kids are the only non swiss kids in their school. They have french names and are obviously different by language. We live in a rural farming village and my kids are easily outsiders.

Bullying isn't an issue, at all. In fact parents encourage their kids to befriend ours as they know it'll give their kids a reason to learn English. 

To be fair, this topic was one of the reasons I wanted to leave england. Too many schools just have no control and parents don't give a shit and don't support teachers to disciplin (I was a teacher before leaving). 

Sporky

p90fool said:

Every new class or new school (we were in the RAF and travelled a lot) meant that I had to put some fucker on his arse in the first couple of weeks just for a quiet life. 

I stand by my earlier assertion, the parents need a fucking slap. 

So you're intolerant, and believe in solving problems through violence? 

p90fool

Sporky said:

p90fool said:

Every new class or new school (we were in the RAF and travelled a lot) meant that I had to put some fucker on his arse in the first couple of weeks just for a quiet life. 

I stand by my earlier assertion, the parents need a fucking slap. 

So you're intolerant, and believe in solving problems through violence? 

I had to survive, that's all. 

robgilmo

p90fool said:

Teetonetal said:

p90fool said:

There's a tiny village school about ten miles from me which unlike the others is thriving, because that's where all the hippies for miles around send their stupidly-named offspring, their local primaries all coincidentally seem to be hotbeds of bullying. 

The school in question only has a couple of local farm kids who are heavily outnumbered by Cloud, Starshine, Peace and their ilk, so nobody gets their dinner money beaten out of them or their bag thrown in the river until high school. 

It's a tricky subject, shaming a five year old is unforgivable, but the parents need a slap. 

The only parents that need a slap are the ones who raise intolerant, bullying children.

Be realistic, if you go to a school full of farm kids and you're a hippy kid with a weird name who smells of wood smoke they WILL pick on you. 

Nobody is "raising" a bully, it's just inevitable with a bunch of barely supervised nine year olds who all look and sound alike when one of them definitely doesn't. 

My name is Julian, I grew up in South Wales in the 60s and 70s and went to a comprehensive school where some of the teachers were escorted in and out by the police for their own safety. 

Luckily I was big, but had to be way more aggressive than I was naturally inclined to be just because of my stupid girly name. 

Every new class or new school (we were in the RAF and travelled a lot) meant that I had to put some fucker on his arse in the first couple of weeks just for a quiet life. I have no idea WTF my seriously working class parents were thinking or where they got the name from but the song A Boy Named Sue really resonated with me. 

I stand by my earlier assertion, the parents need a fucking slap. 

Are you a farm kid? And if you think its only farmers kids who bully and they somehow have an excuse because their parents are farmers obviously you are wrong,sounds like you had a hard time but things have drastically changed  in the past 40odd years from when you were at school. There is no excuse for bullying at any age from any background, and yes, it is the way children are brought up that decides their attitude towards others.

EricTheWeary

dbphoto said:

I went to school with a girl called Gay Gardner (short for Gaynor I presume?) and she did have a hard time.

Then again, my two are called Sia and Beau, so I can’t really judge others on what names they choose I suppose.

I went to school until eleven with Michael Gay. His name was not a source of humour to us at the time although I suspect once he hit secondary school that might have changed. 

p90fool

No @robgilmo I'm not a farmer, and I'm not defending their behaviour in any way, in fact if you knew me you'd know that was extremely unlikely. 

Things certainly have changed for the better in my lifetime, but as someone who suffered from bullying from older kids it's always been something I detest.

BUT, my sincere and deep empathy for anyone who is bullied comes more from a realisation that I also perpetrated it. 

I can remember as a 12 year old flattening a kid in a perfectly legitimate football tackle, but in an unnecessary way I could've pulled out of and didn't.

He wasn't very big or one of the 'cool kids', and half an hour later he deliberately piled into me, knocking me over, but with a look of genuine fear at what my reaction would be. 

It dawned on me instantly that he'd been dwelling on what I'd done and been quietly seething about it, and was almost tearful as he got his revenge.
Given who he was and who I was in terms of social standing in that horrible school status battle, it took some bravery to attack me and I instantly felt a deep shame about it which has stuck with me for decades.

I'm not an animal, in fact in my many years service as a union rep I've spent decades defending people against adversaries who are holding most of the aces, but I still think parents need to try and remember the cut and thrust of trying to keep your head above water in the social melee of a primary school. 

Parents who want to prove their individuality should think very carefully about trying to do it through their kids IMO, young children LIKE to feel they belong in general, and should be given a chance to do so unless they choose otherwise, without feeling excluded by a silly whim of their parents. 

I give my cats silly names, they seem cool with it, but my kids? Give 'em a chance to forge their own rebellion, without having to win a stupid battle against mine before they even start. 

MagicPigDetective

I have an idea what Julian is on about. I was a 'townie' that started going to a rural mid wales high school in 1988. A lot of the kids were hard farm kids  and for us 11 year olds, it was a pretty terrifying couple of years. Luckily I was not singled out for any prolonged bullying, just the usual odd incidents. We adopted the minnow approach, strength in numbers. I liked football, even though I was shit at it, the fact I played every dinner hour with the hard football kids meant I was spared from severe bullying, despite being something of an outsider. But there were others who were bullied mercilessly. Usually the weak ones, shit at football etc You had to adopt some kind of survival strategy.

 But, I wouldn't say it was just the farm kids. I found on the whole the farmer sons to have a sense of fairness or decency bred into them to not let things get to far. The worst bullies were boys from broken families or poverty striken circumstances.

Anyway back to the subject, my name is Geraint. I've had periods in my life where I was ashamed of it due to negative reactions to it, but hey by now I love having a very Welsh name. Us Welsh are long used to people getting our names wrong or being ridiculed. You just explain politely how it is pronounced,  shrug at their ignorance and get on with it, and not go winging to the press. It's been this way for hundreds of years! 

Myranda

p90fool said:

I give my cats silly names, they seem cool with it, but my kids? Give 'em a chance to forge their own rebellion, without having to win a stupid battle against mine before they even start. 

When I finally live somewhere that I can have some cats I fully intend to have Meow Tse Tung (will call him/her Chairman Meow), Leopold The Second Cat, Adolf Kitler, Purr Pot and maybe a Purrseph Stalin.

But cats don't have to meet strange people and tell them their name... 

robgilmo

MagicPigDetective said:

I have an idea what Julian is on about. I was a 'townie' that started going to a rural mid wales high school in 1988. A lot of the kids were hard farm kids  and for us 11 year olds, it was a pretty terrifying couple of years. Luckily I was not singled out for any prolonged bullying, just the usual odd incidents. We adopted the minnow approach, strength in numbers. I liked football, even though I was shit at it, the fact I played every dinner hour with the hard football kids meant I was spared from severe bullying, despite being something of an outsider. But there were others who were bullied mercilessly. Usually the weak ones, shit at football etc You had to adopt some kind of survival strategy.

 But, I wouldn't say it was just the farm kids. I found on the whole the farmer sons to have a sense of fairness or decency bred into them to not let things get to far. The worst bullies were boys from broken families or poverty striken circumstances.

Anyway back to the subject, my name is Geraint. I've had periods in my life where I was ashamed of it due to negative reactions to it, but hey by now I love having a very Welsh name. Us Welsh are long used to people getting our names wrong or being ridiculed. You just explain politely how it is pronounced,  shrug at their ignorance and get on with it, and not go winging to the press. It's been this way for hundreds of years! 

Winging to the press? If some asshole airport official took a photo of my daughter's passport and put it on social media for people to scorn at id be fucking livid, I wouldn't be telling her to just get on with it, I would also be exposing this fucking asshole to the general public.

Being bullied at school , and a child being bullied by a fully grown adult who uses their official status to do so is hardly the same thing, so while a child bullies another child you take it to their parents in the hope that they are decent enough to deal with their childs behaviour but when an adult does it you take it everywhere you can. People abusing children really gets my goat up.