Should it be illegal to give kids stupid/horrendous names?

[Comrade_Beric]

My best friend's high school buddy was named "Loser". Everybody just called him Lou. He went on to be a detective, I think.

Sometimes the worst names give people the most character. School sucks for everybody, it's not enforcing conformity is going to change that.

 

[Snotnarok]

There was that one guy who named his kid Hitler or something. The cakeshop refused to do it and he tried to make it a situation, guess who doesn't have their kids anymore?

 

[MikeOfThunder]

I wonder if you can get a sponsorship for naming a child...

"Come on 'Coco-Cola with that refreshing taste' you know how your sister 'Smooth & Silky Head&Shoulders' will feel if you don't get her a birthday present."

 

[MikeOfThunder]

My best friend's high school buddy was named "Loser". Everybody just called him Lou. He went on to be a detective, I think.

Sometimes the worst names give people the most character. School sucks for everybody, it's not enforcing conformity is going to change that.

I enjoyed school. I'm called Michael. Therefore my name is awesome.

 

[Communist partisan]

I'd like to preface this topic by saying I'm not completely serious about it being illegal, per say. Just that there certainly should be rules in place to stop it from happening.

I was watching The Early show this morning, and they had a story about a woman who had twins via two different surrogate mothers. Now, this in itself is a bit odd, but whatever. If you really want kids that badly, fine. However, what irks me to no end is that she named the boy Violet.

Violet

Do some people just want kids to torture them? There has to be some sort of court order that can get this kid a name that won't turn him into a serial murderer or worse...

Other names that should be banned:
Pilot Inspector
Moon Unit
Any symbol that is spelled out (ie. Semi Colon, Apostrophe).

My feelings about this can be roughly narrated via


So anyway, does this bother you as well? Do you have a funny name that you wish you weren't burdened with or know someone with a funny name? Should hospitals provide a Nurse of Common Sense to all maternity patients?

In sweden it's acculy illeagal to give your kids names like that and in the rulebook it says that your childrens names must be classed as a real names.

 

[Orange643]

My last name is "Stacy", And i've had enough of "Dude that's a girl's name" my entire life. Weird names shouldn't be outlawed, but Wow, Moon Unit...

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

A whole buncha ass-water

Yeah mate, that is why this thread is nothing but a 6-page debate about how I have my own head up my ass!

Oh wait no it isn't!

It's just you..

As for the "other people trying to tell me otherwise" I believe it's them disagreeing with the legality of the issue and not that I am..as you say.."pissing on freedoms". So unless you have learned to read the OP and I dunno, logically contribute something, as opposed to seeing this as a, pro-bullying thread I have brilliantly added you to the /ignore list.

Au revoir, my deranged friend!

 

[Jester00]

In sweden it's acculy illeagal to give your kids names like that and in the rulebook it says that your childrens names must be classed as a real names.

sweden has the best laws of the world. not only because of the name stuff, in general.

my name is a bit weird, not because it's no normal name, but it's kinda old. but thats ok, sometimes people look like "", but when i say "yeah, funny name isn't it", everything's all right.

 

[Krunchybars]

The bullies will be all over the little gremlin, named Violet.

SO what you say is that the right thing to do is to conform to what the bullies tell us all to do?

Should homosexual people be prevented from having or adopting kids because the kids might get picked on by other kids?

Should ex-pornstars be forbidden from having kids because their kids might get picked on for it?

I don't know about you, but my morals tell me that bullies are the ones who should be fought and opposed. If they pick on someone (the reason is irrelevant because harassment like that is completely unacceptable. You don't have to like everybody, but that doesn't give you the right to harass, bully or abuse them), then it is THE BULLIES who deserve to be punished, chastised and overall stigmatized for their transgressions.

If you refuse to do something that doesn't really harm anyone (like naming your offspring a certain name) because someone might decide to bully them, then what you're doing is basically saying that the actions of bullies are completely justified.

So how about growing a pair and oppose the bullies rather than conforming after their subjective and arbitrary standards which they often try to enforce through intimidation and even violence?

Where in the thread was it implying that when people who name their sons/daughters "Fist Bump" they are actively conforming to bullies? I am sorry I don't see it.

Kids these days are vicious and always have been it doesn't matter what name you have they will bully you. However if the probably can be avoided wouldn't you avoid it. Even if it meant that preventing a name like Fist Bump would never grace a child?

That's what I think anyway but you seem to have gone all Duke Nukem up the wrong tree but whatever suits your boat

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

I don't remember who it was, but some douchebag called their kid 'Audio Science'...

So yes, these people should be stopped... then shot... with axes... that are on fire... also, the axes explode on impact... into smaller axes... which also explode...

Ironically, "Axes that are on fire also the axes explode on impact into smaller axes which also explode" was Audio Science's seventeen middle names.

To:
Mr Audio A. T. A. O. F. A. T. A. E. O. I. I. S. A. W. A. E. Science

Subject:
Your car has been towed

Mr Science; apologies for the inconvenience, but your sedan with the license plate H67*** has been towed after being illegally parked in front of an orphanage for the blind. Please report to the AA within the next three days or we will impound your vehicle.

Sincerely, the AA

P.S.: your parents were pricks

 

[BabyRaptor]

Reminds me of that news story awhile back about that couple who named all their kids Nazi terminology/names. Adolph Hitler, Aryan Nation, ETC. They tried to sue a cake company because the company refused to put Adolph Hitler on a cake.

Edit: Oh, and the one about Hawaii forcing a set of parents to change their daughter's name 'cause they named her Talula Does The Hula.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Well my name is "Lyle" and frankly it just rolls off the tongue in such a lame, nasally manner that it brings to mind some acne ridden flem spitting geek stereotype. I almost want to say yes, but then again, illegal is a bit far.

I've actually looked into legally changing my name because I've fucking hated it since I was old enough to talk, but it takes a lot of paperwork and you can't even do it without your parent's permission until you're 18 unless you get emancipated, so by the time I got the opportunity it was so set into everything that it just wasn't worth it. I would like to make the system a bit more convenient, if anything.

Fortunately my parents were slightly less shit at picking middle names, so at least I can go by that I guess.

 

[Merkavar]

i bet all of your names would have sounded stupid even just a few years ago.

but i would have to agree some names are just plain wrong and will most likely never be good.

i heard of some kids name cant remember their first or last name but their middle names were hannah montana. so like tracy hanana montana mcgee

they named her Talula Does The Hula.

lol

 

[Communist partisan]

In sweden it's acculy illeagal to give your kids names like that and in the rulebook it says that your childrens names must be classed as a real names.

sweden has the best laws of the world. not only because of the name stuff, in general.

my name is a bit weird, not because it's no normal name, but it's kinda old. but thats ok, sometimes people look like "", but when i say "yeah, funny name isn't it", everything's all right.

So... what's your name than, now you got me curious^^

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Regardless of how innocuous a kid's name may be, s/he will inevitably be tormented by his peers for some reason or another. You have to keep in mind that children are cruel, and do not and will not understand certain life-lessons until they get older.

Example, my real name is Jason for fuck's sake. I can't tell you how many jokes I gotten just off of that when I was little - it didn't help that this was roughly around the time Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers just started airing (racist-ass show, you can't tell me it wasn't) and the Friday the 13th movies were still in their heyday. A recent joke, or something, I've been told is that I have a "white" name, which I sure as hell would like to know how it's possible for a name to have ethnicity (I'll let you all do the math for that statement).

Henceforth, regardless of what rules may be put in place to prevent the flames of torment from having a name that some parents happened to not research, it will do little good if any. Might as well let things be, and tell the kids it's all right to get their hands dirty every now and then, if you get me.

I think you were unlucky or just had some really stupid bullies. There are names that I can see as having an ethnicity thought about when the are heard, but not Jason. You had some stupid bullies.

I'm a Jason and I have never had been made fun of for it. It is really too common to be made fun of. Way back when I was in high school, my high school had some sort of homeroom/announcement half class that occurred I think only on Mondays if I remember correctly. In that class, including me, there were 5 people named Jason. The subject of names being made fun of actually came up one time, none of us had anything to say, because we had never been made fun of for it.

I grew up in the era of the Power Rangers, though I never watched it, so I have no idea how the name Jason relates to that.

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Yes there should be some restrictions when naming kids. The mother that the OP speaks of needs to have her head examined for naming a boy Violet. It is a girls name and that is rule number one of becoming a new parent: Never name a kid with a name that is for the opposite gender. Sorry idiot parents that do this, but you need to have some sense smacked into you. You aren't being original or breaking some kind of barrier, you are just being stupid.

Now there are some names that need to be phased out. I would have never forgiven my father if he had named me Carl. It just doesn't go with O'Brian.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Well my name is "Lyle" and frankly it just rolls off the tongue in such a lame, nasally manner that it brings to mind some acne ridden flem spitting geek stereotype. I almost want to say yes, but then again, illegal is a bit far.

I don't know, geek doesn't come to mind when I here the name Lyle. Every television show or movie I have heard it in, the person with the name Lyle was usually some country bumpkin or redneck.

 

[Drakmeire]

I plan to name my son Drakmeire (drake) Livardemus E---- (not giving out my last name)
if the kids at school pick on his full name he can go as drake but if he likes it then he can insist that everyone call him by his full name

 

[Dango]

Nope, I actually enjoy some of those "odd" names, and I didn't think violet is bad at all.

On a slightly different note, my parents actually almost named me Tiger, but instead settled on Wyatt, I'm still mad at them for that.

 

[DalekJaas]

Who would name a kid moon unit!? Where I am moon unit is an expression you use if someone is acting crazy or says ridiculous things frequently. Someone mentally unstable (in a funny way, not a serious way).

 

[Dragonearl]

The bullies will be all over the little gremlin, named Violet.

SO what you say is that the right thing to do is to conform to what the bullies tell us all to do?

Should homosexual people be prevented from having or adopting kids because the kids might get picked on by other kids?

Should ex-pornstars be forbidden from having kids because their kids might get picked on for it?

I don't know about you, but my morals tell me that bullies are the ones who should be fought and opposed. If they pick on someone (the reason is irrelevant because harassment like that is completely unacceptable. You don't have to like everybody, but that doesn't give you the right to harass, bully or abuse them), then it is THE BULLIES who deserve to be punished, chastised and overall stigmatized for their transgressions.

If you refuse to do something that doesn't really harm anyone (like naming your offspring a certain name) because someone might decide to bully them, then what you're doing is basically saying that the actions of bullies are completely justified.

So how about growing a pair and oppose the bullies rather than conforming after their subjective and arbitrary standards which they often try to enforce through intimidation and even violence?

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Oh that was good, tell me you aren't serious though. Omg, you are serious aren't you? I thought you may have replied to the wrong thread by mistake but no you have clearly misread the OP so far up your ass haven't you?

Interesting! No, really..you have clearly spent a lot of time guessing my thoughts and beliefs here..about things I am not even discussing no less.

That isn't really the case here. The case is more like YOU not really thinking your own idiotic and irrational opinions through very much.

Thankfully, some of us actually use our brains from time to time and are able to see the errors in rash and illogical opinions like yours. Unfortunately your head is stuck too deep in your own ass to actually admit it, but then again that's hardly any surprising.

I love how you say "this isn't the case" without justifying it and then immediately bash the OP who pointed it out for you claiming "YOU not really thinking your own idiotic and irrational opinions through very much". Brilliant strategy there! Did you learn it at the school for retards?

The OP clearly stated in the first post that this thread was for discussing parents who give goofy names to their kids. You (contrary to your self proclaimed "YOU not really thinking your own idiotic and irrational opinions through very much") mistook it for "change your kids names if you want to save them from bullies: OBEY". Yeah..so who made the idiotic and irrational opinion here then?

Before you answer, consider:

a) Since you brought up this new direction of argument it is perhaps better debatable if you actually justified things instead of just spewing hate and bile and throwing tantrums in a lame attempt to get attention. What are you, 5?. Don't lash out at others because of your own shortcomings

b) Have you tried to rationally start an argument? Every post you make sounds like you got your panties wrapped around your scrotum so hard that only aggressive responses will make you heard. In truth, it makes you sound like a bitter and butthurt prat and worst of all....completely undermines any logical argument you try to make.

Once again, STD's are natural diseases which we have no exact control over which makes us adapt to their existence by avoiding them or curing them through medical treatments.

Oh and bullying is not natural is it? Can people not adapt to bullying like you say we can to diseases?

Give me a break dude, you are a class act troll of there ever was one!