"Don't give someone an embarrassing name, they're stuck with it for life"

As if legal name changes aren't a thing.

I mean yeah don't give them an embarrassing name but still
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  • I feel like most people who say this are horribly racist.
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  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Legal name changes can be kind of tedious and drawn-out though.

    Like, the actual name change itself is pretty painless, but then you have to go and update your records on virtually everything that has your name attached to it.
  • Plus having to wait till adulthood.
    Jane said:

    I feel like most people who say this are horribly racist.

    Or grew up with an ill-fitting old man name like I did.  It's fine now that I'm an adult, but in grade school it contributed to bullying.
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    funny thing is i know several of these because of one particular mystery hunt puzzle
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    speaking of old person names, is it me or has the name "Smedley" basically vanished
  • Bee said:

    Plus having to wait till adulthood.

    Jane said:

    I feel like most people who say this are horribly racist.

    Or grew up with an ill-fitting old man name like I did.  It's fine now that I'm an adult, but in grade school it contributed to bullying.
    Fair (I knew a Hezekiah in middle school) but usually when I see this line of reasoning it's with some shit about how you shouldn't name your kid Janelle because "it's ghetto".
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    Naw, I was thinking about people who name their kid Robert Robertson or white people who give their kids Japanese names based on Anime.
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  • There has actually been research that claims the more unique your name is, the less likely you're going to get a job, because screw people who even slightly complicate their resumes with their stupid stupid names.

    As a guy whose name is a fairly obscure Swahili name, I hope to spit in research's face.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Anonus said:

    speaking of old person names, is it me or has the name "Smedley" basically vanished

    What about Alcatraz?
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  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    There has actually been research that claims the more unique your name is, the less likely you're going to get a job, because screw people who even slightly complicate their resumes with their stupid stupid names.


    As a guy whose name is a fairly obscure Swahili name, I hope to spit in research's face.
    GO FOR THE EYES, YARRSPIT, GO FOR THE EYES, YAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
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    my first name is fine but my last name can be problematic. No, it's not Hitler.

    Anyway, I'm of the opinion that strange & life-inhibiting names should be given to fictional characters, not real people.
  • what, no mention of Pilot Inspektor?

    I am disappointed. That is my favorite stupid celebrity baby name.
  • I think the funniest one I saw was Melanomia.  Yes, let's name our kid after fucking skin cancer.
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    There has actually been research that claims the more unique your name is, the less likely you're going to get a job, because screw people who even slightly complicate their resumes with their stupid stupid names.


    As a guy whose name is a fairly obscure Swahili name, I hope to spit in research's face.
    Your name is cool and alliterative, at the very least.

    my first name is fine but my last name can be problematic. No, it's not Hitler.

    Same. I like my last name but it's very easy to screw up the pronunciation for a really dumb reason and that's a touch irritating.
    Jane said:

    Bee said:

    Plus having to wait till adulthood.

    Jane said:

    I feel like most people who say this are horribly racist.

    Or grew up with an ill-fitting old man name like I did.  It's fine now that I'm an adult, but in grade school it contributed to bullying.
    Fair (I knew a Hezekiah in middle school) but usually when I see this line of reasoning it's with some shit about how you shouldn't name your kid Janelle because "it's ghetto".
    Yeah, generally you're right, but it goes both ways. I feel like you're just as likely to get funny looks if your parents named you Habakkuk as if they named you Lafawndah because both, in their own way, mark the possessor as "different," whether in terms of class, ethnicity or religion.
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-05-26 23:23:55
    Also, I have a slightly unusual last name that's caused real trouble and cost me real money before because people who handle paperwork with my name on it keep misspelling it.  So the idea of giving your kid a weird name with a bunch of superfluous y's and apostrophes that everyone's going to have trouble with just because you're that desperate for them to be a special snowflake is...kind of awful.
  • Yea ok but that doesn't actually happen that much (I think the weirdest spelling I've ever seen personally is my cousin Devaughn's name).

    People yelling about how you shouldn't name your kids "Tyrone" happens way more often ime.
  • edited 2016-05-26 23:30:33

    im named emile ive been called emily countless times

    so

    let me tell you something: if you don't name your kid exactly John McAverageName people (who are dumb) will fuck up their name, that's just how it works

    so it ultimately doesn't matter, name your kid whatever, unless it's an obvious reference to a piece of media many people will recognize
  • i had to get a second birth certificate because some hospital staff person saw "emile" and thought i was a girl
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Commonly-butchered-first-name buddies!
  • my legal first name is fucking "Nathan" and it gets misspelled as "Nathen" constantly.
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    I like the name Nathan.

    I also like Nathaniel.

    (Yes I know you are going by Jane now, which is also a nice name)
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I like the spelling Nathanael, personally.

    A high school crush of mine was named Natan, incidentally. I think he's a lawyer now.
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    I associate Nathaniel with The Bartimaeus Sequence and like both a lot.
  • Odradek said:

    I like the name Nathan.


    I also like Nathaniel.

    (Yes I know you are going by Jane now, which is also a nice name)
    It's a good name, it's just not my name.

    If I ever have a kid (god forbid) and it's a boy, I might name them Nathan.

    I like my middle name (Micheal, spelled with the a and e in the reverse of their usual positions) a bit better but that's mostly because of family history (it was my dad's middle name, his dad's middle name, etc. for like 4 or 5 generations back)
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-05-26 23:58:32
    Jane said:

    Yea ok but that doesn't actually happen that much (I think the weirdest spelling I've ever seen personally is my cousin Devaughn's name).


    People yelling about how you shouldn't name your kids "Tyrone" happens way more often ime.

    Probably regional.  You'd probably see obvious racist backlash against a name like that in Eastern or maybe the stickiest sticks of Southern Oregon, but on this side of the Cascades I doubt many people would bat an eye.  Granted, Oregon has so few minorities in general that it wouldn't even be most people's first thought even if they were racist enough.

    I usually associate terrible "insert random letters" or "fuck with phonetics" names (or God forbid the dreaded CamelCase) more with white hippies and soccer moms than anyone else.  My family would usually have weekend brunch, and there were these two families whose kids were always shrieking their lungs out and their parents would be shouting their names trying to get them to stop (instead of just taking them outside until they calmed down, natch), and they were all absurd names.  I was always thinking, you know, if you named me Trysson I'd probably have a lot to cry about too.
  • I think the most "soccer mom" name I've ever seen is McKenzie, which is a girl's first name that I actually know several people who possess.

    That is a regional thing though I'm pretty sure. It's not super common around here but it's not uncommon either.
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-05-27 00:03:48
    Yeah, to me, McKenzie is the normal name that crazy soccer moms would start with and then make weirder.
  • It's commonish around here

    Taylor and Michaela are the ones I would put forth as white soccer mom names
  • I think Taylor will become more common in coming years since Taylor Swift is so popular.

    Relatedly we will probably see more Kendricks too.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I knew five girls named Haley in High School, and they were all blondes.

    This is not a judgement, they all seemed nice.
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    Tyrone Slothrop

    I knew a Taylor in high school. This was long before anyone had heard of Taylor Swift.
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    What actually is a soccer mom?  i feel like i might have asked this before.

    i've tried googling for definitions and it sounded very much like a sexist stereotype (possibly with a class component?)
  • upper middle-class suburban mom, conservative with an emphasis on "what about the children", owns an SUV
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    mother of a middle class family who has her kids participate in the casual municipal kids soccer teams that are reasonably common in the states
  • also is very obnoxious towards cashiers and the like
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    boring middle-class female parent

    they're a dime a dozen
  • edited 2016-05-27 02:59:06
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    hm

    this is still sounding like a stereotype to me
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    upper middle-class suburban mom, conservative with an emphasis on "what about the children", owns an SUV

    The kind of lady I saw whining about the possibility of a local amusement park letting transgender people go to the bathroom on the news the other day
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    is there a corresponding stereotype for conservative dads?
  • Odradek said:


    upper middle-class suburban mom, conservative with an emphasis on "what about the children", owns an SUV

    The kind of lady I saw whining about the possibility of a local amusement park letting transgender people go to the bathroom on the news the other day
    exactly
  • Tachyon said:

    is there a corresponding stereotype for conservative dads?

    not really no

    i think this is because a lot of the nastiness associated with soccer moms is due to an upper-class entitlement which is married to a very short fuse due to the whole "is corralling a fuckton of kids thing"

    the dads have the entitlement, but have a lower stress load
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    There are stereotypes about such upper middle class men, but they're less iconic and more situational.
  • edited 2016-05-27 03:09:24
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Well, i was thinking it could be because women who get angry about things are more commonly perceived as shrill, comical or acting up than their male counterparts.

    But i dunno, i don't think we have 'soccer moms' over here, at least not as a recognizable group, so maybe it is the way you say it is over there.
  • it's beyond shrill it's like

    imagine a customer who screams at you, calls the manager, and demands that the manager have you fired, because you like, didnt give her enough fries.

    when anyone tries to call her on it, she turns on them, or storms off saying that she will never come back and will "file a formal complaint" that of course never materializes
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I feel like that's a specific subset of the type but it's common enough to be a thing.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    We do get irate customers making weird demands sometimes, it does happen.

    But not 'soccer moms'.
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