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The worst kid's name you've ever heard?

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    #4832
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Kid on the train to Southend the other day called Promise...


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    #4833
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    The parents probably thought it was pretentious and didn't know it was the Australian badge for Opel cars.

    Could be called after Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye.


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    #4834
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Logan, not quite sure what to make of it.

    Like it


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    #4835
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    razorblunt wrote: »
    What's the Irish for "untwist your knickers"?

    You know what I meant ... if someone called Deborah went to a Gaelscoil would she be called Gobnait?


    Pog mo thon.


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    #4836
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Digs wrote: »
    My daughter is in a Gaelscoil and they translate their surnames but not first names.
    SusieBlue wrote: »
    They do. At least in the one I went to. Off the top of my head, in my class, there was a Sarah, Claire, Tom and Joey who were Sorcha, Clár, Tomás and Seosamh while at school.
    Addressing them by their actual names wasn't allowed. Irish versions only.

    I think that is what they were implying!
    partyguinness wrote: »
    Pog mo thon.
    Is that the Scots Gaelic version? They drop the fadas don't they? The amadáns.


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    #4837
    Digs
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭Digs


    razorblunt wrote: »
    I think that is what they were implying!

    My point differs though! In my daughters school a Deborah wouldn’t be forced to be a Gobnait, a Claire wouldn’t be Clár, Sarah wouldn’t be Sorcha. Anyone with an English name stays the same. It’s just their surnames they change to Irish.


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    #4838
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,506 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    just turned on the tv. british touring cars is on. the guy on pole is called JACK GOFF. . why would you call him jack. did they not listen to his name a few times before deciding on it


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    #4839
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    At the Zoo yesterday, a salt of the earth chisler with a fine “Dubalin” accent on him named......Atlas.

    He’ll go places! Sorry, I couldn’t resist.


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    #4840
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    PlaneSpeeking wrote: »
    I work with a Lancelot, seriously! Nice lad!!!

    On the knight shift by any chance?


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    #4841
    jbt123
    Registered Users Posts: 861 ✭✭✭jbt123


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    At the Zoo yesterday, a salt of the earth chisler with a fine “Dubalin” accent on him named......Atlas.

    He’ll go places! Sorry, I couldn’t resist.


    That's quite a heavy burden to carry...


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    #4842
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    At the Zoo yesterday, a salt of the earth chisler with a fine “Dubalin” accent on him named......Atlas.

    He’ll go places! Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

    I'd say he's got the world on his shoulders


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    #4843
    Liamalone
    Registered Users Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    Nemo


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    #4844
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,364 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Digs wrote: »
    My daughter is in a Gaelscoil and they translate their surnames but not first names.

    When I was in school in 2nd class the teacher decided the Irish name I was stuck with my entire time in school. For some reason he didn't translate the anglo-irish first name and add Mc to my surname and then spelt it wrong in the same way people mispronounce it a lot.

    A teacher in secondary school an Irish teacher insisted on using my anglo-irish name in the Irish form while using the bastardisation of my surname. I just never acknowledged he was talking to me if he didn't use my actual name which doesn't change in any other language but we are meant to have a magic rule for it. Teachers are not smart people they just have knowledge before you


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    #4845
    fatherted1969
    Registered Users Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭fatherted1969


    I know a pepper, seriously. And it's a girl!! Irish through and through. How the fook did that happen ?


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    #4846
    Martina1991
    Registered Users Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    Saw a kids name today at work.

    Michilin

    I know it's spelled differently but it just reminded me of the Michelin man.


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    #4847
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 10,010 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    fatherted1969 wrote: »
    I know a pepper, seriously. And it's a girl!! Irish through and through. How the fook did that happen ?

    A green Pepper?


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    #4848
    noveltea
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭noveltea


    Sylvester. Born in July. Lives in Cork. All I think is Stalone or else a cat.


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    #4849
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Judge Judy never fails to provide:

    Girls:
    T'Quandah
    Empress-Aretha
    Promise

    Boys:
    D'Tanyan (going for D'Artagnan possibly but too think ??)
    Jeeohvarny
    Prince and King - twin brothers!


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    #4850
    Thomas_IV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 359 ✭✭Thomas_IV


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    pickarooney wrote: »
    Ah now surely Irish schools wouldn't forcibly impose a 'translated' version of her name on a child?

    They do. At least in the one I went to. Off the top of my head, in my class, there was a Sarah, Claire, Tom and Joey who were Sorcha, Clár, Tomás and Seosamh while at school.
    Addressing them by their actual names wasn't allowed. Irish versions only.

    Has that version entered the School certificate as well? I wonder whether that was the norm too.


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    #4851
    js35
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭js35


    fatherted1969 wrote: »
    I know a pepper, seriously. And it's a girl!! Irish through and through. How the fook did that happen ?

    Her Parents must of been fans of the kids film Annie :pac: :pac:


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    #4852
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Liamalone wrote: »
    Nemo

    Can't wait to hear his parents when he gets lost in a shopping center!


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    #4853
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    My surname is a British-sounding name, but I was given two completely different "translations" of it going through school. Ridiculous!


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    #4854
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Kobe is here with his Ma in McDonald's. He's a little McBollocks surprisingly enough.


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    #4855
    Will I Am Not
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Will I Am Not


    PlaneSpeeking wrote: »
    Judge Judy never fails to provide:

    Girls:
    T'Quandah
    Empress-Aretha
    Promise

    Boys:
    D'Tanyan (going for D'Artagnan possibly but too think ??)
    Jeeohvarny
    Prince and King - twin brothers!

    That’s what the travellers called Trapattoni.


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    #4856
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    J'Nea

    Pronounced Jenny


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    #4857
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Foweva Awone wrote: »
    J'Nea

    Pronounced Jenny

    You know the one that you never ever ever ever EVER want to hear ? BEcuase you get the name, and the explanation ???

    LUAS from Heuston this morning:

    "What did you call her ?"
    "Nevaeh"
    "Ah that's only lovely"
    "It's heaven spelled backwards".

    i was willing a crash. For me!


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    #4858
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    PlaneSpeeking wrote: »
    You know the one that you never ever ever ever EVER want to hear ? BEcuase you get the name, and the explanation ???

    LUAS from Heuston this morning:

    "What did you call her ?"
    "Nevaeh"
    "Ah that's only lovely"
    "It's heaven spelled backwards".

    i was willing a crash. For me!

    There’s a lad in the place I used to work, a real gent, always cordial but what does he have tattooed in gothic script down the inside of his forearm but Neveah. I presume it’s his daughters name, I don’t want to judge him but...


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    #4859
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Cornelius Crow wrote: »
    There’s a lad in the place I used to work, a real gent, always cordial but what does he have tattooed in gothic script down the inside of his forearm but Neveah. I presume it’s his daughters name, I don’t want to judge him but...

    No it's okay for that! Jesus said!!!!


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    #4860
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,189 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    PlaneSpeeking wrote: »
    "It's heaven spelled backwards".

    Must be a satanist so :cool:

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #4861
    beans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭beans


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    At the Zoo yesterday, a salt of the earth chisler with a fine “Dubalin” accent on him named......Atlas.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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