People with stupid names

Spore

Ok, so I was just watching House of Games there, and in fairness it’s had its fair share of mouth breathers over the few seasons but Tyger Drew Honey was in a league of his own. I mean I’ve seen bacterial infections with more brain cells that this vacuous foolmonger. And it got me thinking, does the fact that his parents chose such a moronic appellation for him that set him up to be the dimwit he is today or is it a factor of his parents probably having stupid names and stupid genes and therefore having sought one another out in some reversal of Darwinian natural selection and then mated thus giving existence to this piece of pond life?

I’ve started seeing lots of people come of age recently named after grape varietals, colours, fruit and compass directions. Wtf people? Chardonnay, Puce, Apple and North are not fecking names!! And neither is Tyger Goddamn Drew Honey!!

One last example was in a pub (back when they were open, bless) and a colleague of mine showed me his infant son’s passport. He was grinning as I read the forenames: Sunny Moon. Evidently having not one but two celestial bodies in your name will set you up for life.

DrPhilG

2/10

JasonStatham

Spore wrote: »

Ok, so I was just watching House of Games there, and in fairness it’s had its fair share of mouth breathers over the few seasons but Tyger Drew Honey was in a league of his own. I mean I’ve seen bacterial infections with more brain cells that this vacuous foolmonger. And it got me thinking, does the fact that his parents chose such a moronic appellation for him that set him up to be the dimwit he is today or is it a factor of his parents probably having stupid names and stupid genes and therefore having sought one another out in some reversal of Darwinian natural selection and then mated thus giving existence to this piece of pond life?

I’ve started seeing lots of people come of age recently named after grape varietals, colours, fruit and compass directions. Wtf people? Chardonnay, Puce, Apple and North are not fecking names!! And neither is Tyger Goddamn Drew Honey!!

One last example was in a pub (back when they were open, bless) and a colleague of mine showed me his infant son’s passport. He was grinning as I read the forenames: Sunny Moon. Evidently having not one but two celestial bodies in your name will set you up for life.

The bloke wasn't Korean by any chance?

L1011

Tyger Drew Honeys parents are two pornstars. Not the kind of people to go for a non-extroverted name I'd imagine.

Spore

No, I wouldn't wish that on the Koreans : (

SineadSpears

I'd rather introduce myself as Tyger than Apple

doublejobbing 2

What's the story in Ireland with Dublin vs rural only names?

In Dublin you would essentially never meet a native:

- Podge, Brid, Breege, Bronagh, Malachy, Ultan,

Now, granted these are all terrible names, but they're somewhat popular down the sticks.

Likewise, it is quite common in Dublin to have names that, down the country, would almost exclusively be used only by Protestant families (these mainly applying to people born pre 1990)

- Derek, Audrey, George,

PsychoPete

L1011 wrote: »

Tyger Drew Honeys parents are two pornstars. Not the kind of people to go for a non-extroverted name I'd imagine.

Lindzi James Tyger Drew Honey is his full name and a son to Ben Dover. He got dealt a bad hand

dennyire

Spore?

Edgware

doublejobbing 2 wrote: »

What's the story in Ireland with Dublin vs rural only names?

In Dublin you would essentially never meet a native:

- Podge, Brid, Breege, Bronagh, Malachy, Ultan,

Now, granted these are all terrible names, but they're somewhat popular down the sticks.

Likewise, it is quite common in Dublin to have names that, down the country, would almost exclusively be used only by Protestant families (these mainly applying to people born pre 1990)

- Derek, Audrey, George,

Worra bow Jason, Darren, Jacinta, Sharon.
Real dirtbird names common in Dublin District Court

Badly Drunk Boy

PsychoPete wrote: »

Lindzi James Tyger Drew Honey is his full name and a son to Ben Dover. He got dealt a bad hand

His father's real name is Simon Honey and his mother's name is Lindzi Drew, hence part of his name.

I was watching the quiz Only Connect last week, and after one of the 3-person teams introduced themselves, the presenter mentioned that two of them had the same surname so...were they family? (The surname was Hayfield.) The American female captain of the team said that the man to her left was her husband, and that Hayfield was a portmanteau of their 'maiden' names. So their names were previously perhaps Hayes and Mansfield, which mushed together makes Hayfield when they got married!!

I mean...when they get divorced (and not if), will they revert to their previous names? And what will their kids do?

BENDYBINN

John terry called his daughter ...Summer Rose..

I think my full name is a bit daft. If you knew what it was, you would probably agree. Still not as bad as my sisters, who were all given boys' names, like Dinny. Don't ask, I have no idea either.

I really think that parents in the 1980s, who were young people deprived of the internet, just wanted to troll their kids before anyone knew what troll meant. These were only young people who nowadays would be spending most of their time on snapchat.

shtpEdthePlum

EmmetSpiceland

BENDYBINN wrote: »

John terry called his daughter ...Summer Rose..

Is that not a nice name?

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Still not as bad as my sisters, who were all given boys' names, like Dinny. Don't ask, I have no idea either.

I once had an “encounter” with a lovely young lady with the name Denny. Think it was short for Denise, though. I never asked.

BENDYBINN

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Is that not a nice name

I’d say she would be fair embarrassed when asked her name at school.......

For Forks Sake

Badly Drunk Boy

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Is that not a nice name?



I once had an “encounter” with a lovely young lady with the name Denny. Think it was short for Denise, though. I never asked.

And 'Dinny' comes from the name Dennis, so the same thing but just different gender.

LarryGraham

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1Zfz-Widc

EmmetSpiceland

BENDYBINN wrote: »

I’d say she would be fair embarrassed when asked her name at school.......

Ah yeah but she could just go by Summer. I actually know a kid named Summer. Never really thought it was odd.

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

And 'Dinny' comes from the name Dennis, so the same thing but just different gender.

I initially thought of Denny Doherty from ‘The Mamas and Papas’ when I heard it first.

the beer revolu

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Is that not a nice name?



I once had an “encounter” with a lovely young lady with the name Denny. Think it was short for Denise, though. I never asked.

I always think of women with male nicknames/abbreviations as being very old school landed posh!

BorneTobyWilde

Avril Hoare

Can you imagine looking for directions when close to her address but not knowing where she lived, stopping and asking a local '' I'm looking for the Hoare house''

Mimon

Turtle Bunbury

Enright

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Avril Hoare

Can you imagine looking for directions when close to her address but not knowing where she lived, stopping and asking a local '' I'm looking for the Hoare house''

I know her sister "Ima", she lives next door to Annette Curtin

EmmetSpiceland

Mimon wrote: »

Turtle Bunbury

To be fair, that’s a nickname.

BENDYBINN

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Ah yeah but she could just go by Summer. I actually know a kid named Summer. Never really thought it was odd.



No she has to go by her full name......it could be worse, she could have been called Winter Barley...........

Badly Drunk Boy

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

And 'Dinny' comes from the name Dennis, so the same thing but just different gender.

Yeah that's true. Hers is based on Diane so there's no great leap, but it's even stranger when the names are unrelated. How did Richard become Dick? Why is Margaret also Peg? We had a postman named Bunny who was called Frank, officially.

There's a family in our village where none of them go by their official names. They have "Nazi", "Smiley", "Rocky", "Chub" and "Nance" — Nance is an agricultural contractor in his 40s. Nice guy, but...??

Not sure if this is a rural thing, or what.

I know someone who called her daughter Maggie. It's grand like but hmm no.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think my full name is a bit daft. If you knew what it was, you would probably agree. Still not as bad as my sisters, who were all given boys' names, like Dinny. Don't ask, I have no idea either.

I really think that parents in the 1980s, who were young people deprived of the internet, just wanted to troll their kids before anyone knew what troll meant. These were only young people who nowadays would be spending most of their time on snapchat.

You have a fantastic name!

SineadSpears

Deleted User wrote: »

I know someone who called her daughter Maggie. It's grand like but hmm no.

I know someone who in the last few years called her new bundle of joy......

Eamonn


poor poor kid

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You have a fantastic name!

Yeah, try having to spell it for a hotel booking, or whatever; not so keen!

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I know someone who called her daughter Maggie. It's grand like but hmm no.

Not crazy about Maggie but I think names like "Mary" and "Josephine" are making a comeback. 30 or 40 years from now, these will be unusual names. They also happen to be a nice choice IMO.

Church on Tuesday

DJ Lethal.

corner of hells

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Yeah that's true. Hers is based on Diane so there's no great leap, but it's even stranger when the names are unrelated. How did Richard become Dick? Why is Margaret also Peg? We had a postman named Bunny who was called Frank, officially.

There's a family in our village where none of them go by their official names. They have "Nazi", "Smiley", "Rocky", "Chub" and "Nance" — Nance is an agricultural contractor in his 40s. Nice guy, but...??

Not sure if this is a rural thing, or what.

I know a guy nicknamed "Hitler " years ago in the village he was from , he was a little bollix when younger.
Nowadays hes settled down , married with his landscaping business, everyone knows him as Hitler the gardener.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You have a fantastic name!

Miltiades, short for Miltiadesiomon

.anon.

American newsreaders always have stupid names like, I dunno, Dick Blitzkrieger and Hank Fuckerieder.

"Hi, here is the news with Marvin Shitstorm"

whisky_galore

Double-barrelled names sound cool if you're old school British aristocracy maybe with a DSO tacked on at the end, not so much if you're Emer O'Spud-Byrne.
Notions.

DJIMI TRARORE

SineadSpears wrote:

I know someone who in the last few years called her new bundle of joy......

SineadSpears wrote:

Eamonn

Maybe the father is in the army

gogo

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Yeah that's true. Hers is based on Diane so there's no great leap, but it's even stranger when the names are unrelated. How did Richard become Dick? Why is Margaret also Peg? We had a postman named Bunny who was called Frank, officially.

In times when everything was handwritten, Richard became Rich or Rick, people also liked to rhyme back then, hence Rick became Dick
Margaret became Meg, and in rhyme, Meg became Peg...
There are records as far back as the 13th century with Dick and Hick used as nicknames for men names Richard...

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Yeah, try having to spell it for a hotel booking, or whatever; not so keen!


Not crazy about Maggie but I think names like "Mary" and "Josephine" are making a comeback. 30 or 40 years from now, these will be unusual names. They also happen to be a nice choice IMO.

I like Mary.

Bobblehats

whisky_galore wrote: »

Double-barrelled names sound cool if you're old school British aristocracy maybe with a DSO tacked on at the end, not so much if you're Emer O'Spud-Byrne.
Notions.

I think they're less Lewllyn-Bowen and more Alexander-Arnold nowadays. And we know how they come about

Hardly the stuff of aristocracy. Still I think Trent is the least befitting part...

some random drunk

Thought this thread was going to be about people with unfortunate names like:

Wayne Kerr
Helen Back
Drew Peacock

Etc, etc

bodhrandude

Hughie in Scotland becomes Shuggie.

Esel

bodhrandude wrote: »

Hughie in Scotland becomes Shuggie.

Qughie in parts of Ulster.

Mr. CooL ICE

I think think the name Derek is stupid as hell. Like, why would you wait 9 months for your new bundle of joy to arrive, look at it and then say "his name is Derek". Why would you do that to a child? Derek FFS

Mr. CooL ICE

My family knows me by my middle name. I never know why they'd decide to call me my middle name. Like, why not switch my first and middle names? It's apparently a very Irish thing but it's completely stupid IMO. Not only that, but this name is also my dad's name, which he hated being called himself to the point that he uses an 'abbreviation' completely unlike his actual name (like abbreviating Christopher to Kev).

Anyway, as soon as I went off to college, my first name came up on all forms and such so I used that as an opportunity to be known by a not-so-stupid name. Causes a little confusion when friends/family from back home meet anyone that knows me from college/work, but hey, at least my name is less stupid now.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades was bang on the money saying that parents in their 80s were trolling their children. In my case, anyway.

donegal_man

I used to live fairly close to a couple who called their twin sons Genesis & Revelation. Admittedly they were members of one of the more fundamentalist American churches.

SineadSpears

SineadSpears wrote: »

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

I think think the name Derek is stupid as hell. Like, why would you wait 9 months for your new bundle of joy to arrive, look at it and then say "his name is Derek". Why would you do that to a child? Derek FFS

or the awkward moment when you look into the pram and say 'ah he's lovely, what's his name'..... and Eamonn is the reply

like just why



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BENDYBINN

SineadSpears wrote: »

SineadSpears wrote: »

or the awkward moment when you look into the pram and say 'ah he's lovely, what's his name'..... and Eamonn is the reply

like just why

His grandfather was called Eamonn?

Mr. CooL ICE

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

I think think the name Derek is stupid as hell. Like, why would you wait 9 months for your new bundle of joy to arrive, look at it and then say "his name is Derek". Why would you do that to a child? Derek FFS

One of the boys in my daughter's creche is named Brian. Brian?? That child was born in 2017. Sounds like he already collects stamps, or has a recurring role on Coronation Street.

Hamachi

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

One of the boys in my daughter's creche is named Brian. Brian?? That child was born in 2017. Sounds like he already collects stamps, or has a recurring role on Coronation Street.

First time I’ve ever heard Brian associated with stamp collecting. I’d say something if it was Norman, but Brian....

Either way, it’s a damn sight better than one of those god awful ‘modern’ names like Cody or Kayden.

Hamachi

Hamachi wrote: »

First time I’ve ever heard Brian associated with stamp collecting. I’d say something if it was Norman, but Brian....

Either way, it’s a damn sight better than one of those god awful ‘modern’ names like Cody or Kayden.

Brian, Derek, and Terry etc just sound to me like a group of lads who were born in northern england in the 1970s and formed a Phil Collins/ Genesis tribute act.