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everythingflies · 2025-08-09T21:48:37+00:00

Is it very unprofessional for a supply teacher to start giggling when taking the register in a class which they have not taught in before, because one of the children's names is "Bourbon"? Supply teacher in question is normally very professional but couldn't help themselves when hearing the name of the child.

bumbaloo · 10/08/2025 12:47

youalright · 09/08/2025 22:54

Was you in the classroom

Were. Not was. And I’m not saying this to be a self righteous pedant but because I don’t like the idea of someone going around life being judged for something they probably were not taught correctly from infancy.

LadySuzanne · 10/08/2025 12:35

steff13 · 09/08/2025 23:20

I thought of alcohol.

And Windsor and Tudor would be odd first names.

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There was a Tudor in my grammar school in the mid 60s.

Alwaysalert · 10/08/2025 12:25

I don't find it a ridiculous or remotely funny name and I have a good sense of humour. It is just a name - i honestly cannot see anything funny or I would laugh. It would not bother me if I had that name. I do think the teacher was out of order and unprofessional laughing, even if it had been a strange or funny name. Why would you risk giving a chid a complex about their name??

Justchilling07 · 10/08/2025 11:56

TaborlinTheGreat · 10/08/2025 09:20

Of course it's unprofessional. Yes, teachers are only human, but teachers should also be used to the concept of coming across surprising names. Having your name mocked or laughed at by your peers must be bad enough, but having it laughed at by the adult who should be in charge of stopping that kind of behaviour is even worse. Once the other kids see the name as laughable, that will probably stick.

I've taught kids with frankly hilarious names. I've never come close to laughing at them to their faces, because I have self control and I'm not a dick.

Yes exactly.
And as another poster said, it’s wrong to laugh at a child’s name, as is, op putting the name on here, for entertainment!

viques · 10/08/2025 11:44

Sodastreamin · 10/08/2025 11:17

i Think that’s the worst name yet. Certainly takes the biscuit… 🍪

Could be an even worse biscuit name. Like Garibaldi.

Mr and Mrs Tea did their boy no favours calling him Rich.

And the same could be said for Mr and Mrs Gestive and their lovely daughter Di.

Not to mention the Vitas and their son Ray.

And as for poor little Jimmy Dodger ( thanks @ShallIstart )

ShallIstart · 10/08/2025 11:38

I know you have changed the name to protect the identity. Tbh yes they should remain professional, but then if the actual name is Custard Cream or Jammy Dodger then I can see why they can't keep a straight face.

Marcipix · 10/08/2025 11:18

Sometimes you have to turn the laugh of disbelief into a cough.
Believe me, I have been introduced to Breeze and Haze.

Sodastreamin · 10/08/2025 11:17

i Think that’s the worst name yet. Certainly takes the biscuit… 🍪

Sodastreamin · 10/08/2025 11:14

I’d be howling! What a ridiculous name

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 10/08/2025 11:12

PersephoneSeethes · 10/08/2025 08:31

First name or second name? There are the Bacardi family, just as there are the Cadbury’s etc

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I imagine it was the surname. The dad was called Ron.

Anyway, this thread is excellent.

And Bourbon’s parents were very foolish. poor, poor kid. The supply teacher won’t have been the first person to laugh and won’t be the last.

(I am clinging to the belief that this story is true, for the comedy.)

NineTimesNine · 10/08/2025 11:06

capitanaamerica · 10/08/2025 10:24

It's still a place name, no matter how many people fume about biscuits. Peak Freans used "bourbon" after Rue Bourbon in Paris, just as Bourbon French used the name to reference Bourbon Street in New Orleans. But I suspect that the n@M3d aFteR a bI$cUit! idiots posters here also think that Flora MacDonald was named after the dairy spread and Siri Hustvedt was named after the Apple AI. There's no reasoning with willful ignorance.

Well, I doubt theses people are reading Siri Hustvedt, or have heard of her, but yes, absolutely to your point in general.

zingally · 10/08/2025 10:59

BondAway25 · 10/08/2025 10:17

Whether it's after biscuit /alcohol/ history

i just think it's stupid. I don't see how it's in any way funny.

same as the parents of a child I looked after. Children both born & intended to be raised in England... they called her Hershita. I don't care how common a name it is in India. The poor kid lives in England.

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Hershita reminded me of a child I met on supply not long ago. No joke, his name as written on the register was Arshit. My brain immediately went arse-shit, but I managed to keep it together and say, "Ar-sheet?"

zingally · 10/08/2025 10:56

I'm also a supply teacher, and some of the names I come across are pretty out there.

For one of those more batshit names, of which Bourbon is definitely one, I might say something like, "Bourbon? Am I saying that right?"

DdraigGoch · 10/08/2025 10:37

MrsMitford3 · 10/08/2025 08:20

Summer holidays are so much fun on MN

That's a point. @everythingflies how come this came up in the middle of August?

And also why have you not been back?

whatacroc · 10/08/2025 10:34

nomas · 10/08/2025 09:12

Why are you only choosing black actors to make fun of?

OP, yes it’s completely unprofessional and twatty behaviour.

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It's not intentional that I chose black actors, its just that theyre the only ones with well known biscuit memes that have been around for years. I didn't create the memes myself.
Why do some people have to jump on everything and take offence. if they'd have been white actors/singers I'd have posted them too.

capitanaamerica · 10/08/2025 10:24

It's still a place name, no matter how many people fume about biscuits. Peak Freans used "bourbon" after Rue Bourbon in Paris, just as Bourbon French used the name to reference Bourbon Street in New Orleans. But I suspect that the n@M3d aFteR a bI$cUit! idiots posters here also think that Flora MacDonald was named after the dairy spread and Siri Hustvedt was named after the Apple AI. There's no reasoning with willful ignorance.

VashtaNerada · 10/08/2025 10:22

Slightly disappointed I’m not having any more children because naming them after biscuits would be a fitting tribute to that which is most important to me 😁

sugarapplelane · 10/08/2025 10:18

Unprofessional yes, but I probably would have giggled too. We’re only human.
Some names have gone a bit too far including bourbon. I think of Royal dynasties, American whiskey and horrible English biscuits (they just aren’t chocolatey enough)

BondAway25 · 10/08/2025 10:17

Whether it's after biscuit /alcohol/ history

i just think it's stupid. I don't see how it's in any way funny.

same as the parents of a child I looked after. Children both born & intended to be raised in England... they called her Hershita. I don't care how common a name it is in India. The poor kid lives in England.

DdraigGoch · 10/08/2025 10:13

NineTimesNine · 09/08/2025 23:06

I mean, it’s not my favourite name, but to find it that amusing you’d have to think it was a biscuit rather than a Franco-Spanish royal house. I mean, it’s no odder than using Windsor or Tudor as a first name.

Tudur was a first name before it was a surname, it's the Welsh equivalent of Theodore. Welsh surnames used to be patronymic before they were frozen into the English system. Henry VII's great great grandfather was Tudur ap Goronwy. Tudur is just as valid a first name as Gruffudd (Griffiths), Ioan (Jones), or William (Williams).

ElfAndSafetyBored · 10/08/2025 10:10

Ifeellikeateenageragain · 10/08/2025 09:59

Possibly a surname... which is French. Amazingly, the whole world doesn't revolve around British products.

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Yeah amazing!

It was a joke.

Caffeineisthenewoestrogen · 10/08/2025 10:07

I would say what’s more unreasonable is calling a child after a biscuit. Is bourbon male or female?

landlordhell · 10/08/2025 10:05

It’s 10/8. When did this happen?

Silvertulips · 10/08/2025 10:02

Possibly a surname... which is French. Amazingly, the whole world doesn't revolve around British products

Supply Teacher giggling at name of child in class

kim204 · 10/08/2025 10:02

Perhaps she was giggling anxiously because she had no idea if it was pronounced like the biscuit or the drink - and neither seemed like a good choice?
I bet the dad's a whisky drinker personally.