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If you're tempted to call your poor daughter Honey, please can you put Honor on the birth cert and nn her Honey 'til you go off the name Honey

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 24/04/2009 19:53

Thank you. That is all

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Leannabanana · 25/04/2009 21:27

clueless woman??? you are suck a pompous old f*ckwit....get over yourself...

Greensleeves · 25/04/2009 21:26

LOL at lockets being nasty. Where?!?

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 21:26

Verging on obsessional? Lockets, you're verging on nasty. It was meant to be a helpful suggestion. Honor on the bc, Honey as a nn. I couldn't really give a fuck if some clueless woman her child after a pole dancer.

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Greensleeves · 25/04/2009 21:26

Gah, I spent the first 25 years of my life having the piss ripped out of me too, for various crap reasons. If I'd had a rhyming name maybe they'd have used that too. I kow loads of kids with outlandish names who don't get picked on at all. It's not as simple as that.

But what's really odd here is the vehemence of someone trying to order a total stranger to reconsider her name choice. It's even weirder than the long-hair-on- boys thread

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 21:24

Greensleeves, it thread on the names board, crashed off flippantly. I'm sitting here on a saturday night on mumsnet, like yourself it would seem. I'm debating something with people who seem to be debating it right back at me.

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lockets · 25/04/2009 21:24

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SoupDragon · 25/04/2009 21:22

I don't think of Honey as a sex industry name, I think of it as a sh*te name. It's a term of endearment, not a name. Would you name your child "Darling" or "Dear"? "Sweety-Pie" or "Snookums"? No.

But what would I know? I only spent my first 29 years having the piss ripped out of me because my parents thought it would be a good idea to give me a name that rhymed.

TheFallenMadonna · 25/04/2009 21:22

Give over with the sex industry thing. Honestly. Honey is very much not to my taste, but that argument is rather ridiculous. And makes you sound a bit when you keep harping on it.

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 21:21

It was for a wider audience that's why. I did mention it on that first honey thread.

This new thread is about Honor/Honey, as I've seen the suggestion of Honey crop up a few times recently.

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Greensleeves · 25/04/2009 21:21

well tbh I'm not defending the name Honey (although it really is quite unremarkable) so much as challenging the whole premise of the trhead - "please call your child something else"?!?! Weird. I think you have definitely lost perspective - in fact you sound a bit barking tbh

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 21:19

Greensleeves, I'm not angry. I've been told I'm sexually dysfunction and I've been mocked. I'm not angry. I have to laugh though, at people who are arguing back with quite a lot of enthusiasm, but yet I'm the one who's lost perspective.

i've said a couple of times, if people want to call their child HOney, then that's their perogative. But it's not a name that is an advantage. I was suggesting that they keep the child's options open by choosing a name that had more options and less negative associations. Working in the sex trade is a negative association btw.

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Lulumama · 25/04/2009 21:18

i thikn people judge DDs name. but i could not give a hoot.would not have made the correlatoin betwween honey and sex trade etc

think people have too much time on their hands sometmes

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Greensleeves · 25/04/2009 21:18

Oh rofl, you mean 30% of this thread

OK then, I'm convinced

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2009 21:17

Naming your child "Honey" is very judgeable

It's like naming your girl Bunny, Love, or Baby. These are terms of endearment, not names. You can still call your DD Honey (and most mums do), but you don't have to legally name her that.

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 21:16

Duffy, Jajas, Seeker, Edam, lunamoon2, tippy, Me, seemed like at least roughly a third of people on one thread thought it was a bad idea.. more maybe. I'm going to say 40%

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Greensleeves · 25/04/2009 21:16

"That's why people get angry. They're afriad that they took a gamble and 'the risk' is still there"

No, I think people get angry because total strangers like you seem to be on a personal mission to force them to change their minds about their child's name! It is a bit strange

lockets · 25/04/2009 21:15

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TheFallenMadonna · 25/04/2009 21:13

Now you're reiterating the 30% figure like it's an actual statistic rather than a number you made up...

Monkeyandbooba · 25/04/2009 21:10

Iknow a 30 something woman called Crystal Freedom (Freedom being her surname)... she has ishoos....

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 21:10

Is there? I didn't know that. I only came in on that thread quite near the end.

But there's always going to be a parent of every name mentioned (and slagged off) on this board not too far away.

I've read my children's names slagged off, many times, but I can suck it up.

I suppose because I know that what those posts boil down to is 'not my taste'. There is an extra consideration with Honey.

But if posters and parents-to-be want to fly in the face of the 30% of people who think Honey is a sex industry name, then I think they'll be disappointed when it later turns out that they couldn't change people's minds and make them see the name the way they see it.

That's why people get angry. They're afriad that they took a gamble and 'the risk' is still there.

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CoteDAzur · 25/04/2009 21:10

Where do you live that Honey is a popular name?

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Greensleeves · 25/04/2009 21:05
Grin
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