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David beckham - "you have to be a lot more delicate with girls" - what a tool.

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Moulesfrites · 16/07/2011 07:48

link here,

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2015267/David-Beckham-reveals-reason-baby-Harper-Sevens-Harper-Lee.html

Eh? I thought being delicate was a good idea with all babies, because they're babies?

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doggiesayswoof · 16/07/2011 08:44

yy Frosty. It's an odd idea, that parents should choose a name that's safe & dull just because they are famous, in case adults chatting on the interwebs can't control their bile.

bytheMoonlight · 16/07/2011 08:43

I am pleased that I not only amused you but made you laugh out loud - quite a feat from a three sentance post. I obv. have hidden talents. Smile

So I can just clear up that you think I should critise the choice of name without actually critising the name? Hmm Confused you will be!

NormanTebbit · 16/07/2011 08:41

I quite like Harper. Makes me think of Harper Lee.

StayFrosty · 16/07/2011 08:40

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doggiesayswoof · 16/07/2011 08:40

he is a tool yes. i won't read the linked article tho cos it's DM

Moonlight I'm not sure about your logic there tbh. Harper's not that out there as a name.

StayFrosty · 16/07/2011 08:37

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bytheMoonlight · 16/07/2011 08:33

Yes I think she will be upset.

That fact doesn't mean I cannot comment on her name Hmm My point wasn't that people shouldn't comment, it was they should have picked a name less likely to make negative comments. The overall tone of my post laid the responsibility for the child at the parents door.

I'm not sure frosty why that would make you physically laugh aloud?

DuelingFanjo · 16/07/2011 08:28

the press will be all over that kid, commenting on what she wears and what she looks like :(

StayFrosty · 16/07/2011 08:25

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CrapolaDeVille · 16/07/2011 08:21

For God's sake, he's just been blessed with a daughter. Give him a break. And as boys are born with 30% more muscle, he may well be right.

And did anyone really expect those pretty gender stereotyped parents to think anything else?

bytheMoonlight · 16/07/2011 08:18

She's going to have to be pretty tough to live with a name like that.

Imagine when she is older and she googles details of her birth and she sees all the horrible comments made by the press re. her name.

He should have thought about being delicate when he named her

StayFrosty · 16/07/2011 08:17

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CQrrrneee · 16/07/2011 08:16

Would you like every comment that you've made about your children to be bitched about?

NormanTebbit · 16/07/2011 08:15

Oh give him a break, he's got alot todeal with in that pretty little head of his, kicking a ball around and coping with a girlfor the first time Hmm

TheRealMBJ · 16/07/2011 08:12

Hahaha shah Grin. He's an idiot, (particularly if you consider the fact that biologically boys are weaker than girls. Male refuses are more likely to die in utero and make infants and under-fives have a higher mortality than females)

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