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Original poster

to think pushy Mums should at least take a break during the flight?

128 replies

Talkinpeace · 07/04/2013 20:59

Flying home from holiday today, yummy mummy of OUTRAGEOUSLY named children spent the whole flight
getting them to do maths (or actually she did the whole lot and they looked longingly at my game of bejewelled)
then read Harry Potter to them (loudly)
then got them to write up their holiday diaries (yes dear, other people had villas with pools too)
then nagged her husband to read to them (he didn't)
and basically stopped anybody near her from enjoying their reading material and all of us wondered if she really knew what her child's name said about her (read your history BEFORE naming the child, not after)

PS economy airline - so she was cheap as well as loud.

OP posts:
ElectricalBanana · 07/04/2013 21:14

Pol pot?

Ho chi?

Saddam? as in Saddam get yer arse here and write yer bloody diary!

skratta · 07/04/2013 21:15

Hadrian?
Claudius?

elQuintoConyo · 07/04/2013 21:15

Mussolini and Franco?

currentbuns · 07/04/2013 21:15

My money's on Nero

Molehillmountain · 07/04/2013 21:15

K8middleton-I now feel better about failing to get mine to do holiday diaries. My mother used to make me write postcards. Dh's parents still don't know that the reason he didn't want to go in a school trip to France was the thought of the post trip project! Still went though.

Maat · 07/04/2013 21:15

I want it to be Caligula though

ChameleonCircuit · 07/04/2013 21:15

Caesar
Tiberius
Gaius?

C'mon, fess up!

Sparklingbrook · 07/04/2013 21:15

Ulysses?

Original poster
Talkinpeace · 07/04/2013 21:16

put it this way, he'll get called 'tit' a lot at school - may already do so ...

never heard the other child clearly addressed by name - slight favouritism issues as well

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HazardLamps · 07/04/2013 21:16

Napoleon and Nelson?

ArcaneAsylum · 07/04/2013 21:16

If it's Augustus, I'm tempted to think 'Gloop' rather than the Roman emperor.

WildThong · 07/04/2013 21:16

Got to be Julius.
How do you go up an escalator badly? Smile

skratta · 07/04/2013 21:16

Romulus?
Vespasian?
Constantine

Ooh...it's Artabasados, right?!

HollyBerryBush · 07/04/2013 21:16

titus!!!!

minouminou · 07/04/2013 21:16

Ulysses is an awesome name.

MintyyAeroEgg · 07/04/2013 21:17

Omg, the woman who was sitting behind us on our flight back from Spain last week was also on your flight TIP? She gets around a bit!!

skratta · 07/04/2013 21:17

Titus...tit!

HazardLamps · 07/04/2013 21:17

X-posted. Titus?

HollyBerryBush · 07/04/2013 21:17

Could be called Tight-arse rather than Tit

Molehillmountain · 07/04/2013 21:17

Some people just don't understand that some underused names are not undiscovered gems that they're terribly clever to have unearthed, eh?

Maat · 07/04/2013 21:17

Titus !!

apostropheuse · 07/04/2013 21:17

Titus! ohhh

Original poster
Talkinpeace · 07/04/2013 21:17

ps child was at least 6 - but watching mum doing an age 8 maths book on his behalf : loudly.

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minouminou · 07/04/2013 21:17

.....a gnat's chuff......

Badvoc · 07/04/2013 21:18

Herod?