Best name suggestion I've seen for the newborn drain on the taxpayer...

[SolidGoldBrass]

I popped into a pub this afternoon for a wee and a pint and they had a Royal Baby Name sweepstake board behind the bar.

Someone had suggested 'Dodi.'

Can I just be clear

I do not give a flying fuck about the Royal Baby, I have not sought out any news on the subject. I do not "fawn" over anyone with an ounce of celebrity. The hysteria actually annoys me.

It is still possible to think being so horrible about ANYONE'S newborn is wrong. If someone started a thread about someone on JSA having their 15th baby and started making sick references to that baby saying they were a drain on society, had a pointless future, suggesting it would be funny to call them after a horrible death for amusement. You would all be pulling them up on it, I would think the op was a wanker.

lweji that's a good point but in saying that you are saying nothing different to the op but I bet you won't get attacked by royalists.

"Call them after a horrible dead", Softly? WTF? That's not the reason it's funny. Surely, it's the "thorn in their side" thing..

softly I've seen that type of thing on mn a lot and the oriole being called idiots are the very posters who would be outraged.

Referring to the suggestion of "Dodi" for a name, of course.

Your just plain nasty. He's an innocent baby. Shame on you

Yes OP, YABU (as I suspect you know).

softlysoftly completely agree that with your point about being horrible about anyone's newborn is wrong. Just horrible.

This child will have many more privileges than most, but will only ever have one living grandmother. I suspect that it is incredibly poignant for William not to be able to introduce his new son to his mum. To joke about calling the baby 'Diana' or 'Dodi' is competely tasteless.

I wish I hadn't felt so strongly about posting on this thread as I would just like to see it disappear.

Dear god, people wanted this thread removed?

Why?

Because in the world, there are actual people who couldn't give a flying fuck about how wonderful it is that the baby has been born?
We aren't talking about Jesus Christ you know.
The papers, the media are full of people camping outside buckingham palace and declaring that this baby "makes them proud to be British"

Just because we don't all feel like that, and think the amount of fawning media coverage is bizarre, that is suddenly the crime of the century?

According to MORI poll :

With Her Majesty the Queen?s Diamond Jubilee this weekend, the British public?s support for the country remaining a monarchy is at a record high level according to Ipsos MORI?s special Diamond Jubilee poll. Eight in ten (80%) British adults favour Britain remaining a monarchy compared to 13% that want to see it becoming a republic.

Support for the monarchy is highest among older generations, with almost nine in ten (88%) of those aged 55+ saying Britain should remain a monarchy. Conservative supporters are most likely to be monarchists ? 96% prefer Britain to have a monarch rather than become a republic compared to three-quarters (74%) of Labour supporters and 84% of Liberal Democrats.

Makes it a bit hard to turn the job down, doesn't it? They could be filthy rich and not have to do any royal duties.

Thread on here today where a retired couple have fuck all to live on as paid into private pension all their life.
Constant threads on here where people are pushed to suicidal ideation due to welfare cuts and bedroom tax.
Disabled people worrying themselves sick about benefit caps as if they have enough to worry about.
Food banks being used massively more.
Can't walk down the street without passing a homeless person.
Is it therefore hard to fathom why people are a bit pissed off at public money being used to support an already minted family.
No insults just lots of anger and frustration.

I daresay if you cross referenced this thread against one of the myriad benefit bashing ones that pops up constantly every now and then on MN, you would draw some interesting conclusions re: benefit bashing/royalist posts.

Oh pish!

That was to knicky's post

Interesting that people think the Lindo Wing is an NHS facility.

With regards to the baby having only one grandmother: So has mine. So what? In fact, more than half of my DH's family was wiped out in genocide. Yet, there was nobody camping outside the hospital when I gave birth.

I can't believe you're all getting so incensed! The 'Dodi' joke in itself may not be particularly funny but to get so up in arms about someone daring to take the piss out of the royals is ridiculous.

Fucking forelock tuggers!

You're right softly

One of my grandparents died in a mining accident 3 months after my father was born, so don't start with all this boohooy BS about the poor wee mite having only one grandmother and that's quite an insult to Camilla actually.

Babies born to parents on benefits, and overseas where we send foreign aid are parasites as well then?

Any parent that gives birth on the nhs and uses state schools is a parent to a parasite?

Kate's parents are normal people who've worked hard and pay taxes, Harry and William are in the armed forces. They support charities. Prince Charles has his duchy brand.

I'm going to save my anger for woman beaters, peadophiles, not take it out on a baby who didnt ask to be born.

We are all an accident of birth wether it was upper, middle or working class. And we all are lucky enough to be born in a country where we have free healthcare and education. Do you think people in other countries speak about us with such venom? Because we enjoy the privilege of our accident of birth (being born in this country)

The Royals haven't fucked this country up ffs.

So yeah, lets call this innocent baby the same name as its dead grandmothers dead boyfriend, ha ha fucking ha.

If you don't like the royals, fine, if you think the media coverage is a bit much, fine. But the bitterness is ridiculous and pathetic.

Aren't there so many other times to criticise the royal family, rather than when a baby arrives? Why not leave the moaning for a while so it's not connected with the baby's arrival? It seems an unpleasant choice of timing.

I believe it's called 'freedom of speech'.

It's a counter-reaction - a perfectly logical protest.

Why is it weird to want a more equal society? The Royals are the symbol and embodiment of unfairness in society.

Well they're not my kind of normal tbh, it's not really that normal to send your kids to Marlborough.

Nasty. Just plain bitchy and nasty.

And while we are on the subject of freedom, you who don't like the Monarchy can just sod off to a country where there is no royal family. But you won't do that, will you?

Yes, people are always free to say tasteless and unnecessary things at an unreasonable time.