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

737 replies

SolidGoldBrass · 23/07/2013 23:16

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.' Grin

OP posts:
SolidGoldBrass · 24/07/2013 14:52

Thank you MNHQ. MN has always been open to a variety of opinions and I'm glad to see it still is.

And thank you AgeOfExtremes as well.

OP posts:
valiumredhead · 24/07/2013 14:57

I think they should call him DianaGrin

gotthemoononastick · 24/07/2013 15:12

Is the OP the thing they call a 'shockjock' on radio ? Used to generate more traffic? Genuine question.

Forgetfulmog · 24/07/2013 15:13

Wow it's really threads like this where you find out what people are really like.

Forgetfulmog · 24/07/2013 15:15

Op YABU, have a Biscuit

Ledkr · 24/07/2013 15:27

Oh I see so its ok to have a thousand threads that are positive about the royal baby/family but nobody can disagree.
As for the old "it's playground antics"
How about people talking about people's class it calling people idiots or vile? That's ok is it?

LimitedEditionLady · 24/07/2013 15:31

Yes i did call you idiots.In my opinion you are idiotd.

Forgetfulmog · 24/07/2013 15:31

God I'd hate to be so bitter that I have to take my vitriole out on a newborn.

I mean why not condemn all those babies born in the world whose parents cannot support them & who will end up being supported by the tax payer (I'm talking foreign aid here).

The op's title is, like others have said, vile.

Ledkr · 24/07/2013 15:32

I'm sorry I'm unsure what you mean by idiotd?

PGRated · 24/07/2013 15:33

Yes, take your bitterness out on a newborn baby. Well done OP.

usualsuspect · 24/07/2013 15:36

I'd rather be a bitter individual than a sheeple.

usualsuspect · 24/07/2013 15:38

In fact if I have to read anymore fawning over a baby I might chop my own head off.

sheridand · 24/07/2013 15:39

I'm a staunch Republican, and the days where we throw off the monarchy and embrace a republic, completely disassociating the State from government can't come soon enough for me. Personally, I think the French got it right in 1789, and I don't see people eschewing visits to France, or indeed, Versailles, because they don't have some overpaid monarch in residence.

I think the best thing, though, is to quietly ignore all this bonkers baby nonsense because the whole atmosphere is becoming rabidly royalist again, rather like it did after Diana and pre-Cambridge Wedding, where anyone foolish enough to stick their head above the Monarchist parapet is shot down and basically called a traitor. Thank goodness that, although that lot still have power to halt parliament, they can't still bung us all in the Tower. Charge a fortune to get in it, yes, but not actually imprison us for daring not to doff our caps. I say if people can't have a groan about it online here without being shock-horrored, where can they? It's not actually doing any harm and it isn't starting a peasants revolt, more's the pity. They're safe from that for a bit because they have an ickle wittle baby.

Still, whatever the babys' upbringing, or wealth, or background, it's safe to say he'll be bald by 20. Money can't buy you everything.

IfNotNowThenWhen · 24/07/2013 15:39

Good grief. SGB has hardly suggested, in her thread title, that we roast little Alfred (see i'm feeling that now) on a spit and serve him up at soup kitchens to the disenfranchised subjects has she?
That would be vile. And she hasn't done that.
Calling a new person "a drain on the taxpayer" is not really "name calling" either. I was called that all the time as a student and I can't say it scarred me for life.
I do think people are getting the vapors over not much.

PGRated · 24/07/2013 15:41

But surely to insult any newborn is shitty? prince or not.

ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmmmmmmmm · 24/07/2013 15:41

Dodi reference was vile.

Just sayin.......

YouTheCat · 24/07/2013 15:42

I shall sit happily in my republican corner.

Limited, calling people idiots because their opinion differs from yours could be construed as a personal attack by MNHQ.

Ledkr · 24/07/2013 15:44

But it's not really an insult is it?
The little boy will during his life be supported in some way by the tax paying public. That's a fact not an insult.
A bit of an over reaction really.

MissStrawberry · 24/07/2013 15:45

Some people really are pathetic.

morefalafel · 24/07/2013 15:45

Joffrey.

LookingForwardToMarch · 24/07/2013 15:46

Sheeple....brilliant!

Oh damn it, swore I wouldn't come on this thread!

Lweji · 24/07/2013 15:47

Strictly, aren't all newborns drains on the taxpayer?

YouTheCat · 24/07/2013 15:48

Exactly, Ledkr. No one has actually said anything horrid about the baby, himself, but have made comment on his situation.

sue52 · 24/07/2013 15:48

Did no one see the recent documentary on the many ways the Duchy Of Cornwall legally avoids it's fair share of tax. I daresay little Rufus/Joffrey/Rollo will benefit from this enormously.

ToysRLuv · 24/07/2013 15:49

It's not vile or offensive. Some of the opinions on this thread are just a tad hysterical and frankly bizarre.