.....or should Santa not have laughed at my child's name?

[3FrenchHenD19s]

and said to me 'is he really called that?'?

YABU

Poor Santa. Obviously he meant Ho Ho Ho and it came out heeheehee

fortifiedwithtea

I really don't think a fully grown man dressed in a red suit with a fake beard should be laughing at anyone. Something would tell me his life plan didn't go to schedule.

Santa should know better- but maybe calling a blond pale skinned child Mario was asking for trouble just a bit........?!

This santa was clearly an imposter.
Unless everyone lied to me as a child and santa is really a jerk.
What sort of a name is santa anyway?Pah.

I know of a very erm tangerine hoop earrings type who has two children named Giorgio and Armani. I kid you not! She was genuinely going to call her third Versace!

When my DS was younger he told everyone he met that his name was Mario, so desperate was he to be called that.

If we ever took him to have his face painted, he'd only ever have a moustache painted on and end up looking like Freddie Mercury

You should have kicked him in the balls sack.

Mario is a perfectly ordinary name

Versace is beyond daft to the far side of daftville in daftland

Oh, dear I'm a 100% sure I'd have said " really " too.

Shit, literally pmsl thinking of Mario in a scouse accent-& no I'm not even slightly sorry.

OP you have to be absolutely Deffo 100% bona fida Italiano to pull off Mario which clearly you are not... If it helps I wanted Valentino for DS (as in the lovleyness that is Rossi) DH (who is in part Italian) did face & said no.

Oh sorry I was still on Versace. I used to date a boy whose mother was Italian and father was Scottish and he and his little brother both had Italian first names and a Scottish surname. No-one thought anything of it.

Mario is a good, proper name.

Versace is a surname.

but ffs who actually calls their son "santa"? i bet he had the piss ripped out of him/a sponsorship deal with Fanta.

OP are you sure he didn't just say ho ho ho

v funny you lot! Poor Mario's initials are MAD too but that's for an additional flaming for me on another thread!

In the US, Mario would not even be on the radar of unusual names.

I work with the public and have encountered kids named Thyme Bomb, Cherrybomb Fox, Dior, Nautica, De'Vangelia (the "v" and "i" were both silent), etc. Oh, and one unfortunate little boy named Murder.

Oh, and one named Sindasia Sparkle.

I got angry with Santa reading this thread. Then I suddenly remembered Santa isn't real and he was just a guy dressed up

Mario Balotelli is an Italian football player who I wouldn't like to cross! Mario is also a popular name across all of Europe - including Germany & the Netherlands. It doesn't matter what colour your son's hair/skin is, Mario is a traditional, "proper," name - one he can grow up with.
If I were you 3 French Hens, I'd just ignore. Usually F.C. means Father Christmas, but not in his case, obviously

could have been worse. could have been gerardo.

Ooh I like Mario. I think it's a lovely manly name. I don't understand why anyone would laugh or be thinking wtf? Unless you live a very sheltered life surely you meet people with all sorts of names?

And what does is matter whether your boy looks Italian or not? I didn't realise you had to choose ethnically specific names for DC and my parents must have been blissfully oblivious to this rule too.

Bearing all of this in mind and that Santa delivers all over the world so he'd be used to every sort of name, I think the issue here is that you've been duped into taking your DS to see a fake! I'd go back to that store and explain how you've rumbled them because of this elementary mistake by their fake Santa and get your money back.

Oh dear, my poor DS has had this sort of reaction for all of his 13 yeas luckily he likes his name and has perfected the dead pan 'yeah what of it' look

I can't think what sheltered lives people must have lived to think that Mario is at all unusual!