Chelsea smile

[PunkAssMoFo]

Some nut job that I know has just called her dd this. She thinks it's funny.

It's none of my business what anyone calls their child, but AIBU to be upset on the child's behalf?

[SuperFlyHigh]

I'd be curtailing my friendship with this gem of a friend too...

[NancyRaygun]

Am I correct in thinking that Social Services can get involved if a parent names their child something inappropriate? I seem to remember a family in the news over it, one in the US who named the kid Adolf Hitler and another one called "Fuck" or something.

[SuperFlyHigh]

Nancy I was wondering this too...

[NorwaySpruce]

Oh crikey, don't take the SS suggestions to seriously OP.

If you are the kind of person who gets het up about stuff generally, I'd say there's a really high probability that you are having your leg pulled by the new mother and family.

[InfinitySeven]

It probably won't be allowed.

The registrar is not allowed to register names which are potentially offensive, and anyone who has a name refused, or registers a name that the registrar agrees to allow but is cautious about, is referred to social services.

The UK is one of the least regulated countries when it comes to naming children, but this shouldn't be allowed, thankfully.

[NorwaySpruce]

too

[InfinitySeven]

It probably won't be allowed.

The registrar is not allowed to register names which are potentially offensive, and anyone who has a name refused, or registers a name that the registrar agrees to allow but is cautious about, is referred to social services.

The UK is one of the least regulated countries when it comes to naming children, but this shouldn't be allowed, thankfully.

[Nicename]

What does it mean? I've been here long enough to know that you never Google anything.

[squoosh]

A Chelsea Smile is where the sides of the victim's mouth is cut with a knife, they are then punched in the stomach thus ripping their mouth further when they scream in pain.

Really not appropriate as a person's name.

[JoanHickson]

I gather from comments it's a cut made on the cheeks out from the corners of the mouth?

[SuperFlyHigh]

whatever you do don't google it, I did and didn't ask for images they just came up in links... quite traumatizing.

[PrimalLass]

How do I hide this. I don't want to see it in active convos.

[Nicename]

Boak. I naively assumed it was flashing ones derrière.

[aermingers]

But Chelsea smiling never actually happened did it? It was made up rumours. So, yeah, not really that offensive, it was made up in the first place.

[SuperFlyHigh]

Norway - maybe SS won't get involved but to be friends with someone who names her child after this method of violence (I'm hoping it's a sick joke) I think or hope OP is reviewing her friendship with this charming mother. But that's my opinion.

[PunkAssMoFo]

Sincerely hope it's not allowed, but what if the registrar isn't aware of the term? Might send her a link to the urban dictionary in the hope that she comes too her senses/ isn't fully aware of the meaning. She's the kind of girl who won't be told.

I'm guessing the partner is on board with it.

[SuperFlyHigh]

aermingers - I don't want to know if it never happened or not... I'm guessing it probably did...

I mean Krays/Fred West - who knew before they did it that their violence/murdering actually happened, their methods, but they did happen...

[NancyRaygun]

Oh crikey, don't take the SS suggestions to seriously OP.

I didn't mean to call them - just to be clear. I am sure they have enough on their plates! I was just musing on it. I too hope this is a joke and she will just name her Chelsea Grace/Rose/Olivia etc etc!!

[steff13]

What is rock and roll about cutting someones mouth?

There's a band called The Chelsea Smiles.

Regardless, not an appropriate name.

[PunkAssMoFo]

Oh, & she's not a friend. Some people you have no choice in knowing.

[curiousgeorgie]

The registrar won't allow it. (I hope!)

[Chuckthefucklebrothers]

Yes, the Chelsea Smile is a real thing - people have scars to prove it. However, the Google search I just did showed me loads of examples of Halloween style MAKE-UP jobs - so I wouldn't get too worked up about all the 'female victims'.

[CherriesAndOtherStuff]

A Chelsea smile is the same thing as a Glasgow smile, right?

[JoanHickson]

I heard of a Glasgow kiss. A headbutt.

[aermingers]

Somewhere in the world someone was probably attacked in that way. But the Chelsea Smiling thing just did not happen. It was made up. I remember when it happened, the rumour went round schools in London and the South East like wildfire over the space of a week or so. Parents were taking their children out of schools and the police had to have notices published in the national press reassuring people that they had never had any reports of that type of attack whatsoever, it was a baseless rumour, never happened.

It's in bad taste, for sure. But it doesn't refer to real attacks with real victims because the 'Chelsea Smiler' incidents just never happened. If there were real survivors I could understand how it would be very upsetting for some people, but as there aren't any I think it negates the shock value somewhat. It is an urban myth.