Mum complains that alphabet letters won't spell sons name

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Really? Do we complain about everything now?

Is this really news?

One of my children has a name that is not considered "out there" or yooneek, but you dont hear it very often and so is never on pens/purses/nameplates etc that you can buy on holiday. Always used to piss her off! Maybe I should have done a sad-face about that....and her name would have made the whole thing even more "sad".

Fuck my old boots, she's off her rocker

How can anyone hate cake?

Bogeyface, my dd's name is never on anything either. The 'ie' spelling of it is every where but not the 'y' spelling.

She's nearly 22 and is just about over it.

I saw the article but didn't read it- I just assumed it was one of those 'pretending to be outraged over something stupid on twitter where it turns into funny banter with the supermarket' type stories. Didn't realise the tit was serious

Isn't it as likely to confuse him? At DS1's school they only do lowercase for the first year....

Mind you, have you ever looked at the colour distribution of smarties - it's terrible! Woe betide you need even numbers of each colour for some cake project, let me tell you!

Is it terrible that the main thing I spotted was her use of extraneous apostrophes ("L's and O's")? I hope little Logan is good at grammar. If the trauma of seeing his name spelt incorrectly in processed potato shapes hasn't put him off learning for life, of course.

So if your name was say... Hannah then you would expect 2 of each letter, no?

What happens to all those people who have a DD named Katherine-Charlotte and a DS named Ian. Does K-C have to eat her own weight in Certain Letter Bites while poor little Ian goes hungry??

Surely the only letters they need to make sure are in there for most children to be happy are those that spell BUM, POO and WEE ?

This must be joke. Tell me its a joke. That Tesco apologised is ridiculous. Stupid dumb fuck of a woman. What is going on with the world? Children starving, refugees, bombing and this is what people think is news.

How can anyone hate cake?

It's the texture. Makes me want to hurl

I feel bad that in my pregnant state I commented to Tesco that I was disappointed to not get many of the round pink or blue liquorice allsorts nor those three layer white ones. They sent me two bags of them and I felt so ill scoffing them, I haven't eaten them since. Luckily I sent a light hearted message and didn't contact The Mirror! How embarrassing, she looks like a right plonker.

This is hilarious.

She's probably trying to stick them to fridge as we speak.

I read the comments on the article and some of the delightful DM commenters have decided she must be a MNer!!

I got enough letters in my bag to write my name, DH name and both DC names

ChocChoc - the smarties one is easy - you buy many packs of smarties, extract the ones for your project and then eat the excess in the dark so you're not upset by their lack of colour range. Unlike junk potato products, you can't have too many Smarties can you?

That cheered me up!

When i was little pre alphabites

My dad would cut the potatoes into the letters of our names before deep frying

Now thats a parent!!!!

Purple - two packs of just the types you wanted? How did they manage that - have someone pick them out of several packets? The round ones are of course the best but they're supposed to be rare in the mix - wanting more of the black and white sandwiches is a bit weird tbh.

So there's already a note on the packet saying that all the letters might not be there but she still complains?

Oh this is brilliant. If she had posted on here everyone would be shouting 'troll' - just goes to prove there are actually people like this in the world. Scary.

Also feel very sorry for Icgan's future teachers, she's obviously 'that mum'

Aww Rufus that's lovely.

Pre alphabites is a term that needs to be used more. I too was born in the pre alphabitie era.
We weren't allowed to play with our food although our mum sometimes put a smiley mouth on our plate with ketchup.

Say she finds a set that spells logan: what is she expecting to do for the other 7 meals out of that particular bag?