To be really upset that Mnetters are taking the P*&& out of my baby names?

[tictacto]

Just because I don't like Jack or Emily.

On a related note, am I the only one to have noticed that toddlers with names ending "-Lee" see to be particularly at risk from Rotweilers?

I know, SM, they are widely held- you are right.
I think for me it is different because I know several people in each category who are the opposite of the stereotype
(God, I am being amicable tonight)

Sometimes steroypes are funny

Katherine tate Am i bovvered a sterotype of slack jawed gum chewin urban kid

Al Murray - pub landlord oi have a word wif yerself engerland stereotype

southeastastra- not sure if I agree with you about tyler. There are couple in dd's school who are very bright and well- behaved

glaswegian!here you called Ubergeekian..whits the problemo?

Oh god, I stayed away but...

Al Murray used to be funny when he played to an educated theatre crowd who 'got' that he was a stereotype to be laughed at (and were slightly shocked).

Now he is on ITV prime-time Saturday night and basically just giving people an excuse to laugh at racist, sexist jokes...

This is why I can see the 'joke' but find it slightly worrying too.

UG - Of course. Weegies are renowned for their subtlety and perceptiveness

Islamum: "the TES tread should really be taken with a pinch of salt"

I think there was also a pretty strong element of winding one poster there up ... the one who waltzes in and says "You're all middle class and I've got three mixed race children and they are all brilliant and I'm far more sensitive than you and ...". Who could resist giving someone like that a bit of a tickling up?

FrannyandZooey Was it me?!

Zombie thread...

3 year zombie thread

Coool

how'd that happen?

I have to know who FrannyandZooey is and what it all means...