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We named our baby a marmite name

244 replies

PineappleBrazilNutsandMaccasFries · 22/01/2023 22:13

And I bloody love the horrified reactions more than the delighted ones:

What???
Oh my god that's a mouthful isn't it?
Is that a name? Oh, I'd call him 'xxx'

It's not even that out there, I think people are just rude, but it cracks me up

OP posts:
Hibye23289 · 22/01/2023 23:18

This is the equivalent to a facebook status of "omg so pissed off right now", then someone asks "u ok hun?" Then you say "I'll msg u"

Or even better- Dorothy checked into Leeds Royal Infirmary......"Hate these places"

🙄😅

BertaHoon · 22/01/2023 23:19

Is it cuntychops?

Hibye23289 · 22/01/2023 23:20

@BertaHoon 🤣

BertaHoon · 22/01/2023 23:21

Hibye23289 · 22/01/2023 23:20

@BertaHoon 🤣

@Hibye23289 I quite like it. Sadly too old for any more now.

Trez1510 · 22/01/2023 23:26

I'm gonna go with: Derek or Exxon-Jayden.

Wandaaa · 22/01/2023 23:27

RobertaFirmino · 22/01/2023 22:57

Richarlison?

That proper made me laugh 😂

RunningFromInsanity · 22/01/2023 23:29

whatwouldAnnaDelveydo · 22/01/2023 23:08

I always thought my DC would have names with "character". Not boring popular names. Then when I was pregnant I realised it was not about ME, and cool and cultured I am to have chosen such interesting names.

It's about my DC. So they have sensible names, and they're free to change it to whatever crazy thing they want if they are that way inclined. It's their names, not mine.

I wish my parents had been as considerate as you.
No one really wants to stand out as child.
I cringed every time the teacher would do the register.

Yutes · 22/01/2023 23:30

AIBU to call baby a marmite name?

without knowing what it is, yes YABU

aybu to be annoyed about people saying it’s a marmite name
also yes.
hth

Berlinlover · 22/01/2023 23:31

Pointless thread.

Spongeboob · 22/01/2023 23:36

It's either Keith or FuckfaceMcCuntychops

UsingChangeofName · 22/01/2023 23:38

PineappleBrazilNutsandMaccasFries · 22/01/2023 22:53

Me too. No idea why people have to be such twats 🤷🏼‍♀️

You mean such twats as to inflict a name on their child that is clearly so bad it gets reactions such as

What???
Oh my god that's a mouthful isn't it?
Is that a name? ?

It seems some people think their child is a toy to use as a project to shock people with how bad their name choice can be, rather than a poor person who has to put up with the name for potentially 90 years.

SleepingStandingUp · 22/01/2023 23:46

HundredAcreOwl · 22/01/2023 23:00

Will he ‘love the horrified reactions’?
Would you be happy to have been given a marmite name?

This...

Op said she didn't know it S marmite when she picked it though. At what age is too old to change it because you've realised it's marmite?

SoShallINever · 22/01/2023 23:47

Jesus

LulooLemon · 22/01/2023 23:48

Is it Ponky?

Sour-doh?

Glen (middle name = Fiddich)

Gastropod?

Buckaroo?

NewFoxOldTricks · 22/01/2023 23:49

Fandabadobie · 22/01/2023 22:16

If you aren't going to say, don't bother putting a post up

Oh I so agree with you

Pointless thread, probably hoping for it to go for miles Hmm

Hooverthestairs · 22/01/2023 23:50

What a pointless thread

EmmaEmerald · 22/01/2023 23:53

OP people saying it's a mouthful makes me winder how many syllables it has.

whatwouldAnnaDelveydo · 22/01/2023 23:57

RunningFromInsanity · 22/01/2023 23:29

I wish my parents had been as considerate as you.
No one really wants to stand out as child.
I cringed every time the teacher would do the register.

Thanks! I hope you've made peace with your name by now. I hated having a somewhat different name when I was a kid. Then I grew up to like it. And now my name is really popular with the 20 or 30 somethings and I hate to be one of many (I'm mid 40s). So, we never know ❤

YouTarzan · 23/01/2023 00:13

Attention seeking name. Attention seeking thread.

Aprilx · 23/01/2023 00:18

PineappleBrazilNutsandMaccasFries · 22/01/2023 22:53

Me too. No idea why people have to be such twats 🤷🏼‍♀️

Because threads like this are tedious and usually made up anyway. Have you really got nothing better to do, because this is pointless.

Floomobal · 23/01/2023 00:21

PineappleBrazilNutsandMaccasFries · 22/01/2023 22:52

I didn't realise it would be marmite until we'd named him tbh. I've posted enough info on here that I could easily be recognised if I share the name. Should have name changed really and put his name in the OP but didn't realise people would be so bothered 🙄

Yes, you could never have known that people would want to know the name.

yawn

madeyemoody · 23/01/2023 00:23

The irony of posting such shite and then putting your own post on hide...embarrassing for you

auldcraw · 23/01/2023 00:25

Rumolestilskin

LastOfTheChristmasWine · 23/01/2023 00:34

Yabu

You might find it amusing but your child probably won't and they didn't get a say in the matter

nocoolnamesleft · 23/01/2023 00:43

BertaHoon · 22/01/2023 23:18

Is it Nevaeh?

Just so you can launch into it's hea...

Spelt backwards, we know 🙄

Extra points for when it isn't, because the parents didn't manage to correctly spell heaven backwards.

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