Supply Teacher giggling at name of child in class

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Is it very unprofessional for a supply teacher to start giggling when taking the register in a class which they have not taught in before, because one of the children's names is "Bourbon"? Supply teacher in question is normally very professional but couldn't help themselves when hearing the name of the child.

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It’s also name of an American whiskey 🥃

Biscuit or whiskey name would be more popular in certain parts of world including UK than Franco Spanish royal house.

What are people going on about biscuits for? Where did that come from? Bourbon is a alcoholic drink, and 99.99999% of people would assume their parent are pissheads or at least partial to bottles of bourbon.

Unprofessional if children are present, but it is just as unprofessional to say what the name is on a very public forum.

?? I think you mean this:

Wasn't there a How I Met Your Mother episode like this? Ted saw the name Cook Pu on the class list and thought someone added it for a stupid joke, starts calling the class out for it and this student's getting really upset because it's actually her name. Then the name's called out to collect a takeaway and Ted thinks Barney's winding him up, so starts having a go at him about it and the same student's right there.

No one has said its unavoidable, several people have acknowledged the teacher lacked professionalism, but equally, giggle out of surprise is a natural reaction and happens to the best of us.

Dad used to teach a Tia Maria. She was a twin, the twin had a name with no drinks connotations but that didn't stop the Tia Maria and Vodka jokes in the staffroom.

You're not, I take it, British...

Even if I'm not British Bourbon is an international and famous drink, much like coke, and it is the first thing anyone would think of. Not an obscure biscuit.

Tolkien got a letter from an S Gamgee once and sent him some free books, but said he hoped he'd never get one from S Gollum

Bourbon is not an obscure biscuit!

I knew a girl called Tia Maria, she had a lot of siblings - and they all had really ordinary plain names

it's a whisky business being a teacher these days!

Bourbon

Its a ridiculous name

Any normal person would giggle

"An obscure biscuit" 😆

If you were British, you'd realise that far more Brits would think of the biscuit first than the American drink.

Bourbons are a cultural icon. And Brits have an incredible variety of w(h)iskeys when it comes to the drink.

Oh v good :)

Haha brilliant!!

Ha!

You can see why a grown adult laughed at a child? Come on, adults shouldn’t be bullies. There are loads of strange names, adults should be able to control when they physically laugh, I mean, it’s not that funny.

There really should be a restriction on what names parents can give children. Some countries have this with an official list of names that parents have to choose from. It is ridiculous to name a child after a biscuit.

ElfAndSafetyBored

But why name a kid after a biscuit?

Or an alcoholic drink?

Were you

Nope thought of the biscuit here.

commenting so when I see this in the morning I can go and buy some from Sainsbury’s!

I know someone called this.