Baby name threads - I'm such a fan!

[PuppyMonkey]

They are the most entertaining things on MN by far. I'm completely addicted. And I don't just take the piss either, I just love em.

Need to get out more....

You and me both. Will never have any more kids, but still strangely addicted ....

I don't know why I like them-I will never have to name a child again! I think that it is in RL you have to bite your tongue and be polite-on here you can be honest.

I love them. It's the one topic I always have an opinion on. Mind you, if it's a negative opinion, I try to just think it rather than post it.

agree AbbeyA. Usualy it's a love em or hate 'em though isn't it? There seems to be a group who like traditional names and the other lot who think making names up and giving them "unusual" names is a good idea.

You can geuss which camp I am in

I seem to kill the name threads, though

I've recently ventured here and love it. I seem to get ignored though.

Teuch pmsl, same sentiment, differently worded.

i like them too

i seem to have an opinion on them all

wasnt even bothered about my own childrens names which is strnge

For some reason I'm compelled to look - like a car crash! But in general I think they're horrible - some people seem to think 'honesty' is an excuse to be terribly mean and to state as absolute fact what is in actuality just their opinion.

I got thoroughly ignored on the eve/eva one.

I though I was funny

'What about evangelica'

(sits back and waits for a hearty round of applause at her wit)

i still don't get it.
names are a personal choice. you are setting yourself up for ridicule and disappointment by asking opinions.
or is it a bit like going on jeremy kyle? misguided craving for approval?

TDWP - "Evangelica" - very good (see you're not being ignored!!!!)

Nigella i think people just enjoy showing off. and are dead excitied about impending birth

I think that I am in the same group as you Tommy.
I wouldn't ask but there wouldn't be a lot of point as everyone would say 'boring'.
It may help if someone wants something outlandish, if everyone is anti they may think twice.

They're great.
I now have a standard reply.

OP:do you like
VS:Nope use Rufus/Clara.

I love Baby name threads
When naming Babies was still an issue for us, it helped me "gauge" how a name is perceived by others and it made me aware of possible teasingissues, etc...!
In the end we went along wiht what we liked, but some names were put aside after realising what other people think...forinstance ys was almost called Frederic, but people automatically started saying how they like/ dislike the name Freddy...and because I hate the shortened version, we thought better then to call our child Frederic...!
And now I just love giving my opinion on any names thrown about, etc....!
As for people who don't "get it"...well..I always think, don't read/post then, lol...but hohum

TheDWP...you were funny. It's jsut that people on baby name threads are lacking in humour...possibly PG hormones.

Oh, and it's evening, by the way!

Who cares how people gauge the name of your child. Just call them whatever you bloody well like, surely?

pmsl Lynette, funniest flounce ever

well, I cared...is that a problem for you?
Maybe if I had my Babies in Germany and would live there I wouldn't have felt the need too, but well, fashion of names is different in Germany and Marvin is a perfectly acceptable name for a little boy, but in England people would probably laugh in your face and think you are crazy...
as it happens though, people think that about us anyway, I think, lol...

Careful DWP...there will be someone out there thinking 'hmm Evangelica, that's got a lovely ring to it'.

I dont' necessarily scoff at the name threads - I think you can get some great ideas and people are genuinely interested in helping others. I guess I just don't understand why people have to be so blatantly mean about giving their opinion.

Last box of tampons your post is well put, but if i cared about this thread i would say it more like this:

i dont get why there is a bunch of folk in the baby name forum that are out and out nasty people, whom have nothing better to do but go about being nasty people and generally ruining threads. the forum name is, wait for it, BABY NAMES, therefore, as truly unbelieviable and ridiculous as it surely is, people post asking for opinions on baby names! how uttery appaling of them!

If i ask what people think of the name zanzebar, i actually dont want idiots saying one word answer: adam. WTF? why? did i ask you to give me names? no..... honestly the ones that post in this forum like that are really pathetic, not the ones whom ask for an opinion on names. They just know us poor pregnant women are easy targets because of our raging hormones and clearly get some pleasure out of winding up preggers women

There. i said it on behalf of all the people that find the above very irriating. let the flaming begin!

raging hormone pregnant woman goes to make coffee and await the repercussions of her wonderful articulate post (minus spelling mistakes)