Top 5 terrible names

[periselene]

Boys Monty Colin Humperdink Reynaldo Junior Girls
Ellie
Millie
Molly
Lily
Polly

What are yours?

[Moomin]

The big difference between this and other names threads is that names threads ask for opinions about names that MNetters are intending to use for their baby. This thread asks for lists of names to ridicule/scorn... which is always going to be fairly sensitive and potentially offensive.

and anyway it's all gone tits up and should probably be left alone now.

[littlemissof1]

They don't always ask. Even the ones where they say I am going to use this, please be nice are ignored.
I didn't ask for the names to be tornapart critiqued, I just asked which one.

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

[littlemissof1]

One person posted at least 3 times on my name thread to get the point across that she didn't like the name, adding links and new comments and guffawing to other posters about it
That is just malicious even if I had asked for opinions.

[3andnomore]

lol hatrick!

not read all the thread, and seemed to have turned a bit, but will post my most disliked names!....but, btw, just because I dislike them does not mean they are bad nime....tis personal taste at the end!

Girls-
Agnes
Gertrud/Gerda
Mildred
Deirdre
Renate

Boys:
Caspar
Arnold
Archibald
Hector
Rufus

[solidgoldbrass]

WHy don't you all take the sticks out of your arses and have a look over here?

[3andnomore]

(checking for stick up my arse....unable to find it...hm)
anyhow, seen that site before....

[QuintessentialShadow]

solidgoldbrass etc, the same argument can be used for just about anything, occupations, benefits recipients, erm.... ethnicity, just because we dont know anything about eachother doesnt make it right, or is indeed not an excuse to start slating at random!

Imagine:
Name the 5 worst career choices
Name the 3 most intolerant ethnic groups
Name the 5 worst places to live in Britain

etc.

There will always be somebody who says "nursing" or "teaching", "traffic warden" "Management consultant" or "prime minister", there will very likely be somebody who pipes up "I am a nurse/teacher/ prime minister" and then arguments for and against, whether nurses/teachers are crap or not, etc and hurt follows.

Saying "hey come on, lighten up folks, we are strangers, this is not real life" or "FGS, how could I know that you are primeminister/nurse?? I did not mean you in particular" is simply a little short sighted.
It is because we dont know the full history of every mumsnetter we should be a little careful and show some courtesy in our posting, and try to refrain from upsetting people with singling out the mumsnetter you like the least, the name you like the least, the country you like the least, etc...

On the same token, you cant one moment come here and ask advice and take a lot of peoples opinions on board, and the next turn around and say that the opinions of strangers does not count. If you accept the good, you also need to accept the bad. It IS real people.

May I bring foreward a hypothesis: If opinions of strangers does not count, it logically follows that one has no use of a forum. It is just mindless timekilling. If the opinions of strangers does not count for you then maybe posting on a forum is pointless and one should refrain from posting as it is just mindless timekilling. If it is mindless timekilling, and one get ones kicks of posting controversial posts in full knowledge that it hurts some it is no longer just mindless time killing, is it? It is something else entirely.

If the opinions of strangers does not count, you should have no business on a forum, unless you deliberately seek to post controversial threads and then sit down with the popcorn.

[Moomin]

Hurrah for QS. Top post

[LadyThompson]

I'm SO sorry for the zillion posts. And mortified. I SWEAR I only pressed the button ONCE. It has made me look completely deranged!

I didn't realise criticising other names, even lightheartedly, hurt other people so much, mainly because it doesn't hurt me. But I accept that's faulty logic. So I'm not doing it any more. However, a good 60% of the people who post on the babynames topic still will, so if anyone's of a sensitive disposition, imo they are better off not posting and not reading this topic.

[Slubberdegullion]

LOL LadyT, I thought you had gone off on a real frothy then, wilddly stabbing away on post message . I do see that you have chnaged opinion with regards to this and the last thread, which is a good thing imo

Top post QS, mojo back then?

[Slubberdegullion]

wildly that would be. Widdly is something only puppies do, but I guess if you were angry enough and your pelvic floor wasn't up to much...

[LadyThompson]

The hugely thing was, as I said x 120, I was trying to be conciliatory at the time

But since you ask - pelvic floor, at 27 weeks gone, is really not what it was...

I have to say, though, I did hoot at SolidGold's link so I am clearly not 100% rehabilitated.

But I am pleased if Payson, Cortlend and Shyler's parents are pleased. I suppose people name their kids in a spirit of hope and joy and if you metaphorically piss all over that, it's rather meanspirited. And a bit ugly really. (It didn't stop me nearly pissing myself literally, but I won't be starting a thread about it...)

[LadyThompson]

Ironic, I meant to say - hugely ironic.

[solidgoldbrass]

Quint: No, I disagree with you totally that people should refrain from saying anything because someone might get hurt or upset. That's the line of argument that suggests misogyny or homophobia should be passed over because of the risk of causing 'cultural' or 'religious' offence ie "Waaah, you can't call me a bigotted superstitious fuckwit just because I KNOW that god thinks being gay is wrong". And I don't notice many posters holding back out of sensitivity when someone posts for advice on a serious topic on which opinions get polarised. When it comes to asking for advice on forums, many people want practical factual advice, which it is difficult to be offended by (though I know some people manage it) - and if there are polaroised opinions on whatever your dilemma is, you take the useful stuff on board and ignore the stuff you don't agree with rather than fretting over it.
People who are offended when no specific malice was intended to them are the ones who need a large cup of grow the fuck up. THose who take offence and have hurty little feelings all the time soon find themselves fairly friendless, because other people get sick of walking on eggshells round delicate outsize egos.

[earthpixie]

If someone I loved or knew well (or both!) said 'What an awful name! about my choice, I would be hurt and offended.

A stranger on MN? No, not really. For all I know they might have terrible taste. And there's so MANY bloody names - of course people are going to like some and not others.

[QuintessentialShadow]

SGB - lets just agree to disagree on this point.

[QuintessentialShadow]

SG, yes got my mental mojo back. Have a horrid cold, so no late night cycling trips "ghost" spotting