If you're tempted to call your poor daughter Honey, please can you put Honor on the birth cert and nn her Honey 'til you go off the name Honey

[MsMargotBeauregarde]

Thank you. That is all

i thikn people judge DDs name. but i could not give a hoot.would not have made the correlatoin betwween honey and sex trade etc

think people have too much time on their hands sometmes

Greensleeves, I'm not angry. I've been told I'm sexually dysfunction and I've been mocked. I'm not angry. I have to laugh though, at people who are arguing back with quite a lot of enthusiasm, but yet I'm the one who's lost perspective.

i've said a couple of times, if people want to call their child HOney, then that's their perogative. But it's not a name that is an advantage. I was suggesting that they keep the child's options open by choosing a name that had more options and less negative associations. Working in the sex trade is a negative association btw.

well tbh I'm not defending the name Honey (although it really is quite unremarkable) so much as challenging the whole premise of the trhead - "please call your child something else"?!?! Weird. I think you have definitely lost perspective - in fact you sound a bit barking tbh

It was for a wider audience that's why. I did mention it on that first honey thread.

This new thread is about Honor/Honey, as I've seen the suggestion of Honey crop up a few times recently.

Give over with the sex industry thing. Honestly. Honey is very much not to my taste, but that argument is rather ridiculous. And makes you sound a bit when you keep harping on it.

I don't think of Honey as a sex industry name, I think of it as a sh*te name. It's a term of endearment, not a name. Would you name your child "Darling" or "Dear"? "Sweety-Pie" or "Snookums"? No.

But what would I know? I only spent my first 29 years having the piss ripped out of me because my parents thought it would be a good idea to give me a name that rhymed.

Greensleeves, it thread on the names board, crashed off flippantly. I'm sitting here on a saturday night on mumsnet, like yourself it would seem. I'm debating something with people who seem to be debating it right back at me.

Gah, I spent the first 25 years of my life having the piss ripped out of me too, for various crap reasons. If I'd had a rhyming name maybe they'd have used that too. I kow loads of kids with outlandish names who don't get picked on at all. It's not as simple as that.

But what's really odd here is the vehemence of someone trying to order a total stranger to reconsider her name choice. It's even weirder than the long-hair-on- boys thread

Verging on obsessional? Lockets, you're verging on nasty. It was meant to be a helpful suggestion. Honor on the bc, Honey as a nn. I couldn't really give a fuck if some clueless woman her child after a pole dancer.

LOL at lockets being nasty. Where?!?

clueless woman??? you are suck a pompous old f*ckwit....get over yourself...

lockets, read the thread and ask yourself if you were rude and personal rude to me.

I'm debating a point here. You were personal. I would have thought that was quite easy to understand.

I've been accused of losing perspective (by a bunch of posters busy arguing with me)
I've been told I'm obsessional.
Leannalebanna says "clueless woman??? you are suck a pompous old f*ckwit....get over yourself..."

Blimey. Tbh, I feel I have the moral highground here. A couple of you got nasty and personal. So I'm going to leave you to it now. But in fairness, Leannabanana, wow, have always chatted with you on name threads in the past, what a post there. Charming.

There is no way that it was down to bad luck that I was teased about my name, trust me. It started in infant school and continued til I married and ditched my surname. The only way it could have been worse (using traditional, common names which mine is) was if it had been Lorraine.

Even now, if I have to give my maiden name, people snigger. Much as I love my parents, I do want to know what the hell they were thinking when they named me (I have asked, apparently my mother always wanted a girl with this name, decided it would be cruel so made it a double barrelled first name and then called me by the rhyming name anyway. AAAGGGGHHH!!)

It has made me very careful when naming my children as I am fully aware that I am saddling them with the name for life and me simply liking the name isn't enough.

I think Leannabanana was rather miffed at you referring to her as a 'clueless woman' TBH.

People do make judements about names, surely that is fact?
Honey is not unusual, but that just shows there are lots of parents with poor judgement out there. It's a sometimes patronising and always sickly term of endearment. Oh yes and likely to be found on cards in phone boxes etc
People who say that negative comments about a name should not be made because so-and-so has a dc with that name, need to remember that the discussion is about the name only Why try to make it personal?
If this thread makes a handful of people think twice about such a silly name then much credit to the OP!

Leannalebanna 1) I've only just realised you were the op of the other thread, and 2) therefore, your daughter is NOT called Honey, so 3) I didn't refer to YOU as a clueless woman.

Ffs.

margot i did find it very difficult to not take personal offence with the way that you seemed to have gone to gun for me in such a personal way with your IMO, inappropriately titled thread...there was adequate room to air your views on the other thread and i really did just take it with a pinch of salt and sit back and not say anything else other UNTIL you referred to either myself or the poster on the other thread who you know for sure has a daughter called Honey 'clueless'. I can assure you i am not clueless and you have IMO come across in some of your posts as a pompous f*ckwit BUT it was a bit unnecessary to voice that....so apologies for that outburst. Debate about names is all well and good but nobody likes to be told over and over that they 'cannot' call their child anything......lets all take a deep breath here and play nicely together Life is too short to fall out over something as sweet as honey....

ROFL at thought of lockets being nasty

I have the world's most basic, boring, plain names and got ribbed for it for various reasons throughout my school years and into adulthood - go figure

leannabanana "you are suck a pompous old f*ckwit....get over yourself..."
You've just shown how foul mouthed you are and completely lost any moral high ground.

can't people debate like adults?