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what would you think if you met a boy called...

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motherbeyond · 01/02/2010 09:14

Clark? it was my gran's brothers name,but dh just thinks of Superman,which has never really occured to me.We are reeeeally struggling to agree on a boys name.

i like Ruben,Hugo Xavier and Zander..he has vetoed them all. he likes oisin,i have vetoed that...im beginning to like the sound of veto!!
help please

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orangehead · 01/02/2010 14:12

What parents loves the fact that it can take years for the hosiptal to find out the your child is constantly vomiting always has tummy ache and has water for poo (sorry tmi)because he is allergic to wheat. It then costs you more money (that you dont have) to buy speacial bread, pasta etc that is very expensive. You have to read ingredients to everything on they put wheat in all sorts even some chocolate bars. Every resturant, cafe you go you have to check and people look at you like you are being precious. Yes I love that

orangehead · 01/02/2010 14:15

Well said Balloon.

orangehead · 01/02/2010 14:24

Maggie- this is not about what you imagine a name to be like. Everybody has different images for different names. But that you are suggesting a child with allergies is because they have precious parents. Allergies are real and as balloon pointed out often life threatening. Would you accuse a parent of a diabetic child who has to monitor the child sugar intake as being precious?

clemette · 01/02/2010 14:32

On the allergies thing, I completely understand what Maggie means. Some children, horribly, have life-threatening/destroying allergies which can blight their own and their parent's lives. Some children, however, especially here in yummy-mummy ville have huge dietary "requirements" simply because mummy doesn't like the idea of wheat/dairy etc etc. Sadly there are parents who project this unnecessary preciousness onto their children. The number of times I have taught children who have come to me with an "allergy" when actually the food in question makes them belch/fart/feel a bit bloated...

To repeat, this is not to dismiss REAL allergies/intolerances, but those invented by parents to make themselves/children seem a bit "special".

clemette · 01/02/2010 14:33

PS - wasn't there a Vito/Vigo in Ghostbusters?

Keepo · 01/02/2010 14:42

yes vigo big head nasty ghost in ghost busters

Vigo

MaggieTaSeFuar · 01/02/2010 15:31

Balloon, that's rough that your child has life-threatening allergies. But I wasn't talking about life-threatening illnesses. I'm talking about the kind of person who just loves to talk about little Xavier's eczema, bowel-movements, love of celeriac etc... it was meant to paint a picture of a certain type of mother. It wasn't meant to laugh at children who are genuinely seriously allergic to some substance. I know they exist but there are an awful lot of people who like talking about intolerances blah blah blah...

Anyway, excuse me for trying to be funny. I failed obviously.

White flag?

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motherbeyond · 01/02/2010 17:05

so that's a no for Clark then?!

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woodyandbuzz · 01/02/2010 17:25

Clark is terrible (shoe connections).

I have some suggestions for you

Joshua - Josh
Oliver - Oli

choccyp1g · 01/02/2010 17:25

It's probab'y not the Dad dealing with "precious Maxim" when he is screaming all night in agony.

FairyLightsForever · 01/02/2010 17:28

Why not call him Alexander, but shorten it to Xander? Then he has other options if he doesn't like it later on?

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MaggieTaSeFuar · 01/02/2010 18:13

The secondcoming that is the type of person I was taking a swipe at. It's not just parents though, my x bil used to carry an epi pen around. he was convinced he was allergic to nuts but he ate my chicken korma with ground almonds in it and lived. A big risk you might think, but I knew him and I knew he was full of munchausens.

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CheerfulYank · 01/02/2010 18:39

I have no connotations between Clark and shoes. I like it- I have a friend who's going to name her DS this as is her maiden name.

How do you pronounce Oisin or however you spelled it?

My son has celiac disease and I am extraordinarily careful about keeping him away from gluten and must pay exorbitant amounts for special bread and pasta, but...maggie, I know what you mean!

Xavielli · 01/02/2010 18:47

I like Clark. I suppose it depends on your surname.

But then again I DO have a Xavier, sadly no one wants to know about his bowel movements... I'm obviously not friends with the right people.

BalloonSlayer · 01/02/2010 19:52

Maggie, I was trying to stay away from this thread but:

"he was convinced he was allergic to nuts but he ate my chicken korma with ground almonds in it and lived. A big risk you might think, but I knew him and I knew he was full of munchausens."

Are you saying that you deliberately fed someone with a nut allergy a food with nuts in because you had decided that he wasn't telling the truth?

It may interest you to know that there are lots of different nuts in the world and most people with nut allergies are not allergic to all of them. Hence they are usually specific about which nuts they can't eat. Allergy testing will test for many different nuts.

Your BIL will presumably have had to convince a doctor of his nut allergy in order to supply an epipen. That's a doctor - someone qualified to make a medical diagnosis.

All your "experiment" - and I hope to God that wasn't what it was - proved was that your BIL is not allergic to almonds. Yet you see it as conclusive proof that he is a liar and not allergic to any nuts. I am profoundly shocked.

If you truly did feed him nuts deliberately you could well be up on a manslaughter charge one day. Epipens don't always work you know.

MaggieTaSeFuar · 01/02/2010 19:59

balloon, he didn't have a nut allergy. He just liked talking about himself and his health, and he liked the drama of carrying around an epi pen.

I'm going to leave this thread now too, because even though you told me you imagined I was a fuckwit (lovely) I apologised to you. Now you say I could be done for manslaughter one day. [sigh]

EatingSwansHorror · 01/02/2010 20:03

This is brilliant

EatingSwansHorror · 01/02/2010 20:04

I'd love to imagine how differently this conversation would actually have gone if everyone was sat round having a cuppa and a chat about it.

MaggieTaSeFuar · 01/02/2010 20:05

I know. That's true Eatingswanhorror, in rl if you make a bad joke and it bombs, people forgive you. There might be a slightly awkward silence for two seconds, and then it'd all move on. But on MN there's a court case for every careless comment.

BalloonSlayer · 01/02/2010 20:09

No you didn't apologise. You said "Anyway, excuse me for trying to be funny. I failed obviously."

If you deliberately feed people food they have expressly told you could kill them and they die, you could certainly done for manslaughter. Surely you must understand that?