if you shouted your kids name down the bacon aisle

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wodl poepe turn t heir head ans dhtink
"hat a twatty name"

people say about my names 'certainly different' - bollocks are they one is top 3 for 10 years and another top 20 - they just go silent at the last two.
my dd is called a derivative of alexandra and in sept there is a chav in her class with it

uggggh. today i had to listen to:

'levi, eat your food. levi, eat it. levi if you dont eat it you wont get ice cream.
levi listen to me'

i exclaimed, rather loudly:

'ok, everyone knows his name is bloody levi, christ'

she heard me, dh went red.

LMAO

Ha similar experience recently with a lady who had anmed her child frasier but kept pronouncing is frey-sha with emphasis on the 'a'. Drove me nuts.

Neighbour is Thallan... him mum has a lisp

Dont you think that if people cant say the name properly they should not be allowed to use it?

They should test this in the hospital...lol

Enid, I shout "girls" too (they know who I mean

However I think I'll be in the same position as foxinsocks with ds - every boy and his dog is called Calum round here!

my dds' names would sound poncey in the bacon aisle but we fit in nicely if we stick to the organic wholefood coop. and we are well in there, name-wise, at the local museum "create your own da Vinci" workshop.

No but id DS was being a little @rsehole (when he gets older) - will march down the bacon aisle, grab him by his hand and shout "now come along (insert tw@tty name) just to embarrass him

surely those of you with dcs called (eg) Hugo and Portia are far too refined to do anything so coarse as to shout in a supermarket?

surely

nope cos they thing I am shouting robbie and ashley (ravi and akshay)
I have had odd looks for yelling chops and dumps tho!

Our test for possible names include screeching it at the top of our voice, and saying "oh don't do that XXX DAHling" is an exaggeratedly posh voice. If either sounds right, it's binned.

I am always proud to shout my kids' names.

But more importantly - do you lot really have whole aisles of bacon where you live? mmmm bacon.

i only like the sweetcure stuff and cut off all the white bits. Bacon aisles should be evicted.

In answer to the original question, re ds3's name: yes.

I must admit, it is a bit embarrassing, tedious, but I wouldn't change his name for anything.

but the white bits have half the flavour!

how much do you think a gammon joint would cost to post? and some proper thick cut smoked back bacon?

dg: people really think your ds's name is twatty? can you give us a clue? is it shakespearian?

It is Finbar SP. I have yet to meet anyone not Irish who can hear it without assuming I pciked 2 random syllables and threw them together to make a name.

cool. I am probably going to go for a Fin- name for my next actually, because it means pale doesn't it? (I have a scottish book, not an irish one). if he's dark it may have to be something else, but that's unlikely. it's not twatty!

DG - don't you watch Pablo the Little Red Fox? His best mate is a black cat called Finbar here

Well it gets a lot of odd reactions, so be warned! I think Finlay is more acceptable (but also more commonplace). I often call my children by their first syllable and in his case, Fin attracts a lot less attention. Yes it means "white head" but I don't worry about name meanings - just as well as all my children are dark.

Have you thought of Fingal "white stranger", Finlay "white warrior" or Finn/Finnian "white/fair"?

Iota, yes I know the cat Finbar on Pablo and also the shark on Rubbadubbers! And no, he was not named after either of those! (or indeed, after anyone)

Oh SP also just thought of Fintan. It is Irish and I don't know what it means, but another Fin name for you.

DG - didn't think you had named him after the cat - was just surprised that people don't seem familar with the name (thought everybody watched Nick Jr)

Honestly, IME, most people look as me as though I have made the name up, and amongst casual aquaintances, eg people you know in the playground, most are completely incapable of remembering his name. They are always asking me again what his name is or saying "errrr your little one is running off" etc.

Perhaps I just mix with no hopers....

Nope. DS1 & DS2 have biblical names (not for any religious reason) and DD has a reasonably popular (not common, though ) name. Never, ever heard DD's name being screeched in the street by other parents.

but what if finn is really FAT

your dh has a gorge name tho

I never think of Finn as 'thin'

that's because I speak proper though