Or wait long enough until there's nothing left to evictQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
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Or wait long enough until there's nothing left to evictQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Received an email from someone whose signature was
Aimee [Surname] she/her (#MyNameIs Ey-mee)
:wtf:
As someone who has an awkward first name who has heard a hundred variations I really don't give a shit.
My name is 4 letters long and grown adults still regularly get it wrong.
I gave one of my kids a 5 letter name that really isn't hard either and their own teachers still fuck it up.
There are idiots everywhere.
I had a great one the other day that went like
Dear Igor
Blah blah
From John
Dear John
Blah blah
From Igor
Dear John
Blah blah
From John
No dude I'm not John you're John!! And even funnier typed out.
I find that difficult to believe somehow. :sherlock:
I had a bloke in my old job I used to have to talk to sometimes who'd apparently decided I capitalised properly other than on my own name and thus called me Lan.
We used to have a guy called Bhupinder work here. When people asked to speak to him, he had so many butchered variations - usually along the lines of "Bohinder". The best we ever got was "Burrito".
I have a Polish customer called Grzegorz Szwagrzyk whose name I assiduously get spot on every time, and yet he still calls me Olive instead of Oliver.
Life was simpler before I knew Jimmy's real name. I can't deal with Jimmy being an Oliver. It's like finding out Bamster is called Tarquin.
I think the general public has about a 10% success rate when reading out my full name, success rate being I reckon inversely proportional to yearly earnings. It's not even hard ffs.
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That is Bams name.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Tarquin.dyer@upthehammers.com
Are you saying Oliver isn't a posh name?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Unless the (aparant) hundreds of children called Oliver at my kids School and Nursery are all posh, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
I always thought it was a bit posh. Probably upper middle class. Maybe the commoners have got to it now.
About 10 years ago there appears to have beem a law passed that said every boy born in Essex must be called either Oliver, Tyler or Jayden. We're out the other side of it now, but Olivers, Tyler's and Jaydens are 10 for a pound round here.
Sorry Jimmy, I'm sure this is tough for you to hear.
It's not 'posh' in the caricature-ish way Tarquin is [although I would wholeheartedly endorse Tarquin's Scaffolding Services as a concept] but it is firmly middle-class at the very least. Isn't it the most common boys name nowadays [excluding the annual debate as to whether it is or isn't some form of Mohammed]?
We need to see some of these short names so we can make a judgement.
People routinely call me Mick, but that's seems to derive from the fact that people are completely incapable of hearing the 'N' in most situations it would seem. Not people I actually know, I should add, although I did once receive a Christmas card from a friend of my parents which assiduously got my wife and kids' names all correct [these people have never even met half the kids] and then called me Stuart or something. :moop:
Take it from a Northerner, Oliver is posh.
Oh yeah, it's not on the same level as Tarquin but very little is.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Pretty sure I saw a map of most popular boys and girls names by London borough not so long ago and Oliver was the most popular in a lot of them, yeah.
Here it is. It was actually Olivia that was extremely popular (and Noah for boys). Although there's a few borough with Oliver as the top boys' name too.
https://assets.londonist.com/uploads...es2020data.jpg
It probably WAS posh, many moons ago. But it has definitely been culturally appropriately since then. A risky business for the pioneers. We had a Giles in my year at school. He lasted 2 terms before the relentless bullying forced his mum to move him.
And a Kwaku, who had to leave the country such was the quacking everywhere he went.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Poor kid.
Oliver's been firmly the number one boys' name in this country for many years, until being overtaken by Noah this year. I was ahead of the game in 1988 so in those days it was probably middle class. There should be a crop of footballers starting to come through called Oliver by now which will erode that.
The main problem I have with it is that all the versions of Ollie/Olly/Oli look absolutely shit written down, so professionally I'm stuck with the full version.
Maybe try and get a new short form for it going.
How do you fancy trying Ver?
It's a little known fact that the rebel Saudi tour's full name is actually Oliver Golf.
Any sauce that isn't brown is posh to you people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
We've never heard what any of the parents of TTH named their kids. Fair enough, you probably don't want to share that info about your kids, but did you play it safe or go for something a bit more out there?
The best name related bants I ever suffered was being introduced as mr Jones to the class I was with for work experience at my old primary and this cheeky polish kid taking one look at my long hair and going "haha more like MRS Jones". Fair play. Couldn't get away with misgendering someone like that these days.
>* AhmadinejadQuote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
All the private school boys now seem to be called things like Jacob, Alfie and Oscar.
Tom, Jack and Alex seem to be the only really timeless ones.
Tarquin is posh? Sounds like a name straight from the NFL.
That would be J'Tarquin.
We had a work experience kid called Otterly. One of my colleagues called him Ottoman for 3 days before he corrected him.
Otterly is a boys name? I know a little girl with that name. Had no idea it could cut both ways.
Tarquin is posh here, Rupert is the apex I'd say.
I know some clown who named their kid Daenerys. I also know people who named their kid Vinnie, not Vincent. Surely you pick the full version and use the short, not christen them the short version?
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Originally Posted by SvN
Is his brother called ican'tbelieveit'snot
Is there anyone actually called Tarquin or is it just a cypher for imagined posh people? In my experience the people you think should be called Tarquin are actually called Rupert.
I have never heard Otterly in my life, male or female. Posh cunts.
This is such a bugbear for me, but no, it would seem that nowadays people put the contracted names on the official stuff. Was a big bone of contention when trying to come up with my son's name as I insisted if he was going to be called 'Fred/Freddie' [he's not] then it would have to be Frederick of Wilfred or something proper on the actual birth certificate, which sunk most options.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
That reminds me, the two rejected options for me at birth were Orlando and Guy. In fact my mother preferred these, but my dad probably threatened violence and/or started divorce proceedings, leading to a compromise.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
You'd never live "Orlando" down in this country. Fuck me.
Yeah, that's a major bullet dodged right there. Guy, Hugh, Hugo [seems quite popular now] always strike me as bad names.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Hugh is a proper boomer name. You read novels either dating from, or set in, the 1970s and read about raunchy sex between young people called Hugh and Ann, I find it really hard to suspend my disbelief.
If you have no intention of calling the child by the longer name why bother calling them it? Name them what you're going to call them.
That said, Vinnie is a lol name for a child.
Hugh is a proper country bumpkin name to me because it seems like half the men in my dad's side of the family were/are called Hugh.
Is Lan short for Landon?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
I was almost called Lawrence (Laurence?). I think my aunt suggested it and my dad liked it or something along those lines. But my mum said no, thank god.