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Post by Nora on Oct 17, 2018 10:02:08 GMT
Apple and Saint come to mind
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Post by theauxphou on Oct 17, 2018 11:13:46 GMT
I worked with a person with that surname. I knew someone in high school with the surname ‘Gaylard’. I don’t know if that’s better or worse.
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Post by ant-mac on Oct 17, 2018 11:14:41 GMT
Biggus Dickus.
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Post by ck100 on Oct 17, 2018 12:35:25 GMT
Hortence Aloysius
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Oct 17, 2018 16:37:01 GMT
I'm sorry, but "Dick". That's pretty bad. Also there are a bunch of waspy(?) names like Brett, Buffy, etc. Those are corny too. Then of course there's Len.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 17, 2018 23:38:53 GMT
Apple and Saint come to mind I actually like Saint, and North. Bold moves. Apple not so much.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2018 23:46:17 GMT
Adolph
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Post by ant-mac on Oct 17, 2018 23:52:07 GMT
I knew someone in high school with the surname ‘Gaylard’. I don’t know if that’s better or worse. Gaylord would be worse and perhaps more so for her brother. I say this as a gay guy as well. What if he was gay? Oh the irony! If he were gay, then he could lord it over all his gay friends.
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Post by Raimo47 on Oct 18, 2018 0:08:32 GMT
Some Finnish surnames:
Jänis = hare Hiiri = mouse Kärpänen = fly Sikiö = fetus
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Post by mecano04 on Oct 18, 2018 0:19:02 GMT
Todd, Tucker & Kyle?
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Post by Nora on Oct 18, 2018 0:19:06 GMT
Apple and Saint come to mind I actually like Saint, and North. Bold moves. Apple not so much. North yes, especially North West. But Saint is just setting the kid for a failure I think. Or at least a lot of mockery.
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Post by ant-mac on Oct 18, 2018 0:22:02 GMT
If he were gay, then he could lord it over all his gay friends. Even if he wasn't gay, he would still cop flack.
This is why I truly believe the term gay is inappropriate for a homosexual person. It has taken a word that literally has a meaning of carefree and happy—and that is not such a bad thing—but placed a societal stigma on it as well, due to bigotry, prejudice and ignorance. The so-called gay community has a lot to do with this as well, by telling others how they should identify.
I would just rather someone refer to me as homo, but then the straights tell us, who are not gay, that is derogatory, so what gives here?
I find the word "gay" a rather curious member of the English language. As a child, I thought it meant happy. Then later I learned it meant homosexual. Then later still, I learned from a young girl it meant lame. In fact, she told me that the only thing that wasn't gay, were gay boys.
Every time I turn around, the bloody word has changed its meaning!
There is one thing that annoys me though. The term "gay" can be applied to gay people in general, regardless of their gender. However, the term "lesbian" strictly applies to female homosexuals, while any gender specific terms for gay males are nearly all insulting or unpleasant euphemisms. I don't get that.
Also, I wasn't aware that the term "homo" was an insult. I just thought it was an abbreviation. Is the term "hetero" an insult too?
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 18, 2018 0:37:17 GMT
Throckmorton
Doofus
Goober
Bubba
Philander
Ichabod
Hortense
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Post by ant-mac on Oct 18, 2018 0:50:27 GMT
I find the word "gay" a rather curious member of the English language. As a child, I thought it meant happy. Then later I learned it meant homosexual. Then later still, I learned from a young girl it meant lame. In fact, she told me that the only thing that wasn't gay, were gay boys.
Every time I turn around, the bloody word has changed its meaning!
There is one thing that annoys me though. The term "gay" can be applied to gay people in general, regardless of their gender. However, the term "lesbian" strictly applies to female homosexuals, while any gender specific terms for gay males are nearly all insulting or unpleasant euphemisms. I don't get that.
Also, I wasn't aware that the term "homo" was an insult. I just thought it was an abbreviation. Is the term "hetero" an insult too?
It is all pc semantics and bulls<>t and about telling others what something should mean to them and what one should identify as. When people say something is gay, they mean it is lame, then how does this apply to a gay person. Is that then degrading them as being lame?
Lesbians also refer to themselves a gay and bisexual, yet within the LGB, a gay guy is just gay. Why does a lesbian get to identify as all 3? It also used to be GLBT—and T is not even a sexuality—when the lesbians decided out of their own sense of entitled female privilege, that they should come first. I am homo, yet don't care one iota to lumped into a special category of LGBT, when this has nothing to do with who I am. Where is the straight community then if there is a LGBTQI.....whatever one? And this is why I generally keep the rest of the Human species at arm's length.
I find life much more comfortable and sensible that way.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 18, 2018 2:33:56 GMT
I actually like Saint, and North. Bold moves. Apple not so much. North yes, especially North West. But Saint is just setting the kid for a failure I think. Or at least a lot of mockery. I just think Saint is a very aesthetically pleasing and decidedly un-lame sounding word/name. Granted the lofty connotations mean it would no doubt be met with derision.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 18, 2018 2:40:52 GMT
I just think Saint is a very aesthetically pleasing and decidedly un-lame sounding word/name. Granted the lofty connotations mean it would no doubt be met with derision. I know of a black guy called Precious. I think that's a lot worse than Saint, especially for a guy. Was that the name given to him by his parents?
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Post by ant-mac on Oct 18, 2018 2:49:33 GMT
I just think Saint is a very aesthetically pleasing and decidedly un-lame sounding word/name. Granted the lofty connotations mean it would no doubt be met with derision. I know of a black guy called Precious. Damn...
His school years must've been a living nightmare.
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Post by ant-mac on Oct 18, 2018 2:58:07 GMT
Damn...
His school years must've been a living nightmare.
For sure!
I guess though, once you get used to a person and know their personality, it wouldn't be as much as a big deal. It was just lack of parental insight here. He comes across as a nice sweet guy.
Which sounds okay, apart from the fact that most people - especially school kids - are clueless and tactless arseholes.
Of course, that might simply be my own personal and unique experience.
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 18, 2018 2:59:29 GMT
Hopalong Cassidy
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Post by ant-mac on Oct 18, 2018 3:07:57 GMT
Which sounds okay, apart from the fact that most people - especially school kids - are clueless and tactless arseholes.
Of course, that might simply be my own personal and unique experience.
It is a stigma he as to wear. I don't see him much, but find it difficult to call him by his Christian name. If I were him, I'd change it by deed poll, but he might feel that is insulting to his parents. I wouldn't view his name as a stigma.
After all, the problem isn't his name, it's the attitude of other people to it.
I think it's uncommon and slightly unusual, but that's all. Nothing to get worked up over.
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