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   Feart n Tired ??????? (feartntired@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 23:57:52 JST Feart n Tired ???????

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   • astarsscreams
   sincerely hope this is made up.
   
   https://uk.style.yahoo.com/regret-baby-name-daughter-crumpets-bullied-092027049.html
   
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 23:57:49 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @EatKnitSleepAgain @HebrideanHecate @FeartnTired @Lady_Penelope @astarsscreams The joys of supply teaching. I once taught a girl named Tinkerbell, two girls named Destiny (in the same class), and a Nevaeh (heaven backwards if anyone cares).
     
     Parents: giving our child an unusual name makes us look really interesting and creative.
     Everyone else: stupid/pretentious/narcissistic wankers.
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     @FeartnTired @EatKnitSleepAgain @Lady_Penelope @astarsscreams https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/talula-does-the-hula-from-hawaii-9-gets-court-ordered-name-change-1.745238

     A judge in New Zealand fed up with parents bestowing bizarre names on their offspring has given a girl named Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii the chance to change hers.

     Judge Rob Murfitt has ruled that the girl, 9, become a ward of the court so her name can be changed. The girl was involved in a custody battle between her separated parents.

     In his ruling made public Thursday, Murfitt expressed concern at the "very poor judgment" shown by the parents in selecting the moniker.

     "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily," said Murfitt.

     The court heard that the girl was so embarrassed by her name that she never even told her friends.

     Instead, she told people to call her K, her lawyer told the family court in the port city of New Plymouth, located on the west coast of the North Island.

     The ruling was made in February, but became public Thursday when it was published in law reports. The girl's new name will not be made public in order to protect her identity.

     In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of strange names given to children in New Zealand.

     He said names blocked by registration officials included Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, while Number 16 Bus Shelter and Violence were allowed.

     New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offence to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of births, deaths and marriages.

     Clarke said officials usually talked to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them of the potential embarrassment for the child.

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     @HebrideanHecate @FeartnTired @Lady_Penelope @astarsscreams That's a cute name for a puppy, but a bloody cruel one for a child. If your kids name sounds more likely to belong to a pole dancer than the next president of your country, you have failed parenting at the first hurdle!
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     Feart n Tired ??????? (feartntired@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 23:57:51 JST Feart n Tired ???????

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     @EatKnitSleepAgain @Lady_Penelope @astarsscreams "It's a boy, we're naming him BullShit, BS for short"
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     EatKnitSleep (eatknitsleepagain@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 23:57:52 JST EatKnitSleep

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     @FeartnTired @Lady_Penelope @astarsscreams Thankfully, I smell bullshit.
     
     ' The day after the birth, the nurse asked me what I wanted to call her. In the haze of no sleep, adrenaline and mixed emotions, I blurted out the first thing that came into my head: 'Crumpets'.
     
     This is not how babies get named. You have until the baby is 6 weeks old to pick a sensible name and go get the birth certificate. That's 6 whole weeks for partner, friends, grandparents etc to talk some sense into you if you think Crumpets is an appropriate name for a person.
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     astarsscreams (astarsscreams@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 00:54:47 JST astarsscreams

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     @FeartnTired @EatKnitSleepAgain @Lady_Penelope This shit is why my kids have perfectly normal names like John and Sarah (not their real names).
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     EatKnitSleep (eatknitsleepagain@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 00:54:47 JST EatKnitSleep

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     @astarsscreams @FeartnTired @Lady_Penelope I'm somewhere in the middle. I didn't want my kids to have the exact same name as several other kids in their class, so went for names that are not in the top 50, but still easily recognisable as names for female humans.
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     astarsscreams (astarsscreams@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 00:55:36 JST astarsscreams

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     @EatKnitSleepAgain @FeartnTired @Lady_Penelope We did basically the same, although skipped the top 100. My husband has an immensely common given name and it bothers him. My oldest knowns like ten graysons and multiple milas. We have an extremely common English last name so there’s still tons of people with the same name as my kids. I was and am hoping that it means they’ll be harder to look up online in the future. It’s also why I took his last name upon marriage instead of keeping my highly identifying ethnic last name.
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 00:55:56 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @EatKnitSleepAgain @astarsscreams @FeartnTired @Lady_Penelope We went for family names for ours. It's a way to connect across the generations.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 03:32:03 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @EatKnitSleepAgain @FeartnTired @Lady_Penelope @astarsscreams There's a Snowbell here, the father is a savage and in the jail, the mother is a junkie with psychosis.

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     EatKnitSleep (eatknitsleepagain@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 03:32:03 JST EatKnitSleep

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     @HebrideanHecate @KeepTakingTheSoma @FeartnTired @Lady_Penelope @astarsscreams Poor kid.
     
     I misread that as Snowball at first and thought maybe they were fans of George Orwell!
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 03:37:33 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @EatKnitSleepAgain @HebrideanHecate @FeartnTired @Lady_Penelope @astarsscreams My daughter was at school with a absolute pain in the arse called Velvet. She was often referred to behind her back as Charmin.