Bogans with kids
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@aucklandwarlord I was working with a Jamace and a Stoney last year, one day they will both be featuring in an episode of police 10-7.
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@aucklandwarlord said in Bogans with kids:
I locked a kid up called Wolverine once.
There was a chapter in the book Freakonomics a few years back which discussed a study done on how if an employer is sent an identical CV, one with a "normal" name and one with some sort of retarded made up name, that the employer will choose the normal named potential employee something like 95% of the time. The moral I took from that is that you're setting a kid up to fail for life by giving them a stupid name.
Going to be interesting to see if that changes on a generational basis e.g. the odd stupid name gets through to the management position, and suddenly we've got a bunch of Law Firm Partners with names like Anfernee or Princess...
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@jegga Could have been worse I guess - Stoner.
I used to spend a lot of time in Asia and in HKG they get to chose their own "English" name.
I asked one girl why she had chosen "Dolphin". Simple answer - "I like Dolphins" which meant that pretty much every bloke I know would call himself "Boobs" (with all due respect to Booboo).Some other favourite names of people that I worked with. HKG girls called themselves "Apple", "Winky" who seemed to have a twitch, "Cherry" who had lost hers some time ago I suspect, and a Thai girl called "Porn" (actually quite a common name I think).
Oh and another Thai called "Meow" - so I just called her "Pussy".
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@taniwharugby That first line "Imagine being called Anal" made me laugh.
Japanese airline "All Nippon Airways" is probably a limited liability company but they left off the "L" on all of their marketing and painting their jets. Flying around with ANAL written your tail might have put of some of the crew...so they wisely stuck with ANA.
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@Snowy I expect that calling the kid Anal was the male thinking about the choice he had made 9 months prior....
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@taniwharugby - That was my first thought also.
Much like a similar story a few years ago, when one proposed name was "Bus Stop #9" - which I assumed was the point of conception. -
@taniwharugby said in Bogans with kids:
@Snowy I expect that calling the kid Anal was the male thinking about the choice he had made 9 months prior....
So face,mouth, tits might have also been options?
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@Virgil said in Bogans with kids:
@taniwharugby said in Bogans with kids:
@Snowy I expect that calling the kid Anal was the male thinking about the choice he had made 9 months prior....
So face,mouth, tits might have also been options?
Just call the kid Unemployable and be done with it.
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@booboo said in Bogans with kids:
I'm hoping (praying) that it is an ethnic name pronounced a-NAAL (like Amal Clooney ... ). All the same child has been rescued.
It wouldn't really matter in the playground, so yes it is a relief that the child has been spared from that one. Probably called Assfofri now (or some other ethnic name).
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Foreign names always going to have a few issues. Chinese guy I worked with used "Michael" because "Wee Kok" wasn't ever going to fly in Australia.
Dikshit from Sri Lanka obviously had problems but didn't grasp the cultural implications, and was only here on a 6-month secondment.
The guy whose very long name was shortened to "Chocka" fit right in though
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@jegga said in Bogans with kids:
@booboo the Indian version is Anil , there's a dentist in Carterton called Anil Ramin .
That is really unfortunate and can't be good for business (assuming he really is a dentist, not a porn star).
Probably uses rohypnol as an anaesthetic. You would have to wonder why your teeeth didn't hurt and your butt did when you left the surgery.
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@NTA think it was Indian by the name of Prickshit that got Paul Henry into trouble here on TV1 Breakfast many years back.
I had a client who has the surname Law, and when he took an English christian name, he took Martial, which I thought was pretty good!
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