Bogans with kids
-
@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).
-
-
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
-
@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.
-
-
@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!
-
-
@jegga This is deteriorating quite rapidly (as expected).
I do like Martial Law (the name). Excellent.
I worked the a pilot who was trying to get away from an ex wife. He changed his name by deed poll to Jack Sparrow (he was of course a Captain). You can imagine how he started his PA's to inspire passenger confidence.
-
-
@jegga Believe it or not, this is a real PA from Air Nelson many years ago:
"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, I'm David Bowie and I am your captain today, with me on the flight deck is first officer Bryan Adams."
Yes, that is their real names. I was amazed that nobody got off the flight.
-
@Snowy said in Bogans with kids:
@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 work for a HK headquartered company. As such I get given a Chinese name. The head of the Division I do most of my work for is a 155kg Pom.
His Chinese name translates as "Big Fat Man"
-
@Snowy he better have called in to Ground Control
-
@dogmeat said in Bogans with kids:
@Snowy said in Bogans with kids:
@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 work for a HK headquartered company. As such I get given a Chinese name. The head of the Division I do most of my work for is a 155kg Pom.
His Chinese name translates as "Big Fat Man"
They choose a name for you? That is a lot of power for a sick minded bastard like me...
I would just end up calling people NTA's mate Wee Kok, or Wang King, or Fuk Yu, etc.
So what is your name - probably not canto for Dogmeat?
-
-
@mariner4life said in Bogans with kids:
@Snowy he better have called in to Ground Control
He may well have had the nickname Major Tom as I think he was ex airforce.
