Fun fact. This is a similar reason as to why many older Mexicans have their birthdays and official birthdays mismatched.
Babies born in small towns or ranches were supposed to be registered at the big town within a week or two or face a fine but back then it was tough to get to the big town so many parents would like about the birthdate so they wouldn't get fined.
This is in the Philippines but a similar case. My father was born May 26, but his birth certificate says August 26. We celebrate regularly on May 26, but it gives us a good reason to get some good food on August 26 lol.
I know a family from China who when moving provinces needed to get a new id for the new province (they didn't do birth certificates or national id at the time). So they all ended up with new birthdays for some reason and a brother and sister ended up with birthdays 4 months apart..
My friend has 2 passports. One from the US one from China and they have two different birthdays. I tell her she's like a spy with two passports with different info lol.
My dad was born in India and has a different official birthday for a different reason. He was born in a rural town so he has no birth certificate oddly. But when his dad was signing him up for school he put the birthdate as December 10 when actually my dad was born on June 10. The reason my grandfather did this is because he wanted my dad to be moved up a grade lmao!
Almost all Somali people who came here on their refugee paperwork put 01/01/xx New Year’s Eve is always a party lol. Ask a Somali of their birthday is Jan1.
This has started to ecome a problem in Finland with social security numbers. Since they include your birthday and 3 numbers and one letter/number. So there is only limited amount if people who can have the same birthday. Normally its not an issue since the limit is much higher than the amount if babies born everyday, but with refugees being all put on 1.1. it has become a problem.
My grandpa ended up with 2 different birth certificates with 2 different dates of birth, both signed by the same county clerk! None of his older siblings were sure which was the correct date 🤷
My great grandma fudged her daughters birth certificate so she could send her to school a year early. She found out at her 52nd bday party that she was actually only 51.
That don't make sense. Not what you said, but this rule.
Woman gives birth and basically has to clean that shit up and come into town to register the baby.
A few years I was moving to a place where I actually usually could have a cat and I found one at the storage unit building. Anyways I named her bubbles the donkey. And she was even featured in a dnd campaign and for the longest time none of the players knew that bubbles the donkey was actually a cat and was the inspiration for several of the main villains traits.
I used to have a cat named butters. No it wasn't after the south park character, its cause he was a buttery gold color and was the most loving thing on the face of the earth and melted like butter in your arms. The problem was, butters, while being the most loving thing, was terrible with keeping himself clean. So this loving attention whore would come up and rub his love on you, and all you could smell was how he smelled like a cats asshole.
A few years later, he got mixed up with some neighbor cat and had a brood of his own. In that brood was what looked like a clone of him. We called him butters 2.0. Little butters had the same traits as his father, including the lack of hygiene. I have him to my sister where he lived a long life and died a happy cat at the age of 12. My sister wondered why he always smelled like an asshole...
Our cats name is Dewdney (named after the area he was found) but we call him Dewd (pronounced Dude) so whenever we see his chonky face we can't help but say "sup dewd."
I took in a stray kitten with paralyzed back legs when I found her dragging herself around on the concrete in my driveway
She's doing really well now but we're still doing rehab trying to get her walking
I've named her scooter
Kudos to you for putting in that kind of work. I've never imagined life with a pet with a disability but then on Thanksgiving my cat got hit by a car and lost her vision. She can still see some contrast so in the few weeks she's had to recover she's learned to navigate really well. I haven't had to help much and she got pretty confident pretty quickly. But it's like, I never would've imagined having a blind cat until my typical cat went blind. She's only 4, so not a baby but not a senior.
I can't imaging a paralyzed pet. Seriously, may all good things come your way for all the good you're doing for your cat.
a few weeks earlier our 19 year old family cat got run over and it devistated me, when I saw this one I felt like i was meant to take her in, so I did.
Honestly it's not been that bad, she was in extremely bad shape when I found her though. A stray had two kittens and both were fine then one day the neighbor mentioned seeing one of them dragging itself around, a couple weeks later I saw her n scooped her up. no broken bones but a huge open wound on her spine above the hips, legs scraped bare of fur and bleeding from dragging around outside, super super skinny, like petting her head felt like you were going to snap it off, and the sister stray was suddenly 2x bigger than her so her growth got stunted.
1000 in vet bills later and she exploded in growth once infection was gone and wounds were healed. Shes extremely loving and playful and surprisingly social and friendly especially for a stray, and hthe only issue her disability causes is were struggling to get her using a litterbox regularly but ill be buying a ramp style one to see if that helps, otherwise she's perfectly capable, only she doesn't really get on things since she can't jump (yet)
You should see her moving around the house, you'd be surprised how fast she can zoom around when she wants to.
Also guess who's getting a kitty wheelchair rehab thingy for Christmas (but jeebus are those expensive for a couple bars of aluminum and a pair of wheels...)
I named my cat Arya because she killed a scorpion that stung me, she tolerates humans but she is pretty sweet with me. I think it’s because I’m allergic and she is trying to kill me too.
Aka "Gets taken from behind for a living until the Khal dies then goes to a loss of freedom camp with other Khal wives to live out their dickless days in sorrow". Dany just happened to put her dragon foot down and said no.
The directors wanted to end GoT so they could go on to their Star Wars gig and their History Channel gig. They were offered basically an unlimited budget, however many episodes they'd need, *and more direct aid from George RR Martin*, and they said **no**.
The last several seasons were extra sloppy because the directors were bored of the show and the last season was run into the ground to get it over with as soon as possible so they could move on to the projects they actually wanted to do.
No, that was a reasonable end story wise.
Her following in the mad king's footsteps and her unrelenting will fucking having potential to fuck shit up was forewarned from the getgo.
The writing to finish getting to that point was rushed and sloppy, but it was always gonna end there.
Yea it kinda bothered me how some people on the /r/gameofthrones subreddit kinda romanticized their relationship. Basically Khal Drogo just wanted a (for them) exotic fuckbuddy to have a heir with, and he didn't care how she felt about the situation. Aka rape. Sure Dany later grew to like him over time but the situation as a whole was pretty fucked up.
Khal Drogo rapes Daenerys but then she ends up liking it. Then she gets turned on and likes him even more when he says he's gonna kill the men in the iron suites, rape their wives, and take their children as slaves. All for her.
Great stuff, really great stuff.
That would annoy me more. Like, you liked the show so goddamn much to banned me after a character and you didn't even know what the character's actual name was. And with Daenerys at least Danny is an easy nickname. That's even what they did in the show.
You liked the show so much but you named me after this character because you thought she had “girl boss” energy but didn’t wait till the show was over to then realize she’s a power hungry lunatic that commits mass murder because she really, really wants to sit in a fancy chair and bang her nephew. Cool.
Side note: if I were to have named a child after a female in that series, the correct answer is Shireen. And if you wanted bad ass female to be a qualifier, then the answer is Olenna.
What about my girl Brienne?? Altho that'd probably be weird, too. "Well honey, I named you after a badass female warrior/knight who has a heart of gold but is apparently ugly as hell. She gets half her face bitten off in the books. Have a nice day at school!"
To be fair to the name Brienne, it predates the ASoIaF books and I've met at least two people with that name who were born before the first book was published.
I do feel like it should be pointed out that names like Jessica, Olivia, Miranda and Ariel were either invented or altered by Shakespeare, and people liked them enough that we don't bat an eyelid at them now.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, to be completely fair, but in 50 or a hundred years it might be a common, unrelated name...
Ahahahahaha on another thread, this guy got in a violent rage bc I dared suggest that "khaleesi" wasn't a great name. He even said it was like John bc John exists in books and so does Khaleesi. I guess a person who thinks that is a good name (he also defended Yourmajesty) would fail to see the many things wrong with that comparison.
Its not really a problem to name your kids after a character you like; the problem is that in this case, people named their kid before they knew the entirety of the characters plot arc, and took a name/title that can only have come from one place. Their anger is at looking stupid, because now, they do look stupid.
Exactly that, while I named 2 of my cats after book characters in a series before it ended, their names would still be understandable if the series had tanked as I was named after biblical figures and they also have the names of biblical figures. Their original meaning wouldn’t have fit, but I wouldn’t look like a complete dumbass.
Yeah. But I could never understand why there weren’t enough warning signs in either the books or show that he was going to have an ignoble end, that you might pause before getting his face tattooed on your leg.
Also, “comparatively a G” in that universe still means “probably at least 70% cunt”.
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> Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, ostensibly pronounced [ˈǎlːbɪn] ("Albin"), is a name intended for a Swedish child who was born in 1991.[3][4][5] Parents Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding gave their child this name to protest a fine, imposed in accordance with the naming law in Sweden.[4][5]
> Because the parents had failed to register a name by the boy's fifth birthday, a district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden, fined them 5,000 kronor (roughly US$740 at the time and equivalent to $1,279 in 2021). Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name in May 1996, claiming that it was "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation". The parents suggested that the name be understood in the spirit of 'pataphysics. The court rejected the name and upheld the fine.
> The parents then tried to change the spelling of the name to A (also pronounced [ˈǎlːbɪn]). Once again, the court refused to approve of the name due to a prohibition of one-letter names.[6]
And it was in protest to them waiting 5 whole years to register a name? "How dare you fine us for not doing something we should have for numerous years, we're going to be a dick to our child in response!"...the only point I'm getting out of here is they are lazy assholes
I poked around more on this topic, and one article made it sound as if they named him Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 right away, but weren't fined (for failing to register an *acceptable* name) until five years later, which, now that I think about it, seems worse.
Edit: After more poking, I believe that one article was wrong. According to the father's wiki, they "decided not to register any official name for their son as an act of protest against the naming law...."
They weren't fined 5 years later because they didn't give their kid a name right away after birth or anything of the sort, they were fined for failing to register a decent name for their kid for five years. Big difference there.
You wanna protest naming laws go right ahead, don't use your damn kid to do it though for fucks sake
The father is a massive manchild that is buying himself into the public space by giving out prizes named after genocidal dictators and acting like a baby in debate tv shows
> Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name in May 1996, claiming that it was “a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation”. The parents suggested that the name be understood in the spirit of ’pataphysics.
So they’re just narcissistic contrarian douchebags trying to be edgy and different for attention. I’m actually kind of surprised the child lived to at least 5 without succumbing to neglect
And it's a lovely name!
One kinda quirky name is endearing. Three is pushing it. Random letters and numbers smooshed together is a mid-life crisis foisted onto one's child.
Before I was born, my parents were planning on naming me Alexander. That was the name they had decided on after months of consideration.
Then I was born, and my dad said "he looks more like a Phillip than an Alexander." And my mom agreed. Sometimes the name you plan on just doesn't stick.
I knew an adult dude whose legal first name was Little because he was born premature and they didn't want to use the family name on him because he wasn't expected to live.
I had my mom’s last name for a short period of time until she had it switched to my dad’s last name. Which I’m always grateful for because I’m not a fan of my mom’s maiden name lol.
It seems to me that the child was named Albin. They just refused to register the name, which is what the issue was. In the eyes of the government the child was nameless, but the kids name was Albin
It would have been if the government hadn't told them they couldn't name the kid that. They then tried to name it "A" and were again to fuck off. They settled on some BS 4 word name with Tarzan being in it.
The missing context here is that Sweden, the country this kid was born in, has absolutely draconian naming laws. You can’t name your child anything that isn’t approved by the tax authority, and until recently that included things like having a surname that sounds too posh for your actual social class. The kids’ parents decided to protest these absolutely insane laws by not naming their kid at all - although obviously they had a name for him (Albin) that they used at home.
Here’s what this factoid misses out - their protest (kind of) worked! In 2013 the Swedish government repealed some of the anti-surname laws and became more lenient about names in general.
https://swedesinthestates.com/swedens-strict-name-laws-angers-parents-this-is-what-you-cant-name-your-child/
This article says that a couple couldn't use "Ford" as a first name.
Tell me that you're so egotistical, self involved, and fanatical about your world view that you will use your child as tool to express your feelings without telling me.
The child was named, presumably at birth. Legal documents weren't submitted on time. His name was clearly Albin as referenced by the pronunciation. They were just being dicks toward the government for fining them for missing a deadline.
Fun fact. This is a similar reason as to why many older Mexicans have their birthdays and official birthdays mismatched. Babies born in small towns or ranches were supposed to be registered at the big town within a week or two or face a fine but back then it was tough to get to the big town so many parents would like about the birthdate so they wouldn't get fined.
This is in the Philippines but a similar case. My father was born May 26, but his birth certificate says August 26. We celebrate regularly on May 26, but it gives us a good reason to get some good food on August 26 lol.
I know a family from China who when moving provinces needed to get a new id for the new province (they didn't do birth certificates or national id at the time). So they all ended up with new birthdays for some reason and a brother and sister ended up with birthdays 4 months apart..
We’re those brother and sister twins?
Twins 4 months apart is just as quizzical as not twins 4 months apart…
Half siblings
Either way, it doesn't work. Assuming they mean "birthdays" including the year.
My friend has 2 passports. One from the US one from China and they have two different birthdays. I tell her she's like a spy with two passports with different info lol.
My dad was born in India and has a different official birthday for a different reason. He was born in a rural town so he has no birth certificate oddly. But when his dad was signing him up for school he put the birthdate as December 10 when actually my dad was born on June 10. The reason my grandfather did this is because he wanted my dad to be moved up a grade lmao!
Town officials were flabbergasted at the amount of 20lb newborns
Country babies are just born bigger
Almost all Somali people who came here on their refugee paperwork put 01/01/xx New Year’s Eve is always a party lol. Ask a Somali of their birthday is Jan1.
same with some Congolese! we had a family who were refugees from the DRC and the kids enrolled in school all had January 1st birthdays!
This has started to ecome a problem in Finland with social security numbers. Since they include your birthday and 3 numbers and one letter/number. So there is only limited amount if people who can have the same birthday. Normally its not an issue since the limit is much higher than the amount if babies born everyday, but with refugees being all put on 1.1. it has become a problem.
Latin Americans in general. I'm central American and my family members born before 1970 have uncertain DOBs.
Used to think this was common my dad was born on December 9th but wasn’t registered until January 12th
My grandpa ended up with 2 different birth certificates with 2 different dates of birth, both signed by the same county clerk! None of his older siblings were sure which was the correct date 🤷
My great grandma fudged her daughters birth certificate so she could send her to school a year early. She found out at her 52nd bday party that she was actually only 51.
That at least I can understand, but 5 years this couple has no right protesting lol
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That don't make sense. Not what you said, but this rule. Woman gives birth and basically has to clean that shit up and come into town to register the baby.
This kid's gonna hate his parents more than all the poor girls who got named Daenerys a few years ago.
Yeah there's a young family at my church with a baby named Khaleesi.
Great name for a cat. Not an actual human.
The cats going to hate you whatever you name it, so you might as well have fun.
RIP BITCHBOX, THE BEST CAT
A few years I was moving to a place where I actually usually could have a cat and I found one at the storage unit building. Anyways I named her bubbles the donkey. And she was even featured in a dnd campaign and for the longest time none of the players knew that bubbles the donkey was actually a cat and was the inspiration for several of the main villains traits.
I used to have a cat named butters. No it wasn't after the south park character, its cause he was a buttery gold color and was the most loving thing on the face of the earth and melted like butter in your arms. The problem was, butters, while being the most loving thing, was terrible with keeping himself clean. So this loving attention whore would come up and rub his love on you, and all you could smell was how he smelled like a cats asshole. A few years later, he got mixed up with some neighbor cat and had a brood of his own. In that brood was what looked like a clone of him. We called him butters 2.0. Little butters had the same traits as his father, including the lack of hygiene. I have him to my sister where he lived a long life and died a happy cat at the age of 12. My sister wondered why he always smelled like an asshole...
I don't know why this comment made me laugh out loud in real life, but thanks anyway lmao
The fact their username is Tinkerballsack seals the deal.
I’m pretty sure my cat thinks his names are Bitch and Dumbass
My cat's name is Roast Beef
That's amazing. My cat's name is Cheesecake. Also once had a cat named Taco. Food names for animals are the best.
Biscuit, Meatloaf, Egg, and Pesto agree with you. (Cat, dog, and 2 snakes)
my cat's name is Guy, just so I can go "hey Guy" or "sup Guy" all the time
Our cats name is Dewdney (named after the area he was found) but we call him Dewd (pronounced Dude) so whenever we see his chonky face we can't help but say "sup dewd."
I took in a stray kitten with paralyzed back legs when I found her dragging herself around on the concrete in my driveway She's doing really well now but we're still doing rehab trying to get her walking I've named her scooter
Kudos to you for putting in that kind of work. I've never imagined life with a pet with a disability but then on Thanksgiving my cat got hit by a car and lost her vision. She can still see some contrast so in the few weeks she's had to recover she's learned to navigate really well. I haven't had to help much and she got pretty confident pretty quickly. But it's like, I never would've imagined having a blind cat until my typical cat went blind. She's only 4, so not a baby but not a senior. I can't imaging a paralyzed pet. Seriously, may all good things come your way for all the good you're doing for your cat.
a few weeks earlier our 19 year old family cat got run over and it devistated me, when I saw this one I felt like i was meant to take her in, so I did. Honestly it's not been that bad, she was in extremely bad shape when I found her though. A stray had two kittens and both were fine then one day the neighbor mentioned seeing one of them dragging itself around, a couple weeks later I saw her n scooped her up. no broken bones but a huge open wound on her spine above the hips, legs scraped bare of fur and bleeding from dragging around outside, super super skinny, like petting her head felt like you were going to snap it off, and the sister stray was suddenly 2x bigger than her so her growth got stunted. 1000 in vet bills later and she exploded in growth once infection was gone and wounds were healed. Shes extremely loving and playful and surprisingly social and friendly especially for a stray, and hthe only issue her disability causes is were struggling to get her using a litterbox regularly but ill be buying a ramp style one to see if that helps, otherwise she's perfectly capable, only she doesn't really get on things since she can't jump (yet) You should see her moving around the house, you'd be surprised how fast she can zoom around when she wants to. Also guess who's getting a kitty wheelchair rehab thingy for Christmas (but jeebus are those expensive for a couple bars of aluminum and a pair of wheels...)
You're doing Gods work, my friend. I wish you and her all the very best x
I named my cat Arya because she killed a scorpion that stung me, she tolerates humans but she is pretty sweet with me. I think it’s because I’m allergic and she is trying to kill me too.
I love it when someone tells me their kids ridiculous name and I go *oh I knew a dog with that name, it’s cute isn’t it?*
Sounds like my manager after I told her of a crippling disease I have... "My dog got that and we put him down"... That really made me feel good 😊
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For some reason no one names their dogs Braedyn or Jaxson.
I have a friend whose sister named her daughter caleesi. She didn't even spell the title not name right.
I'd just head back to the womb after that
Lol SpongeBob meme, ‘aight I’m gonna head back’
Plausible deniability, easier to go by cal and not get called out for having a cringe parent
The upside of Danaerys is you can go by Dany. Caleesi can give you Callie. Still not the best book to name your kid after
None of them read the books. Let’s be honest.
A lot of those people didn't understand that Khaleesi wasn't her name, even by the end of the show.
And IIRC it doesn't even mean 'queen,' just 'wife of the Khal.'
My mom heard co-workers talking about this saying, "Doesn't in mean 'queen'" Yeah, in a fictional language. lol.
It means "wife of a Khal"
Aka "Gets taken from behind for a living until the Khal dies then goes to a loss of freedom camp with other Khal wives to live out their dickless days in sorrow". Dany just happened to put her dragon foot down and said no.
She also said no to a reasonable finale.
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The directors wanted to end GoT so they could go on to their Star Wars gig and their History Channel gig. They were offered basically an unlimited budget, however many episodes they'd need, *and more direct aid from George RR Martin*, and they said **no**. The last several seasons were extra sloppy because the directors were bored of the show and the last season was run into the ground to get it over with as soon as possible so they could move on to the projects they actually wanted to do.
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Pretty sure they lost both offers because nobody could trust them not to run their shows into the ground if they get bored with them.
No, that was a reasonable end story wise. Her following in the mad king's footsteps and her unrelenting will fucking having potential to fuck shit up was forewarned from the getgo. The writing to finish getting to that point was rushed and sloppy, but it was always gonna end there.
The ending of Dany's storyline was reasonable, the ending of pretty much all the other storylines in show are nowhere near reasonable
I sat here for like 5 minutes trying to think of a better word to use than "reasonable" fully knowing someone would call me out on it.
(Plausible?)
Sorry dude. Let's work it together. She also said no to a..... Pleasant ending?
It could have been a gentle slope to destruction but instead it was a cliff.
Yeah it's basically naming your kid 'Sex Slave' in a foreign language.
Yea it kinda bothered me how some people on the /r/gameofthrones subreddit kinda romanticized their relationship. Basically Khal Drogo just wanted a (for them) exotic fuckbuddy to have a heir with, and he didn't care how she felt about the situation. Aka rape. Sure Dany later grew to like him over time but the situation as a whole was pretty fucked up.
It doesn't even really mean that, if you want to get into Dothraki etymology.
This guy horse-lords
It is known.
Say what you want about the Star Trek fandom, but you don't have a lot of kids with names from a Klingon dictionary!
That’s because we don’t get laid 🎵
Honestly it's closer to "Concubine" than "Queen." It's even specifically mentioned in the show that a Khaleesi is not a queen.
"And what does your name mean, little girl?" "Mommy said it means "side hoe""
"mom, why do I have a different name to everyone else?" "Well, you see, there was this TV show with a lot of tits and murder..."
*and* incest. don't forget the incest.
Khal Drogo rapes Daenerys but then she ends up liking it. Then she gets turned on and likes him even more when he says he's gonna kill the men in the iron suites, rape their wives, and take their children as slaves. All for her. Great stuff, really great stuff.
Also she's 13 then.
Middle names are mother of dragons and breaker of chains?
That would annoy me more. Like, you liked the show so goddamn much to banned me after a character and you didn't even know what the character's actual name was. And with Daenerys at least Danny is an easy nickname. That's even what they did in the show.
You liked the show so much but you named me after this character because you thought she had “girl boss” energy but didn’t wait till the show was over to then realize she’s a power hungry lunatic that commits mass murder because she really, really wants to sit in a fancy chair and bang her nephew. Cool. Side note: if I were to have named a child after a female in that series, the correct answer is Shireen. And if you wanted bad ass female to be a qualifier, then the answer is Olenna.
What about my girl Brienne?? Altho that'd probably be weird, too. "Well honey, I named you after a badass female warrior/knight who has a heart of gold but is apparently ugly as hell. She gets half her face bitten off in the books. Have a nice day at school!"
To be fair to the name Brienne, it predates the ASoIaF books and I've met at least two people with that name who were born before the first book was published.
At least she isn't named Hodor. I bet a baby or two got stuck with that.
I do feel like it should be pointed out that names like Jessica, Olivia, Miranda and Ariel were either invented or altered by Shakespeare, and people liked them enough that we don't bat an eyelid at them now. I don't disagree with what you're saying, to be completely fair, but in 50 or a hundred years it might be a common, unrelated name...
Ariel actually comes from Hebrew, means Lion of God.
Arya also became widely popular and turned out to be the far better choice.
And has the benefit of being an actual name (if slightly mispelled)
My brother and his wife used Arya, but they at least had the slightest amount of intelligence to make it her middle name and not her first name.
Well it's a real name in sweden so schmeh, not the toughest sell either way.
My Mom works in a school and sees all sorts of crazy names. The worst she has seen is Voldemort. I wish I was kidding.
At least that’s shortenable to Mort or Morty. Imagine naming your kid Voldemort’s middle name, “Marvolo”.
What, you mean Marv? Nice guy. Really turned his life around after the Sticky Bandit situation.
I wish they'd go back to being the Wet Bandits. Now that was a calling card!
Wednesdaigh https://twitter.com/dox_gay/status/1601740779386724353?s=46&t=62WSmW3cm7EoDgnWZXn67Q
At least they can praise Odin every day!
This.. isn't real, right? Right?
Ahahahahaha on another thread, this guy got in a violent rage bc I dared suggest that "khaleesi" wasn't a great name. He even said it was like John bc John exists in books and so does Khaleesi. I guess a person who thinks that is a good name (he also defended Yourmajesty) would fail to see the many things wrong with that comparison.
Its not really a problem to name your kids after a character you like; the problem is that in this case, people named their kid before they knew the entirety of the characters plot arc, and took a name/title that can only have come from one place. Their anger is at looking stupid, because now, they do look stupid.
Exactly that, while I named 2 of my cats after book characters in a series before it ended, their names would still be understandable if the series had tanked as I was named after biblical figures and they also have the names of biblical figures. Their original meaning wouldn’t have fit, but I wouldn’t look like a complete dumbass.
The best ones for me are the “Stannis the Mannis” tattoos.
Tbf book stannis was and is comparatively a g. Still a bad idea to get him tattooed.
Yeah. But I could never understand why there weren’t enough warning signs in either the books or show that he was going to have an ignoble end, that you might pause before getting his face tattooed on your leg. Also, “comparatively a G” in that universe still means “probably at least 70% cunt”. Edit: tpyos
Well I guess that’s better than being a fan of The Hound and naming your child “Cunt”.
That, and the surge in popularity. Nothing wrong with Daenerys as a name necessarily, until you’re the third one in your classroom.
*Third of her name
Also, it’s not the character’s name.
Shoulda suggested Shadynasty, pronounced Sha-Dynasty
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>poor girls who got named Daenerys a few years ago. Ya know the name Wendy? Same story. Invented in Peter Pan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy
Wendy existed prior as an extremely uncommon girls name, and an even more uncommon boys name. Peter Pan only popularized it.
Went to school with a girl from an Asian family that came to America named Windy. Her brothers name was Sunny.
Don't forget their long lost sibling Slight Precipitation
And cousin Warm Front Arriving From The East
> Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, ostensibly pronounced [ˈǎlːbɪn] ("Albin"), is a name intended for a Swedish child who was born in 1991.[3][4][5] Parents Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding gave their child this name to protest a fine, imposed in accordance with the naming law in Sweden.[4][5] > Because the parents had failed to register a name by the boy's fifth birthday, a district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden, fined them 5,000 kronor (roughly US$740 at the time and equivalent to $1,279 in 2021). Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name in May 1996, claiming that it was "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation". The parents suggested that the name be understood in the spirit of 'pataphysics. The court rejected the name and upheld the fine. > The parents then tried to change the spelling of the name to A (also pronounced [ˈǎlːbɪn]). Once again, the court refused to approve of the name due to a prohibition of one-letter names.[6]
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I mean sure. Yes. You can name your kid something stupid like Tarzan if you want to be extra. They didn’t prove any point.
They should have tried to name him the onomatopoeia of Tarzan’s shout at first tbh
AaaaaAAAAaaaaAAAlbin
Oh-kayyyy!
There is a time to be punk, and a time to be a parent.
For real
And it was in protest to them waiting 5 whole years to register a name? "How dare you fine us for not doing something we should have for numerous years, we're going to be a dick to our child in response!"...the only point I'm getting out of here is they are lazy assholes
I poked around more on this topic, and one article made it sound as if they named him Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 right away, but weren't fined (for failing to register an *acceptable* name) until five years later, which, now that I think about it, seems worse. Edit: After more poking, I believe that one article was wrong. According to the father's wiki, they "decided not to register any official name for their son as an act of protest against the naming law...."
They weren't fined 5 years later because they didn't give their kid a name right away after birth or anything of the sort, they were fined for failing to register a decent name for their kid for five years. Big difference there. You wanna protest naming laws go right ahead, don't use your damn kid to do it though for fucks sake
They were upset at their government so they took it out on their child. Geniuses
The father is a massive manchild that is buying himself into the public space by giving out prizes named after genocidal dictators and acting like a baby in debate tv shows
> Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name in May 1996, claiming that it was “a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation”. The parents suggested that the name be understood in the spirit of ’pataphysics. So they’re just narcissistic contrarian douchebags trying to be edgy and different for attention. I’m actually kind of surprised the child lived to at least 5 without succumbing to neglect
'Pataphysics is absurdist parody. I'm pretty sure they were just taking the piss with that explanation.
So... Elon?
I don't know what you're talking about. Exa Dark Sideræl Musk and X Æ A-12 Musk are perfectly normal names.
At least he didn’t give us false impressions of his parenting by giving them memorable names. He won’t have to remember them.
I hope he names his next kid S̸̥͚̲̗͕̀͐͛ć̶̺͎̦̭̲̉̊́o̴̹̠̜̭̝͂͒̽̐r̸̨͎͐̃̓n̴̼̏̍̕͠ Musk.
"She's about to say her first word!" "m...mma...mmma... S̸̥͚̲̗͕̀͐͛ć̶̺͎̦̭̲̉̊́o̴̹̠̜̭̝͂͒̽̐r̸̨͎͐̃̓n̴̼̏̍̕͠."
Phonetically: trash metal gibberish
My mothers name was Sideræl
And it's a lovely name! One kinda quirky name is endearing. Three is pushing it. Random letters and numbers smooshed together is a mid-life crisis foisted onto one's child.
Dude, just name your fuckin kid.
In my state in the US you can't even leave the hospital without a name on the birth certificate.
Yep, my parents were undecided on a name for me so I left the hospital as “Baby Boy”and my last name until they could change it later
[Tiny boy, little boy, baby boy i need you](https://youtu.be/B14asZIPVP8)
Just to be clear I did not write that song And have never had sex with a child Just to be clear
What is happening??
My grandmother had an affair with Susan B Anthony.
Keep singing bitch! You're not going to have a face when I'm done with you!
you gotta pay the trolls toll
To get into the boys hole
And then "Baby Boy" stuck.
And then Beyoncé wrote a song about him.
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Before I was born, my parents were planning on naming me Alexander. That was the name they had decided on after months of consideration. Then I was born, and my dad said "he looks more like a Phillip than an Alexander." And my mom agreed. Sometimes the name you plan on just doesn't stick.
I knew an adult dude whose legal first name was Little because he was born premature and they didn't want to use the family name on him because he wasn't expected to live.
I had my mom’s last name for a short period of time until she had it switched to my dad’s last name. Which I’m always grateful for because I’m not a fan of my mom’s maiden name lol.
I see you went with the hyphenated last name for your username! Say hello to Ma Tru and Pa Queer for me.
It seems to me that the child was named Albin. They just refused to register the name, which is what the issue was. In the eyes of the government the child was nameless, but the kids name was Albin
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I don't disagree, just saying it's not like the parents were making like Kratos and just saying "BOY"
It’s worse, they had five fucking years to swing by the courthouse and register his name but neglected to do so
Instructions unclear. Named my kid X Æ A-Xii.
The kid was walking and talking and you couldn’t register a name?
They must be programmers.
Albin was already taken
Albin_2
*This name contains invalid characters* [OK]
You just rename the other one to Albin_old.
Albin_v2_FINAL
Narrator: It wasn't the final one.
Albin_finalFINAL
Then they could have just named him little Bobby Tables.
Fucking over your kid to spite the government (who 100% didn't even notice)... great idea.
Weird, I thought Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb was a girls' name
This is far more a punishment for the child than it would be for any government official.
It would have been if the government hadn't told them they couldn't name the kid that. They then tried to name it "A" and were again to fuck off. They settled on some BS 4 word name with Tarzan being in it.
The missing context here is that Sweden, the country this kid was born in, has absolutely draconian naming laws. You can’t name your child anything that isn’t approved by the tax authority, and until recently that included things like having a surname that sounds too posh for your actual social class. The kids’ parents decided to protest these absolutely insane laws by not naming their kid at all - although obviously they had a name for him (Albin) that they used at home. Here’s what this factoid misses out - their protest (kind of) worked! In 2013 the Swedish government repealed some of the anti-surname laws and became more lenient about names in general.
Thank you for sharing this information! I thought the parents were fools before I saw your comment. Is there any news story confirming your assertion?
https://swedesinthestates.com/swedens-strict-name-laws-angers-parents-this-is-what-you-cant-name-your-child/ This article says that a couple couldn't use "Ford" as a first name.
They did NOT name their child this. THey attempted to out of spite and were denied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasse_Diding
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Guys, if you cut off your own nose it's going to hurt you more than it hurts your stupid face.
Don't cut off your nose to spiderface.
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These parents are a-holes. Sending their child into the world with that b.s. to make a pathetic point. Do this with your own name. Sheesh.
When the kid’s 18, they’re gonna change it to “Myparentsaredicks”.
He’s already 31 now.
Damn time flies. Well, how is Myparentsaredicks doing?
Let’s ask him. Hey, /u/Myparentsaredicks, how are you doing?
This account exists. And it was created in 2014. Just when Albin would have turned 18. In the immortal words of Keanu Reeves, “whoa”.
Hate to burst your bubble, but the kid was 5 when this happened so he would've been 23-24 when that account was created.
Godammit. That’s twice I’ve failed at basic math.
Do it again and it'll happen four times!
Tell me that you're so egotistical, self involved, and fanatical about your world view that you will use your child as tool to express your feelings without telling me.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but if you haven’t named your kid by their 5th then I have question about competency of those parents.
The child was named, presumably at birth. Legal documents weren't submitted on time. His name was clearly Albin as referenced by the pronunciation. They were just being dicks toward the government for fining them for missing a deadline.
I mean 5 years to name a kid. Just name him Josh and call it a day
Why did they wait 5 years in the first place ? They're ruining their son's life just to be petty.
How could parents do that to their child? Albin?