Are black names weird or are you just racist?

[hooplala]

I have never had any real problem with weird names. What does piss me off is when people name their kids something that already exists, but spell it like idiots. There's no reason to spell "Cindy" like "Syndee." Just stop.

Why?

Because on the inside, I'm a crotchety old conservative asshole who just wants people to quit being so pointlessly weird.

My first name is Kris... got a lot of crap over it in my first few years of school.  After that, I stopped giving a shit what other people thought of my name.  Besides, my real name is Hoopla anyway.

I did notice about ten years ago that a lot of the people I knew were naming their kids things like Kaeden, and Calyn, and Kinsley, and Kingston.  I found them annoying, only because they all seemed to be variations of the same sound.  It gets confusing.

I want to name my kid Baba Ganoush someday.  Boy or girl.  I just like the way it sounds.

I wanted to name my youngest Walter but my husband said no.

I bet he regrets it, now.

YER GODDAM RIGHT HE DOES.
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[Pope Pixie Pickle]

W. Kamau Bell's first name is Walter so he'd be in awesome company.

[Junkenstein]

Just sayin', there's REALMS of fucked up here:

hxxp://www.sheknows.com/baby-names

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Just sayin', there's REALMS of fucked up here:

hxxp://www.sheknows.com/baby-names

ones with swagger for the little boy in your life

Like, what, Jagger, since everyone links those two together?

Actually it would be interesting if we saw an uptick in people named Jagger.

[Junkenstein]

hxxp://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1007749/swedish-baby-names-from-the-ikea-catalog

Have you ever browsed product names in the IKEA catalog? There have been some doozies: Fyrkantig, Flärdfull and Grönkulla, to name just a few.
But the Swedish home goods company also inspires some really cool baby names — even some with umlauts!

Baby names from Ikea's living room collection
Ikea's sofas, chairs and ottomans run the gamut from cozy to mod. And they feature fab monikers, too! Shorten Marieberg and Karlstad to Marie and Karl, or use full-blown Swedish names such as Säter and Vreta!

Arvika
Kivik
Mellby
Moheda
Nolbyn
Nolmyra
Norna
Resmo
Sandby
Tullsta

What?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

W. Kamau Bell's first name is Walter so he'd be in awesome company.

She. My youngest is Little Orange.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

I do like unique names, but not unique spellings. It seems to advertise, "I had no really original ideas, but check out what I can do with a Y!"

Not that my wife and I have any particular room to talk. Our first kid is named Aiden, FFS. We just didn't know that approximately 94% of all male children born that year would receive some version of that name.

I'm fairly sure if I were still stuck in sales floor hell, Aiden, Kayden, Kylie, etc, would all sound super-WASP, and thus ring dollar signs in my eyes all Tex Avery style. The name Tex on the other hand, would be pretty hit and miss.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

W. Kamau Bell's first name is Walter so he'd be in awesome company.

She. My youngest is Little Orange.

that would have been badass. Sorry. Forgot that your lad is the middle one.

[Junkenstein]

There's something weird here:
http://www.sheknows.com/authors/mary-fetzer/articles

Mary Fetzer is a freelance writer and marketing consultant with a marketing degree from Penn State University and 15 years of international business experience. Mary specializes in writing about parenting, children, pregnancy, college, health, entertainment and fashion. Mary's marketing expertise includes competitor analysis, including extensive experience in corporate "spying." Mary and her husband, Murray, reside in Central Pennsylvania and have two daughters, Susan and Isab

I suspect this is a glorified front for data mining. By which I mean moreso than normal on the internet.

[Reginald Ret]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/05/holly-willoughby-this-morning-katie-hopkins-video_n_3548849.html

there was a kicking off about this in the UK a couple of months ago sparked by this video.

also this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExS2YsLzR20


(edited to fix link)

Oh yeah, I remember when that went down, and my favorite part was that she was saying that she wouldn't let her children play with other children who had "geographical" names, and the interviewer pointed out that her daughter's name is Asia. And then she tried to say that "Asia" doesn't refer to a place or territory.

It was facepalmelicious.

It is short for Aphasia.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

hxxp://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1007749/swedish-baby-names-from-the-ikea-catalog

Have you ever browsed product names in the IKEA catalog? There have been some doozies: Fyrkantig, Flärdfull and Grönkulla, to name just a few.
But the Swedish home goods company also inspires some really cool baby names — even some with umlauts!

Baby names from Ikea's living room collection
Ikea's sofas, chairs and ottomans run the gamut from cozy to mod. And they feature fab monikers, too! Shorten Marieberg and Karlstad to Marie and Karl, or use full-blown Swedish names such as Säter and Vreta!

Arvika
Kivik
Mellby
Moheda
Nolbyn
Nolmyra
Norna
Resmo
Sandby
Tullsta

What?

Cannot tell if srs. 

[Count Chocula]

"Qevyn" sounds like "Kevin" or "Zhannone" like "Shannon"

This is what happens when the "people" in Portland are allowed to breed

[The Good Reverend Roger]

"Qevyn" sounds like "Kevin" or "Zhannone" like "Shannon"

This is what happens when the "people" in Portland are allowed to breed

Have you considered getting a new bit?

Because I'm not feeling this one.  It's like you're mailing it in or something.

[Ben Shapiro]

LOL he went to Portland and couldn't get laid.

[LMNO]

Why are we responding to it? Do we feel it will change behavior?