Similar to Tiffany if a Mumsnetter wants a 'traditional English' name I have a suggestion... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_of_MerciaDèsirèe is French, so right up Mumsnet's alley.
It's an older name than people think - Sweden had a Queen Desiree in the 18th century!
It's a bit like the Tiffany problem - the name Tiffany goes back to the middle ages but writers can't get away with using it in historical fiction because it seems too modern.
Yes, I am a boring b, thanks for asking
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A Bay City Rollers fan and a Beatles fan in the same family! Awesome.
I look at horse for sale websites even though I haven’t been in a horse in 20 years
That's one hell of a typo
That's one hell of a typo
What's their obsession with searching people's usernames? Just reading a thread where the woman wants modern decor for her living room or something and one of the comments is 'From your past threads I can see you live in a flat'''... I mean I'd search the username of someone talking about something interesting like is it okay to really dislike your husband for years for example, but for the most mundane things?
Please can I ask question cos it's bothered me for years, but you all seem like sensible people who live in the real world- and want to know if it's just me... there was one of those stupid threads on MN about what you do that's funny and SO many of them said they go up and down the stairs at home on their hands and knees. They thought it was normal. Not cos they're drunk, or cos they're a toddler, or they're infirm. They just DO. And they do it every time. Actual grown adults. It gives me the creep and the ick and if someone said in real life they did this I would be calling 999 and DCoroner and Kier Starmer. Is this normal?!
We've lost sight of how often people should be in horses.
They think it's quirky. Usually adults don't go around their houses like Mowgli.
I do not believe this one either.
That's because it's balls
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Dear god.Think this is the worst one on the name thread, its because you're so unique sweetie. Then goes on to imply he's got that name because they love him so much
. Yeah I hate my kids so they are just number 1, 2 & 3. Or experiment 3 as my youngest says
He's called Jaxxxxxxxon isn't he?Think this is the worst one on the name thread, its because you're so unique sweetie
Polite request not to tell her to unclench and that Horatio just isn’t that bright.
Tutoring for a 4 year old FFS.
Tutoring for a 4 year old FFS.
The late Queen Elizabeth apparently nixed the name Annabel for Beatrice as being "too Sloane". I immediately thought "but it's a queen's name!".
Annabella Drummond was Queen of Scots from 1390 to 1401 as wife and queen consort of King Robert III of Scots, apparently very politically influential too.
Too common, Jahxxxxxxohn is much more special.
We've the usual gaggle of pretentious Phuckers in the Style and Beauty section.
Poster wants recommendations for a new foundation but not Estee Lauder.
A flurry of posts on Victoria Brckham at £104 along with other pretentious rit ive never heard of but costs eleventy dozen squid
So tempted to go in and advise Rimmel
Poster wants recommendations for a new foundation but not Estee Lauder.
A flurry of posts on Victoria Brckham at £104 along with other pretentious rit ive never heard of but costs eleventy dozen squid
So tempted to go in and advise Rimmel
Fancy boasting your kids are in classes of 30.Think this is the worst one on the name thread, its because you're so unique sweetie
Unless it's a made up word it's not a unique name anyway. I have a very uncommon name for the UK, but bog standard in the region of the world it's from. I personally have only ever known of one other person with it, but I would bet there are about 47207408 people in the world with it. No one's name is unique.Think this is the worst one on the name thread, its because you're so unique sweetie
(and if you loved your kid you would give them a name they can get on gift shop tat so they're not the only one of the siblings to never have anything - or worse, things with the English translation - which, as you well know, Mother, is not my name!)
He uses his dads name, cook
I got asked if my first name was a stage name once. I was like... no... it's on my birth certificate... plus is really common in at least three European countries (that I know of).
Needless to say I have never been the proud owner of a water bottle with my name on. DChild Abuse.
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