A symbol is not a name; you can use whatever word or spelling you want. And it is NOT ABUSE to name your kid Moon Unit.

I guarantee you someone with a name that is impossible to know how to spell or even pronounce correctly will not have the same chances in corporate America as someone named Carol.

And no it doesn't affect me but I can guarantee I would have shifted someone with the name "Shamecca Tenesha Jackson" to the bottom of the resume pile. And no doctor named "Metta World Peace" is going to operate on me.

Black culture is one thing, handicapping your child at birth is another.


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what he said :2 cents:

fingers crossed

i don't care what someones color, sex, sexual preference, name or physical size is ? I'm just saying you don't do your children any favors by giving them names from left field.

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No, you blindly support a morally bankrupt, dogmatic political ideology that embraces a ridiculous and selfish philosophy against government intervention at all points no matter what the cost, disregarding the social and political compact among Americans, which it equates with liberty. That is just as bad, if not worse, than blindly supporting a government.

Let me explain something to you: The United States is a republic, Sperbonzo - YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT. If you feel that YOUR government has failed to achieve worthy goals, or pursued goals that are unworthy, there is a fundamental remedy in YOUR republican, representative government. You can engage with other like-minded people and attempt to transform YOUR bad government into better government. That's your only fucking hope.

Or you can continue to complain on internet message boards about how hell is other people, some of who want different shit than you yet are citizens of the same nation-state.

OR - and this is probably the most ideal option - you can pack your shit up and move to Somalia or Waziristan. Go to one of those libertarian utopias in Africa or the Middle-East where you'll be free from government interference and you can petition a local warlord for your grievances. Not only that but you'll be able to open-carry not only handguns, but rocket launchers and AK-47s and all kinds of other cool shit.

Agreed. Someday these people will have to fill out job applications. “Aquanetta” is not going to get them the clerkship at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Some people can’t give a thought to their child’s name past words that sound nice to them in the seconds after giving birth.

I'll bet you D'Brickashaw Ferguson wishes we had some laws like these. Fucking D’Brickashaw... I mean come on.

D’Brickashaw Ferguson wound up with that unfortunate name because his mother had like the character of De Bricassart on the 70’s miniseries "The Thorn Birds". But she could'nt be bothered to research the proper spelling of “De Bricassart,” either by checking the novel "The Thorn Birds" out of the library - a novel that one would assume a fan so dedicated to "The Thorn Birds" to name her firstborn after one it its characters would be interested in reading – either by reading the novel, or researching printed materials ABOUT "The Thorn Birds" television miniseries, or picking up the VHS release of the miniseries that one would assume such a dedicated fan would want to own, and reading the back of the box, or looking at said VHS case in a video store.

She was so passionate about "The Thorn Birds" that she named her child after De Bricassart, but could not do any of these things. She could merely blurt out a half-remembered slur of syllables to some semi-literate nurse in the deep South when asked what do you want to name your baby, as though it would never be brought up again. Now tens of millions of people have to read the word “D’Brickashaw” when his player stats pop up on the bottom of the TV screen every week, and think “what the fuck?” Or more likely some racist sentiment. If she had taken two seconds to get it right then, or at any time thereafter in his first eighteen years of life, or if anyone in her orbit had been a fan of "The Thorn Birds" and corrected her, or if the government would've stepped in and said, "no, that's fucking retarded" - the world could have been spared. But no. Fucking “D’Brickashaw.”

ID is issued by a government and you claim that government should have no say in the matter?

:1orglaugh man, oh man

In the movies Stripes, there was a guy named Francis.

What about Dumbfuck? Do you have a limit and we are both on the same side but fighting about degrees?

Dumbfuck is not directed at you but an example of a name that most people would agree is abusive.

Stefan is a girls name :party-smi

Is there law prohibiting naming car ZYKLON B ? If so can you point me to it.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/5...ws.html?pg=all

Droping Ruhan will make him 100% jewish. So I think he will stick with that.

I agree it is dumb but I find it hilarious when some Americans act shocked and see it as an "attack on peopels fredoms" ..

well,have you seen this site?

http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states


lots and lots of dumb laws in USA. I'm willing to bet USA (its states etc)has the highest amount of dumb laws from any developed country.

just searching for "dumb laws usa" in google gets you millions of results..

here is more condensed:

http://tjshome.com/dumblaws.php

I cant say all are true but even if 10% is it is dumb beyond reason..

From Florida, "One may not commit any ?unnatural acts? with another person." I'm turning myself in tomorrow.

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oh and if you ever move to Tenesee dont you let your daughter hold hands with some boy at school because it's illegal! So much about freedoms,dumb iceland laws and "how can people tolerate this shit?" question of the guy who opened this thread!

http://www.dumblaws.com/law/1944

stuff like that makes that iceland laws sound not that crazy.. :winkwink:


before someone says iceland is country and in US it is states - well, entire population of iceland is just 300 000 people.

A license plate is not the same as a person, in case you had not figured that out yet.



When you learn to spell, you can start discussing whether or not something is stupid/dumb.

Just in case you have Alzheimer's, I will point out that its not the question I ask. And just in case it?s late case of Alzheimer's I would like to remind you, we are talking about governments limiting right, not if itc a person or a car.
So should ask the question again in slow motion? Is there law against having licence plates "Slow Old Dog" or "Anthrax"?

Indeed. Like the TSA molesting our kids.. :(

Yes, every state has a maximum number of characters per plate and most check for some kind of vulgarity. I highly doubt there would be a problem getting a personalized plate that said ANTHRAX if no one else had it. FUCKYOU would be a little more difficult.

Ok, I think you do have Alzheimer's. I didn’t ask what you think, rather if there is such law. And if you took two precious minutes from posting on internet boards and actually read the article, you’d see that he was denied renewal of personalized license plates.
So I will stop asking questions now since you obviously have difficulty comprehending simple "yes or no" questions.

To be honest; I never bothered to click the link you provided. I answered your question as to whether or not the ability to use a personalized license plate (issued by the state) was the same as having the government tell you what you can name your kid.

If you think they are anywhere close to being the same you are too stupid for me to waste my time on. :2 cents:

In the case of Prince, he changed his "name" to a symbol due to record co bullshit.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...ymbol-20110323

I'm gonna name my boy, Sue:winkwink:

Have you tried naming your child "Satan" or "God" for example, I think someone would say "No".

..then again, the amount of "Mercedes", "Lexus", "Porsche" etc names in the US make me think that maybe indeed you don't have any limits.

great, use the "oldest" argument fallacy in the world to "counter" the argument:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

I know how to spell,why should it make any difference if I feel too lazy to properly spell? How many foreign languages do you speak? :winkwink:

Also, the links I gave are all in perfect English.

Anyone who thinks the above doesn't hurt those with the cultural names is not dealing in reality.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=goGe0CbARDE

lol - in which country?

actually Mercedes was the name of a girl and they named the car after her :winkwink:

Damn buddy, you beat me to it! :thumbsup:1orglaugh:1orglaugh



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Like I said, there are many many areas of government intervention in the US that I am also very much against.

Having said that, you should be aware that 99% of those laws are quite old, (often over 100 years), no one has bothered to remove them from the books, and they have not been enforced for many decades. If any officer tried to arrest or fine people for it, any judge would throw it out, or award no penalty, while then suggesting to the local legistlature that the law be removed.


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no, I gave both my boys more mainstream names based on family names

And whats so funny? Government MUST have a say in the matter, otherwise you will have people naming themselves Meta World Peace. This is just ridiculous.
Of course in OP case its not the case because that name sounds like an actual name.

I find it amusing that your government has convinced you that you need their guidance and protection from birth.

So you are saying that anybody should be able to officially name themselves for example:

first name: gfy
last name: troll

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We aren?t talking cars and babies here, dummy. The whole point of argument is government intervention. How stupid do you have to be to keep talking ?baby is not the same as car?. Ok fine, if you think its ok for government to tell you No you can?t have ?I am gay? or ?Poison Z? or what ever that guy had license plates its Ok with me.. But don?t tell me its so fucking different form them to say here?s list of 2000 Icelandic names, pick one. And no, you cant have name with letter C in it because we don?t have letter C in our alphabet.
And by reading this, it has nothing to do with government being so intrusive in someone?s lives but rather case of preserving Icelandic culture and its language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name

First names that have not been previously used in Iceland must be approved by the Icelandic Naming Committee (Icelandic: Mannanafnanefnd) before being used.[2] The criterion for acceptance of names is whether or not they can be easily incorporated into the Icelandic language. First, they must contain only letters found in the Icelandic alphabet and second, they must be able to be declined (that is, modified according to their grammatical case).

I find it amusing that you can?t see it in your own backyard and worry about some country with population equal to Delaware.

But never mind. You lived with it fine for 70 plus years and Im sure you'll do fine few more.

Serious question: If I wanted to immigrate there, would I have to change my name if it weren't on the list?