New Zealand bans baby names

Noo Zeeland has banned some baby names

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-01/nz-reveals-banned-baby-names/4663570

So do parents have a right to name their children anything they want to or is this a subtle form of child abuse?

After all a lot of celebrities have given their children odd names
http://www.cracked.com/article_15765_the-20-most-bizarre-celebrity-baby-names.html

Or some even weirder names
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/pa...ad-them-and-weep/story-fnet08xa-1226536009955

 

This is a concerning topic. On one hand, why should the state get to say your legal name can't be V8? We've got some retard celebrity going by "50 cent" (not even 50 cents) and we're supposed to accept that. On the other hand, in the US, we have some states that will virtually never allow a name change (unless in the case of marriage), so some people could really get stuck with some stupid crap for a name that could ruin their lives. I remember hearing about a black girl whose parents thought it would be good to name their child something that sounded like "Ash-oly" (black people are infamous for their ridiculous names). Unfortunately, they decided to spell it "A sshole".

 

Does a person have the right to give someone else a crap name?

Probably not.

What's the saying? "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins"

 

I always thought "50 cent" was the description of his IQ as in "50 cents in the dollar"

That is why I included the celebrity list - "apple" or "Sunday Rose" which when first announced had everyone asking why she would call the kid "Sunday Roast"
but some are truly cruel names out there

"Dwayne Pipe"
"Olive Green"
"Harmony Scales"
"Donald Duck"
"Harry Willie"
and of course
"Michael Hunt"

 

If you want to name your kid V8, you probably shouldn't be having kids in the first place.

 

Depends, is after the juice or the engine? For the juice, NEVER, engine, maybe...

 

If that's the case, I'll name my first born Power Stroke 7.3. If you're going to name your kid after a engine, you might as well name him after the best engine ever made!

 

Yeah, but you live in a respectable country, we should have higher standards. As I hear it New Zealand is just a bunch of crazy drunks surrounded by sheep, literally, do they even need names?
http://www.comsdev.canterbury.ac.nz/rss/news/?feed=news&articleId=623

 

I actually knew a Michael Hunt. But what about Theresa Green?

 

It sounds like there are some pretty weird parents in New Zealand.

Euro libbism at it's finest.

 

Hmm, not sure which way to go with this one. It seems absurd to me that a government should reserve the right for itself to tell a parent what names are forbidden, and I don't like anything which sets such a precedent, but on the other hand, an odd name can cause a child a lot of grief. I dunno...

 

NZ governments have had this right for many years. You can mostly call a child what ever you like but there are limits and a civilised society knows that.

 

I do not understand why this article was written. They have been doing this for over a decade. If memory serves it was originally to prevent angering mooslems. Then Hitler and Lucifer were banned... then a whole host of things.

I am totally against it... it is stupid. However if you were going to do it... I would love to get a ban on all pseudo-French Africanized remix names like Shaliqua.

 

I think some people do not use common sense when naming their babies which can cause problems for the child as it is growing. Naming your child Hitler for instance. If NZ wants to do this, more power to them. Sometimes one has to cut stupidity off at the pass.

 

As Shakespeare put it

Tis but thy name that is my enemy;--
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title:--Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.

 

Concern for a baby name, but none for the same baby's very life in the womb.

Such is what passes for progressive logic these days.

 

Euro?

10characters

 

I dated a Teresa Greene back in the day

 

Aussies do terrible things to names. My sister and brother-in-law are part owners of a service station with a convenience store. They have a young Indian student by the name of Arund working for them. My brother-in-law is always telling him to 'Grow some hair Arund it'


Ahhhh that reminds me. Many years ago when I was just a lad, a mate lined me up with a girl he went to university with. Her nick name was Redex,, the roughest root (route) in Australia. Only Aussies will understand this.

 

Had a "Boolean Algebra" (ones and zeros) instructor in the Navy named "Richard Head".....he didn't take too kindly to the nickname.

 

you can kill a baby if you want, but you can't name it what you want????

 

Having a bad name didn't bother Ima Hogg who took over as gov of Texas when her husband died.

NZ is weird. I blame it on sheep genes.

*Baaaaaaaaa*

 

What's wrong with Michael Hunt and Teresa Green?
Nothing at all wrong with some of those names on the lists.

Actually I think that we should all have the right to legally change our names with no hassle when we reach adulthood. Many people do not like their names. My own name is old and common, but I have hated it and would have opted for my middle name instead, but felt Stuck with it. I actually cringe everytime I hear it.

 

You can kill babies in New Zealand? Hmm. Live and learn.