Nasty Nick - names

absent

He is sometimes on our local news (horse trials and all that)

rosequartz The words pot and kettle spring to mind. I have no idea how Mark Philips is doing and don't really care.

absent Wasn't Princess Anne's first husband known as Fogy Phillips at school because he was thick and wet?

I think it was Prince Charles who nicknamed him that.

Still doing OK for someone thick and wet though, isn't he!

nannynoo thank you, I agree with you

DH and I watched Burghley horse trials in Sunday there was a female rider called 'Piggy' (I don't recall her surname) I said to DH 'Why would she compete under that name' If it were me I'd reserve that for friends and family, not the whole world !

Nicknames can be very cruel - and children are often the cruellest when devising them. Wasn't Princess Anne's first husband known as Fogy Phillips at school because he was thick and wet?

I used to tell my DB not to call her that but of course he didn't take a blind bit of notice!!! x

I am sensitive to nick names and maybe others aren't

My DB used to call my niece ''Fatalie'' though her name was Natalie and he used to find this HILARIOUS whereas I would CRINGE as he called her it most of her growing up life , yes I can see the funny side but what if there IS a serious side which I suspect there could be and teasing can be downright CRUEL

''Preparing for the real world'' does not include calling children names IMO and I wouldn't encourage it , there is enough of a problem with bullying already and what about teaching children tolerance for others and that we are all different which is to embraced?

I personally don't agree with the ''weight'' nick names , there is enough pressure already and I feel it could affect a childs self esteem , no harm with real terms of endearment but no harm in NOT calling children weight teasing names and there is a possibility they could develop a complex so why take that chance , children are like absorbent sponges and soak up everything! xx

She was probably a fan of Deanna Durbin when she was young.

My mother is like that about the name Diana - she will insist on pronouncing it Deeanna for some reason.

Slightly off topic but the talk of names and teachers reminded me.
One of our teachers used to pronounce my friend's name as De-bor-ah with emphasis on the middle syllable. Despite several requests to pronounce it in the usual way he still did it.
A case of teacher thinks she knows best.

I worked with a teacher who did things like that. He thought it was funny and didn't bother the children because they lauged. He said it also helped prepare the children for the real world. I asked him how often he'd been humiliated and had to laugh along with everyone else.

connotations of the name Flabby

A friend of mine has the surname 'Dyer' and her eldest daughter became the object of ridicule at school thanks to her teacher who, when doing the register, would call out 'is XXX Diarrhea' (as in 'is XXX Dyer here) which the teacher thought was funny!

I think it's worth remembering that just because others find it funny, it doesn't follow that the person being called that will agree.

Nicknames that are fun are fine and quite cute sometimes. Friends of mine (childhood ones) whose nicknames I can remember were Pearl (Shirley), Pen (Wendy), Piece (Keith), Spoon (June), Babs (Barbara), Dave the Rave the Gangster of Love (Dave - he actually nicknamed himself that lol) and Baba (another Barbara).

Both of my GDs were given nicknames by their parents: Boz (the eldest) and Chunky (the youngest, yes, she was a bit large as an infant but now as thin as a reed) and both hated those nicknames. The youngest now verges on anorexia as she is obsessed with keeping her weight down.

There was an item on the news this morning about depression and especially depression affecting young people; turns out that most of begins before their 15th birthday - maybe nicknames aren't as harmless as we think (not that I'm implying they are the only reason for depression).

FB could be there for ever unfortunately, whereas in days of yore nicknames could be forgotten ( perhaps).

I suppose I was thinking of the connotations of the name Flabby which would probably stay with her knowing the family. In this day and age of body conciousness I didn't think it was a good thing. Maybe I am wrong.

Back on track with my sister (thought I would let you in the loop) I had a smack on the wrist and apologised for upsetting her.

My uncle used to refer to DS2 as 'The Mighty Atom', which tells you all you need to know about him. It could equally be applied to his second son who takes after him.

GS2 veers from Rampage Baby to OCD Baby. While he causes mayhem himself he is very insistent that we should all put things back in their proper places. My usual habit of leaving the phone lying around the house is a complete No No!

My two DDs call one another names which are not nice, and my DIL and her sister call each other by even worse nicknames!

I remember the children at primary school being called; Specky four eyes,fatty, and short arse! Presumably they managed to live [we hope] happy lives thereafter.

Dd is known as Eshie. Due to her bro not being able to pronounce Venetia.

My dil told me that when her brother had to wear glasses as a child their parents called him 4 eyes so that when he wore them to school.he would already be used to it. Apparantly.it worked!

I had to wear glasses for a lazy eye when I was seven, for a couple of years. I was called four eyes, but it never worried me. I thought it was quite funny.

Hmmm maybe I overreacted, my sister, although commented that she hates
it also but when I agreed with her that I thought her GGD and her DD were in the wrong she has not contacted me since. Silly girl