BristolUK

Ah right.
Youdaftpillock.

I've just been playing scrabble and those are the letters I have. I hope you're not offended and choose to misrepresent it as three words when it's really only one.

BristolUK

I imagine that would depend on the need to display his name in order that people know it or whether some other form of display is appropriate where his name has no relevance.

R I C H

Your point is...?

Should I be offended by an irrelevant made up word, or your choice to re-appropriate a surname to suit your own argument?

It's your own choice to misinterpret/misspell the name Grabher, nobody else's.

BristolUK

You're absolutely right. It was me all along. I am the one responsible for it.

Oh wait...no...it was somebody else wasn't it.

R I C H

You own the support for the argument on here. If you're happy to justify your position without any logic, so be it.

Gordon Barlow

I am offended by the word "Bristol". For much of my life, it has stood for a female body-part that rhymes with "City". Would the B******UK poster please change his name so that snowflakes like me can avoid being traumatised? Thank you kindly.

dbd33

"Snowflake" used in this context rather gets on my tits. It's desperately trendy, like axe throwing or riding a mountain bike or waxing one's moustache and yet used by people in Canada who are not even living in Vancouver. It's especially lame as it deliberately seeks to suggest weakness, a tendency to fall at the first hurdle, traits exemplified by the Pussy Grabber in Chief rather than by his opposition.

BristolUK

No...I'm putting forward the likely arguments as a potential explanation and context for the events that actually happened elsewhere. Just as you did on the use of the word handicap.

If you can't see that, so be it.

dbd33

This seems a neglected tangent to the thread. I was once driving along to do a sales presentation with a woman I'd recently met who seemed professional but not very friendly, icily polite; lawyerish. We came up to a Ferrari plated IGO469. My colleague applauded.

DandNHill

BristolUK

You threw the grenade and then you sit back to watch the carnage.

DandNHill

Haha. Nobody responded other than you when I carefully placed my explosive device. You threw yourself in front of the train! Lol

But that aside I agree with you Bristol.
I think that we all interpret things according to our own values and experience.
If I had seen the guys registration plate I wouldn't have even thought it read grab her to be honest. My brain would have seen grabher and tried to figure out what the word might mean. The other way my brain might have gone was to figure out of what possible origin the guy could have been and would have probably imagined Dutch or maybe a name that was or German descent and anglicized at some stage.

Above people are saying that it's the owners prerogative to use his name and I agree. Except there are a lot of small minded people who will see fault and maybe for a more peaceful life he could have avoided doing it.
I'm sure he would have been aware that his name could be read "grabber" as well as "grab her" from when he was teased at school. Although maybe the teasing would have been innocent silly playground fun. Just like kids would shout grab it meaning a ball or such like.

I think for all concerned buddy should change his name to Smith!

Former Lancastrian

Here is a list of British surnames that begin with COCK.
How many should be allowed and how many should be banned?

British surnames beginning with 'COCK' | British Surnames

And is it pronounced COCKBURN'S or the one the brand of port uses in their adverts.

Lets have some more fun with surnames beginning with DICK

British surnames beginning with 'DICK' | British Surnames

When does it end?

BristolUK

Perhaps this might be summed up with this question.

If your name was Dick would you wear a T-Shirt with the slogan "I am a Dick"?

Why not? It's just your name. Be proud of it. I mean, people wouldn't look, laugh and point at you would they?

dbd33

You can't get vanity plates with your name on them in the UK.