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Old Jul 7th 2013 | 7:05 am
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
What's so wrong with being American? Not my favourites, but of course, many of my friends are American. Maybe.
Nothing. Just that they have a penchant for elaborately constructed names that you rarely encounter elsewhere in the English speaking world
 
Old Jul 7th 2013 | 7:13 am
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Nothing. Just that they have a penchant for elaborately constructed names that you rarely encounter elsewhere in the English speaking world
I see. Like Justin deBeauregard Featherstone-Half Smith?
 
Old Jul 7th 2013 | 7:24 am
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
I see. Like Justin deBeauregard Featherstone-Half Smith?
Justin isn't particularly elaborate.
 
Old Jul 7th 2013 | 7:25 am
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Originally Posted by orly
Justin isn't particularly elaborate.
But I hope (although don't necessarily expect) that you get my point?
 
Old Jul 7th 2013 | 7:28 am
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
But I hope (although don't necessarily expect) that you get my point?
Not really.

The middle names would suggest you've merely taken the maiden/family names of relatives and used them. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary there.

Smith was a nice touch
 
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Originally Posted by orly
Not really.

The middle names would suggest you've merely taken the maiden/family names of relatives and used them. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary there.

Smith was a nice touch
FFS. Do you really think such a name (a real one by the way) would be common in the rest of the "English" speaking world?

Perhaps this one will be clearer for you, Closet Racist O'Reilly.
 
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Originally Posted by dbd33
"Gives them away" you mean "implies they're black"? That's a dangerous game, is Seamus always a Catholic?
I know a bloke called Jimmy Blackburn. See if you can guess where he is from.
 
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Originally Posted by Souvy
I know a bloke called Jimmy Blackburn. See if you can guess where he is from.
Lancashire?
 
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It doesn't surprise me, coming out of her mouth. She acted with the same Blinkered opinions on The Apprentice!
 
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Lancashire?
Saguenay. He doesn't speak a word of English.
 
Old Jul 8th 2013 | 1:40 am
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It doesn't surprise me, coming out of her mouth. She acted with the same Blinkered opinions on The Apprentice!
I didn't see The Apprentice, but I think she might have been over-vilified in the press. She was probably hamming it up a bit for Phil & Holly. And there are plenty of people at the other end of the spectrum that wouldn't be comfortable with their kids playing with a Tarquin or Quentin etc..
 
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Originally Posted by Shard
I didn't see The Apprentice, but I think she might have been over-vilified in the press. She was probably hamming it up a bit for Phil & Holly. And there are plenty of people at the other end of the spectrum that wouldn't be comfortable with their kids playing with a Tarquin or Quentin etc..
I thought she was using the name of the child as a way of selecting the child's parents. The way that others do when looking at the vehicles parents use to drop the kids off at school, the clothes they wear, their accent, or the number or types of tattoos the parents exhibit.

I agree that she was likely hamming it up.

Each to their own.
 
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