What Happens If Parents Don't Give Their Baby a Name?

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    It turns out there are a shocking number of rules and regulations concerning what parents can name their children, when the naming has to happen by, and even a section of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child that specifically states that all people, from birth, have an inalienable right to have a name.
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  • @Lucailey
    @Lucailey Před 4 lety +2028

    Imagine being an adult going for an interview. " Hi, I am Baby Girl one."

    • @alexreinhardt671
      @alexreinhardt671 Před 4 lety +29

      Me too would they just choose their own name later in life

    • @Lucailey
      @Lucailey Před 4 lety +7

      @@alexreinhardt671 it was a joke

    • @louc.6735
      @louc.6735 Před 4 lety +76

      That's just every day life for my sims.

    • @unknownsauce69
      @unknownsauce69 Před 4 lety +12

      Then they will star in a Netflix polish movie

    • @AS-yc3yy
      @AS-yc3yy Před 4 lety +24

      Nice name, my daughter has the same name, your hired

  • @SnailQueenForever
    @SnailQueenForever Před 3 lety +133

    I went to school with a kid (we're American), where his parents were some kind of new age hippies. They didn't believe that they should force a name onto their child, because it was essentially the same as fascism or being a slave owner. So, for the first SEVEN YEARS of this boy's life, he had no first name. When he was put into school, teachers just called him by his last name. He got so used to being called by his last name, that he decided that his first name would just be the same as his last name, with a bit of changes. When I saw him back for 2nd grade, he proudly told the class he had named himself "Lenny Lennon" (not his real name, just an example of what he named himself). I looked him up on Facebook after watching this video, and sure enough, this is still his name. He also apparently went into the military, which definitely must've made his parents really angry lmaooo.

    • @causti9744
      @causti9744 Před 2 lety +1

      Tbh joining the military to piss of your fucked up hippie parents is so much the essence of what hippie culture was about, he just reversed it in the most funny way.

    • @phatcat3705
      @phatcat3705 Před rokem +8

      That's hilarious. Glad he rocked it. Not sure how to feel if this is a bad thing or a good thing, since every kid would handle this differently, so I definitely understand his parents' perspective. And to be fair, a lot of people DO hate their (legal) names. I heard that when people hate their name, they're disproportionately more likely to suffer anger and psychological issues, and commit violent crimes compared to people who are fine with their names. Well, calling someone something they don't like is INCREDIBLY disrespectful and akin to insulting them, which damages people, so that's no coincidence. Names can either make us, or break us.
      And it definitely doesn't help that there's an increasing number of people (not only celebrities, but yeah, they're the worst offenders of this) giving their kids ridiculous names, or at least ridiculous spelling, as if they're trying to force their kids into hating them from an early age, like Elon Musk's kid, some kid whose parents sued an airline company over an employee at the counter pronouncing their kid's name wrong (it was spelled Abcd; it's pronounced "ab-sid-ee," which doesn't sound like a winner, either), some parents who named their kid Collin but almost spelled it as "colon" because they wanted to give it a more "unique" spelling (thank goodness the nurse told them what a colon was before they marked the birth certificate), a mother who almost named her newborn daughter "latrine" because it's "a pretty word," etc. People don't look past the baby stage. Imean, if one's name sounds like a joke (or at least spelled like one), they're going to face a lot of suffering that could've been avoided, starting with bullying at school, to having trouble getting hired for a job.
      Personally, I would've handled this with good humor, because I actually really wish my parents did me that favor, too, since I've always HATED the name they'd forced onto me (first off, I'm not cisgender! So that's incredibly insulting to be called by a non-unisex, non-genderblender name. Secondly, I wasn't planned, so they picked whatever name was the most popular in my birth year for my biological sex, and they did likewise with my sister; my sister's cisgender and also okay with her name. It's always confusing growing up with so many other people in our age group with the same first name, like which one of us is being addressed? I want to be called [ ], but everybody says it has to be by our LEGAL names or diminutive form of them to avoid "confusion"), but my mother believes in being "proper" (including being a heteronormative crusader) and explodes abuse on me when I politely ask her to not call me by this name, knowing full well that I hate it and always had even as a very little kid (and never responded to that name, something she still complains about; you'd think she'd take that hint by now). She rages about that her father saw her as a son rather than a daughter (though in her culture, I'd consider that a privilege) and gave her a boy's name, which she's always hated, which might explain why she explodes in anger that I hate the "pretty" name she gave me and insist on being called an "ugly" name (that she INTENTIONALLY mispronounces, which I know she's doing to try to guilt trip me, because it's only one syllable, unlike the one listed on my legal documents, and simple to pronounce and spell), and my not identifying as the gender I was born as, because that was denied her and she probably doesn't want that same denial of our gender for her own kids, but doing the opposite is a narcissistic approach, too, since either way is denying our own selves in favor of what the parents want, not to mention hypocritical.
      I. Am. Not. HER!
      She just can't get that through her head! She refuses to accept who I am, that I have different tastes and preferences than she does, as well as the fact that I'm just a non-conformist by nature (yet she DELIBERATELY continues to call me/refer to me by the WRONG NAME (i.e., the one she imposed on me). Every. Single. Time, which I clearly heard her do literally just a few seconds ago from the other room (and then scream at me and say that I "don't know how to communicate" when I protest this and ask her not to call me that), as if trying to force this name would make me submit and accept this false version she expects me to be (that only ever proves counter-productive. And, yes, no surprise, I have anger issues, like pretty much all people who hate our birth names do but can't get changed for whatever reason, with being called this name always being my biggest Berserk Button). Also no surprise that she and I utterly resent each other and how turbulent our "relationship" has always been, with having me being the biggest thing she regrets in her life, and she's very open about it, which is both infuriating and hurtful.
      I asked to change my name as a kid, but, of course, protests from the family and how "dumb" and "ungrateful" I am for rejecting it. And changing one's name as an adult is so MUCH more difficult to do, and they can deny you for any reason (my documented history doesn't help me much, smh), not to mention that it's very expensive, so, obviously this hasn't come to any fruition as of yet. Job applications, and anything requiring legal documents/paperwork/ID is particularly difficult and a humiliating process on top of it (which is why I currently don't have either a valid photo ID nor a job, and have no plan of getting either UNTIL someone helps me finally get my name LEGALLY changed; all the jobs I'm actually qualified to do require name tags, which I was forced to wear for my old job, and it has to be our full legal name, the HORROR), because I have to explain myself Every. Single. Time. Only for the other person to STILL call me by the wrong name literally a second later, because it's not even close to the one that has me listed as, not even as a "nickname," and continually requesting to be called a drastically different name is a Red Flag for employers, since this brings out the worst in me (and even when I try to restrain my rage, my face automatically turns red when I get mad, which I have no way of hiding my displeasure when this happens, since I'm light-skinned and my face turning red shows).
      Terrible for the relationships department, too, since I obviously introduce myself by the name I chose, that fits ME, but eventually, people always find out what my so-called "real" (birth/legal) name is, when my family or someone from my past ignores my request and they call me by the wrong one, anyway, and all of a sudden I'm being red-flagged as a "liar" and not potential partner material, because if I couldn't be "honest" about something as simple as my name, what CAN I be trusted about? (Makes sense, though). But when I (albeit reluctantly) add (albeit the diminutive form of) my dead name when introducing myself by my chosen one (to avoid the previous conflict), people literally ignore what I said and would refer to me by the WRONG name, which is so disrespectful and degrading/emasculating, so I would rather use my chosen name and risk being accused of being a "liar" than start some drama with others calling me by basically an insult, because how people would react to this would be a perfect test for me on who I could trust.
      I mean, nothing wrong with the name itself; it's just not ME. My mother chose it because SHE wanted it, but didn't know she could change her own name, so wanted to have it through me. Doesn't work that way.
      This is another reason why I never want kids of my own. Naming is a gamble, because nobody gets to pick and choose who their kids get to be, so won't know who they end up getting. Because of the way I grew up, I prefer taking this "hippie" approach, too, not giving my kid a name because I want to give them that choice when they've figured out who they are and what fits them, yet at the same time, this could also damage them because maybe the kid might think that their parents didn't love them enough TO give them a name. (Charles Manson was literally named "no name" at birth, and we all know how messed up he became).
      Sorry this is so long, but giving someone a name against their will is a serious topic, because it deals with our very essence, and most of us are likely to be stuck with ours for the rest of our lives (I hope not me) because changing it is very complicated and expensive.

    • @michaelchance6125
      @michaelchance6125 Před rokem +1

      @@phatcat3705 Hmm, long text but good for you.

    • @phatcat3705
      @phatcat3705 Před rokem +1

      @@michaelchance6125 eh, thanks? I guess. Not sure if you meant that as a compliment or not, but I'm not sure how any of this is "good" for me, so I'm confused what is the "good" part. 😅

    • @jasonanderson5034
      @jasonanderson5034 Před rokem

      @@phatcat3705 only losers get bullied its not rocket science im a loser popular kids were jus naturally popular their names dont matter a kid with the name butt munch could be cool if they were just very likeable

  • @johnmurphy842
    @johnmurphy842 Před 4 lety +531

    Q: what happens when you don’t name your baby?
    A: The child learns to respond to long moments of silence

  • @antonackermann9620
    @antonackermann9620 Před 5 lety +2358

    A teenager in the USA sued his parents for the name that they had given him at birth.
    They named him Gaylord.

    • @ctakitimu
      @ctakitimu Před 5 lety +356

      Was his last name Focker?

    • @morpheas768
      @morpheas768 Před 5 lety +68

      LMAO What in the actual fuck! :D

    • @purpleku7768
      @purpleku7768 Před 5 lety +83

      Gaylord Perry was a ball player

    • @osmium6832
      @osmium6832 Před 5 lety +454

      Gaylord was actually a fairly common name once upon a time. It's... uhh... not so well received anymore for some reason.

    • @absalomdraconis
      @absalomdraconis Před 5 lety +215

      @@osmium6832 : _Oh,_ it gets _worse..._ Gaylord is a _family_ name, so someone who only half of the relevant info could think the family used to claim to be the feudal lords of the homosexuals.

  • @alfreemstar6927
    @alfreemstar6927 Před 4 lety +3659

    this one’s for you, X Æ A-12.

    • @Script.Doodles
      @Script.Doodles Před 4 lety +180

      Shockingly that’s a way to say Kyle apparently

    • @vladimiramatejova1796
      @vladimiramatejova1796 Před 4 lety +216

      a teacher: how should I pronounce your name? ( some suggestions like zexi, zixi...)🤔
      xaex12: Kyle.
      teacher: 😶

    • @racheltaylor8831
      @racheltaylor8831 Před 4 lety +117

      @@Script.Doodles Apparently it's X Ash A Twelve". According to Elon Musk himself.

    • @Script.Doodles
      @Script.Doodles Před 4 lety +30

      Rachel Taylor is it?! I thought I read somewhere that it’s just another way to spell Kyle

    • @racheltaylor8831
      @racheltaylor8831 Před 4 lety +37

      @@Script.Doodles Nope, definitely not Kyle according to Elon.

  • @isabellarodriguez197
    @isabellarodriguez197 Před 3 lety +212

    Please name your children and put it on the certificate. My mom didn’t, also didn’t put my dad on there, and left us. It was always very difficult enrolling in school and when I was finally 18 and tried to fix it myself, it took YEARS. 22 years old is when I finally received my first government issued ID card, which was actually a few months ago. Now trying to get my license amid a pandemic. Don’t sabotage your children.

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire Před 2 lety +11

      You are required to in the UK

    • @WhyteLis21
      @WhyteLis21 Před 2 lety +13

      That sucks. I was born with no birth certificate as far as I been told. But at least, a got a name by one of my uncles.
      When your born in a small refugee camp, with no written documents, it's hard.
      But for me at the time in the 80`s, we had some photo to proof as a document, until me and my family moved to the USA, though. Lol.

    • @dwarfbunni
      @dwarfbunni Před 2 lety +6

      That shits hard to get normally. I lost my wallet as a teenager and it was hell trying to prove I was who I was when I had no damn ID. the only saving grace was that we ordered duplicates of my birth certificate when I was a baby and after being sent from line up to line up they finally gave me a temporary id... I cant imagine going through that without even a name... I wish you hope and patients. you dont have a fun battle to fight

    • @neos1234125
      @neos1234125 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Stettafire You are required to in Australia as well, doesn't mean everyone does. I've met adults who's births were never registered. It's hell for them.

    • @jacquelynsmith2351
      @jacquelynsmith2351 Před rokem +1

      @@dwarfbunni My state stopped accepting hospital-issued birth certificates in 2011. I moved back to the state in 2014 and tried to get a driver's license but couldn't because I didn't have a state-issued birth certificate, and I didn't have a valid driver's license (I moved back right as my Nevada one was expiring) to prove my identity to get a state-issued birth certificate. It was a nightmare... And the driver's license building was about a 15-minute drive from the state records building, with no bus route 😩

  • @ImaBlack1969
    @ImaBlack1969 Před 4 lety +227

    I actually had a great-uncle, Boy, and a great-aunt, Daughter. They were twins.

    • @molls127
      @molls127 Před 4 lety +43

      who were their parents? the berenstain bears?

    • @ValeriePallaoro
      @ValeriePallaoro Před 3 lety +26

      @@molls127 somebody who didn't know that boy babies were called 'son"

    • @koibubbles3302
      @koibubbles3302 Před 3 lety

      ImaBlack1969 they didn’t change it?

    • @ImaBlack1969
      @ImaBlack1969 Před 3 lety +14

      @@koibubbles3302 Nope. They were always Uncle Boy and Aunt Daughter.

    • @ValeriePallaoro
      @ValeriePallaoro Před 3 lety +2

      @@ImaBlack1969 Hey? I just had a thought; you said 'great uncle and aunt', how long ago were they born? Do you know of their circumstances?

  • @sometimessnarky1642
    @sometimessnarky1642 Před 4 lety +2090

    Who is pregnant for nine months and still needs over forty days to pick a name.
    I'm not even pregnant and I have baby names chosen just in case.

    • @Deathnotefan97
      @Deathnotefan97 Před 4 lety +366

      I can understand not wanting to name a kid until after they are born, gotta look at them and figure out what kind of name would fit
      But I cannot understand how someone wouldn't at least have a list of names already

    • @sometimessnarky1642
      @sometimessnarky1642 Před 4 lety +75

      @@Deathnotefan97 right. That's what I'm saying.

    • @SHGogo-df5jr
      @SHGogo-df5jr Před 4 lety +139

      Right? Like I'm not planning on having kids ever but even I have some names in the back of my head.

    • @ivyrose5153
      @ivyrose5153 Před 4 lety +82

      Deathnotefan97 sometimes when you get pregnant literally everything including your tastes in names and styles changes. Even if they have lists there’s no guarantee they’ll still like those once it’s time to pick a name. Or sometimes the ones they pick don’t fit the kid or sometimes family will also make fun of people for what they name their kids and that tends to cause people to hesitate as well.

    • @nixtheclause9984
      @nixtheclause9984 Před 4 lety +16

      To be fair, I go by my non-given name because it took my parents so long to figure out what name to give me.

  • @lemonice
    @lemonice Před 5 lety +3953

    Short answer:
    They can't be killed by Death Note

  • @kevnar
    @kevnar Před 3 lety +112

    A woman walked into Walmart with 14 kids. They all started running around like idiots, and finally the mom got annoyed. "Billy! Get over here!" she said. And all 14 boys came running. A bystander was impressed. "You actually named all of your kids the same name?" he asked. She says, "Yes. I knew I wouldn't be able to remember that many names, so I named them all the same thing." The man says, "But what if you only need to talk to one particular boy?" The woman replies, "Then I call them by their last names."

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 Před 3 lety +21

      I knew a family with several sons, all named John. They would always be referred to by both first and middle names-John Clint, John Samuel, etc.

    • @WhyteLis21
      @WhyteLis21 Před 2 lety +8

      That's alot of kids and mouths to feed. Reminds of my sister, which sits at 10 kids. Lol.

    • @borisjohnsonslostcomb7457
      @borisjohnsonslostcomb7457 Před rokem +1

      Ha ha

    • @machfiver753
      @machfiver753 Před rokem +6

      Bada tssshhhhhhh

    • @jacquelynsmith2351
      @jacquelynsmith2351 Před rokem +1

      My partner's family uses 5 male names, each of them get one for their first name, a different for the middle name. So my FIL's first name is my partner's middle name. My partner's first name is one of his brother's middle name. That brother's first name is another brother's middle name... I thought my family had it confusing with all of us just having the same initials

  • @star-pi1bh
    @star-pi1bh Před 4 lety +648

    Europe: pls name your child a normal non humiliating name thank you
    america: yeah (XÆ A-12Of chunky CHeese/boixa0 thats a great name

    • @jadethegamermc
      @jadethegamermc Před 4 lety +17

      I want my future son to be Caleb. Not too common, but not strange.

    • @reddytoplay9188
      @reddytoplay9188 Před 4 lety +11

      @@jadethegamermc and send him to Caleb City?

    • @zoooweeemama1808
      @zoooweeemama1808 Před 4 lety +4

      I like Damien,Blake,Aaron for my future son
      And Mabry,Ayla,Resse for my future daughter.

    • @memorylapsedm8262
      @memorylapsedm8262 Před 3 lety +20

      @@jadethegamermc Whatever you do, don't ever name your children Yesterday or Tomorrow. Had two friends who were brother and sister who had those names. They were always eavesdropping into conversations that they were not even a part of whenever they heard you talking about either yesterday or tomorrow with your friends. Needless to say, when they became of age and off from under their parents rules because they wouldn't let them change their names, they had their names changed. If their parents ever, from that point forward ever tried to call them by their birth names, they wouldn't respond. And their parents would get angry as if determined and persistent to get them to change their names back to their birth names. I'm sorry, but I wouldn't F#&%)!^ respond to you either or anyone else for that matter once I had my named changed to something different, if you ever named me that; I witnessed what those two went through growing up. It was absolute torture to them, because they always thought everyone was talking about them whenever they heard the words yesterday or tomorrow in a conversation, and knew everything else everyone was doing the next day or had done the previous day. They knew everyone's entire lives when it was never any of their business lol.

    • @davigomes1525
      @davigomes1525 Před 3 lety +8

      In Brazil we have a how bunch of terrible names for kids, some try to emulate American artists but written wrong, bits of songs, in extreme cases there are people called by the name of objects like "carimbo" which mean "stamp" and some other kinds of things. Unfortunately it happens more often than you may think

  • @morganhinton5519
    @morganhinton5519 Před 4 lety +1205

    There's a story in our family that when my grandmother was born in the 1930's that my great grandmother wanted a boy so she named her "Johnnie" and refused to acknowledge her as a girl, the doctor felt sorry for her and so he added the middle name himself of "Faye", thus giving my grandmother the name "Johnnie-Faye", but grandma has always gone by just "Faye".

    • @imonthewinningside8281
      @imonthewinningside8281 Před 4 lety +253

      I really like that doctor. 👍

    • @mildredpierce4506
      @mildredpierce4506 Před 4 lety +162

      My maternal grandmother's name is Johnnie Q (the Q doesn't stand for anything. Her middle name is Q). She was mostly called Johnnie. Occasionally someone would call her Johnnie Q. She named her youngest son Johnny. You normally don't hear of a boy being named after his mother.

    • @rilakkuma1640
      @rilakkuma1640 Před 4 lety +44

      Oh so she's a fairy? that's so cute

    • @sinandcyanide7505
      @sinandcyanide7505 Před 4 lety +41

      My ex husband's grandmother was named Johnnie. I thought it was cute. I've actually had a few elderly female patients with that name.

    • @sinandcyanide7505
      @sinandcyanide7505 Před 4 lety +25

      @@tyneriddle7149 that's terrible! Who does that to their kid? What name did she go by?

  • @mcaskey358
    @mcaskey358 Před 4 lety +175

    I knew someone who's parents were going through a divorce when they were born. Apparently, both their parents filed different birth certificates with different names. They ended up with two names and two social security numbers. They didn't know this until they tried to join the military. Essentially they were told to pick one and I assume the other was just deleted.

  • @darthkarnagge8343
    @darthkarnagge8343 Před 3 lety +43

    Here are two for you: "L-sha." When asked about it, the mother pronounced it "Ladasha," further stating "The dash don't be silent". Number two "Batman Jesus Kennedy Jones." The parents said it is to reflect the "people" they admired.

  • @Robin_Goodfellow
    @Robin_Goodfellow Před 3 lety +69

    I heard of a guy once who legally changed his name to Larry. That's it. No last name. The IRS was real mad.

    • @653j521
      @653j521 Před 3 lety +7

      Robin Goodfellow The IRS is interested in your SS number, birth date, and if Larry is your legal name as used on all your official papers, then Larry. Your story sounds like an urban legend.

    • @Robin_Goodfellow
      @Robin_Goodfellow Před 3 lety +3

      @@653j521 Definitely could be. It was second or third hand information by the time it got to me. Maybe even further than that.

    • @candy-ninja
      @candy-ninja Před 3 lety

      Good for Larry. He found a way to cheat the system

  • @alexlandherr
    @alexlandherr Před 5 lety +1634

    “Likely to lead to humiliation of the child” is an excellent requirement in my opinion.

    • @irrelevance3859
      @irrelevance3859 Před 5 lety +120

      Agreed. That's a shame for countries that allow parents to literally name their child anything. Some parents push it

    • @V25021
      @V25021 Před 4 lety +49

      Totally disagree. While it's a great rule of thumb, it's too open ended. An official has to decide, apparently they've even rejected the name "Nemo" because there was an uptick after the movie came out.

    • @aroseprince
      @aroseprince Před 4 lety +55

      I think you cannot define it well enough though for it to be a law. naming your kid "Ho" seems so clear cut as humiliating, right. But Ho is pretty common chinese name.

    • @irrelevance3859
      @irrelevance3859 Před 4 lety +46

      @@aroseprince cultural/traditional reasons is a valid reason I think but then there's parents naming their children abcd, drug. Nope

    • @aroseprince
      @aroseprince Před 4 lety +28

      @@irrelevance3859 but who is to say whose cultural traditions (or any other reasons for that matter) are valid? When my mom was born, the attending hospital staff wouldn't allow her mother to name her Deirdre (pron DEER-dra) for 4 days because in their minds, it was just gibberish, a made up word.

  • @EyeHeartShantel
    @EyeHeartShantel Před 4 lety +814

    This episode made me think of the Family Guy episode where we see that Meg's first name is actually Megatron.

  • @ZsaZsaUmbra
    @ZsaZsaUmbra Před 3 lety +72

    I'm an Ohioan and was Baby Girl for awhile. My mom still calls me that. I wish she wouldn't do it in public. It makes us look like a May December lesbian couple.

    • @WomenCallYouMoid
      @WomenCallYouMoid Před 3 lety +4

      That's... interesting.

    • @davidcampbell4465
      @davidcampbell4465 Před 3 lety +3

      Just saw this. I have a aunt who was not named at birth. They just called her 'Lady'. A year later they drove thru Henrietta, Okla. Grandpa really liked that name. So, that's what they named her. Didn't hurt that grandpa's name was 'Henry'.

  • @mearness4027
    @mearness4027 Před 4 lety +311

    Short answer: "the government gives them a name"
    Long answer: "theee governmenttttttttt givessssss themmmmmmm aaaaaaa nameeeeeeeee"

    • @carjaroo
      @carjaroo Před 3 lety +8

      thanks for saving me 19 mins

    • @mearness4027
      @mearness4027 Před 3 lety +2

      Student Account you're welcome ;)

    • @sierra2846
      @sierra2846 Před 3 lety +2

      Thank you

    • @pinklickpony
      @pinklickpony Před 3 lety +2

      Not so. My late girlfriends birth certificate had no first name only a surname.

    • @johnapple6646
      @johnapple6646 Před 3 lety +1

      @@carjaroo I guess you don't care about the 99% of other content on this video then

  • @unnamedmale3093
    @unnamedmale3093 Před 5 lety +1594

    This literally happened to me. For the first five years of my life, my legal name was "Unnamed Male".

    • @sleesullivan2796
      @sleesullivan2796 Před 5 lety +205

      Those are some lazy parents. No offense.

    • @unnamedmale3093
      @unnamedmale3093 Před 5 lety +362

      @@sleesullivan2796 None taken, more forgetful than lazy. They didn't realize the mistake until they were enrolling me in school.

    • @olymolly3637
      @olymolly3637 Před 5 lety +57

      @@unnamedmale3093 That's bad, almost as bad as neglect.

    • @biancat7761
      @biancat7761 Před 5 lety +19

      @@sleesullivan2796 haha that's a great party story!

    • @inspector5122
      @inspector5122 Před 5 lety +3

      Lol

  • @Thyst1
    @Thyst1 Před 4 lety +1241

    Knew a guy in school named: Yourmajesty McFadden. Teachers never called him by his first name, only as Mr. McFadden.

    • @mildredpierce4506
      @mildredpierce4506 Před 4 lety +149

      Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine named one of his sons Jermajesty. Sort of a play on Your Majesty.

    • @kurd9112
      @kurd9112 Před 4 lety +65

      a kid in my school is named Master Phakin Saetan or Master Saetan

    • @kurd9112
      @kurd9112 Před 4 lety +57

      teachers call him master

    • @totallycrazystudios1801
      @totallycrazystudios1801 Před 4 lety +7

      *claps*

    • @OPJuiceBox
      @OPJuiceBox Před 4 lety +1

      Thyst1 lmfao

  • @coasje
    @coasje Před 4 lety +113

    X Æ A-12 already making a list of the things he’ll sue Elon for so he can take all his money and rule Mars once the colony is started

  • @AdriLeemput
    @AdriLeemput Před 3 lety +80

    I love how Simon reacts like anyone in Europe would react: laugh with the ridiculous statement, and than just assume that everyone knows that being a nazi is horrible.

    • @WomenCallYouMoid
      @WomenCallYouMoid Před 3 lety +14

      Apperently, they do not. But I like to keep assuming thay everyone *else* knows that nazis are bad. And I hope they do.

    • @potato_the_pig5757
      @potato_the_pig5757 Před 3 lety +1

      Is that an incorrect assumption?

    • @geraltmoth1908
      @geraltmoth1908 Před 2 lety +2

      @@potato_the_pig5757 Unfortunately

    • @kdaures
      @kdaures Před 2 lety +3

      Sane people in America know that as well.

    • @naenre21
      @naenre21 Před 2 lety

      You know what assuming makes you...

  • @longforgotten4823
    @longforgotten4823 Před 5 lety +434

    “Unfortunately, the state did not care about her nocturnal hallucinations.” I think my day has been made.

    • @TheInselaffen
      @TheInselaffen Před 5 lety +4

      The state being Israel and the nocturnal hallucinations being Mohammed's.

    • @longforgotten4823
      @longforgotten4823 Před 5 lety +12

      Organon The state being Denmark and the nighttime hallucination being A dream.

  • @bluetruckwindshield
    @bluetruckwindshield Před 5 lety +1157

    If anyone wanted, the intro ends and the actual video starts at 3:21

    • @williamrasasane364
      @williamrasasane364 Před 4 lety +39

      Thank you

    • @nerdee3249
      @nerdee3249 Před 4 lety +4

      Thank you!!

    • @cloroxbleach5687
      @cloroxbleach5687 Před 4 lety +4

      Thank you

    • @mrgoldengraham027
      @mrgoldengraham027 Před 4 lety +7

      Was also gonna do this but you saved me the time :) Thanks

    • @angeliki5135
      @angeliki5135 Před 4 lety +8

      I love how you choose the timestamp to be 3.. 2... 1.
      I almost expected a rocketship to blast off somewhere just counting down those numbers. 😂
      But thank you!

  • @the1flym459
    @the1flym459 Před 3 lety +12

    "You're also a Nazi, Heath; for fucks sake" is my new favorite Simon quote

  • @masterchanger5023
    @masterchanger5023 Před 3 lety +18

    When I was three my older brother just to be mean said my real name was Flubber Blubber. I cried in hysteria until mom and dad got home an hour later. Looking back I have no idea why that bothered me so much.

    • @jeraldbaxter3532
      @jeraldbaxter3532 Před rokem +1

      You were three years old. At that age, stability is of HUGE importance, so being told something contradictory can be traumatic (plus being teased about something as personal as your name). When I was either 3 or 4, I misunderstood a headline read out from a newspaper (it was about a WAC, but I thought it was wax), and had hysterics. One of the joys of childhood:(.

  • @silkisdabomb
    @silkisdabomb Před 5 lety +317

    My neighbor is a 3rd grade teacher (in Michigan) and he told me he had a kid in his class named “baby boy” and I never believed him.... but now I think he was telling the truth lol

    • @themaggattack
      @themaggattack Před 4 lety +19

      Of course, these days, parents might have given the child the name "baby boy" on purpose!

    • @cockroachcor3
      @cockroachcor3 Před 4 lety +7

      Michigan’s weird af let’s be honest

    • @pixx3461
      @pixx3461 Před 4 lety +2

      @@cockroachcor3 I live there and can confirm

    • @lockergr
      @lockergr Před 4 lety +6

      I would refuse to call a child by that name and would have made the parents or the child give me a suitable name to call him by. I have had small children tell me they wanted to be called different names, but I always go by what the parent's choose and it's never been a problem short of when kids want the Americanized name their previous (and too stupid to say it correctly) called them. Latino children have it rough sometimes.

    • @Sadiqi
      @Sadiqi Před 4 lety

      My legal name is Baby Boy...

  • @helmsplitter0233
    @helmsplitter0233 Před 4 lety +441

    I'm wondering the psychological aspect of never being named

    • @caileyrookids
      @caileyrookids Před 4 lety +32

      Exactly! I came here wondering how a person would act if they were, somehow, never given a name or nickname. Would they assign themselves a name?

    • @kurasuta3715
      @kurasuta3715 Před 3 lety +2

      That's what I'd like to know too! Like how much does a name contribute to your identity?

    • @justsoicanfingcomment5814
      @justsoicanfingcomment5814 Před 3 lety +7

      In my family we follow an ancient tradition of not naming a child until the age of five.
      Reason being many children would not survive in ancient times and becoming invested in a child by naming it when it could die at any time would cause more suffering in the family.
      A child that survived five years was past the point where death could come at any time and was far less likely.
      Then we followed the tradition of naming a child with a childhood name, which would be the child's name until they came of age and where called an adult where the child could then take on there adult name.
      If male the age of fifteen was when I was able to chose my coming of age name.
      If female when each of my sisters started menstruating [for my sisters that was ages eleven, twelve and sixeteen they were able to chose there coming of age names.
      My childhood name was determined by me being fast, good at hiding and out fighting larger kids by out smarting them and using my surroundings to win.
      Also it is tradition in my family to name the eldest son [If he was born in April] "Vulpes-Vulpes"
      So until I was five years old I had no name, then at age five I was named Vulpes-Vulpes, then when I came of age I was robbed of my family's childhood name as the State of Florida would not allow for a traditional Pagan name to be used and forced to take on my mothers last name as my mother and father never married according to the courts even though they had had a traditional Pagan wedding. >:(
      So I was robbed my birth right childhood name by the State of Florida, Insulted by the State of Florida by being forced to take on my mothers name but not my fathers last name as if I was a bastard, even though I know my father and my parents had had a Pagan wedding the State of Florida would not recognize it nor recognize my family's religious practices. Nor would the State of Florida allow me to change my name at the age of fifteen as is my family's tradition.
      So, it's not about not being able to pick a name for your child at birth.
      It's about following traditional family naming practices that my family has held to since before most country's even existed.

    • @caileyrookids
      @caileyrookids Před 3 lety +3

      @@justsoicanfingcomment5814 I'm so terribly sorry that that happened to you. It wasn't right, and I agree that it was an insult, not just to you, but to everyone who follows those traditions.
      However, I would like to point out that that doesn't answer the question being posed. What I was wondering, at least, and what I think the original commenter was wondering as well, is how would an adult think of themselves if they were never given a name or nickname. It would be nearly impossible for this to happen naturally, I'm sure, because it involves no-one ever referring to them by the same thing twice before the age of adulthood (or at the very least late teens). Even if that was someone's family tradition, I would still be interested to know how they thought of themselves before having a name.
      Thank you for sharing your story. It was very informative, and I appreciate knowing it. Again, I wish Florida hadn't been so cruel to you.

    • @justsoicanfingcomment5814
      @justsoicanfingcomment5814 Před 3 lety +5

      @@caileyrookids I was called boy for the first few years until I reached the age of five, I am a boy so I did not really notice or care about not having a true name at the time as one was not needed.
      I knew my father and mothers voices and if they called to me the other children knew it was not there parents but mine by the tone and sound of the voices of the ones calling.... I turned out fine not having a name at a young age.
      I was just one of the boys and my sisters were just one of the girls.
      You will get a name some day, whether you want it or not, whether you chose it or not.
      Not having a name at a young age gives you the freedom to chose who you want to become, it is not a detriment.
      If anything having a name early on and being stuck with it forever ties you to one mindset and leaves you no moniker to shed as you go from child to youth to adult. Each phase in your life is a new beginning, a new chance to change, grow and better yourself with all the lessons you have learned in each stage of your life. Unless you do not separate them and hold on to all of your baggage.
      That can lead to people always feeling that they have been a failure, even though as a child or young adult they may not have had many options or room for personal growth.
      Then as they become an adult a whole new world of opportunity's opens up. Yet they hold their old name and all it's failures, feeling they will just fail as they always have, but with a new name and new opportunity, they may feel more emboldened to venture forth and MAKE a name for THEMSELVES. One they can call their own, one they earned, one they have cultivated.

  • @theKRB93
    @theKRB93 Před 4 lety +35

    "Sir Blahblahblah 6 F*ck-Face Whistler" HAHAHA
    Now I'm imagining the Queen pronouncing that name in order to knight them 'Sir'

  • @Awestefeld6612
    @Awestefeld6612 Před 4 lety +44

    When we had a stillbirth the hospital tried to simply name him baby boy. I angrily changed it to what we wanted.

    • @tealwashablemarker8886
      @tealwashablemarker8886 Před 3 lety +13

      that’s disgusting. dying young gives no one any right to deprive him of a name. honestly, that is depraved.

    • @Gachaco.
      @Gachaco. Před 3 lety +11

      That's horrible. I hope you are doing okay now. That's disgusting who would do that. Even if he past away that doesn't mean he isnt any less human!

    • @isoldam
      @isoldam Před 2 lety +1

      Hospitals usually call all babies some form of baby boy/girl until the parents come up with a name.

  • @allpowerfulmitochondria759
    @allpowerfulmitochondria759 Před 4 lety +1263

    The Gersha case really pissed me off. Like it’s a real name, it’s just a foreign name.

    • @VicereineKillbride
      @VicereineKillbride Před 4 lety +50

      Iceland is against foreign names too, I think

    • @BayMaxAcademy
      @BayMaxAcademy Před 4 lety +148

      @@VicereineKillbride That's stupid, Its your child you should be able to name your child whatever you want. It's your child not there's.

    • @VicereineKillbride
      @VicereineKillbride Před 4 lety +90

      @@BayMaxAcademy Yeah, I don't think the law is because they're trying to be mean, lmao. Pretty sure it's because most of their databases aren't equipped to process characters, sounds, and symbols from other languages.
      Same reason that when a Russian move to the US, the name Иван would become the name Ivan. Or the name Оля becomes Olya. It's for practicality purposes most of the timr

    • @jester886
      @jester886 Před 4 lety +17

      HrhMk it’s 2019 bro beside government technology is 7-10 years Ahead of the public so your argument is invalid.

    • @anthonyodonoghue2539
      @anthonyodonoghue2539 Před 4 lety +33

      If I met a Russian called that until they gave me a pronunciation I'd call em squiggles

  • @Gotz_the_iron_hand
    @Gotz_the_iron_hand Před 4 lety +266

    I was "Baby" on my birth certificate. I was actually adopted from the hospital immediately after birth so my biological mother never bothered to name me. My adopted mother did, but for some reason, the record of that name was lost by the hospital, and they only had the original form with no name (besides Baby) on it from when I was birthed. That would not be the last time my name and records were lost. I have had my legal and education history go missing as well. It sometimes feels like there's someone out there, going through and scrubbing my files for some reason.

    • @tali6720
      @tali6720 Před 4 lety +24

      I was called baby for 6 months too! Though for me it was because my parents were horrendously indecisive 😂

    • @jamesm4034
      @jamesm4034 Před 4 lety +3

      I’m sorry to laugh. Smh

    • @LiesaPinkBunny
      @LiesaPinkBunny Před 4 lety +12

      WOW! That's like something out of the X-Files ...creepy😨😨😨

    • @lordrewwot7336
      @lordrewwot7336 Před 4 lety +19

      Muahaha I’m deleting you! Some day you will be completely gone!
      Jokes besides, this sounds absolutely creepy.

    • @grimmer-rd1mm
      @grimmer-rd1mm Před 4 lety +4

      What do you go by

  • @ultramarroonvortex681
    @ultramarroonvortex681 Před 4 lety +48

    He looks, acts, and sounds like a british Michael from Vsauce. Honestly, I can't say that's a bad thing.

    • @sristiganguly4858
      @sristiganguly4858 Před 3 lety +2

      I had to do a double take to make sure I wasn't watching Vsauce lmao

  • @Case16710
    @Case16710 Před 2 lety +5

    I volunteered at an inpatient pediatric ward of a major hospital when I was in high school. One day the nurses were talking about the unusual baby names they had seen. One that really stuck with me was a girl who’s name sounded like “Femolly”. Turns out the mother had seen “Female” written on the birth certificate and thought that the hospital had already named the baby.

  • @blaze0rama
    @blaze0rama Před 5 lety +73

    My Uncle was denied a job which required a security clearance because his birth certificate stated his name was Baby Boy. He had to go through so much rigamarole to change his name legally to George (which everyone had called him forever) but in the end, he succeeded. He never did get that job, it took too long to change his name. [born in Brooklyn, USA in the 1920s]

    • @peggyjones3282
      @peggyjones3282 Před 5 lety +1

      This happened to my grandpa. Her birth certificate said, "baby girl." When she was in her 80's it made getting a passport difficult.

    • @snakes_shadow3539
      @snakes_shadow3539 Před 5 lety +1

      I had a teacher whose birth certificate read "baby boy *insert surname here*"

    • @tilnightfall
      @tilnightfall Před 5 lety +1

      My original birth certificate says Baby Girl but my parents and I had it legally changed to Melissa, which is what they called me, when I was 15.

    • @lewisletthedogsout9020
      @lewisletthedogsout9020 Před 5 lety +1

      My mom's original birth certificate says Baby Abbott. She was adopted and adopted parents had her name changed and such so we didnt know because we didnt see her birth certificate until a few years ago.

    • @tokyomootsie
      @tokyomootsie Před 5 lety +1

      Yep. Same thing with my Grandpa who had to have his brother Daniel go to court to testify to his identity as the correct "baby boy".

  • @UsrNmTkn
    @UsrNmTkn Před 4 lety +235

    I had a coworker named Seven because she was the seventh child. That's all. She hates the 789 joke.

    • @sybillestahl8646
      @sybillestahl8646 Před 4 lety +35

      I don’t actually know Latin, but isn’t this what the Romans used to do, with names like Septimus and Octavius?

    • @sinandcyanide7505
      @sinandcyanide7505 Před 4 lety +8

      I have a cat named Seven. He's named after my brother but that's just a nickname.

    • @cheetosandyogurt
      @cheetosandyogurt Před 4 lety +11

      My youngest sister also has this name. At least my parents were "original" enough to change the spelling a bit: Sevyn

    • @carmie329
      @carmie329 Před 4 lety +6

      My friend was ewalu which means 8 in Hawaiian.... he was the 8th sibling lol

    • @masterbrainthevollmilch7091
      @masterbrainthevollmilch7091 Před 4 lety

      @@sybillestahl8646 The coworker's parents were born in the wrong generation :D

  • @TheTrueOnyxRose
    @TheTrueOnyxRose Před 4 lety +21

    7? They didn’t have to like “Seinfeld” to like the name 7. They could have been into “Star Trek: Voyager.” (7 of 9)

    • @piffling2238
      @piffling2238 Před 3 lety

      only if the child's middle name was Ofnine could that be an acceptable reference.

    • @TheTrueOnyxRose
      @TheTrueOnyxRose Před 3 lety

      @@piffling2238:
      That then would b a kind of altered cross-reference between ST Voyager and The Handmaid’s Tale. Nevertheless, it could work.

  • @Yoruharu
    @Yoruharu Před 3 lety +15

    "what happens if parents don't give their baby a name?"
    The Nameless King.

  • @anniel6479
    @anniel6479 Před 4 lety +336

    My grandma knew a girl named Female when she was in school.

    • @tanyagarcia3721
      @tanyagarcia3721 Před 4 lety +12

      I saw somewhere where the mother was Mexican or something and thought the baby's name was femali like female with thelast e sound like an e

    • @XpetraXpazlX
      @XpetraXpazlX Před 4 lety +24

      I knew a girl named lady

    • @chases1027
      @chases1027 Před 4 lety +10

      I used to tutor a girl named Baby

    • @heyyyitstori9800
      @heyyyitstori9800 Před 4 lety +7

      i know a girl named lady

    • @Cloverfr
      @Cloverfr Před 3 lety +1

      @Amanda Miranda In which country? Never in my life I have heard it.

  • @VampireBuddha
    @VampireBuddha Před 4 lety +240

    Person: Hi, I'm Roger, what's you're name?
    Adolf Hitler Campbell: Uh, John.

  • @TheLatokuivaaja
    @TheLatokuivaaja Před 3 lety +6

    And my parents literally rejected perfectly normal names like Laura and Sophie, because they could be made into something funny in conjunction with my surname. Parents, be nice to your kids.

  • @supersolomob422
    @supersolomob422 Před 3 lety +4

    I have a friend like this, best friend in fact. She was just referred to as 'baby girl', apparently because of how many children the parents had and never cared for. On the bright side, she got to name herself proper. If any y'all have a child, give them a name, from what I can tell it has only bad effects on them not to name them.

  • @slhurtt
    @slhurtt Před 5 lety +298

    "The meanest thing that he ever did before he left, he went and named me "Sue" - Johnny Cash

    • @cplmpcocptcl6306
      @cplmpcocptcl6306 Před 5 lety +8

      S. Truth Lmaoooo. Love that song

    • @barrishautomotive
      @barrishautomotive Před 5 lety +31

      Actually the song was not written by Johnny Cash, is was written by Shel Silverstein. Yes, that Shel Silverstein.

    • @junkiejackflash
      @junkiejackflash Před 5 lety +18

      @@barrishautomotive Shel hung out with Johnny and surprisingly even David Allen Coe. Shel loved some of those more vulgar songs Coe made

    • @magnificentfailure2390
      @magnificentfailure2390 Před 5 lety +9

      @@junkiejackflash Shel wrote some of those vulgar ditties.
      Check out his own LP's

  • @nick41797
    @nick41797 Před 4 lety +648

    Just watched this after Elon Musk named his kid "X AE A-12" and ii feel bad for him

    • @mickcv4554
      @mickcv4554 Před 4 lety +61

      Notice its always the 4th or later child, where they make it obvious they stop giving a shit

    • @kamomile_tea
      @kamomile_tea Před 4 lety +5

      Oh shit forgot about that

    • @Sienisota
      @Sienisota Před 4 lety +17

      @@mickcv4554 yeah, there seems to be 3 names ready in parents' mind, but with the later ones they start using some great grandparents/uncle's/aunt's middle name. At least in my country.

    • @litbopeep5726
      @litbopeep5726 Před 4 lety +60

      @@mickcv4554 omg this is hilarious. I'm the 4th child!
      They named me Feather btw
      Fucking Feather.
      No. There is no meaningful backstory.
      They just named me that.
      Oh, and I hate birds.

    • @mr.admr1016
      @mr.admr1016 Před 4 lety +3

      Æ

  • @cherryunso
    @cherryunso Před 4 lety +16

    Imagine being named Hitler then when you are announced at a meeting everybody runs. Or salutes idk it might happen.

    • @lobeliaowl2482
      @lobeliaowl2482 Před 3 lety +4

      That actually has happened before. Two Americans named their child "Adolf Hitler" (as firstnames) - and it's completely legal in the US.
      In America, you couldn't name your kid R2-D2, but you could name it Adolf Hitler.

    • @Potatopot724
      @Potatopot724 Před 3 lety +1

      @@lobeliaowl2482 that's so fucking messed up

  • @teaganlillian4328
    @teaganlillian4328 Před 4 lety +38

    my uncle was named “Boy” legally until he was 18, because my grandma waited for months to name him

    • @maskoblackfyre
      @maskoblackfyre Před 3 lety +7

      Was his father a Greek god-killing machine with a beard, by any chance?

    • @dhalterman
      @dhalterman Před 3 lety

      @@maskoblackfyre Who's now starting a new career in killing Norse gods, might I add?

  • @BeverlyM52
    @BeverlyM52 Před 4 lety +312

    Unknown to him, my dad was Baby Boy “Taylor” until he enlisted in WWII.

    • @SafetySpooon
      @SafetySpooon Před 4 lety +23

      My father's firth certificate had his name & his gender mixed up. Nothing ever happened.

    • @kathleenmuchka2559
      @kathleenmuchka2559 Před 4 lety +28

      My Dad was given the middle name NoMI, no middle initial.

    • @rachaelgosser5659
      @rachaelgosser5659 Před 4 lety +30

      My dad found out when he went to college that his name was Baby Boy Green.

    • @BebeesHuman
      @BebeesHuman Před 4 lety +8

      My husband went to war in Viet Nam 5 years, using a hospital issued souvenir certificate. We had a crazy time getting his birth certificate so he could join the local reserve 10 years later. Someone in charge of deciding who should be in the reserves discovered the mistake. He and I married young and he used his military ID to prove he was old enough to get married, a few years before we found out what that original certificate was. lol !

    • @asimpletrashcan5037
      @asimpletrashcan5037 Před 4 lety +10

      My mother's name is Baby Girl Wyatt. Then her mother decided to name her after her bunk mate in prison, Alicia.

  • @austinbartol1369
    @austinbartol1369 Před 4 lety +292

    I didn’t know he had legs

    • @TodayIFoundOut
      @TodayIFoundOut  Před 4 lety +63

      Only occasionally.

    • @Friendship1nmillion
      @Friendship1nmillion Před 4 lety +3

      @@TodayIFoundOut Apart from other names i like the name "Wichita" {as a girls name}. 👨‍🏫🙋‍♂️ 👨‍💻🇦🇺 🤱✍

    • @HaikatrineKat
      @HaikatrineKat Před 4 lety +5

      Today I found out that Simon Whistler wears short shorts.

  • @multiocularq
    @multiocularq Před 3 lety +15

    Bruh listening to the European rules is so weird for me since I've met kids names Seven and Twix (yes like the candy)

  • @catie5403
    @catie5403 Před 3 lety +6

    In some countries, children cant have numbers in their name
    **angry Hargreeves noises**

    • @kellypatterson9996
      @kellypatterson9996 Před 3 lety

      What happens in those countries, when a person is named after a long line of people with the same name ? Like a person who is the 3rd or the 6th person in the family with the same name. .

  • @jwo7777777
    @jwo7777777 Před 4 lety +52

    As a teacher, my mother had students with strange names. She taught "Watermelon" one year followed by her little brother "Orange" the next year. Their mother named all of her children after her favorite foods although the two I listed were spelled as shown, but pronounced non-standardly (wah-TER-muh-lawn and oh-RON-chuh).
    I also got into it with a local governmental agency shortly after the birth of one of my children. We had filled out the form with the middle name we chose, but they had made an error in transcription. When we pointed it out, they denied that they made errors, got very snooty and claimed it was our error and we would have to pay to have the name changed "if we didn't like what we had chosen." I pestered them until they went into the files and looked up the original filled form and meekly told us they would correct the error and mail us the new certificate.

    • @BebeesHuman
      @BebeesHuman Před 4 lety

      A hospital nurse filled out some papers to get my younger brother registered in the county he was born in. When my parents got his birth certificate his last name was listed as: EGGS. That wasn't our family's name, but close to it.

    • @mildredpierce4506
      @mildredpierce4506 Před 4 lety +1

      My friend has a cousin named Tangerine. Former neighbor named his son Seven.

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire Před 2 lety +1

      I knew a full grown woman who insisted on being called Rainbow. That was so strange

  • @Gringorican
    @Gringorican Před 5 lety +148

    For a split second I was really buying into the Mac Weldon name assignment 😆

  • @kartoffeleistee
    @kartoffeleistee Před 3 lety +5

    For the gender thing in Germany: if you want to name your child something where the gender isn’t clear you can use that name IF you give your child a second name which clears up the gender :) my boyfriend has a name that when you read it it could be any gender depending on how you pronounce it and therefore his parents had to give him a second name that’s a “boys name” :P

  • @kitcutting
    @kitcutting Před 3 lety +6

    As a kid I thought the answer to this question was “Untitled”
    I blame MS Paint on Windows XP

  • @foreveronmywaytofuckyourbi5567

    you aren't Micheal from vsauce. I'll stay, but I don't know how I got here.

  • @TonyMacaroni69_
    @TonyMacaroni69_ Před 5 lety +694

    Hello, I'm Officer babyboy 1 how can I help you?

    • @TonyMacaroni69_
      @TonyMacaroni69_ Před 5 lety +9

      @lcyw20hahaha LMAO😂😂

    • @awesomeartist-xu7us
      @awesomeartist-xu7us Před 4 lety +11

      Help my name is nine and seven is trying to eat me

    • @crazy4orlando2
      @crazy4orlando2 Před 4 lety +1

      ...

    • @TonyMacaroni69_
      @TonyMacaroni69_ Před 4 lety +1

      @@crazy4orlando2 excuse me, what?

    • @crazy4orlando2
      @crazy4orlando2 Před 4 lety +2

      @@TonyMacaroni69_ My ohone was being an a hole and I couldn't get out of the comment screen and ai thought if I Tyler something it would work but it didn't. So i shut it down and forgot to go back and delete it.
      To be fair the random characters my phone pocket typed would have been even more confusing. Sorry.

  • @seeing8spots
    @seeing8spots Před 3 lety +3

    "We're family oriented" 😂 that's simultaneously horrific and hilarious.

  • @stormelexandria118
    @stormelexandria118 Před 3 lety +4

    They gave mine "Baby Girl Glassheart-Gonzales"
    They used her doctor's last name 😂

  • @Emma-wq4nu
    @Emma-wq4nu Před 4 lety +416

    I met someone who’s didn’t name her until she was 6, then they had her chose her name.
    Basically her name was Jello.
    Yeah.

    • @molls127
      @molls127 Před 4 lety +58

      yeah.... parents shouldn't be able to do that

    • @afterlight7632
      @afterlight7632 Před 4 lety +33

      One of my mother's friends did give her kids names but if the kids decided that they wanted to be called something else as they got older, then that would become their name. She has like 9 kids and I don't know all their names but I do know that one is now called Bear and another is Baby.

    • @justsoicanfingcomment5814
      @justsoicanfingcomment5814 Před 3 lety +24

      In my family we follow an ancient tradition of not naming a child until the age of five.
      Reason being many children would not survive in ancient times and becoming invested in a child by naming it when it could die at any time would cause more suffering in the family.
      A child that survived five years was past the point where death could come at any time and was far less likely.
      Then we followed the tradition of naming a child with a childhood name, which would be the child's name until they came of age and where called an adult where the child could then take on there adult name.
      If male the age of fifteen was when I was able to chose my coming of age name.
      If female when each of my sisters started menstruating [for my sisters that was ages eleven, twelve and sixeteen they were able to chose there coming of age names.
      My childhood name was determined by me being fast, good at hiding and out fighting larger kids by out smarting them and using my surroundings to win.
      Also it is tradition in my family to name the eldest son [If he was born in April] "Vulpes-Vulpes"
      So until I was five years old I had no name, then at age five I was named Vulpes-Vulpes, then when I came of age I was robbed of my family's childhood name as the State of Florida would not allow for a traditional Pagan name to be used and forced to take on my mothers last name as my mother and father never married according to the courts even though they had had a traditional Pagan wedding. >:(
      So I was robbed my birth right childhood name by the State of Florida, Insulted by the State of Florida by being forced to take on my mothers name but not my fathers last name as if I was a bastard, even though I know my father and my parents had had a Pagan wedding the State of Florida would not recognize it nor recognize my family's religious practices. Nor would the State of Florida allow me to change my name at the age of fifteen as is my family's tradition.
      So, it's not about not being able to pick a name for your child at birth.
      It's about following traditional family naming practices that my family has held to since before most country's even existed.

    • @lilypadgaming2652
      @lilypadgaming2652 Před 3 lety +6

      Just so I can Fing comment I can’t tell if this is a joke or not. What pagan mythology do you follow??

    • @justsoicanfingcomment5814
      @justsoicanfingcomment5814 Před 3 lety +8

      @@lilypadgaming2652 It is more based around Animism as opposed to Monotheism which you are implying.
      Though to be fair I know rocks and water and air and fire are not alive. The trees, grass, moss on the rocks and animals sure are though.

  • @hinduhillbilly
    @hinduhillbilly Před 5 lety +128

    I love it when Simon is driven to cursing.

    • @MAjYQSammi
      @MAjYQSammi Před 5 lety +1

      HinduHillbilly Same 😂😂😂

    • @julieegan1337
      @julieegan1337 Před 5 lety +1

      😅😅😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @PanicbyExample
      @PanicbyExample Před 5 lety +4

      ive never been witness to it before this, fitting conditions

  • @azzabynes5707
    @azzabynes5707 Před 3 lety +14

    This whole video, as he explained that parents only have some specific amount of time before their child has to have a name, I kept thinking about John F. Nash and his wife's first child. The story goes something like this: John Nash was a brilliant guy and a Nobel-prize winning mathematician, but when he was in his thirties he started acting strange and they found out he was schizophrenic.(Ever seen 'A Beautiful Mind'? Yeah, he's that guy.) His wife was pregnant, but because he was in no mental state to be naming a baby and his wife wanted him to have a say in it, for the first YEAR of his life their son was just called "the baby". You know what they eventually named him? John. The most boring name ever AND his father(and grandfather)'s name! They waited an entire YEAR just so they could name him JOHN!

  • @ryanswob3583
    @ryanswob3583 Před 3 lety +1

    Name your child Noland Void and they will forever be able to skip out of any legaly binding contract stating that it is clearly written "Null and Void" on the contract.

  • @elizabethslaughter1920
    @elizabethslaughter1920 Před 5 lety +89

    My mom didn't have a first name but she didn't find that out until she was an adult and requested a birth certificate from the state. It said "Baby Girl" instead her first name.

    • @PongoXBongo
      @PongoXBongo Před 5 lety +5

      How did people address her? Miss ? Or with a nickname?

    • @restricttheopennotes
      @restricttheopennotes Před 5 lety +16

      Same thing happened with my daughter kinda. I forget how but her name on everything while in the hospital was "baby girl * insert last name*) We fixed the issue though. I think my fiance was delirious and just kept referring to her as baby girl so they thought that's what it was. The nurses thought it was just a cute name. We fixed it and Venus will be 2 in November :)

    • @DMSProduktions
      @DMSProduktions Před 5 lety +4

      @@restricttheopennotes Aww Venus is a beautiful name!

    • @elizabethslaughter1920
      @elizabethslaughter1920 Před 5 lety +5

      @@PongoXBongo Her first name was Doris, it just wan't on the birth certificate because my grandparents never recorded it. That's why she didn't know.

  • @blueberrymimosas
    @blueberrymimosas Před 4 lety +518

    I can’t be the only one who thought she wanted to name her kid “Gusher” because she liked the candy 😂

    • @thatoneawkwardturtle9550
      @thatoneawkwardturtle9550 Před 4 lety +18

      I'm pretty sure it was gersha lol

    • @bennupp2142
      @bennupp2142 Před 4 lety +14

      I thought it was because she loves Usher

    • @princessadrigirl6774
      @princessadrigirl6774 Před 4 lety +3

      I’ve never heard of a candy called that

    • @candice_ecidnac
      @candice_ecidnac Před 4 lety +18

      @@thatoneawkwardturtle9550 It's Gesher. Simon just mispronounces it, like many other things.

    • @Grinnar
      @Grinnar Před 4 lety +8

      @@candice_ecidnac British accents aren't very precise.

  • @MasterArchfiend
    @MasterArchfiend Před 2 lety +2

    My mom spent a lot of time choosing the names for me and my siblings. She went over family records, books, music, newspapers and in the case of one sister being a bit loopy from the pain medication. It is a bit hard to not need it when having twins you weren't even supposed to conceive, but that's just how things go. Names are a big deal in my family, even the pets have full names including the ones we are only caring for until we find them a more suitable home.
    To hear some parents intentionally don't name their child even when intending to keep them or having a limited list of option is odd to me. Names are just such an important thing in my family that I never thought of such things and I had never heard of it until now.

  • @trexpaddock
    @trexpaddock Před 3 lety +5

    "It really do fits"
    I can has grammar!

  • @toddellner5283
    @toddellner5283 Před 5 lety +70

    When my wife was getting her name changed she was one of a long line of people in Court for that purpose. One of the petitioners was a forty-something man who no longer wanted to be known as "Baby Boy Larsson"

    • @KarryKarryKarry
      @KarryKarryKarry Před 5 lety +1

      Todd Ellner But it’s just so funny though 😂

    • @PongoXBongo
      @PongoXBongo Před 5 lety +3

      Dude took his sweet time, eh?

    • @jslferrell
      @jslferrell Před 5 lety +2

      On the day I was finalizing mine, there was an 80 year old woman called Anna correcting her certificate from Annie. Everyone called her Anna because it seemed to fit her better and she just had found out she could fix it.

    • @dbx1233
      @dbx1233 Před 5 lety

      How about "Pretty Boy Floyed?"

    • @toddellner5283
      @toddellner5283 Před 5 lety

      @@PongoXBongo He hadn't realized it was still his legal name

  • @dreamingwolf8382
    @dreamingwolf8382 Před 5 lety +88

    Smart upstairs
    Casual downstairs
    You just described a mullet… You are wearing the equivalent of a mullet

  • @midwestweirdo666
    @midwestweirdo666 Před 3 lety +1

    American here. When my sister was born, my parents couldn't agree on a name for her. After a few days, everything was fine for them to go home except her name and the nurse said they couldn't be discharged until they had a name for the birth certificate. Eventually they asked her godmother to just pick a name and they went with that name.

  • @inkdreams5113
    @inkdreams5113 Před 3 lety +3

    B1 and his brother B2 grew into perfectly happy bananas, although they did have issues with resident teddy bears.

  • @YaBoiAustin-bi7rk
    @YaBoiAustin-bi7rk Před 4 lety +252

    My dad actually went to school with a guy named "Baby Boy" 😂

    • @peck10737
      @peck10737 Před 4 lety +29

      My dad's legal first name was Boy until he turned 16 when he legally changed it.

    • @VolcanoEarth
      @VolcanoEarth Před 4 lety +31

      I knew a lady whose grandfather was named Bunch Keys because he was found on the courthouse steps in a basket with only his diaper and and a bunch of keys.

    • @lhzook
      @lhzook Před 4 lety +6

      A had a aunt named baby girl

    • @katrinacarroll56
      @katrinacarroll56 Před 4 lety +7

      So did I! He went by BJ though, because he was legally Baby Boy Jones

    • @Whatever-hy3dd
      @Whatever-hy3dd Před 4 lety +10

      Katrina Rankin BJ doesn’t like much of a better option 😂

  • @johnopalko5223
    @johnopalko5223 Před 5 lety +148

    I've always admired Simon's equanimity and ability to keep a straight face. It's not often you see him go into full "WTF??" mode.

    • @artchic528
      @artchic528 Před 5 lety +16

      It's that famous "British Stoicism". Obviously it has it's limits, like when talking about Heath the Nazi. WTF is wrong with that guy?

    • @Avril.
      @Avril. Před 5 lety +20

      But is a freaking joy when he does break.

    • @kelly2fly
      @kelly2fly Před 5 lety +6

      I'm sure there were plenty of takes.

    • @jslferrell
      @jslferrell Před 5 lety +4

      Phoenix Uprising and that was the best one.

    • @vivienrenee416
      @vivienrenee416 Před 5 lety +2

      I came to the comments to see if anyone else made the same observation!

  • @LeeLeeBellePBJLee
    @LeeLeeBellePBJLee Před 2 lety +1

    My name is Jade, as an adult I found out my mom wanted to name me Candy but my dad vetoed it and I will forever be thankful to my dad for not letting me have a stripper name.

  • @dandelionjam7154
    @dandelionjam7154 Před rokem +1

    I was actually a Babygirl (Surname) for 13 years of my life! My mom explained she wanted to get to know me a bit before she named me, so she left the hospital without a name. When she got around to legally changing my name to.. what I’d been called for 13 years, and explaining the whole situation to me, I said in much more polite 13 year old child speak “The fuck you mean I haven’t had a legal name this whole time”

  • @thomasturner6980
    @thomasturner6980 Před 5 lety +371

    What I learnt from this video: when u don't name your baby it will be called Mack Weldon, regardless of gender

    • @fiffi5318
      @fiffi5318 Před 5 lety +10

      Wrong. The child turns into a boy. Thats why there are so many indish Mack Weldons!

    • @colinp2238
      @colinp2238 Před 5 lety +1

      @@fiffi5318 That's pants!

    • @Mr28d23
      @Mr28d23 Před 5 lety +7

      A hatian guy told me in haiti they just name the baby for the day it was born like friday for example

    • @calebdoty9090
      @calebdoty9090 Před 5 lety +2

      Nope, they clearly name them Kyle.

    • @tomsenft7434
      @tomsenft7434 Před 5 lety +1

      My name is Mack Weldon. I couldn't bother to watch this guy getting dressed.

  • @dolst
    @dolst Před 5 lety +224

    Picabo Street donated some of her winnings to a hospital and they built a new intensive care unit: The Picabo ICU.
    Surf Wisely.

    • @andrewnibbi
      @andrewnibbi Před 5 lety +3

      dolst this is how you win life

    • @LordDragon1965
      @LordDragon1965 Před 5 lety +20

      Also there was the story of the couple who were in a car accident while the wife was pregnant with a mixed gender pair of twins. She gave birth to the twins while in a coma so her brother was asked to name the kids. The brother was known to be a bit of a joker so when she recovered she asked him what he named the kids.
      "Well, I named the girl Denise"
      Relieved, she asked, "And my son?"
      "Denephew"

    • @exafrost
      @exafrost Před 5 lety +2

      @@LordDragon1965I approve!

    • @carollynch8319
      @carollynch8319 Před 5 lety +1

      Alan Lambert 😂

    • @metalman7825
      @metalman7825 Před 5 lety

      Oy ye think ye funny m8? Well does ya?? Cuz ye is!

  • @michaelsommer5255
    @michaelsommer5255 Před rokem +2

    Some time ago a American woman had given her girl the name "abcde" and the passport control at the airport were making fun of the lettercombination, unsure, if this was a proper name. The mother was extremly upset about that and complained, that they were unpolite to her daughter, making fun of her name....maybe she had provoced that a bit by herself?

  • @teresaellis7062
    @teresaellis7062 Před 5 lety +280

    Family oriented and had nine children by five women and beat and threatened to kill the women in his life Tell me Heath, how is that family oriented again?

    • @absalomdraconis
      @absalomdraconis Před 5 lety +7

      Creating, and possibly using.

    • @Kevin15047
      @Kevin15047 Před 4 lety +6

      In a conservative sense, I guess?

    • @danielhebard1865
      @danielhebard1865 Před 4 lety +15

      @@Kevin15047As a conservative myself, I think I'm qualified to say that no, conservatives don't believe that being a domestic abuser makes someone a "family man."

    • @foreveronmywaytofuckyourbi5567
      @foreveronmywaytofuckyourbi5567 Před 4 lety +5

      family oriented violence still makes him family oriented. or perhaps he often was oriented towards his family physically

    • @dwane0123
      @dwane0123 Před 4 lety

      Then you need to come out of the attic

  • @grosslyincandescentgaming5130

    So with me I was separated by my mother at birth and put into foster care. I wasn't given a "legal" name until my adoption was finalized when I was 4. BUT all that time I was "legally" named "baby boy (and bio last name)"
    BUT the cool thing is that a nurse named me Zachary (unofficially) and it just stuck with me ever since. So when I was asked at my adoption if I wanted to keep the name, I said yes.

    • @jslferrell
      @jslferrell Před 5 lety +2

      My maternal grandmother was a foundling and one of the nurses in the nursery wing was permitted to adopt her. This was in the 1920’s. The nurse named her after the ward nurse who approve her and her husband’s request to adopt her.

    • @margaritam.9118
      @margaritam.9118 Před 5 lety +1

      Hey there, Baby Boy 😉

  • @marybrown4469
    @marybrown4469 Před 3 lety +1

    I have been doing genealogy since I was a teenager. My father was always know as "Pat". I was going through the process of gathering birth certificates for my records and could find no records of my father's birth. I did, however, find a birth certificate of a "Boy" born to a couple bearing my grandparents' names on the date and place of my father's birth, even had their home address on it. I found out there was a big argument between my grandparents regarding my father's given name and a name was never put on the official certificate. Apparently, my grandmother wanted to name my father "Patsy" which at the time was a male name in Ireland (we are of Irish-German heritage). My grandfather wouldn't allow it saying that here in the U.S. "Patsy" was considered a girl's name. The dispute was never resolved, my grandmother calling my father "Patsy" and my grandfather calling him "Pat". My father used "Pat" when he enlisted during WWII, so that was considered his official name. My father was 6'4" and was a healthy weight, can't even imagine someone calling him "Patsy" and living to tell the tale.

  • @5610winston
    @5610winston Před 3 lety +1

    While working at a hotel many years ago, I checked in a family from Germany whose surname was a form of the Queen Mother of words you would never say in the presence of the Queen Mother. I attempted an inoffensive pronunciation, but the father quickly corrected me: "No, It is pronounced 'Fucker'"
    I think they enjoyed our discomfort with greeting them at the desk, especially in the presence of other guests.

  • @dagalovesme
    @dagalovesme Před 4 lety +419

    When my mum was pregnant with me my parents had a deal that dad would name the first girl and mum the first boy. I was born female so my dad decided that “cougar” was a good name as he had been drinking out of a shot glass with cougar bourbon written on the side. Mum ended up telling him off for it and naming me Dallas. As an adult I love this name specially since my last name is Austin 😂

  • @arielgonzalez1636
    @arielgonzalez1636 Před 4 lety +231

    First name: Place
    Last name: Holder

  • @hachioda8602
    @hachioda8602 Před 3 lety +1

    my son Aaryn was born 6 months premature. he was born at one location and life flighted to the Augusta Children's Hospital in Georgia. since it was an emergency situation and he had to be life flighted the assigned him the name "BabyBoy *****" 4 years later we are still trying to get his name officially changed. the only correction i have to offer is, if YOU wont or refuse to pick a name, its way easier to get it changed later than it is if the hospital/government does it themselves.

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera Před 2 lety +1

    I misread this as "Unarmed Babies?!?", as if the Second Amendment had become so ingrained in American culture that the idea of infants not carrying self-defense weapons had become controversial.

  • @mollyp6088
    @mollyp6088 Před 5 lety +479

    There were twins at one of my old schools named envy and beauty or something along those lines. As you can imagine, it was an absolute disaster

    • @bettyemachetetmi5005
      @bettyemachetetmi5005 Před 5 lety +60

      There was a girl who was a pretentious gothic girl (redundant, huh?) dating a DJ where I was a bartender in the mid 90s in Chicago. He was not a very pleasant dude physically or Personality wise,and around 25 yrs old and he wed the girl (coincidentally named Molly as well, sorry) when she got pregnant with twins) and he learned that her ID was fake. Her name WAS Molly but she was not born in 1972 as he had been, rather but 1980 and was a high school junior. So her sons were born before her graduation and she named them Judas and Lucifer. WTF? I saw the now ex husband in Chicago several years ago and they were in an all boys Catholic high school and he remarried and they had been renamed Jude and Luke.
      My best friend is the 6th of 7 kids, and the doc told her parents 43 years ago "sounds like a heartbeat of a big healthy boy. He should be here in time for the bicentennial and maybe a few days later. " Her dad owned a bar and her mother was already in like sardines w/siblings in the apartment above, they aged from 3, 7, 9, and 12. So the plan was to start looking for a new home once the new baby, tentatively to be called "John Adam" arrived... a month before the bicentennial, her mom went into labor and instead of the big healthy boy, she had two little underweight girl twins, even the doctor was not sure if they were fraternal or identical, but he had tagged the first child A and her sister was B since she was born almost 21 minutes after. Their dad came in after he closed the bar and the doctor told him that the whole event was for sure complete. She had only left the bar herself around half past eight and my friend was born a few minutes past 1 AM. He was a little bit confused and he looked at the tags and said "A, B. Agatha and Bertha now can we just go home?" They are actually Amy and Beth and I think it was a good couple of months before the family could see they were not identical, though I can not tell them apart on the telephone and we've been friends for 25 years.

    • @susiearnold6590
      @susiearnold6590 Před 5 lety +26

      First twins born in Oklahoma. Olka and Homa

    • @rmismine
      @rmismine Před 4 lety +17

      I went to school with a girl named Euneek.

    • @ziggy363
      @ziggy363 Před 4 lety +10

      Molly Patterson we had twins at my school names Diamond and Peaches 😬

    • @ziggy363
      @ziggy363 Před 4 lety +16

      Molly Patterson my step-mom is a teacher and has a lot of kids with “unique” names lol. Including: A-a (adasha), Abcde (ab-sih-dee), Da’Finest with her brother Handsome, Minnie Mouse, and I can’t remember the rest lol but there are some crazy ones lol

  • @kristinesoule6178
    @kristinesoule6178 Před 4 lety +205

    Had to share my "number name" experience. I was hosting a large group at work. I work at an art store so I was goind around and adding the names to the kids pieces so its legible. I was told to write the number 3. I looked at an adult making sure this was correct. She later told me her siblings are named one and two 🤦‍♀️

    • @hopelessheathen8190
      @hopelessheathen8190 Před 4 lety +16

      That reminds me of a old movie about Easter the bunny mom had so many children she ran out of names and started making them numbers

    • @SaheeliRai
      @SaheeliRai Před rokem +3

      In the order of birth? And why not at least choose the number written out in a different language?

    • @XenHat
      @XenHat Před rokem +4

      Japanese do this sometimes! Some of their names translate literally to first son, second son, etc

  • @mars_bars3428
    @mars_bars3428 Před 3 lety +1

    I wish they had a system where you could leave your child without a name, or a basic state chosen name until their 13th birthday when they can choose their name. They would still be able to change it later on ofc, but idk it would be super cool.

  • @kyliehabel7206
    @kyliehabel7206 Před 4 lety +5

    My brothers friend is named Seven he has learned to pull out his ID when he is meets someone new incase they question him on it

  • @potatomatop9326
    @potatomatop9326 Před 5 lety +558

    If your parents don't name you, people will call you Batman Bin Superman.

    • @MrShanester117
      @MrShanester117 Před 5 lety +12

      potatomato :p
      Or Chocolate Von Dinosaur

    • @nickc247
      @nickc247 Před 5 lety +4

      Chalupa Batman

    • @UberAwesomeMan9
      @UberAwesomeMan9 Před 5 lety +4

      Im quite sure those names are trademarked so you'd get sued

    • @nickc247
      @nickc247 Před 5 lety +4

      @@UberAwesomeMan9 You can't get sued for naming a child after a trademark

    • @dgray7537
      @dgray7537 Před 5 lety +3

      I wanted to name my nephew Cosmo Chalupa Batman.

  • @4thechivostreamsarchive586
    @4thechivostreamsarchive586 Před 5 lety +114

    He doesn't break character very often, but when he does, it's great :-P

    • @taylorbritt499
      @taylorbritt499 Před 4 lety +1

      Nice profile pic

    • @4thechivostreamsarchive586
      @4thechivostreamsarchive586 Před 4 lety +2

      @@taylorbritt499 thanks lol. It's our channel's logo :-P

    • @taylorbritt499
      @taylorbritt499 Před 4 lety +1

      @@4thechivostreamsarchive586 is it inspired by the Game Theorists' logo? Reminds me of that one.

    • @4thechivostreamsarchive586
      @4thechivostreamsarchive586 Před 4 lety

      @@taylorbritt499 Originally it was inspired by the Xbox Achievement Icon, actually lol. But I can totally see what you mean!

  • @peyton7546
    @peyton7546 Před 3 lety +1

    I once met a guy named Whatever. Apparently he was the youngest kid out of 15 and his parents just stopped caring

    • @emmib1388
      @emmib1388 Před 3 lety

      i knew a family who towards the end (they had 13 children) picked the names out of the telephone book

  • @alietheartist734
    @alietheartist734 Před 3 lety +2

    I imagine that the fact that Heath was so...himself did have a role in why the children were taken in that it prompted them to start looking for problems. If you’re that bonkers there’s a chance you have more than one concerning habit.

  • @lQuoteMe
    @lQuoteMe Před 5 lety +102

    Kinda pissed my parents didnt name me Sir Blahblahblah 6 S@#$ Face Whistler now

    • @voidericspenceracemperor9710
      @voidericspenceracemperor9710 Před 5 lety +2

      i'm also kind of pissed that my parents named me Erick Lee instead of Eric, jeez i don't like my name long

  • @midwinter78
    @midwinter78 Před 5 lety +712

    Does this one win the "most shameless link to the sponsor bit" award?

    • @DiegoVio
      @DiegoVio Před 5 lety +38

      Mate he needs to make money !

    • @user-jp7tw3sd3x
      @user-jp7tw3sd3x Před 5 lety +58

      It also wins first award for longest advertisement before video.

    • @R3pc0n
      @R3pc0n Před 5 lety +41

      well, he DID seem genuinely excited about it.

    • @ewmegoolies
      @ewmegoolies Před 5 lety +24

      Today I found out Simon sold out and looked ridiculous doing it...

    • @juandejambe1960
      @juandejambe1960 Před 5 lety +7

      Peter Corbett you don’t watch @linustechtips

  • @alietheartist734
    @alietheartist734 Před 3 lety +3

    I’m on board with having rules about names because I’ve heard a few that are just...unfortunate, but it probably shouldn’t be a criminal offense.

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 Před rokem

      My suggestion would be tax funded grants that people can apply for if their names truly are a misery. It's not just first names that can be a problem, alas - think bad first+last combos (eg Richard Head) and last names themselves that become risible once they have lost their original historical context or language of origin...? (eg Roundbottom)

  • @em7pug26
    @em7pug26 Před 4 lety +4

    “I’m just kidding, I won’t put my underwear on Over my pants in this kind of video.”
    WHAT-
    -Kind of video can I find these actions being demonstrated?