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Poll Question: Is it child abuse if you name your child Adolf Hitler?
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    Posted: October 28 2011 at 14:01
Old news or new I just found this.

http://www.inquisitr.com/154741/adolf-hitler-in-custody-battle/
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That's weird ass sh*t fo' sho.
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Points: 17845 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 14:14
I wonder if the Occupy movement would defend these parents against the state/govt control over their children......and I use the word "parent" only as a descriptor in this case.
 
Sorry....absolute dumb a$$es.
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Points: 7851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 14:27
"Adolf Hitler is still alive - I slept with her last night" (Jim Morrison).

Why on Earth there are idiots who give their kids foolish names.
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Points: 67407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 14:36
I don't see what the problem is. Adolf is a very nice name and it's highly unlikely that anyone would confuse him with the famous (deceased!) politician.
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Points: 4625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 14:47
^For the same reason you wouldn't name your kid Satan.
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Points: 12294 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 14:50
Originally posted by Deathrabbit Deathrabbit wrote:

^For the same reason you wouldn't name your kid Satan.

Or Jesus.
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Points: 4335 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 15:05
At least they didn't use "Chewbacca".  I have dibs on that.


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Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

Originally posted by Deathrabbit Deathrabbit wrote:

^For the same reason you wouldn't name your kid Satan.

Or Jesus.

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I've known a few Jesuses and an Adolph, and many Mohammed variations, but never known anyone with the given names Adolph Hitler.  If someone had the surname Fir, Lucy would be sort of nice as a given name. 

I have a nephew named Attila, which I think pretty terrible, and a cousin who is a hardcore Neo-Nazi white supremicist, and heavy metal band guitarist, thug, and all around bad guy witha normal name....

I am surprised that the state would have allowed the name.  I couldn't have officially named my child F**k, though if I had  a flatulent son, I would have liked to name him Jack the Ripper.


Edited by Logan - October 28 2011 at 15:09
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

though if I had  a flatulent son, I would have liked to name him Jack the Ripper.


Made me laugh out loud (rare) LOL

Interesting thing about the linked article re the kid named Adolf Hitler, is that despite their home being allegedly swathed in 3rd Reich iconography, doting Mater and Pater both deny being neo Nazis. From a mainstream perspective, is this analogous to loathing Neo Prog but covertly loving Progressive Rock? Wink

BTW I'm just waiting for some post modern apologist to wade in with their 'names are but arbitrary social constructions that merely reference plural realities' spielDead


Edited by ExittheLemming - October 28 2011 at 15:29
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By the way, Deathrabbit: Who is that in your sig?  I could see her being the future mother of my little Chewbacca.


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Kristen Chenoweth. TV and Broadway actress/singer. 
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Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

Originally posted by Deathrabbit Deathrabbit wrote:

^For the same reason you wouldn't name your kid Satan.

Or Jesus.
 
Jesus is a very, very common name in latin american countries.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 15:47
Poll question Godwin'd the thread.
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Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

By the way, Deathrabbit: Who is that in your sig?  I could see her being the future mother of my little Chewbacca.
 
Just one?? Being a good Catholic her and I would have a herd of Chewbaccas.
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Points: 24294 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 15:49
I wouldn't call it child abuse because this term has imo nothing to do with naming. On the other hand, the "batsh*t crazy" seems a fitting description here.
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Points: 35762 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 15:52
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

though if I had  a flatulent son, I would have liked to name him Jack the Ripper.


Made me laugh out loud (rare) LOL

Interesting thing about the linked article re the kid named Adolf Hitler, is that despite their home being allegedly swathed in 3rd Reich iconography, doting Mater and Pater both deny being neo Nazis. From a mainstream perspective, is this analogous to loathing Neo Prog but covertly loving Progressive Rock? Wink

BTW I'm just waiting for some post modern apologist to wade in with their 'names are but arbitrary social constructions that merely reference plural realities' spielDead


Nice analogy.  When reading the article, i wondered if they denied being Neo-Nazis because they are of the old-school Nazi tradition.
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Points: 12294 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 15:59
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

Originally posted by Deathrabbit Deathrabbit wrote:

^For the same reason you wouldn't name your kid Satan.

Or Jesus.
 
Jesus is a very, very common name in latin american countries.

I know. That doesn't change the premise that you are naming your son after a famous dead person that might prejudice others.


Edited by Any Colour You Like - October 28 2011 at 15:59
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2011 at 16:24
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

BTW I'm just waiting for some post modern apologist to wade in with their 'names are but arbitrary social constructions that merely reference plural realities' spielDead


Didn't post modernism put the most emphasis on words and names? The issue is as acute as possible when looked through post modern thought. I see no reason to have a go at post modernism out of the blue like that. 
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