There are some people out there who have been dealt a bad hand since the day they were born. Because of their unfortunate names, their lives have been difficult from the get-go. From jokes in kindergarten to bullying at school, it just goes to show how bad it can get if you’ve got the ‘wrong’ name.
Unfortunately, problems don’t stop after high school. There are plenty of everyday technological problems and nuisances that people with bad names have to face in life, and here are some of the best. Oh, and after you’re done reading this post, be sure to check out Bored Panda’s articles about people with unfortunate name tags and the very worst names that will make you wonder what people’s parents were thinking.
People with ‘offensive’ last names have a lot of everyday problems with technology
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The trouble with having a funny last name can be as small as being unable to register on websites and can be as big as your emails all being sent to someone’s spam folder. The struggle is real!
Some can’t even get health insurance due to their surnames
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Morgan Jerkins reveals that her childhood was full of kids making fun of her because of her funny name. And this made her cringe, feel ashamed and made her want to run away. However, as she grew up, she eventually learned to accept and love her name and stopped feeling shame whenever she heard it. The Huffington Post writes that “we attack others in order to feel good” or to make ourselves look better in comparison. However, there’s no excuse for bullying, even if it’s ‘just’ poking fun at somebody’s supposedly hilarious name.
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Living with a name that others aren’t used to can cause a great deal of funny problems. I can’t tell you the number of times people have mispronounced my name (the ‘J’ is supposed to sound like a ‘Y’). And don’t even get me started on how difficult it is for foreigners to pronounce my surname. By the time Americans and the British will have accomplished this feat, we’ll have colonized Mars. However, I’m very happy with my last name, and I wouldn’t change it for the world. Not everyone is as lucky to have an awesome surname like mine, though.
While others have problems even with Xbox Live
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Have you ever had any problems due to your name? Have you ever thought of changing your name to make life ‘simpler’? Why do you think people love making fun of others with unusual names? Let us know in the comments below.
Trouble seems to follow even the University of Sussex
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None of those words are offensive. Sometimes I feel like I'm living among neo-puritans in some parallel universe.
You are living among them. They're (mostly) corporations so terrified of offending someone, they seek to avoid any negative PR that they don't care about these sort of consequences. These actions simply show they really don't care their customers/users, despite their proclamations (by engaging in this censoring) that they do. This issue (computer-wise) could easily be solved by suspending these "rules" for name fields. Would some "take advantage" of that? Yes... but that's life.
I once worked on a system for a public art installation where users could enter text to display across a screen. (There was waaay more to it than that, but this is the relevant bit). We had a complaint about profanity, and didn't want to get taken down early, so we had to find a way to censor these short messages. No matter what we did, there were either things getting through that shouldn't (people are very creative at overcoming spam filters) or things getting filtered that should have gotten through. How can a computer tell the difference between "Congratulations Philip Sporn"" and "I get wet when I look at P O R N"? We ended up having any even-remotely-suspicious messages go through a human person who would read and then allow/reject them, one at a time. Not viable in the long term, but the only thing that consistently worked. So I can kind of see where they're coming from.
You have it completely backwards. It’s not the corporations doing it because they don’t wanna offend anyone, but rather it’s the idiot customers who complain when they see so much as a syllable of what they deem a “bad word” and complain to the companies. What we’re seeing are the side effects from the companies trying to calm down the idiots who’re so terribly offended by seeing someone’s surname is “gay.” (The love of my life in grammar school was George Gay. Now I’m wondering how hard his life has been because of it.) It’s the poor corporations you should feel bad for, being bullied around by anancephalic fools who can’t bear to dirty their eyes looking at letters on a display.
Quite true. It's a wonderful world where you can't say anything about sex but every other movie shows people having their head blasted off by a nuclear warhead and that's fine.
You can't even have characters kissing! Witness the dozens of reviews giving Dragon Prince an 18+ rating and citing "Sexy Stuff" because they dared to have a woman kiss her wife: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/the-dragon-prince/user-reviews/adult
Eh, I get why some are problematic... except for the first. "Weiner" is NOT the same as "Wiener" (the sausage and... other stuff in English). I know that in the English language the order of i and e is pretty arbitrary, but in German it is really, really not. "ie" is pronounced "ee" and "ei" is pronounced like "I" - so it is (or at least, should be) "Vine-er" vs. "Veener", pronunciation-wise.
Exactly.
Yes, profanity is in the mind of the reader. When I see "wiener", I think of dachshunds, or grilled brats....
Yea. My name means "One who can hear very minutely", and they take it as a joke like whispering "bet she can't hear this" and then laughing it off. I'm just done with these dumb shenanigans.
I have a last name of "Schlitt" i find it very annoying
Not much as neo puritans as of you're simply degenerate.
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You must be on so much more mature than the rest of us.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why censorship, even Self-censorship to stop "profanity" is a very bad idea. Especially simple automatic solution do more harm tha good!
Did u mentioned me Hans? eh!
Explicitly!
Hear hear!!
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"I am Batman...bin Suparman"
The Justice League boy. A classic.
Holy moly! lol
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None of those words are offensive. Sometimes I feel like I'm living among neo-puritans in some parallel universe.
You are living among them. They're (mostly) corporations so terrified of offending someone, they seek to avoid any negative PR that they don't care about these sort of consequences. These actions simply show they really don't care their customers/users, despite their proclamations (by engaging in this censoring) that they do. This issue (computer-wise) could easily be solved by suspending these "rules" for name fields. Would some "take advantage" of that? Yes... but that's life.
I once worked on a system for a public art installation where users could enter text to display across a screen. (There was waaay more to it than that, but this is the relevant bit). We had a complaint about profanity, and didn't want to get taken down early, so we had to find a way to censor these short messages. No matter what we did, there were either things getting through that shouldn't (people are very creative at overcoming spam filters) or things getting filtered that should have gotten through. How can a computer tell the difference between "Congratulations Philip Sporn"" and "I get wet when I look at P O R N"? We ended up having any even-remotely-suspicious messages go through a human person who would read and then allow/reject them, one at a time. Not viable in the long term, but the only thing that consistently worked. So I can kind of see where they're coming from.
You have it completely backwards. It’s not the corporations doing it because they don’t wanna offend anyone, but rather it’s the idiot customers who complain when they see so much as a syllable of what they deem a “bad word” and complain to the companies. What we’re seeing are the side effects from the companies trying to calm down the idiots who’re so terribly offended by seeing someone’s surname is “gay.” (The love of my life in grammar school was George Gay. Now I’m wondering how hard his life has been because of it.) It’s the poor corporations you should feel bad for, being bullied around by anancephalic fools who can’t bear to dirty their eyes looking at letters on a display.
Quite true. It's a wonderful world where you can't say anything about sex but every other movie shows people having their head blasted off by a nuclear warhead and that's fine.
You can't even have characters kissing! Witness the dozens of reviews giving Dragon Prince an 18+ rating and citing "Sexy Stuff" because they dared to have a woman kiss her wife: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/the-dragon-prince/user-reviews/adult
Eh, I get why some are problematic... except for the first. "Weiner" is NOT the same as "Wiener" (the sausage and... other stuff in English). I know that in the English language the order of i and e is pretty arbitrary, but in German it is really, really not. "ie" is pronounced "ee" and "ei" is pronounced like "I" - so it is (or at least, should be) "Vine-er" vs. "Veener", pronunciation-wise.
Exactly.
Yes, profanity is in the mind of the reader. When I see "wiener", I think of dachshunds, or grilled brats....
Yea. My name means "One who can hear very minutely", and they take it as a joke like whispering "bet she can't hear this" and then laughing it off. I'm just done with these dumb shenanigans.
I have a last name of "Schlitt" i find it very annoying
Not much as neo puritans as of you're simply degenerate.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
You must be on so much more mature than the rest of us.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why censorship, even Self-censorship to stop "profanity" is a very bad idea. Especially simple automatic solution do more harm tha good!
Did u mentioned me Hans? eh!
Explicitly!
Hear hear!!
A non-binary has entered the chat.
What would Batman bin Suparman say? Batman-bin...c55c56.jpg
"I am Batman...bin Suparman"
The Justice League boy. A classic.
Holy moly! lol
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