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People With ‘Offensive’ Last Names Shared Their Everyday Problems, And It’s Hilarious
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.
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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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What do you think ?
Johnnee 6 years ago
None of those words are offensive. Sometimes I feel like I'm living among neo-puritans in some parallel universe.
Leodavinci 6 years ago
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.
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Hans 6 years ago
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!
AP 6 years ago
Guy I used to work with had the name Richard Dickey. And yes. He went by the nickname D**k.
Daria B 6 years ago
No, but seriously, D**k shouldn't be banned, I mean, what about Charles Dickens? The world is full of legitimate D***s....
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John L 6 years ago
When I lived in Alaska, some fellow a couple of grades above me almost ruined my life. My last name is "Kelly", and he used to rhyme insults with others. Well, one day on the bus he picked me out and started calling me "Smelly Kelly", and it caught on. But he didn't stop there. Adding my full name, which is John L Kelly, they came up with "John(potty)Latrine Smelly". And since I was the third in my family with that name, I was also the "Turd". It was horrible living with that, but the "Smelly Kelly" was the worst thing, because the bigger kids made light of it a lot...........until I was playing baseball one day, and an older kid started up, and I swung my bat at him and broke his arm. After that, no one ever called me that again. It was a learning experience. People can be very cruel, and sometimes you have to stand up and fight back, no matter the outcome. When I left Alaska, I left all the name calling behind.
John L 6 years ago
Oh, one other thing. I was working in my basement shop this evening, and Fox News was reporting on hurricane Dorian. They called in their Big Gun, Joe Bastardi. I immediately started laughing at that, and had to come back upstairs and post about it. How would you all like to be growing up and have a last name like that? I wonder how many fights he got into while growing up?
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Devlynn 6 years ago
I have a friend with the last name Virgin and she couldnt use fb to put in her last name
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
My favorite case of over-censorship is when wholesome entertainer D**k van Dyke appeared as **** van ****. Seriously guys?
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debrina blackmoon 6 years ago
at least once i had to make a change because a Native American last name is "not real"-wtf smh
Kathy Baylis 6 years ago (edited)
My maiden name was Gehrm—-pronounced like “gurm”, but almost always mispronounced like germ (Slovene grandparents, it was originally spelled Grm). When I married an Englishman named Baylis, I truly thought my days having to explain my last name were over. Nope, I still have to explain that there’s only one “s” at the end, and still have people mispronounce it Bailey, Ballas, and even Bagless (that one was my first and last name—-how do you get “Karen Bagless” out of Kathy Baylis?). Really people, take care with a person’s name. It. Is. Their. Name. FFS.
Daria B 6 years ago (edited)
These names misspellings, as you say, are actually more important than many would think. How many times did I need to call customer service for a good variety of life serious services that didn't work for me because my name that was registered in the database was different from my passport..... Also, there were news, not so long ago, police arrested the wrong person due to a typo...... Horror
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Unicornstar 6 years ago
Two popular surnames in Britain art Pratt and Burke. Both are words in their own right meaning "idiot".
Janine B. 6 years ago
I really hate calling customers when they have a name like that. Yes, I'm 41 not 14 but I still have to suppress a giggle when I have a customer called Mr. Ficker (German for f****r) on the phone. Poor dude.
Cindy Snow 6 years ago
I had a customer coming to pick up a repair. I asked his name he said " Pick up". I was like, yes I know, what's the name... " After a Who's on First episode I find his name was William Pickup.
Load More Replies... Johnnee 6 years ago
None of those words are offensive. Sometimes I feel like I'm living among neo-puritans in some parallel universe.
Leodavinci 6 years ago
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.
Load More Replies... Hans 6 years ago
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!
AP 6 years ago
Guy I used to work with had the name Richard Dickey. And yes. He went by the nickname D**k.
Daria B 6 years ago
No, but seriously, D**k shouldn't be banned, I mean, what about Charles Dickens? The world is full of legitimate D***s....
Load More Replies... John L 6 years ago
When I lived in Alaska, some fellow a couple of grades above me almost ruined my life. My last name is "Kelly", and he used to rhyme insults with others. Well, one day on the bus he picked me out and started calling me "Smelly Kelly", and it caught on. But he didn't stop there. Adding my full name, which is John L Kelly, they came up with "John(potty)Latrine Smelly". And since I was the third in my family with that name, I was also the "Turd". It was horrible living with that, but the "Smelly Kelly" was the worst thing, because the bigger kids made light of it a lot...........until I was playing baseball one day, and an older kid started up, and I swung my bat at him and broke his arm. After that, no one ever called me that again. It was a learning experience. People can be very cruel, and sometimes you have to stand up and fight back, no matter the outcome. When I left Alaska, I left all the name calling behind.
John L 6 years ago
Oh, one other thing. I was working in my basement shop this evening, and Fox News was reporting on hurricane Dorian. They called in their Big Gun, Joe Bastardi. I immediately started laughing at that, and had to come back upstairs and post about it. How would you all like to be growing up and have a last name like that? I wonder how many fights he got into while growing up?
Load More Replies... Devlynn 6 years ago
I have a friend with the last name Virgin and she couldnt use fb to put in her last name
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
My favorite case of over-censorship is when wholesome entertainer D**k van Dyke appeared as **** van ****. Seriously guys?
Load More Replies... debrina blackmoon 6 years ago
at least once i had to make a change because a Native American last name is "not real"-wtf smh
Kathy Baylis 6 years ago (edited)
My maiden name was Gehrm—-pronounced like “gurm”, but almost always mispronounced like germ (Slovene grandparents, it was originally spelled Grm). When I married an Englishman named Baylis, I truly thought my days having to explain my last name were over. Nope, I still have to explain that there’s only one “s” at the end, and still have people mispronounce it Bailey, Ballas, and even Bagless (that one was my first and last name—-how do you get “Karen Bagless” out of Kathy Baylis?). Really people, take care with a person’s name. It. Is. Their. Name. FFS.
Daria B 6 years ago (edited)
These names misspellings, as you say, are actually more important than many would think. How many times did I need to call customer service for a good variety of life serious services that didn't work for me because my name that was registered in the database was different from my passport..... Also, there were news, not so long ago, police arrested the wrong person due to a typo...... Horror
Load More Replies... Unicornstar 6 years ago
Two popular surnames in Britain art Pratt and Burke. Both are words in their own right meaning "idiot".
Janine B. 6 years ago
I really hate calling customers when they have a name like that. Yes, I'm 41 not 14 but I still have to suppress a giggle when I have a customer called Mr. Ficker (German for f****r) on the phone. Poor dude.
Cindy Snow 6 years ago
I had a customer coming to pick up a repair. I asked his name he said " Pick up". I was like, yes I know, what's the name... " After a Who's on First episode I find his name was William Pickup.
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