[MK Chris]

There's a couple of them know me when I walk into Dominoes now, they don't need to ask for my name. I think that's slightly wrong.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

That is slightly wrong. I also find it weird how they put my first name on the order. I'm not their friend.

[MK Chris]

You should use your message board username instead. Most people here are not your friends and use that all the time.

[S4B]

Oooh Touche Mr Topher

[MK Chris]

It's true though. People on here aren't real friends, we've (most of us) never met.

Having said that, I know a few people are good at giving advice, which I recently found out.

[S4B]

Ahh people give you advice all the time, more to the point is any of it good advice? Generally I only give advice to people I care about, in other words people I consider to be my friends, I find that people who aren't your friends tend to resent being given advice by you. Does that make sense? My head's full of fluff today.

[Boboff]

so is my tumble dryer !

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

You should use your message board username instead. Most people here are not your friends and use that all the time.

Can you imagine? How do you spell Gaspode? and its "the wonder dog"? what an unusual name sir.

[MK Chris]

Yes and don't forget to put underscores in between the words.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

The underscores wouldn't matter if it didn't wrap the text.

[Yudster]

I think Gaspode is a great name. You're right, maybe "the wonder dog" is going a bit far, but Gaspode is perfect.

[MK Chris]

When my sister's baby is born, if it's a boy they have to call it a name starting with 'G', it's her boyfriend's family tradition apparently that the first boy born in every generation's name starts with 'G'. (I have repeatedly pointed out that this is a silly tradition). I may suggest Gaspode now. It's better than Geronimo, which my mum seems to like.

[Yudster]

I get really annoyed with Mr Yudster's family and their obsession with family names and traditions. When I was pregnant with Joel, I mentioned that I quite liked the name James if it was a boy (although it was never a top three contender actually) - the shock that went round the room was chilling! I was told that the privilege of being allowed to use the name James was only accorded to the first son of the first son - so there are a lot of James' in that family, all the oldest sons in fact. Mr Yudster's older brother is James, so it was his job to produce a little boy called James. Thing is, he could only manage girls (and thats a big deal in their family too, its totally stupid but me and Mr Yudster are treated as special because we have got a boy to "carry the name on" - makes me want to scream!). And I nearly went with James just to spite them. Bloody trying to tell me what I can and can't call my children, the cheek of it!

[Ballbag]

Pappa Ballbag's family are uber traditional in that respect too. "The first born should always produce the first born" in their eyes. If me and Mrs Ballbag had had kids before my eldest brother, all hell would have broken loose, and the purse strings would have well and truly been cut.

Fortunately my brother has now done the deed, so we (as my nan put it to us) are now free to go ahead and have children......... thank the lord.

[MK Chris]

Luckily my family have no such traditions. What if your elder brother didn't want children?

There is a family of farmers in the village where I used to live (and where my mum still lives) and the last three or four generations of eldest child have been called John. To make matters worse, they have a massive farmhouse (seriously, it's got a moat and everything) and the grandfather, the father and the son all live in the same house.

I think it's silly to name a child the same as it's parent. I agree with you on telling you what you can and can't name it Yudster.

[Ballbag]

Luckily my family have no such traditions. What if your elder brother didn't want children?

Well that's just silly..... very much out of the question. The ballbag dynasty needs to continue, and in a right and propper order so as not to bring shame on the family name.

[MK Chris]

Hmm, so if he hasn't found someone to have kids with, they will find him someone? Did your family vet your girlfriends? Are 'honour' killings out of the question?

[Ballbag]

Honour killings? Hell yeah. I've had to do three myself already. Don't tell anyone though.

[Yudster]

I couldn't believe that people actually really did think like that these days until I experienced it first hand. And as for the purse strings, they can keep it for all I care! I have never lived my life in expectation of or reliance on handouts from anyone, I'm not going to start now, and my children won't either. Anyway, I'm happy to say the whole thing is scuppered because Golden Boy James (shithead brother in law) has only managed to produce girls (bland little blonde things), and the only male Yudster in the next generation (so far) is neither the firstborn of the eldest nor called James. So ha ha.

[MK Chris]

You get on with your in-laws then?

[Yudster]

Actually yes, apart from shithead brother in law James, I do. I occasionally find them strange, and sometimes irritating, but I'm sure thats mutual, and on the whole I love them lots!

[kendra k]

my "in-laws" are coming to town this weekend. i'm a bit nervous, but mostly because they drive me up the wall when they refuse to plan anything ahead.

mr kendra k and i are already fighting about kids names, which is stupid since i'm probably going to be sterile. he wants all the boy kids to have his first name (joseph) as their middle name. it's a family thing, but i find it extremely egotistical. i'd prefer them to either have a cool historic middle name or be named after some older relative, but he refuses. maybe i'm just missing the plot since i don't have a traditional middle name.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

This is why families are crap and you should disown them like myself.

[kendra k]

these people aren't my family yet. they've recently asked to meet my parents. i think they were hoping to do it on this trip. too bad my parents are on holiday, or so joe's parents think.

[Freya]

Hi,

I was wondering which paper u read this in?? I know this may sound like a random question but need to find it out!

Thank you!