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sayward said:
What worries me is the top boys name this year in uk is Mohammed.......
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Doesn't worry me in the slightest - muslim kids get called mohammed, everyone elses kids get called one of a thousand different names, so statistially speaking mohammed is going to be a big name.

The actual existence of top boys names lists worry me more - they means that parents look at them before naming their kids - and pick popular names. So boys names are increasingly homogenised and boring/

That in itself isn't a terrible thing - but there are knock-on effects - kids with slightly whackier names are even more likely to get bullied as a result.
 
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Scouse said:
I fundamentally disagree with this point of view.

Many issues are far to complex for a single human being to come up with an answer (this being one of them). Campaigning on the issue without having all the answers is a fundamental starting point - a rallying cry. You need to mobilise a lot of people to even begin to develop a solution. Saying what he says is "invalid" because he doesn't have the answers is just a way of shutting dissenting voices down.

For example: Capitalism is in need of reform. I don't have all the solutions - but does that mean that I can't understand the need for that reform and talk about it in an educated manner? In my experience the type of people who would disregard or attempt to illegitimise that sort of discussion are generally people with either low IQ's who find the subject to onerous to grasp or some emotionally vested interest*.






*not talking about you here... :)
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Hang on, when ever people make outlandish claims on here, you're always the one that's like PROOF PROOF PROOF please.
 
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Gwadien said:
Hang on, when ever people make outlandish claims on here, you're always the one that's like PROOF PROOF PROOF please.
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Calm down Gwad.

If people make factual assertions then I ask for proof. There's a difference between making "outlandish claims" and asserting something as fact.

We're actually discussing someone talking about a subject. Part of his arguments include provable facts etc. But you're saying his argument for the banishment of religion is invalid unless he already has the answer - and that's clearly an incorrect stance to take as it invalidates all necessary discussion.

As I exampled clearly above. So calm down :)
 
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Scouse said:
Doesn't worry me in the slightest - muslim kids get called mohammed, everyone elses kids get called one of a thousand different names, so statistially speaking mohammed is going to be a big name.

The actual existence of top boys names lists worry me more - they means that parents look at them before naming their kids - and pick popular names. So boys names are increasingly homogenised and boring/

That in itself isn't a terrible thing - but there are knock-on effects - kids with slightly whackier names are even more likely to get bullied as a result.
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Actually it isn't true. Most of the parents who actually look at these lists do so because they don't want their kids' names to be common as dirt. The kids with popular names are all named after Eastenders characters and X-Factor contestants.
 
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DaGaffer said:
Actually it isn't true. Most of the parents who actually look at these lists do so because they don't want their kids' names to be common as dirt. The kids with popular names are all named after Eastenders characters and X-Factor contestants.
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parents in your economic bracket maybe - but those names are popular. :)
 
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Scouse said:
parents in your economic bracket maybe - but those names are popular. :)
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Yes they are, but they're not popular because of the list of popular names. The reality is, look at some of those sites that do the most popular names by year, and the distribution of most popular names is getting less predictable and common, (Mohammed excepted), especially for boys. In the sixties, the top ten boys names accounted for a third of all boys' names, by the 2000s it was just 15%. So it might feel like the world is full of toddler Jacobs and Nathans, but it was worse when we were kids and it was more full of Davids and Johns.
 
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Cheers, trying to fix a few "glitches"
 
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Just the alert indicators to fix now.... Fucking CSS bollox, need a webmeister who knows stuff.... (No not you @TdC)

Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone, another year gone by and I still cannot believe that FH is still going..... When I started on this adventure I was in my twenties....
 
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Deebs said:
Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone, another year gone by and I still cannot believe that FH is still going..... When I started on this adventure I was in my twenties....
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Merry Christmas to you too.. you were in your twenties how long ago was that :p
 
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Yoni said:
How are you Billeh?
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This first half of this year can Foxtrot Romeo Oscar as far as I'm concerned, but the second half's been pretty good and next year's looking even better. Can't wait to file my divorce paperwork and get my life back on track lol :D
 
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Jimmy said:
I have cut it even more. I am no longer a smelly teenage hippy :(

A meetup sounds like a cracking idea you coming up north :p
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I have a spare room in Bethnal Green, you silly spud - let's do it in London!

EDIT: Provided the non-smelly hippy thing is true!
 
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