Bogans

Oh Lord! I'm bored and went to do what I always do when I have too much time on my hands and don't feel like using it productively... laugh at the Mormon name site! But I can't find it, and I'm too lazy to Google. So I hit on what I thought was the next best thing, the Essential Baby forums for some shits and giggles, with many thanks to TSSH for the heads up. I swear, could these people be any more boganised? It's like the aspirational classes were denied access to the rest of the Internet and herded over to the EB naming forums. Seriously, one woman actually asks what the other moos think of "Jalysse" as a name. JALYSSE!?!?!?!?!?!?! She admits to making it up, but, yanno, it's all good. Another wanted to know whether Jagger was a good name for a young boy.

And then there's this very special bogan who lists her favourites... note the inclusion of jayden. Awesome.

Zack Daniel anyone? No, really. Apparently it doesn't matter if your kid happens to have the name of a crappy hard liquor. Not at all.

O-rly? It's cool to name your kid after an airport these days. Or, hey, maybe she's a long lost Jew and totally trying to get in contact with her culture. You never know! But maybe not. Never mind that she's not actually knocked up yet. Am I the only one whose stomach starts to turn when the not yet pregnant start thinking up kreeeeeeeeeeeighteyve names for their kids?

I swear, if I ever end up breeding I'm giving my brats the plainest, most sensible names possible. Of course, by the time that happens normal names will be considered radical and my demonspawn will be forever marked as dangerous, subversive troublemakers.