Double Barreled names

Byrnzie

I don't like people with double barreled names.

Pretentious, pompous twits.

Let's face it, they give themselves double barreled names in order to try and sound posh and/or important.

RW81233

what's a double barreled name? if you are talking hyphenated i did it b/c i thought it was the right thing to do when i got married, more of a symbolism of sharing or something. i never gave it a second thought, but my boys give me a hard time about it all the time.

Penguin1203

RW81233 wrote:

what's a double barreled name? if you are talking hyphenated i did it b/c i thought it was the right thing to do when i got married, more of a symbolism of sharing or something. i never gave it a second thought, but my boys give me a hard time about it all the time.

also im pretty sure that, if this is what he is talking about, not everyone with a hyphenated last name is a pretentious twit.

FinsburyParkCarrots

I agree totally, Byrnzie. It's either preposterous social climbing or the amusing by-product of a particularly ill-thought brand of pseudo-feminism.


Having said that, Americans don't really have any old monarchical dynasties such as the Saxe-Coburgs, so they don't quite grasp the silliness of what they are by their nomenclature affecting to emulate. In the New World, class isn't about old money and merged familial power bases going back to King Arthur.

mrvedderson

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

I agree totally, Byrnzie. It's either preposterous social climbing or the amusing by-product of a particularly ill-thought brand of pseudo-feminism.


Having said that, Americans don't really have any old monarchical dynasties such as the Saxe-Coburgs, so they don't quite grasp the silliness of what they are by their nomenclature affecting to emulate. In the New World, class isn't about old money and merged familial power bases going back to King Arthur.

my daughter has a hypen with her last names, its because she was born out of wedlock. Neither her mother or I wanted to budge on our last name being hers, i think anyone with the name byrnzie can eat a bowl of dick

Wobbie

mrvedderson wrote:

i think anyone with the name byrnzie can eat a bowl of dick

:shock: :shock: :shock:

tybird

mrvedderson wrote:

i think anyone with the name byrnzie can eat a bowl of dick

+1

RW81233

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

I agree totally, Byrnzie. It's either preposterous social climbing or the amusing by-product of a particularly ill-thought brand of pseudo-feminism.


Having said that, Americans don't really have any old monarchical dynasties such as the Saxe-Coburgs, so they don't quite grasp the silliness of what they are by their nomenclature affecting to emulate. In the New World, class isn't about old money and merged familial power bases going back to King Arthur.

i get it for why it sucks in England, but changing my name had nothing to do with social climbing...pseudo-feminism maybe. we usually agree on most things but when it comes to name changes you probably agree more with this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMmbUmKN0E&feature=fvst

FinsburyParkCarrots

Awww, actually I couldn't care less about double-barrelled names. I just thought the thread was a great excuse to practice being middle-aged and curmudgeonly, seeing as I'm not counting myself as middle-aged until my birthday in exactly a month's time.

ajedigecko

a-jedi-gecko

so what label does triple barreled get me?

CHANGEinWAVES

I have one right now... but only because I'm easing myself back into my maiden name and not everything is switched over.

FinsburyParkCarrots

ajedigecko wrote:

a-jedi-gecko

so what label does triple barreled get me?

Probably some southern Italian villa for expatriate British military colonels, their wives and their lovers.

pjfan31

There is a guy who plays AFL for my favourite team called Lewis Roberts-Thompson.

It is like 3 surnames in one. Now that is a commentators nightmare.

vedder_soup

pjfan31 wrote:

There is a guy who plays AFL for my favourite team called Lewis Roberts-Thompson.

It is like 3 surnames in one. Now that is a commentators nightmare.

or 2 normal names and a surname

so what happens when lewis roberts-thompson has a child out of wedlock with jo smith-jones???
little Jimmy Roberts-thompson-smith-jones???

pjfan31

vedder_soup wrote:

pjfan31 wrote:

There is a guy who plays AFL for my favourite team called Lewis Roberts-Thompson.

It is like 3 surnames in one. Now that is a commentators nightmare.

or 2 normal names and a surname

so what happens when lewis roberts-thompson has a child out of wedlock with jo smith-jones???
little Jimmy Roberts-thompson-smith-jones???

Ha ha.. I hope that kid doesn't play football, that would be hard. "on now for Roberts-Thomson-Smith-Jones, back to Kirk who off loads it straight back to Roberts-Thomson-Smith-Jones"

decides2dream

Penguin1203 wrote:

RW81233 wrote:

what's a double barreled name? if you are talking hyphenated i did it b/c i thought it was the right thing to do when i got married, more of a symbolism of sharing or something. i never gave it a second thought, but my boys give me a hard time about it all the time.

also im pretty sure that, if this is what he is talking about, not everyone with a hyphenated last name is a pretentious twit.

don't forget.....pompous...and trying to sound posh and/or important.

isn't it just way more fun to judge people by their choice of surnames rather than as individual PEOPLE?
to me, it's akin to saying...i don't like people with tattoos, they're all redneck losers, or some other such BS. to me, both comments would say a lot more about the person saying them, than about the person/people at the firing end of such comments.


and just to be clear...i do not have a double-barreled name, at least i don't think so since i am still not entirely sure what it means.....but i do have a tattoo. i did, however, take my maiden name as my legal middle name after marriage....so if i want to appear 'posh and/or important' i may. actually, i use it b/c while i did want to take my husband's name....tis plain as can be....and i also love, love, love my maiden name, my family, my heritage....so i wanted to proudly carry on the name in some fashion, and thus, i do. tho since it is lengthy, far too cumbersome to hyphenate, besides i am far too lazy to have to sign that name too often.

Byrnzie

A lot of people I encountered in England - mostly through work - who had double-barreled names sounded like pretentious snobs.

People - normally women - would phone me and say something like 'My name is Charlotte Wilkinson-Smith". I used to reply with "O.k Mrs Smith, how can I help you?"

Also, why do all 'fashion editors' have double barreled names? I just think there's something really phony about it.
Maybe it's not the same in the U.S, though I can't think why.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... th-pockets
'Jess Cartner-Morley, the Guardian's fashion editor, guides you through the latest trends. This week: dresses with pockets' - Like, please, give me a fucking break.

Jennytree

Byrnzie wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... th-pockets
'Jess Cartner-Morley, the Guardian's fashion editor, guides you through the latest trends. This week: dresses with pockets' - Like, please, give me a fucking break.

How exactly did you come across that article? Did you find it researching your love of pockets?!

There is a status attached to double-barreled names in Ireland too. I know that nowadays, people (women) are more likely to either stick with their maiden name on marriage, or take the husbands surname - not both. I guess it gets more difficult when a child is born out of wedlock; it's hard to know what to name them. My sisters both named their kids with their OH's surname, to save hassle when they got married. If you're not at that stage of the relationship though, it's hard to know what to do. I think it costs a lot of money to change kids surnames too. If a child is born, and is given their mothers maiden surname, then they get married and the mother wants the fathers surname, the child has to be nearly adopted by the father to get his surname too. Mad stuff!

ZiggyStar

There is NO WAY in hell I'd hyphenate my name.....I'm not even going to change my surname when I get married to my bf of nearly 11 years. He's cool with it. He said he wouldn't want to change his surname either so didn't see why I had to. Good boy!