Random Thoughts II

[Mickey]

LOL no crocos, but wayyyy back then passports lasted for ten years, mine had 8 months till expiry, got married at 24. I really really wanted a new one for the honeymoon.

[Mickey]

Originally Posted by doppelgänger of someone

At the expense of breaking the woman's (perceived) family tie?

So Ms Smith marries Mr Blogg, and after the wedding Ms Smith has to drop her Smith last name and take up Blogg's family name.

I say everybody keep their last names. For their kids, the last name can be a compound Blogg-Smith or Smith-Blogg. (I know some people do this.)

Would get kinda confusing in a few generations when people have eight hyphenated last names etc. I look at it as my parents gave me my first name and my husband gave me my surname. My brother wanted me to make maiden name as a middle name, for some reason it bugged him more than it did me.

[caffiend]

Welcome to our newest member, debra.

Haydos/Vexing/debra?

[DrTiTus]

Originally Posted by doppelgänger of someone

I say everybody keep their last names. For their kids, the last name can be a compound Blogg-Smith or Smith-Blogg. (I know some people do this.)

Typically snobs who think their shit doesn't stink.

[caffiend]

And what happens when John Smith-Blogg marries Jane Blogg-Smith? Are their kids called James and Janice Smith-Blogg-Blogg-Smith?

[doppelgänger of someone]

I'm sure the parents can work something out that doesn't punish the kid with ultra long last names.

[ChaosWulf]

Yup. I have a hypenated married name, any kids we have will just have my husbands surname. That way I keep my identity, and any kids won't suffer the consequences.

[DrTiTus]

Yeah, sticking to taking the man's.

It's just an identifier, not an identity.

[TnT]

My wife was on about changing a file extension on a file she needed. My reply was 'look it's like a deed poll right. Just because you change the name, doesn't change who you are'. Then Photoshop proceeded to prove me completely wrong. Why is that application such a pig?

[BloodDonor]

Originally Posted by TnT

My wife was on about changing a file extension on a file she needed. My reply was 'look it's like a deed poll right. Just because you change the name, doesn't change who you are'. Then Photoshop proceeded to prove me completely wrong. Why is that application such a pig?

Adobe

nuf said

[CCS]

Originally Posted by caffiend

And what happens when John Smith-Blogg marries Jane Blogg-Smith? Are their kids called James and Janice Smith-Blogg-Blogg-Smith?

Blogg it, motherfucker.

Originally Posted by caffiend

Welcome to our newest member, debra.

Haydos/Vexing/debra?

Spambot!

[caffiend]

Originally Posted by CCS

Blogg it, motherfucker.

James and Janice Bloggit-Motherfucker.

Has a nice ring to it.

[chiQ]

Why not just go with whichever is cooler? Lets wipe out the stink names!

I stuck with my own name for a couple of years after we got married, and then my mother pointed out that BaM's surname was cooler than mine, and I agreed. I've taken his name now.

[[Malks] Pixie]

We've had to think about the entire name thing ourselve and unfortunatly either of us taking the others surname makes our currents names a form of bad alliteration - so we're going to keep our names as they are.

Any boys we have will take my name, any girls my partners and either way they'll get too choose which they want to keep when they get to the age where they can legally change their name.

Hyphenation just doesn't work with our names either - makes us sound like some deformed upper class English tossers.

Pixie

[Haydos]

Originally Posted by ChaosWulf

Yup. I have a hypenated married name, any kids we have will just have my husbands surname. That way I keep my identity, and any kids won't suffer the consequences.

You freak.

I took my wife's name - as a means to pissing off my father. It worked.

[Draco T Bastard]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10534881

Originally Posted by article

Adnan Oktar's "call to all evolutionists" promises "10 trillion Turkish lira to anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution" - a sum roughly equal to $11.7 trillion.

Well, I hope some scientists are on the ball because I believe such a fossil was found last year.

[CCS]

Heh, that's a funny link

[SpaceCowboy]

Originally Posted by Haydos

You freak.

I took my wife's name - as a means to pissing off my father. It worked.

told you i was hardcore

[crocos]

Originally Posted by Haydos

You freak.

I took my wife's name...

Sometimes I think - were I to marry - it'd have to be a pretty bad surname for me to not take my future wife's surname. GOT to be less common, bland and annonymous than my current surname, although it's not BAD as such... just bland:

"A Smith, actually." /Hugo Weaving

[Haydos]

I had a pair of friends who when they got married, took their own surname - i.e decided on what they wanted their surname to be and had it legally authorised as their married name.

Their idea was that they were creating their own lineage - but with surnames as bad as both of them had, god be damned for them.

[CCS]

New evidence of Martian water
New 10:58AM Tuesday Sep 30, 2008

LOS ANGELES - Nasa's Phoenix spacecraft has discovered two minerals on Mars that suggest water was there in the past.

Scientists report that the minerals - calcium carbonate and sheet silicate - don't usually form without the presence of liquid water.

Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic plains in May on a three-month mission to study whether the environment could be friendly to microbial life. One of its main goals is to probe whether the ice ever melted.

Nasa recently extended the mission through the end of the year, depending on whether Phoenix can survive that long.

It is part of God's plan! ?

!!

[chiQ]

I find having changed my name to be jolly handy for a few minor things. For example, if someone calls asking for me by my old name I immediately ask who they are, because it sets off alarms. If they're not someone I want to talk to I can say honestly that they should update their records to show that there is nobody by that name at this number.

[StN]

Big house for copping a feel

Dirty little windscreen washer...

[CCS]

Lol, sounds like the window washer and all of his family are a bunch of losers. And he's passed his loser genes onto 7 kids! It's a shame that it's too late to suggest he become sterilsed in exchange for not going to prison...

[Torka]

http://www.9news.com/news/article.as...9&provider=top

DENVER (AP) - A mother accused of performing oral sex on her toddler son and e-mailing photos of it to a friend has been charged with sexual assault and incest.

Police say 31-year-old Alicia Lee of Denver sent the pictures to a friend, who forwarded them to the 2-year-old boy's father. The father then called police.

According to a copy of the e-mail reported by the Rocky Mountain News, the mom told her friend in April that she thought about the sex act while changing the boy's diapers. The next day, she sent a photo of the act to a friend and said the boy giggled.

The child was placed in foster care last month. Lee is free on $50,000 bond and is due again in court Monday.

what the fuck, humans

[crocos]

Such a loving mother

[CCS]

Originally Posted by crocos

Such a loving mother

lol

[Draco T Bastard]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/vote08/0a28758.html

Whack a poll.

[Haydos]

What she thought was probably harmless fun, was a moment in complete utter ignorance and stupidity which will probably cost her a normal relationship with her son due to her name now being in the press, having done that to her child.

Judge should have had more sensibility and at least granted name suppression for the good of the child.


edit: Yes, I know she's so fucked in the head that "normal relationship with her son" probably seems like a complete oxymoron at this point... but you get the point.

[caffiend]

Originally Posted by Haydos

Judge should have had more sensibility and at least granted name suppression for the good of the child.

100% agreed.

[IceFox]

Someone should look at public notices and send a cv already ffs!

[Baal]

I feel like something has been missing for the last few hours.

[Nightcrawler]

Congratulations
You have won a double pass to the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards on Wednesday 8th October!!!


Weeeee

[Helious]

nice, that's pretty cool

[MadMax]

my other half found two $50 notes at a bank's atm today. she's taken it home and now i have to return it :/

... cept do i return it to the bank, who of course will claim it as theirs, or if i take it to the popo station will they do the hold it till claimed thing or send me back to the bank, anyway?

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Baal

I feel like something has been missing for the last few hours.

ask ccs

[crocos]

Originally Posted by MadMax

my other half found two $50 notes...

At the ATM? This implies that someone dropped them, so they DON'T belong to the Bank.

I'd go to the po-po, and if they're not claimed after so many weeks/months/(however long it is) YOU get them.

[MadMax]

well, i'd expect the police to contact the bank and have them check who was at the machine before my wife but of course they're more likely to tell me to bugger off and take it to the bank so they don't have to do any work.

[Helious]

I'd approach the bank over the police imo

you'll get the end result quicker, much quicker.

[crocos]

The reason I said go to the police was as it happened to me before; found $60, handed into the cops, wasn't an issue. A few months of it being with the Lost & Found department then I got a call to pick it up. Sorted + clean consience ;-)