lashmanJun 4
Fesshole 🧻
My father in law made a request that when we have our first boy we name the baby after him, sorry but I'm not naming our baby Nigel.
Jun 4 at 8:25amWeb
Show threadDaveJun 4
@fesshole it's clearly a cat name (I have a cat called Nigel)
Show threadSpace HoboJun 4
@stardot @fesshole American GenX kids who grew up on 1970s TV show "Vegetable Soup" will think of it as a snake's name.
Show threadMek75Jun 5
@stardot @fesshole or Colin, another good cat name
Show threadIanMoore3000Jun 4
@fesshole Nigel is not a common name in my country and as a child I burst out laughing the first time I met a Nigel in real life as I thought it was one of those made-up posho names like Marmaduke or Tarquin.
Show threadPaul WagenseilJun 4
@IanMoore3000 @fesshole I'm afraid I did the same when I spent some time in England. Must have mortified the poor guy.
Show threadCklovis Jun 4
@fesshole So you are not making plans for Nigel ? 

https://open.spotify.com/track/1XT5kxg6Tk0ukCO2vBQN4v
Making Plans For Nigel

XTC · Drums And Wires · Song · 1979

Spotify
Show threadJan v/d BroekJun 4
@clovis @fesshole I was about to say:"There's no future in British Steel Anyway".
Show threadKarel Brits 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇩Jun 4
@fesshole Farage ruined that name for me.
Show threadMr Lawrence 🇷🇼Jun 4
@fesshole Quite right too. Look at how babies called Adolf suffered in the 50s.
Show threadTanyaJun 4
@fesshole what gets me is the amount of supposedly British characters in American soaps/dramas called Nigel.
Show threadPaul WagenseilJun 4
@solderandchaos @fesshole The name is extremely rare in America. We think it's just hilariously British in a very middle-manager, meek-mannered way.
Show threadJumileJun 4

@fesshole I've never met a Nigel that was a decent human being, and only heard of a few that are. 😬

There is a happy compromise, if you're so inclined: it could be his middle name. Or one of them (my brother has his father's and grandfather's first names as his middle names).

You'll "honour" his grandfather and the child won't be cursed with it as a first name.

Show threadC++ Wage SlaveJun 4

@jumile

It does happen. I've known a couple of really decent Nigels. Frogface isn't one of them, though.

@fesshole

Show threadPeter Skov Larsen ★Jun 4

@jumile @fesshole

I like this Nigel

Show threadJumileJun 4
@paelse @fesshole Exactly who I had in mind. 😄
Show threadjackJun 4
@fesshole Nigel used to be the nickname for the first officer on a British commercial aircraft, from the period in the 50s-70s where there was a glut of them
Show threadMarcus The Board GamerJun 4
@fesshole 🎶 We're only making plans for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel just needs this helping hand. 🎶
Show threadInc Hulk 🧪Jun 4
@fesshole Poor old geezer, probably (rightly) worried the the name Nigel will become extinct.
Show threadHeddersJun 4
@fesshole Imagine the enormous level of self-regard you would need to actually ASK someone to name their child after you. What it must be to have that level of confidence…
Show threadFlaming CheetoJun 4
@fesshole Legin is a decent name
Show threadCatoJun 4
@fesshole I don't like the tradition to give people other people's names as a way of honouring them. My parents gave me one name that was my own and two middle names. Both of the middle names were a references to relatives that I did not end up liking. When I eventually choose my own name I made sure to give me two middle names (that's three names in total) that were entirely my own this time. It was very satisfying.
Show threadthere is beauty in simplicityJun 6
@fesshole but how will you ever make plans for him??
Show threadBealtaine Healy-Rae-NuaJun 6
@fesshole You could name him after the best Rugby Union referee, ever?