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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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so a judge has ordered that a baby cannot be called "messiah" and has ruled that he must be called "martin"
should judges have this power? or is in the child's interest not to have that name? and whereabouts in the world do you think this happened?

alt: do you have any principles? what are they and do you ever breach them?

altalt: lunch, of course?
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:52, 154 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy.
etc.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:55, Reply)
"These are my principles! If you don't like them ... I have others ..."
Babies should be allowed to be called Messiah. It's only a name.

Lunch will be the usual Sainsbury's Special Lonely Lunch For One Person. On Their Own. With No Friends.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:55, Reply)
Careful you don't choke, cos no one's gonna slap you on the back

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:57, Reply)
Great. Now I'm going to become anorexic as well.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:58, Reply)
i was thinking of going to sainsburys
i like their veggie sushi. unfortunately the careless cunts have usually sold out.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:57, Reply)
It's a wrap for me.
Possibly Hoisin Duck. Or Southern Fried Chicken.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:59, Reply)
i much prefer wraps to more traditional sandwiches
but your fillings kind of suck. falafel, tzatziki, that sort of thing, that's what you want in a wrap, old buddy old pal.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:01, Reply)
Nonsense.
Hoisin duck is delicious. As is Southern Fried Cluckin. All that foreign muck is rubbish, and for hippies. And hippies are revolting.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:06, Reply)
sigh
^ i hate to say it, but WRONG ON THE INTERNET, folks ^
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:11, Reply)
Oh shut up, Neil.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:23, Reply)
Fish, without the fish?

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:02, Reply)
We've travelled this road before
Sashimi is sushi with raw fish
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:03, Reply)
I thought she was the one that battled the pink robots?

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:06, Reply)
No that's Pokemon.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:10, Reply)
one of my favourite songs ever is on that album
fight test, fucking love a bit of it
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:11, Reply)
Christ, though - the bassline on that is awesome.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:23, Reply)
Stephen Drozd is a pretty awesome musician all round.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:32, Reply)
you're thinking of sashimi /dull pedantry

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:03, Reply)
MARRshimi

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:04, Reply)
where the fuck does this marr shit come from sporters?

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:05, Reply)
Pump up the volume

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:07, Reply)
It all started back in January
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1826433
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:08, Reply)
A long time ago, in a thread far, far away
about 10 people posted something about Andrew Marr having a stroke
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:08, Reply)
Star Trek!
\o/
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:10, Reply)
Thank you sporters
I knew I could rely on you.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:10, Reply)
It's pretty tedious

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:09, Reply)
I prefered mindpiss.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:14, Reply)

Fish, Foiding
the fish foiding?

/boyce
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:27, Reply)
Why Martin?
That seems cruel as well.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:55, Reply)
it was his third name
his full name was to be "messiah deshawn martin" according to the papers...
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:56, Reply)
32, Norwich

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:59, Reply)
haha

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:01, Reply)
What is it with people and stupid names?
Do they have any idea the bullying they will go through in later life?
What's wrong with sticking to old fashioned names like Tarquin?
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:56, Reply)
or quentin

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:57, Reply)
^ This ^

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:57, Reply)
At one point there were four boys called Christopher Cross at my school.
What were the parents thinking?

What's wrong with perfectly reasonable names like Apple, and Scrotum?
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:58, Reply)
Alright PJ
give Vadge his log in back
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:59, Reply)
PJ?

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:00, Reply)


(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:00, Reply)
he named his kids "unicorn horn" and "fairy piss"

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:01, Reply)
Fairy Piss is a lovely name for a girl.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:06, Reply)
it's a boy :(

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:08, Reply)
He needs to cut his tackle off, then.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:09, Reply)
They gonna get ya

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:00, Reply)
Not any more

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:01, Reply)
Pffft.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:07, Reply)
My nephew is messy but my boy was messier.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:57, Reply)
On a serious note, it's just a name. Plenty of people called Jesus.
A judge shouldn't have to waste their time debating this meaningless topic.

Alt. principles would depend on the topic.

Altalt. Fruit, all week again, with added pangs of hunger
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:58, Reply)
Eating an apple makes me more hungry

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 11:59, Reply)

ungry orney
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:00, Reply)
They are a sexy fruit...

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:01, Reply)
i thought that was oranges....

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:02, Reply)
They are not the only fruit

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:03, Reply)
Unless you count popping cherries

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:06, Reply)
I prefer a nice PAIR
tee hee
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:02, Reply)
I like a nice, erm ... erm ...
TITS!
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:07, Reply)
In principal, yes, in this case not so much.
I think it's fair to be able to stop a name that would amount to child abuse, but I don't think this is that. I think it should have been applied in the Case of my mate Reno (his parents were country and western fans).

Alt: rather more than are good for me. Yes, yes I do.

Altalt: well, it's pot noodle or a walk to the shops, not shure which will win at this point.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:00, Reply)
I'll tell you who has the right idea about naming conventions:
That Katie Hopkins
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:00, Reply)
Deceased

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:01, Reply)
How can they rule what you can and cannot call a person?
What law does it break?

Alt:
Be excellent to everyone.

AltAlt:
Chicken goujon wrap in about 5 mins
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:00, Reply)
nobody guessed, but this was tennessee
so probably some bible bashing law

i have no idea about kids here, but there's a whole host of regulations about what you can/can't call a company
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:10, Reply)
Martin seems worse.
I have principles, the main one is that I don't like being ripped off, so I had one of my underlings spend a whole day getting a credit for £56. Waste of money in wages, but it's the principle innit?
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:01, Reply)
you have underlings?
what are they, tadpoles?
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:02, Reply)
spawn

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:02, Reply)
I give them numbers rather than names.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:03, Reply)
*free mans*

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:04, Reply)
They are not. They are *just*numbers.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:05, Reply)
something something Patrick McGoohan

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:06, Reply)

www.b3tards.com/u/0d2ba503c5487a5f8adb/gordonshalife.gif
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:11, Reply)
NSFW.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:11, Reply)
yeah. That.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:14, Reply)
arbeit macht du frei

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:09, Reply)
That's what I tell them.
'Work hard and you'll be looked after' I lie to them.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:12, Reply)
I bet you shower them with gifts

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:26, Reply)

gifts Zyklon B
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:26, Reply)
I'm in the process of setting up my own Unit 731

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:29, Reply)
A giant courgette from the garden.
It's almost a marrow.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:03, Reply)
Could of been worse. Could of called it Giles.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:05, Reply)
Or they could've paid for an expensive education, only to be let down by their inability to abbreviate 'have' correctly

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:08, Reply)
Oh fuck off.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:09, Reply)
Even shortens his words

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:09, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2045652
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:09, Reply)
*golf clap*

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:10, Reply)

of of have have
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:09, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2045652
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:09, Reply)
I think you mean "fuck havef" old boy.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:12, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2045652
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:13, Reply)
NSFW

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:15, Reply)
Have not of
Here to help you with all your spelling and grammar needs
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:11, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2045652
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:11, Reply)
At least your parents' money wasn't entirely wasted.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:12, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2045652
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:12, Reply)
Without rules, there's chaos
yes, I am a man of principles. It's actually shot me in the foot a bunch of times in my life, but without my prinicples I'm nothing.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:08, Reply)
What was Vivian going to call his kid in The Young Ones?

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:11, Reply)
All I recall is that he had a hamster named 'Special Patrol Group'.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:12, Reply)
isn't that dozer?
speci + AN
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:15, Reply)
Alan Patrol Group

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:19, Reply)
with razor-edged frisbees

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:31, Reply)


(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:33, Reply)
*squelches*

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:33, Reply)
either shut up or piss off.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:13, Reply)
probably "Bastard"

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:15, Reply)
altalt: I found a South American Chicken place on Yelp near the office last week
that got rave reviews so I went there, half my chicken was burnt and dry so fuck them I'm not going back there.

So probably a tesco ham and cheese sandwich.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:18, Reply)
so you're saying they write their own reviews?

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:19, Reply)
I had sausage and mash with onion gravy last night.
It was nice, but I felt there should have been some peas served with it and there weren't. It was £8.95.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:23, Reply)
If done right, that is one of the best comfort foods ever

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:30, Reply)
It was good, with a premium quality and quantity of sausage. I just felt it was missing *something*

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:31, Reply)
Agreed I feel the same

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:33, Reply)
I'm glad it's not just me. Validated.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:35, Reply)
Crikey
It's £5 round here.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:30, Reply)
Where's that then?

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:31, Reply)
his kitchen

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:35, Reply)
At that price, premium grade sausage can be achieved,

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:37, Reply)
are you talking about lighty's cock?
it sounds like it
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:38, Reply)
I wouldn't know, I shall bow to your experience.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:39, Reply)
he's one of the few i haven't banged

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:40, Reply)
You seem like a classy lady.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:40, Reply)
i know

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:44, Reply)
Still, a lovely turn of phrase.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:47, Reply)
Someone should have stepped in to stop chocho's parents naming him

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:25, Reply)
*Fights the urge to do a strike through and replace a word with conceiving*

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:29, Reply)
i knew we were all thinking it

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:30, Reply)

you misspelled it.

it's c-o-n-c-e-i-v-i-n-g
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:30, Reply)
They wasn't even MARRied at the time

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:30, Reply)
is that a crack about him being adopted?
you nasty man
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:32, Reply)
why the recent animosity to chompy batts?
Are you trying to get into swipes granny pants?
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:31, Reply)
this isn't battered
this is apey
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:32, Reply)
oops, mis-read.
I'll assume it's just the usual spakka kid picking on someone popular to try and look hard kinda thing then..
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:33, Reply)
wrong way round, with the kids
but otherwise yeah
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:34, Reply)
chompy cam out better in the poll than you did.
just because you have 'issues' doesn't mean he's not well liked generally...
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:42, Reply)
uh huh

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:43, Reply)
uh huh.
I have no axe to grind either way, while I agree with him on more things, you would almost have to be more pleasant socially, but you are a demented stalker when it comes to him and it does you no favours.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:45, Reply)
i'm not going to argue with you
you're just wrong about him, that's all.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:48, Reply)
I said nothing about him, except we agree on a few things.
I did call you a mental though, you go on like he raped you sister or summat and it's all about some fucking pizza? I used to think you had some secret, good, reason for all the hate, but I was a fucking mug and you are a loon.

no offence, like
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:49, Reply)
no, it's not about pizza
he behaved disgustingly, but if i hadn't heard from someone third hand what he'd said about me behind my back to someone else, i would have let it go. as it is, he'll get reminded that he's a cunt if/when i feel like it.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:52, Reply)
yes dear.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:53, Reply)
c'est vrai

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:55, Reply)
Meh, I only have the info I have and based on that you are really quite worryingly obsessed
Lacking further data I stand by my conclusion, not that I imagine you care, nor should you.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:57, Reply)
zero fucks given indeed
after all, i'm not the one posting on here that i'd be happy if he died...
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:57, Reply)
good oh. happy lunacy.

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:58, Reply)
what poll?

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:45, Reply)
this one:
Swipe or Chompy



although actually it seems they are neck and neck now.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:47, Reply)
I believe they should have the right to trial by combat
*checks paperwork*

Yep, says so right here
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:56, Reply)
Swipe would annihilate him.
the fury in that one is both impressive and scary.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:58, Reply)
urgh no, i might chip my manicure
i'd just pay someone else to do it

don't you know ANYTHING about me?
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:58, Reply)
Fear does not exist in this dojo

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 13:01, Reply)
you chip my manicure, i'll show you fucking fear

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 13:06, Reply)
They should do it LARPer style
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1983546
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:58, Reply)
Fun fact:
LARP swords often have a carbon fibre rod down the middle of them. it's possible to kill someone with these, if you're not careful, so stabbing is strictly prohibited.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 13:04, Reply)
fun fact:
THE LETTERS "F, U and N" do not appear in larping, with damn good reason
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 13:05, Reply)
you'd love it
you'd be one of the prettier ones.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 13:07, Reply)
oi!
I'm the best one here, FACT
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:37, Reply)
ahem

(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:38, Reply)
you, sir, are a bent spastic
if this was a school you'd be sitting in the corner chewing the fur on the hood of your parka.
(, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:43, Reply)

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