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[Lord Fagan]

Ugh, tell me about it...

 

[Stronty]

TODD and Marc.

 

[Odoul]

As a Mark, I'd just like to say fuck you too, OP.

?

I never said I didn't like the Marcs I knew. They're fun, just...a little shady.

Now Mark/cO?

I have never met even a nice one.

 

[Cross-Section]

Tony.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Oh, hi mark.

 

[Murrah]

Dillon, Dylan, whatever other variants there are. Met a few in my life, they've all been terrible, terrible people

 

[EraldoCoil]

Robbie and Scott....trouble usually follows dudes with those names.

Girls....Yvette is always trouble...

On the flip side....every dude named Lenny/Leonard has been awesome.

If you're Lenny or Leonard then Brofist to you.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Vince

 

[SeriousApes]

I've known a few Tonys that were all a bit dickish.

 

[Manmademan]

Keith.

Came in for Keith

 

[Aegus]

My Dad is a Ray. He's been good to me, but his attitude about things means I don't have a lot of time for him.

 

[Aurongel]

Brett.

I never said I didn't like the Marcs I knew. They're fun, just...a little shady.

Now Mark/cO?

I have never met even a nice one.

;__;

 

[Alchemy]

Chad

Agree with this.

 

[FCMaxi]

William

 

[Duji]

Maynard.

 

[Frank the Great]

Adolf. I've known a few bad ones in my day.

 

[Acquiescence]

Never met a person called Matthew that wasn't a complete twunt.

 

[Heroman]

Jimmy

 

[EightBitNate]

Fuck Keith and Chad

Never met a person called Matthew that wasn't a complete twunt.

Matt's a good guy

 

[Get'sMad]

man i love ray

 

[Vesmir]

Don't date a Cynthia and expect something good to come out of it.

Don't date a Mitzi and expect to have a good time in bed.

 

[Rayis]

Yeah, Ray's are scumbags, especially the ones who add the letters i and s at the end, they're even worse than douchebags.

 

[Angelus Errare]

First + Last name combination of most republican and tea party representatives.

 

[GeordieMark]

I'm pretty sure most Waynes have a criminal record. Mainly for petty vandalism and anti-social behaviour I imagine.

 

[deadlast]

Luke or Lucas are dicks. But Todd is the fucking worse.

Also, Matt is usually a good dude.

 

[Saganator]

Carl

Sorry, but no. Carl Sagan redeems any bad reputation of the name Carl.

My vote goes for Chad. Not sure how wide the saying is, but here we say, "don't be a Chad" if someone is being a douche.

 

[Get'sMad]

TODD and Marc.

yeah Todd for sure....it's also my middle name and a constant source of shame in my life.

i'm also kinda a scumbag too.

 

[clearacell]

From what I understand the name you are born with contributes to the success or failure you have later in life, so maybe there is something to naming your kids douchebag names.

 

[revolverjgw]

Trent

 

[Stinkles]

Rich white people who are so insulated from reality that they think "Dick" is a perfectly marvelous contraction of Richard. It's a self fulfilling prophecy and a ticket to the Senate.

 

[t26]

Even this Ray?

 

[Stinkles]

From what I understand the name you are born with contributes to the success or failure you have later in life, so maybe there is something to naming your kids douchebag names.

Interestingly the chapter about this in Freakonomics denies this in some ways, but uses an anecdote rather than stats.

 

[Mixolydian]

Dicks. All of em.

 

[Unit 33]

What is it with Ricks?

 

[Get'sMad]

Rich white people who are so insulated from reality that they think "Dick" is a perfectly marvelous contraction of Richard. It's a self fulfilling prophecy and a ticket to the Senate.

knew a real asshole named Richard and his last name was Hull.

you can only guess what we called him when he was not in our presence....

 

[freenudemacusers]

knew a real asshole named Richard and his last name was Hull.

you can only guess what we called him when he was not in our presence....

"asshole"?

 

[Zantetsuken]

Walter.

 

[Archer]

Wayne has a pretty white trash designation.

 

[Banderdash]

Chet.

 

[Sobriquet]

Gabe.

OK so we have me:

Andrew. They all tend to be douchbags.

And my wife:

Nicole. Everybody knows a ho-bag named Nicole.

I do know a ho-bag Nicole, though. Never met a douchebag named Andrew, unless...

 

[Gobias]

Chaz/Chad/Chet

 

[Eidan]

You mean adulterer and drug addict Ray Charles?

Are we associating addiction with amorality?

 

[BearFlexington]

Vince

Was going to post Vincenzo.

 

[Josh with a J]

I hear people named Josh are pretty cool.

 

[Odoul]

Even this Ray?

Have you seen He Got Game?

Jesus Shuttlesworth was a HIGH level lowlife.

And he jumped on the team that beat his team's nutsack to win a ring.

I hate the Heat and the Celtics but that's bitchmade.

 

[jasonng]

Jason and Mark/Marcus are also up there.

 

[thomaser]

In Norway and Sweden, and perhaps other places too, there's a phenomenon called "y-names". People with names ending on y are overrepresented in prisons, and are more likely to be seen as troublemakers or unreliable than other people. Ronny is the name that's most often seen in prisons (for women, it's Anita). Tony, Roy, Benny, Freddy and so on are other y-names. There have been academic studies on this, but I don't know what they conclude with. Are the names themselves so negatively viewed, for some reason, that people with those names are "forced" into taking on the role as troublemakers? Another thing is that certain groups with negative reputations, such as travellers, give their boys y-names more often than other groups. This strengthens the negative associations those names have - maybe that's where the negative associations stem from in the first place.

 

[BaltimoreLarry]

I think Rays are pretty great.

 

[Sheroking]

And my wife:



I do know a ho-bag Nicole, though. Never met a douchebag named Andrew, unless...

Well, they're not all ho-bags

Spoiler

Just most of them

 

[friskykillface]

Ray Allen

Yes it also stands for desperation, ring chasing and blowing game 7 for the Celtics still mad