I hate being called David!

Bunneh
Bunneh Posts: 1,329
edited August 2010 in The bottom bracket
When I was young if I was naughty my Gran would always call me 'David', instead of the usual 'Dave'. Flasheart does it to annoy me (works!), as do a few other friends, especially when I do something 'bad'. Same went for my Gran when she was a kid, her parents called her 'Edi' but when she was naughty it was 'Edith!' - she always knew when she'd been naughty.

Of course telling you lot this will just result in more 'David!' but at least I know who to kill! :twisted:
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Thanks fot the heads up.

    David
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    My names David and I prefer to be called David.

    Be happy, David.
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    I too hate being called David... but that's coz my name's Alex. When people call me David I tend to ignore them.


    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Ok, Dai, or Daio, as we say.

    Llanwnda, one in Gwynedd and one in West Wales, is "The place of David" apparently.
  • DIESELDOG
    DIESELDOG Posts: 2,087
    Someone in my village has a dog called Dave.

    There's a guy at work who hates being called Dave, insists on David.

    Each to there own Dave or David!
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  • I hate being called Edith
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
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  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    My wife and mum call me David, mates call me Dave. At work I am also David
    Dave as is Dave Cameron makes me cringe.

    Be happy as David...

    Rgds

    Dave
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Who's that football player, the one who's name is David, but all the commentators call him,

    DAVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED...?
  • There was a bloke at work and his name was

    David David.

    Always thought it showed a little lack of imagination on behalf of his parents.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    In Wales he would have been, "DAIO! Daiiiiio! Daylight come an' me wanna go 'ome..."
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,439
    There was a bloke at work and his name was

    David David.

    Always thought it showed a little lack of imagination on behalf of his parents.

    I thought the same this morning when I was following a mobile mechanic called Dave Davis.
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  • There was a bloke at work and his name was

    David David.

    Always thought it showed a little lack of imagination on behalf of his parents.

    I had a Manager once, Michael Michaels. he was Greek, perhaps something was lost in translation. I hate people who abbreviate my name (which isnt Stewie Griffin), it sounds so common :roll: . My Mum is Irish, so I got called by both of the Saints names that look after me when I was about to get a clip around the ear.
  • BigJimmyB
    BigJimmyB Posts: 1,302
    Like Gary & Phil Neville's dad......Neville.

    :lol:

    I worked with a Danny Edge and his dad was Cliff.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,215
    There was a bloke at work and his name was

    David David.

    Always thought it showed a little lack of imagination on behalf of his parents.

    Very common in Wales along with Evan Evans, William Williams etc. but then we never did have much imagination :lol:
  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    I knew a guy at school called Patrick Fitzpatrick :shock:
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    The question of the OP that goes begging is 'Why? Is your name Rodney?' :lol:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    A lad at school was called Phil McCracken. honest.
  • There a local counciler call Ben Dover and his deputy is Phil Mc Crevice
  • Porta105
    Porta105 Posts: 57
    There's a Michael Hunt where I work, I'm pretty sure he doesn't like to be called Mike :oops:
  • bexley5200
    bexley5200 Posts: 692
    i get called frank but my freinds call me frank because thats my name
    going downhill slowly
  • bexley5200 wrote:
    i get called frank but my freinds call me frank because thats my name

    SNAP :!:

    They've never hung one yet.
    Tail end Charlie

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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    yep. the more trouble I was in the more of my name got yelled out of the back door at me.

    same now, the Mrs uses the wife look as a warning shot and then my full name for when I ignore her and carry on regardless.

    I was at school with a lad called Richard Richardson
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    There was a Michael Hunt at my old 'puter collage back in the 90s.
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    I'd always liked to have had an alias of Mike Oxbent.
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    I knew a Jenny Taylor (Genitalia)... I'm not sure if she ever worked out the school boy smuttiness of her name. I also knew a Gregory Greig... where is he now I wonder?


    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    Knew a lad called Olliphant, of course we all called him Nelly.
  • DCowling
    DCowling Posts: 769
    our school had an English teacher called Mr Bayshem ( not sdure of the spelling but thats how it was pronounced)
    can imagine the stick his son got , young Master Bayshem

    True story :)
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    DCowling wrote:
    our school had an English teacher called Mr Bayshem ( not sdure of the spelling but thats how it was pronounced)
    can imagine the stick his son got , young Master Bayshem

    True story :)
    When I taught maths I sometimes used to silence dissent by telling the kids that I would not allow any maths debating in class
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Welsh Traffic Policeman...Dai Version.

    Twins born to a butcher...Kate and Sidney Pye.

    Girl who works in drapers shop...Annette Kurtain.

    Girl who works in Environment Control...Teresa Green.

    Title of a guy who's in charge horses/hounds, in the Midlands....Warwick Hunt.

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