Surely this is a form of child abuse?

[Grumpmeister]

So because you are throwing a tantrum over the law not allowing you to call your son 4Real you are now going to call him Superman? Are you totally brain dead or just bloody minded at his expense? Surely you can see what will happen to the poor bugger the moment he goes to school with a name like that. The bullies will beat the living daylights out of him because hammering the 'man of steel' will he absolutely hysterical for them. 

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand couple is looking to call their newborn son Superman -- but only because their chosen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government registry.

Pat and Sheena Wheaton say they will get around the decision by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages by officially naming their son Superman but referring to him as 4Real, the New Zealand Herald newspaper has reported.

The Wheatons decided on the name after seeing the baby for the first time in an ultrasound scan and realising their baby was "for real".


They decided 4Real was the best way to write it, but the name was rejected because the registrar said a name had to be a sequence of characters.



Pat Wheaton said he was considering appealing against the decision through the courts, but whatever happens he won't be budged on his choice.

"No matter what its going to stay 4Real," Wheaton told the Herald, "I'm certainly not a quitter".

A spokesman for the Department of Internal Affairs, which operates the registry told the Herald discussions with the Wheatons about their son's name were continuing.

The baby is now two months old, after the Wheatons first applied to register his name in later June.

[Snoopy]

Unfit to be parents ~ take the child away to safety and castrate the father!

[Berek]

I know someone called Robin Banks

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

I know someone called Robin Banks

Yes, and we all know a Mike Hunt don't we?

Back on topic, why did they not just go for a teensy compromise and call him Forreal? Or, For-Real (like in Leslie-Anne etc)?

They are just being unbelievably bloody minded. Any piccies? I'll wager there are some ear rings and the like adorning the proud dad - not to mention a tat or two (and not the Wenchy sort - but, then again, she says she's fond of tat, maybe it's the arty body type?)

[Barman]

Could have been 4skin I s'pose?  

[Berek]

I know someone called Robin Banks

Back on topic,

WOOOOOOOO...Just come from GOM have you ?

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

Could have been 4skin I s'pose? 

Being NZ, more likely 4X4

P.S. Piss off Berek. Go and watch YouTube or something.

[Berek]

Could have been 4skin I s'pose? 

Being NZ, more likely 4X4

P.S. Piss off Berek. Go and watch YouTube or something.

 

[Mr Happy]

New Zealand, is that a suburb of Liverpool?

[Bar Wench]

New Zealand, is that a suburb of Liverpool?

Just goes to show there are scallys and chavs the world over.