Gubu.ie

Came across this guy last night and it gave me the idea for this thread.

I know it's spelt differently but it's pronounced the same and couldn't be more appropriate.

And, of course, one of the best known media names on radio for Birdwatch Ireland is Niall Hatch.

In a piece on the Tubridy show he named Mark Robbins, Dave Bird, and Stephen Wing as other people who have worked for Birdwatch.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-n ... s-14618516

SVEN HASSEL: WW2 war novellist from a German soldiers point if view.

The two S's were printed like the Nazi SS moniker

I remember QI did a piece about this, nominative determinism.

Never name your child Pincher, if that’s your second name then change it. Other names not to go with at a glance:

Moe Lester
Short(t) [especially if first name is richard]
Saad(apparently popular in Arabic but in Arabic it means happy)
And this



This is the way to go

Into the "etc" in the thread title I'm going to throw ex crypto billionaires and odd-looking, weird-sounding fraudsters...

Sam Bankman-Fried.

Charles Dickens
Hard Times
Great expectations

Well, "Dickensian" his name became a description.

Roger Boyes is a British journalist who regularly reported on institutional paedophilia

Great thread, got on to google to find the Roger Boyes link, and as is so often the case, subsequently spent a little more time wasting than strictly necessary. Anyway google threw up some belters....

Jennifer Sey was definitely not cancelled, although there was a twitter campaign against her to lose her job last year. She was expected to become the head at Levis. She couldn’t help speaking out about lockdowns for schools and masks for children on twitter. I just had to sey…

There was a Maths and Science teacher in my school called Mr. Rocket.

Unfortunate name

Dee Forbes

Bankman-fried got 25 years for his ordeal with FTX.