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HelpRe: WDYT of nicknames Bud's?
in reply to a message by Meg_Simpson
Well I was kind of appalled that Jamie Oliver named his son Buddy so I hate this even more.
It just sounds so low class to me. There is the beer Budweiser, Bud Light, and the character Bud on Married with Children.
It is not quite as bad as a nickname but my first thought is still trailer park.
It just sounds so low class to me. There is the beer Budweiser, Bud Light, and the character Bud on Married with Children.
It is not quite as bad as a nickname but my first thought is still trailer park.
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I'm trying not to be offended, and mostly succeeding, because this is an opinions board and everyone is entitled to an opinion!
Interesting your perception of Bud as a trailer park name. When my daughter was pregnant with her second son, and she and her husband were tossing names around, and not agreeing on anything (he was still resisting Abraham at that point), she came up with an idea. Her idea was to let her husband name the baby anything he wanted, but whatever it was, we would call him Buddy which would probably become Bud when he was older. She wanted to do this to honor my my father, who passed away in 1999, and whom she remembered very fondly.
When she spoke of this to my son-in-law, he said, "No, Bud is redneck."
When she told me this, I was very highly offended! Now this was different than here on the board. I didn't try to reign my feelings in. I was offended, period.
Later, my daughter and I mentioned this to his mother, and she stated that she knew why he felt that way. When he was a child, she had had a boyfriend named Bud whom he had disliked, and that Bud was indeed what would be termed "redneck" or "trailer park."
So he had that impression because of one particular person that he knew...I have no idea how common it is. I tried Googling "Is Bud a low-class name?" and came up with precisely nothing.
Anyway...my father owned a trucking company and we lived in a house in an upper-middle-class suburb of New York, one of the most cosmopolitan areas of the country, he drank Heineken and wouldn't have touched a Bud Light, and he and my mother would have had their thumbs cut off before they ever would have entertained the idea of living in a trailer!
I mean this in a light-hearted way...just saying because it's easy to be mistaken when dealing with the typed word. :-D
Interesting your perception of Bud as a trailer park name. When my daughter was pregnant with her second son, and she and her husband were tossing names around, and not agreeing on anything (he was still resisting Abraham at that point), she came up with an idea. Her idea was to let her husband name the baby anything he wanted, but whatever it was, we would call him Buddy which would probably become Bud when he was older. She wanted to do this to honor my my father, who passed away in 1999, and whom she remembered very fondly.
When she spoke of this to my son-in-law, he said, "No, Bud is redneck."
When she told me this, I was very highly offended! Now this was different than here on the board. I didn't try to reign my feelings in. I was offended, period.
Later, my daughter and I mentioned this to his mother, and she stated that she knew why he felt that way. When he was a child, she had had a boyfriend named Bud whom he had disliked, and that Bud was indeed what would be termed "redneck" or "trailer park."
So he had that impression because of one particular person that he knew...I have no idea how common it is. I tried Googling "Is Bud a low-class name?" and came up with precisely nothing.
Anyway...my father owned a trucking company and we lived in a house in an upper-middle-class suburb of New York, one of the most cosmopolitan areas of the country, he drank Heineken and wouldn't have touched a Bud Light, and he and my mother would have had their thumbs cut off before they ever would have entertained the idea of living in a trailer!
I mean this in a light-hearted way...just saying because it's easy to be mistaken when dealing with the typed word. :-D
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I read your post after I posted mine and thought "oh no maybe that was offensive!".
I have never met anyone named Bud so my opinion is mostly formed on the character of Bud from Married with Children and of course that it a beer (although I really like Killian & that is a beer).
If your grandson was called Bud & you told me the reason why, I would probably think that it was sweet (I still wouldn't like the name but would like the reasoning).
Side note: Me & my husband use Buddy as a term of endearment for each other (& our dog) but as a given name, it just rubs me the wrong way.
I have never met anyone named Bud so my opinion is mostly formed on the character of Bud from Married with Children and of course that it a beer (although I really like Killian & that is a beer).
If your grandson was called Bud & you told me the reason why, I would probably think that it was sweet (I still wouldn't like the name but would like the reasoning).
Side note: Me & my husband use Buddy as a term of endearment for each other (& our dog) but as a given name, it just rubs me the wrong way.
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I think now that I shouldn't have said, "I'm trying not be offended", and I apologize for that. I want to emphasize that you're entitled to your opinion and you shouldn't worry about offending anyone. If we all worried about that, nobody would say anything negative about any name, and it would get pretty boring. I myself have stated here that I dislike certain names, knowing full well that there are people who post here who have used those names for their children! No, I'm not offended, don't worry about it. :-D
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