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Mum names baby daughter Hashtag
A mother has been criticised after naming her newborn baby daughter Hashtag.
She announced the name, after the Twitter symbol, with a photo and post on Facebook, reports The Sun.
It said: "Hashtag Jameson was born at 10oclock last night. She weys 8pounds and I luv her so much!!!!"
Hashtags are words or phrases preceded by a # symbol, used on Twitter to identify a subject.
But the name soon attracted its own Twitter hashtags, including #TerribleParenting, #FoolishParents, #YourParentsHateYou and #StupidestNameEver.
One user wrote: "That child is going to need serious therapy." Another tweeted: "This is horrible and cruel."
Last year Israelis Lior and Vardit Adler called their daughter Like, after the approval button on Facebook.
what do you think?
Sean Reddy
This has to be a joke!! If not Come on people get a grip, the poor child is in for some real teasing for this.
michael crane
#YA NEEP
john
I hope the child is more intelligent than her mother.
Nat_j2b
From the mother's spelling the child is doomed. But Hashtag?? Hash for short? Perhaps she'll sign things with # J Poor baby.
Valerie Wood
why not call her Smiley Face? :)
Baker101
And this is how kids grow into problem teenagers.
Louisa Gieldon
How awful. I quite like unusual names but that's got nothing going for it all,
shaun spencer
Luckily the woman knew who the father was otherwise it would have been called ?
t.bulgin
If she has a boy she could name it after that TV channel.....Dave.
movvi
Pfft!
Callum McGrath
its her child not anyone else's so they have no right calling her cruel or a bad parent
movvi
I think it's a pretty thoughtless name at the very least.
TimTomToo
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Melanie Willey Floyd
Im going to name mt daughter "re-boot"!
movvi
Ha ha ha!
Ashley Garner
What's the betting she's on benefits and has no intention of getting a job and joining normal society. That child will be bullied throughout it's schooling life.
Jamie ONeill
Hashtag would have made an ok middle name but only if her first name was CornedBeef
movvi
Ha!
andy johnson
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Juliecrumpton1234
Oh dear! I know it's the fashion to call babies unusual names, but this isn't a very pretty name, I keep thinking "hag" however, whatever people think, I for one think its awful....it's up to her what she calls her child, only hope the poor child isn't in for a life of misery, although it can be changed, I suppose..
movvi
Yes - it just sounds ugly, doesn't it? Like Barfbag, perhaps, would. Poor kid.
Louisa Gieldon
It's common and ugly, i'm afraid
movvi
How awful to be named after a trend. The fact that she spells "weighs" the way she does more or less confirms the mother's stupidity. It also annoys me how people use "luv" and "u" etc when leaving messages that are aimed at serious issues and supposed to be sincere - like after someone has died. It is cheap and tacky. Horrid. It's a good job not many can be arsed to send a card anymore - most wouldn't know what to write!
Louisa Gieldon
I agree so much Movvi. Those sites which are set up when someone dies, with messages like "miss u h*n so much" and " Luv u 4eva h*n" are repulsive and drive me mad. I really don't mind if people try to write a sincere message on a card and mis spell it because their spelling isn't that great. But that lazy and ignorant text talk makes me lose the will to live. My BIL works as a nurse and a young nurse writes her hand over notes in text speak. He has complained but she's still being allowed to do it! PS the words above, with an asterix, should have the letter "U" but Orange wouldn't allow it so hope this makes sense!
movvi
Ha ha ha - perfect sense! The nurse story's a shocker. We find "U" for "you" and "R" for "are" in exam answers now too and we get similar in notes from parents. People seem to have forgotten formality when necessary. Shame!
Jamie ONeill
In 10 years time, Twitter, Facebook etc. will probably be a thing of the past so it will make even less sense Boy: What are you called Hashtag? Was your mother high? Hashtag: Why yes, she was. Thanks for asking.
Jamie ONeill
**Meant to say "Why are you called....", not what**
Name witheld
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Slack Nancy
I always thought Hashtag was a boys name anyway :/
Rob Shaw
12:58pm on 29/11/2012
#ChildAbuse
movvi
1:50pm on 1/12/2012
Succinct.