Man with strange name arrested a second time

[Valerius]

If I changed my name, I'd drop half my surname. Compound surnames are annoying (plus they sound pretentious).

But not as pretentious as people who have who have like 5 middle names on top of a hyphenated surname.

[Sigmaleph]

Oh

I just noticed that could be seen as a response to you, but I didn't mean it that way. The pretentiousness is a particularity of my societal context, where people with double Spanish surnames are assumed to be descendants of old money families who own vast expanses of land (I'm not, I just happen to have that sort of name). Doesn't really apply to compound names due to marriage (or most other reasons).

[Osama bin Bambi]

If I changed my name, I'd drop half my surname. Compound surnames are annoying (plus they sound pretentious).

But not as pretentious as people who have who have like 5 middle names on top of a hyphenated surname.

Once I was hanging out with a bunch of people who came from a rural area, and a lot of them had two or three middle names, on top of the fact that their parents add things like "Lee" or "Ann" to the end of their first names. I don't know if it has anything to do with where they came from, but it made me and my measly little name feel rather inadequate.

I've only seen hyphenated surnames used for egalitarian purposes (i.e., in egalitarian opposite-sex marriages or in same-sex marriages where no one wants to give up their surname). It does cause problems, however, when two people with hyphenated surnames want to get married.

[chitoryu12]

I've got two middle names as a family tradition: every male in my father's family is given the second middle name of "Stewart". My dad's family is old money Scottish.

[Witchyjoshy]

Oh

I just noticed that could be seen as a response to you, but I didn't mean it that way. The pretentiousness is a particularity of my societal context, where people with double Spanish surnames are assumed to be descendants of old money families who own vast expanses of land (I'm not, I just happen to have that sort of name). Doesn't really apply to compound names due to marriage (or most other reasons).

Oh

[chitoryu12]

Am I the only one with broken smileys?

It seems to be trying to load them from the old FSTDT address.

[Silhouette]

Am I the only one with broken smileys?

It seems to be trying to load them from the old FSTDT address.

I see squares with text symbols.

[PosthumanHeresy]

I too have smilies more broken than Congress.

[lord gibbon]

That seems to be the consensus. My smilies are broken as well.

[Lithp]

"Felony drug charges have been filed against...no."

[Meshakhad]

I have thought about changing my last name. All I'd do is drop the apostrophe, which has caused me no end of problems. But I figured that changing it would only make things worse.

[Lithp]

Is your last name "Y'golonac"?

[PosthumanHeresy]

Is your last name "Y'golonac"?

Or "W'rkncacnter"?

[Meshakhad]

No. All I'll say is that it's one of the more common Irish surnames.

[Lithp]

Mc'racistdrunkjoke?