You know she has a wall decal that says, “If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.”

I agree, but I’m *not* going to trust the mom that the airline attendant was mocking the child. Someone who names their kid “abcde” probably lacks the social intelligence to realize that people criticizing the name are criticizing the parents and not the kid.

Obligatory:

“John” is an accepted name in our society, as are literally thousands of other possible names. “Abcde” is not. It just isn’t.

Nobody is ridiculing the child, we are ridiculing the parent. Stop trying to eliminate shame from our world, we won’t be better off without it.

Seriously, if the damn flight attendant is laughing, what the hell is this kid’s life going to be like in middle school? School children are evil. To quote John Mulaney “They will get to the thing you don’t like about you.”

Naming your children to be fodder for school yard bullies should count as child abuse. Then again, given the state of the US education system and the resulting widespread illiteracy, perhaps abcde is as far as the parents manage to get while learning the alphabet.

I completely agree with the mom... under no circumstance should the child be shamed for her name, it’s not something she has ever had control over.

Gives her child a stupid-ass name.

Maybe don’t name your child something moronic if you don’t want yourself (and your child) ridiculed for the rest of their life. And this from a guy who named his son after his favorite Top Gear presenter.

This woman needs to have her child taken away from her for the child’s sake. 

This is one of my major gripes with unions. Getting together to collectively bargain is a good thing for the most part, but what’s with the utter refusal to shitcan the worst members? They make the whole group look bad and keeping them around just encourages other shitbags to keep on shitbagging.

Is the UAW aware that it’s their own members and their Union Member protective policies don’t help? Having worked at a UAW assembly plant, it is almost impossible to get a union member fired because the union would prefer to have a toxic member than loose his union fee.

Sikhs and Muslims remember how racist we were in the immediate aftermath.

Can we move beyond having dumb associations with “random” ordered plate combinations? You’ll never, EVER, not offend someone.

Battery-Charger.

Watch from 9m15s onward for the 2nd lap, with external footage. I know you’ve seen this before, but if you want to talk about balls out Rear engine laps, I’m yet to see better.

None of this solves her core problem: everyone else on the road.

No, what is mind-numbing is the sheer number of people who believe they can not safely drive in bumper-to-bumper traffic, at a peak speed of 35 MPH, to and from high school or a 40-hour-a-week-burger-flipping-job on anything short of summer tires.

Weird - American law enforcement is usually so restrained.