On 23/07/2020 06:15, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:40:20 +0100, Bod
wrote:

On 22/07/2020 20:50, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 7/22/2020 12:59 PM, Bod wrote:
On 22/07/2020 17:56, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 7/22/2020 12:48 PM, Bod wrote:
On 22/07/2020 17:40, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 10:42:30 AM UTC-4, Bod wrote:
On 22/07/2020 15:18, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 9:57:24 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 7/22/2020 8:09 AM, Bod wrote:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/pa...a34396bf6b5fc5




LOL. What a fuss over nothing.

I do feel bad for the kid as he grows up.Â* No matter what the
parents
say, the negative will always be there.Â* Perception is everything.

Yeah.Â* When he gets to be about 13 years old, he's either going
to be
a very fast runner or a very good fighter.

Cindy Hamilton

Nah, this isn't America. Most of us aren't religious.

In my experience, 13-year-old boys will take any excuse to put a
beatdown
on one of their classmates.Â* An unusual name suffices.

Cindy Hamilton

Most 13 year old boys are given mickey taking nicknames.
You can imagine what names my sonÂ* Belinda was called.

Perfect reason not to give a name like that to a child knowing they
may get some ridicule.Â*Â* Even though Lucifer will mostly be called
"Lou", it is still on school records, driver license, and will be
known to others to pick on.
Â*
Blimey, are you Americans that sensitive that you can't take a bit of
ribbing.

Years ago we had a neighbor with 6 kids. The one younger one, Joey, was
often called Lucifer by others on the street and for good reason.

Most kids here probably wouldn't even associate it with a devil.

I think you should ask a bunch instead of guessing. I would hate to
think that British kids are so ignorant of the English language.

I don't know anyone who goes to a church. My parents weren't religious
nor any of my grandparents.

As I said before, it doesn't matter. Educated people, even moderately
educated children normally know lots of things that have some
relationship to religion without them themselves being religious.

Do you think UK kids have heard of the 10 Commandments? Mt. Sinai. The
birth of Jesus in Bethlehem?

Do you think people have to be British to have heard of the Thames
River, or the Tower of London, or Big Ben, or Buckingham Palace?

Do t hey know about Roman chariot races or gladiator fights? Do they
have to be Roman to know that?

So why would htey have to be religious to know what Lucifer means?

Where you have churches everywhere, we have pubs :-)

I never knew anything about the bible so I bought one and read it to
learn. Plenty of good salacious horror stories in there (if you like
that kind of thing).
I even tried going to a church for a while. I also joined a choir, but
only because I liked singing. I liked the atmosphere though, but it was
mostly boring.
I'd heard about a devil and a satan, but hadn't heard the word Lucifer
before.
You have to understand that it's very different over here.