Well.. you say racist… and that’s fine… but honestly mate… birds of a feather flock together. I don’t want to go to Samoa to live… I’m not Samoan. You could say the Japanese are racist. They don’t want too many outsiders going to their country either.

If I’m totally honest about it…

Am I racist? I don’t know. Some of the dumbest ugliest nastiest mother fucker wankers you’ll ever meet are honkys.

I can get on really well with Islanders. One of them doing info101 helped me with a Microsoft Access assignment at uni. She got me 9.75 out of 10…. far out. Smart kid.

nasska: I could be wrong… but every year they show you the first born baby and it’s always an Islander last few years. God wants you to have lots and lots and lots of children. The Lord will provide. Have as many as you can muster. The taxpayer…. errr Lord will provide. At least the name ‘new year’ is non-religious… no?</blockquote

Hm, outside of being racist and ignorant… wait, that pretty much covers it.

I would point out that there is a difference between "the taxpayer will provide" and "the taxpayer does provide". Islanders had big families long before WFF ever came along, and they have a family culture that is quite different to your typicial Europeans kiwi. And yes, it can go wrong too, just the same as any family can.

But in this case it’s not hard to obey the law so not really a big issue really.

After all, the law is working as intended isn’t it?

I’m with you mate… what you said. Shit there’s a lot of weirdo names flying around now. I was in town and I met a ‘Brooke’. Um… yeah… nice to meet you…. **Brooke.**. Geez, that wasn’t awkward at all. She was all of 24… but it’s her world not mine.

nasska: I could be wrong… but every year they show you the first born baby and it’s always an Islander last few years. God wants you to have lots and lots and lots of children. The Lord will provide. Have as many as you can muster. The taxpayer…. errr Lord will provide. At least the name ‘new year’ is non-religious… no?

They’re making up the whole NZ birth rate now eh? That might be a slight exaggeration. Do you want to change the name to New PacificIslandland now or later? Ooo… I’m leaving this comment now… shit that’s enough… see you laterer.

Australian music promoter Molly Meldrum

Who’s actually named Ian. Molly is a nickname. He xplained to Andrew Denton on “Enough Rope” that:

Why ‘Molly’? Um, actually it was given to me…the name was given to me back when I was writing for ‘Go-Set’, which was a rock…newspaper that came out each week. And there was a DJ called Stan Rofe, and he had the great habit of, um, giving guys nicknames, girls’ names, and I was stuck with ‘Molly’, you know?

Tom Jackson suggets:

Too many children suffer for the bad taste of their feral/upwardly mobile parents. Just visit a kindy and you’ll see.

Sometimes it’s not even bad taste per se, just that such people are so influennced by trends that they all come up with the same “unique” name for their children, such that you can just about guess the year a child was born by its first name. There’s a Simpsons episode (Bart vs. Lisa vs. 3rd Grade) where the teacher calls the roll and every second girl (and one boy) is named “Dakota”.

I was also Iceland that got the GFC rolling in the late 90′s.

That call seems to be very much in the eye of the beholder. From the coverage of names that have been rejected for registration in NZ, I’d guess the actual policy is that Maori aren’t allowed to give their kids stupid names, but Pakeha hippies and wealthy space cadets are free to bestow whatever nutty handle they choose.

Aotearoa is Nanny State for finance companies and property investors.

Useful test case

“Iceland’s heterodoxy gives us a test of economic doctrine,” Krugman said. Comparing Iceland to Ireland and Latvia (both members of the European Union), he argued that the former has fared much better than the latter in terms of growth and jobs.

And despite warnings that economic Armageddon would follow Iceland’s decision not to accept liability for the losses of private banks, credit default swaps on sovereign debt are now much lower in Iceland than in Ireland, where the state assumed full responsibility for bank losses, he said.

“Iceland has done fine in terms of regaining not total, but reasonable confidence in its sovereign debt. The idea that there would be a huge reputational penalty for allowing private sector parties to go bust and default on their external obligations has not turned out to be true.”

Another Nobel Prize winner in economics, Professor Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University, also endorsed Iceland’s policy response. “What Iceland did was right. It would have been wrong to burden future generations with the mistakes of the financial system,” he said in pre-recorded remarks screened at the conference.

Other speakers who strongly supported Iceland’s decision not to bail out the banks included MIT professor and former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson, who also warned that the world’s financial system remains “a big house of cards.”
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2011/car110311a.htm

He is probably named after the Australian music promoter Molly Meldrum

Of the 2 ,having a list appears to be the efficient way to go.

And if there is no big difference and “hundreds” have been rejected then perhaps we are the Iceland of the South Pacific and a Nanny to boot,just not as obvious?

We are quite the Nanny ,parents can’t discipline their children and parliament,including the supposedly blue freedom loving party went along with the reds and took our rights to bring up our children as we see fit.Alll because the clients of the political elites bash their children!

And the Nannyists ignored a referendum on same!

Even then I don’t think that it’s the State’s business to dictate names……rather in cases where parental idiocy inflicts a SFN on a baby the parent(s) responsible should be hauled in front of the Court charged with cruelty to a child.

‘Parents who tried to name their child Mafia No Fear are among hundreds who had their choice of name rejected in the past decade.

‘Justice was the most popular disallowed name, with royal titles, religious references and punctuation marks among names parents tried to bestow upon children.
‘In 2008, Family Court Judge Rob Murfitt publicly criticised some parents’ choice of names, after he ordered that a girl named Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii be taken into court custody so she could change her name.

‘Her name had not been registered in New Zealand, but other names such as Violence, Chardonnay and Number 16 Bus Shelter had been.’

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/6219744/Ridiculous-and-regal-kids-names-rejected