More Awesome Than You!

I've noticed quite a few expansion-introduced wants in SimPE (in fact, a LOT) that NEVER come up for my Sims, one of which is to do a barrel stand.  What on earth is a barrel stand?  From what I can gather, it involves the punch bowl, but I've never seen an option to stand on it when I've clicked on it.  Is this yet another thing they were going to include but didn't?

I'm guessing it would have occurred back when the barrel was actually standable. In its current state, any attempt to stand on it would likely result in internal injuries. Probably why the want was sacked.

Well, a "keg stand" is a common "frat party" activity.  What happens is that some people will lift up the girl doing the "keg stand" and hold her body perpendicular or a little higher than the tap of the keg, and then she drinks from it.  It's just a party/weird activity.  I don't know what the point is.

Chris

The point is to get as drunk as people while giving the frat brothers something to chant and cheer about, of course. Same as funneling, shot-gunning, and body shots.

I know too much about this asinine behaviour. I think I'll go read Dorothy Parker and go to bed now.

and to scrape the bottom of the barrel (sorry), New Zealand can contribute The Penguin. Once seen, never forgotten. I saw it demo'd at a phys ed'ers party many years ago.

One person projectile vomits, another tries to catch the vomit in their mouth.

I only ever attended one phys ed party.

Edit: Sorry, alzheimers, it's called the Pelican, not the penguin.

Call me stupid... what punchbowl? I don't recall there actually being one in the game, in fact I'm almost certain. Unless like some other things I've noticed, that was missed out of the UK version?

There is one in UNI.  It looks like a giant pineapple with a tap.  It sits on the floor.  They drink it out of those disposable red cups that they leave everywhere or they drink straight out of the tap.

Chris

Not a punch bowl, more like a beer keg with fruit all over it, sits on the ground.
What things were not included with the UK version?

That was actually done at a party?!  God, I would hurl just knowing someone was doing such a thing  :o

Oh right, the juice bar - got it. Got confused the the "punch bowl" idea, I was thinking like in TS1

The only thing that springs to mind, witch, was this coffee table in a star shape (I'm guessing it was a 4x4 table) with a glass middle. I know there is a smaller one (1x1) which I suppose one could arange in a star, but I was led to believe this was a unique item and not custom made.

I just assumed there was more,  I remember things like TS1s Livin' Large/Livin' it Up the gazebo thing and the bridges etc weren't included in the UK version.

Yes. These were university students, albeit physical education ones. They had a huge plastic barrel in the corner for people to vomit in as well. That party was one of the most repulsive things I've ever seen. I stayed about 15 mins or less & had to leave.

Hmm, I've got triangular bedside tables but no star shaped table, not without using 'moveobjects on' to put two objects together. Maybe that's what you've seen? MikeInside put two of the triangular end tables together to create a star shape table in one of his houses I think.

Mind you, I don't remember bridges in sims1, I wonder if we get the UK version here? The cars drive on the right though if they're not corrected in the userstartup.cheats.

Nope, it's not that one. It really was a coffee table, but perhaps it was custom made. I'll have to see if I can hunt out the screenshot though it was some time ago.

I read somewhere that there are no differences between the US version and the UK version and I can believe that.  I've had to change all the spellings myself in SimPE because they drove me crazy and if it's a UK version, we would have neighbourhoods, not neighborhoods, just like we'd have had storeys in TS1 instead of stories.  This just smacks of pure laziness on Maxis' part to me. 

Ah well, I'm talking crap then.

And you're right about "neighborhoods", I never noticed that before.

You could try Pescado's Engrish fixes here. (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs)

Grossssssssssssssssssssssss...
I had a friend in college who told me that as part of their initiation into the fraternity, the pledges would all have to lie down next to each other and a frat member would crack a raw egg into the first guy's mouth. That guy would have to transfer (spit) the egg into the next guy's mouth, and on down the line. This was years before Fear Factor!

Anyone ever heard of the upside-down marguerita table, or is that something my frat (I was a little sister to a fraternity) brothers invented? Talk about your stupid get drunk quick game! You'd be tied to a wooden plank which tilts backwards, and the person running the thing would have the mixer in one hand and the tequila in the other and pour it directly into your mouth. I, too, know a little too much about this binge-drinking game stuff. Ahem. My child will have a tough time trying to pull the wool over my eyes when he's in college, though. That's my silver lining.

The only difference between the Yankee Slang and proper English versions of TS2 I have found is the AM/PM vs normal clock.

"Storeys??"  What's wrong with you people?!  :P

Storeys? Eh? I've never spelt it like that in my life...

Well, then that's good.  Bene for you.

Ta much! :P

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I personally favor the UK version as a result, the clock in military time just works better for me.

STOREYS (sing. STOREY) is the correct version - like a lot of other words, that idiot Noah Webster changed the spellings (if you're American and don't know the reason, I won't tell you because it really isn't at all nice).  STORIES are things you tell your kids when they're in bed!

I suppose you're right and all, since the Brits were using the language before us.  Nonetheless it is interesting.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go down to the first story and get a Coke.

I understand better now, storey being levels in a building. Duh. I think I deserve a nomination for that. In which case I have spelt storey that way.

Although now, I've looked at both words too much and they both look like they're spelt wrong.

Yes, well, as they say, "The colour of the neighbourhood is ounly as goud as houw many stoureys the buildings have."  Or something.

Haha, not funny :P /sarcasm (try working that double negative)

Edited to add sarcasm.

Well, I thought it was amusing.

You two both need to take Spelling 101 again!  It's S-T-O-R-Y (as in building - no E in there either), and when you have more than one floor, you have S-T-O-R-I-E-S.

We were talking UK spelling, it's STOREY, and when you have more than one storey it's storeys. Story is a tale, a book.

You people in America are just weird :P :)

:D That was the whole point of the discussion. AncientSim is an avid defender of the british spelling, she even has a wonderful story that's also very funny about this. The Brits spell the building kind storey, and a story is a the bed-time story that you tell your children. Same with colour vs. color, analyze vs. analyse etc.

I learned british english in germany, and even I get confused still. There truly is the english language and then there is the american language (witness brits cracking up when you tell them you have your wallet in your fanny pack, and americans cracking up when told to get the spare tire out of the boot, and what the heck is a lorry?)

G.

Yup yup, although now my brain is frazzled from all the storey discussion and all the versions look spelt wrong.

Don't even get me started on the fanny pack thing...

And then there are periods, English speaking women have them once a month, Americans put one at the end of every sentence.
English speakers use rubbers to delete pencil marks, American speakers use them for contraception.  ;D

BTW Just to get back to the original topic, what other weird desires are shown in simpe?!? I'd look if I knew where they were.

I am an American, and a woman, and I too have a period every month in addition to the period at the end of this sentence.

Well there you go Kitiara, I've learned something new.  :P

Having grown up with an English mum, I was forever getting marked down in school for using British spellings.  Though, I think using the term full stop is a tad cumbersome.

On wierd desires, it's too bad we couldn't have had, in Uni, stair diving as an activity.

One thing I found odd when I visited America is that I like tea. I hate coffee. But will drink tea. I have one sugar and milk. That threw the Americans big time. They had no idea what I was talking about. I think cream is our milk. Weird.

I actually was amazed at how different me, as an Australian, was to Americans. I have travelled to Asia heaps and they are definitely different to us. Plus the language barrier too. I never expected that in the US. But I swear, it was like I was speaking an alien language. I found it very hard to communicate with you guys. They couldn't understand what I was saying. And with the whole date format, metric and driving on the wrong side of the road thing, I could never live there.

It's even different East Coast American/West Coast American.  I am from Idaho, and when I moved to Vermont, I worked in a convenience store people looked at me funny when I asked them if they wanted a "sack." (They prefer "bag").  Also jockey box/glove compartment, take me to the store/bring me to the store (or dentist, or whatever), "purse" and "pocket book."  Also back east they don't know what fry sauce is (!!!!!! I grew up on that crap! All the restaurants have it)!  Also, in New England, They actually serve "McLobster" at McDonald's different times of the year. Also if you say "pop" intstead of "soda" you will get wierd looks.

Thanks for clearning that up for me.  I was beginning to think no one knew how to spell here :D

LOL :D

My favorite Northern British word is "plodge."  As in, "We're going to plodge in the ocean."  I learned that from my British tour guide in Spain, and thought that it was the coolest thing I'd ever heard.  Also, a "gazebo" is a "bandstand" in England I learned.

But, "McLobster?"  I would pay actual money to see that.  I've never had lobster, but have heard that it is good, but if McDonald's has anything to do with it, it must suck horribly.

Eh? We have gazebos - they're little covered seating type things that you stick at the bottom of the garden for no real reason.

Bandstands are just plain bandstands.

I must really be a Southerner, I've never heard the word plodge before.

Yes, well, the guy was from Northern England, so he said people from elsewhere wouldn't understand it.  "Plodge" means, of course, "wade."  And it sounds really cool!

A gazebo could certainly be used as a place to hold a band. Gazebos are also ravenous and have been known to attack and eat people. (http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/98/Jul/gazebo.html)

Well true, I suppose you could put a band in one, but then we would call it a band stand.

Amusing link. :)

You don't even have to go across the continent - everything is different from state to state. I had quite a lot of culture shock moving from Oregon to California! The slang was just different enough to confuse me, and the attitudes are completely different. Considering that most states are the size of your average European country, I suppose it's nothing out of the ordinary that the cultures are different, but I wasn't expecting it at all.

(This, by the way, is why it's rather silly to generalise about Americans as if we were all one culture. We really aren't, but the glossed-over, dumbed down media we export can make it seem like that.)

Exactly - don't the southerners call it a "soda" and the northerners call it "pop"?

Here we call it a "fizzy drink" :)

I've heard that one. 

And we say "pop" in the Midwest, too.  It's easier in Spain, though, as all you have to say is "I'll have a Coke" and they'll give you one, because that's literally all they have.  That and Sprite.  And that's IT.  And no free refills! 

(How many pops/sodas/soda pops/fizzy drinks/carbonated beverages do you have in England?  And do you have free refills?  Because they're really what freedom is all about.)

We have several hundred million [/exaggeration] different types of fizzy drink - including Coke and Sprite. Free refills? As if. I've never seen that be the case anyway.

Well, you're missing out, my friend!  Free refills are better than winning the lotto!  You only have to pay for ONE drink!  And fill it up as many times as you want!  At no charge!  All the fast food places--and sit-down places as well--are doing it (since, like, the 80's)! 

And please tell me you have Mountain Dew.  I've always wanted to go to England, but I may have to reconsider if you don't have Mountain Dew.  Spain sure as heck didn't.

Well considering your small size drinks are supposedly the sizes of our large, I doubt I'd need a refill over there :D

Well, no. I think there are probably some rare places you can get it, but I remember in TS1 the Pepsi machine - wondering what half the drinks were. We have Ben and Jerry's ice cream though...

Aaaaaaa!  No Mountain Dew!  A caffeine/sugar ecstasy! 

Do you have any local carbonated beverages?  Maybe the American stuff just doesn't get other there.  We literally have more than 50 different kinds over here.  And that's just Coke: Regular Coke, Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Lime Coke, Vanilla Coke, Coke C2, Diet Caffeine Free Coke (water), Diet Cherry Coke, Diet Lime Coke, Diet Vanilla Coke. 

Then there's Pepsi--Regular Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Twist (Lemon), Vanilla Pepsi, Cherry Pepsi, Pepsi One, Diet Pepsi Twist, Diet Cherry Pepsi, et cetera. 

Then Mountain Dew has over five different flavors: Regular, Diet, Code Red (Cherry), Live Wire (Orange), Black Forest (or something--Grape), and Baja Blast (blueberry, I think). 

Then there's your various root beers, Shasta (which has probably 10 different flavors), plus RC (and Diet RC), and Diet Rite, and literally thousands of other things.

Hmm... we have all those cokes, not so many of the pepsies. but then that's less popular. Eh, local stuff? Does lemonade count? And cherryade, and limeade and all the other 'ades we have, Dr Pepper, 7up, fanta, panda pops (pure sugared water and additives)... We have flavoured waters of which some are carbonated... I don't really drink fizzy drinks, so... y'know. I'm going by the stock take I did at work the other week - I did the drinks aisle, amongst other things. The vanilla coke I bought today is the first fizzy I've had in about two months.

I live in the south, and I remember back in the 80's it was always "coke".

"You want a coke or something?"
"Sure, what kind do you have?"
"7 Up or Dr. Pepper..."

I spent most of my elementary school years up north in New Jersey, and I think it was "pop" or "soda pop" up there. But, then again, my mom is from Chicago so I could have gotten that from her. But women had "pocketbooks" in N.J., "purses" in Atlanta. Since I was a navy brat (my dad was a marine then reassigned to the navy once I was born), I've lived in Massachussetts (where I was born), Charleston S.C., SanFrancisco, California (I was about two and called it "sinsincoco" :P), Hawaii, New Jersey, then to Atlanta when I was 10. I would get used to calling things by one name, then we'd move and I'd have to learn the new lingo.  When I was in my early 20's, I was visiting my cousins in Denver. I was watching the news, and the story was something about homemade bombs in "pop bottles". I had to ask what a "pop bottle" was. As soon as I asked, I figured it out and felt stupid, but for a second I thought a "pop bottle" must be some kind of bomb casing or something.

My dad lived in England for a while and that was an even more complex transition. He rented a bungalow from a family, and one day I was over at the family's side of the house playing with their daughter. Her "mummy" came into the playroom and asked me something. I asked her to repeat it. She did, and I was too embarrassed to ask her to repeat it again, but I just could not understand what she was saying. So I guessed and answered "yes", she gave me an odd look then left the room. Wish I knew what she said!

Pizza Huts in London do refills if you eat in.  Pay once, all refills are free.

Wow, really? I can't remember the last time I went to Pizza Hut...

I wonder if you order for delivery they'll keep coming back to refill your drink...

I have this knack of starting threads on certain topics and somehow they change to something entirely different ... anyway, I'm from Northern England (Yorkshire, to be precise, although I live in Lancashire) and I have never heard of the word "plodge". 

It's amazing how clueless most Americans are about British words.  I have a "Brit Quiz" somewhere on my website and the number of transatlantically-challenged persons who thought a sarnie was a sanitary towel ... and as for "Spotted Dick" - well, I won't go into what some people came up with for that one.  Fanny pack pales in comparison ...

Chip butty, anyone???

:) Yeah I could go for one, I'm hungry.

I couldn't remember if America had Spotted Dick or not... evidently not :)

I've heard of Spotted Dick, but I can't think of what it is now.  Is it food?  Please don't laugh.

It's a sort of cake thing, yes. With raisins? Ancient Sim, you're gonna have to back me up on this.

Yes!  I knew it!  Sort of!

*laughs* I think it's a rarity these days, more of an old fashioned pudding like semolina et al.

My favorite is the Turkish Delight.  We have a British store in my city, and they have those, and they're great!

You know, Turkish Delight (probably) originated in Turkey... they are good though.

That's what you'd think, but the first time I had one was in the 4th grade, and they were served by a native English lady, and she said that they originated there (as in England). 

Heh, what do you know, from the first page of google (I don't care that much about this) it would seem Cadbury invented it! Coolness - which means you're right. Cadbury is our big chocolate manufacturer here - I've been to the factory, it wuz awsum! (actually chocolate manufacture is surprisingly boring)

Well imagine my reaction when I first heard a Brit say "smoke a fag,"  I thought it was a hate crime.

*dies laughing*

That's funny. I have a knack for making threads come to a screeching halt when I post. I notice my name is the "last post" on many threads!
And if I cause this one to die, as well, my apologies...

Tee'd that one right up for y'all.

Tesco's sell them here in the UK.  In my house it's known as Spotted Private Parts ;)

But Val, that's only because you sum everything up so nicely. What is there left to say for us mere mortals :D
Besides, your posts simply exhaust me. I read about all that work that you are doing and I feel utterly spent. Overwork by proxy, I'd say. I can't but admire your patience, if that was me, game, computer, desk, etc. would've long been residing in my friendly neighborhood landfill.

G.

It's not patience, it's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. And I'm on my second laptop in 5 months because I threw the first one under a moving train.  ;)

Tesco's are evil.

No, ASDA is evil. It sells most of the stuff I need one minute, and the next: BAM! The layout's been reorganized, and I can no longer find my favourite brand of carbonated beverage there, forcing me to go to Morrisons, Tescos, or worse, the Co-op!

...Yes...Texaco's are bad as well...

WHAT is wrong with the Co-Op? I'd like to know... it's better than fecking Tescos and Sainsburys put together... at least.

I hate all supermarkets mind, but I have this thing where I have to defend my place of work. Please excuse it, but I still want an answer. :P

The reason I don't like Co-op is because they overcharge me. In epic proportions. Though I will admit, it is a lot better quality than those two put together, it's the price that puts me off.

Well fair play.

They need to afford to pay their staff £5 an hour when most of them do nothing. Although, they are the worst managed company ever... ok I won't get started on my rant, but you get the picture. If there weren't so many pros to me working there, I wouldn't be working there.

Also I get discount, so I don't feel the price so much :)

I've lived in the South all of my life. I was born in South Carolina, and now I live Georgia.  It is like Brynne says, there is no pop, no soda, no fizzy drinks. Everything is coke. Pepsi is a coke. Or, if over the age of 70, possibly a cola.

The main question I get asked when travelling, or have out of state guests, is "What they heck are grits?
But anyone from the south grew up on them. However, you have to live in the right parts of the South to be familiar with shrimp and grits. I took a friend from up north to a 'nice' restaurant and he was appalled to see grits on the menu. He thought that was just a backwoods diner thing.

Yes, please explain "grits."  I always think it's gravel or chips of asphalt, but I am probably wrong.

Also, what are "crumpets?"  I know "crisps" are chips, but I forgot what "crumpets" are.

A crumpet is kind of like your version of a pancake (i.e. small and round, unlike our pancakes which are big and thin and soo much nicer, I dunno what you'd call them, crepes probably) only it's thicker and full of holes. You put butter, jam on it etc and it melts through.

See here. (http://www.thegiftisle.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/crumpet%20basket.jpg)

I may have to go to the bloody shop now you've reminded me.

*Snorts* That's great :D 

Actually northerners have some really odd phrases.  I've only been in Manchester for a short while as I was born down south and my family originate from London.  My pet hate is "chip barm".  I threw an absolute wobbly in the fish & chip shop when I was offered that.  It's a damn bread roll!  Not only that, I was offered gravy for the chips.  Totally minging.  Hmm no-one has sausages in batter 'round here  either *sulks*

PS  The English-to-American Dictionary (http://www.clear-lake.com/Lakewood/Dictionary.htm).

You know what I've never tried Posie? A deep fried Mars bar, I really think it's about time I did - only our local chippy doesn't do them, I'll have to hunt.

If you take your own mars bar with you, most will deep fry it for around 15p ;D

Ah really? Awesome.

That sounds absolutely revolting.

Then again, I dont much dig deep fried stuff, its a bit too rich in fat for my taste. Id rather go for the steak that still says mooo.

Well, I wouldn't usually but with Posie's talk of fish and chips I realised it was something I'd never tried and probably should at least once in my lifetime.

You eat live cows? *raises an eyebrow* :D

well, i want them to talk a walk past the grill first, if only to look at it and get scared...

I like my meat rare.

Fair play. :D

and... I like my chokolate rare too.. deep fried chokolate.. Thats just wrong on so many levels i cant descibe it... Eeeech

I did however see a program on the tellie about how they were figuring out why some people in the edinborough area had trouble with the health. Too many low income people eat way too much deep fried food, such as deep fried pizza, mars bars, sausages, fish and chips and so on. Basically anything you can stuff in hot oil that was edible afterwards would be consumed. The trouble were, that the deep fried food were cheaper than food that actually gave some nourishment beyond the fat content.

Still, its wrong. Hot chokolate is something you drink, not something you eat.

Too true... I mainly agree. However, what about hot chocolate sauce? Hmm?

if you want to experience language barriers when everyone speaks english...

during the olympics (2000 - I'm Australian), we had about a hundred young Americans staying at the church, and one poor girl from England...  she found the Americans hard to cope with, but said we weren't too much different to what she was used to - our words for things (and I've completely blanked on most of it now) were either the same or similar enough for her to be able to decipher what we were talking about.

the things that really stood out for the Americans (apart from driving on the wrong side of the road) were the ne free refills on the soft drinks (fizzy drinks or carbonated beverage if you prefer).  We also have to pay for our local phone calls.

Dinners were interesting - we had to have cordial made up in American strength and Australian strength - the americans seeming to prefer about twice the amount of cordial in the water to us.

Ness

You know, I've never actually tried that.
It sounds delicious, but I wouldnt know. Most anything with chokolate in the name sounds good to me, except when its put together with the phrase "deep fried".  ;) :P

Heh, fair play then. You've never had hot chocolate sauce? What to you put on your profitta rolls then? (Note I have no idea how to spell profitta rolls, even though I've probably eaten a lot in my lifetime)

Well.. I have no idea what a profitta roll is....

In case your wondering which backwards part of the globe i reside in, the answer is Denmark, Scandinavia.

I usually hear about hot chokolate sauce on ice deserts, and I rarely eat those, as the local weather usually already has me freezing.

profiteroles I believe...  a little pastry ball type thingy filled with custard and coated with chocolate...  sometimes they have cream in them...  horribly fattening but incredibly delicious!

Ness

Heh, thanks ness - that is what I meant. Although I've never had them with custard in - only cream.

cyperangel - that's ok, you'll have to try it sometime, and I think the point of putting the hot chocolate sauce on the desert is to make it warm... you can also get little chocolate puddings to microwave - which is another example of good hot chocolate :)

Grits are a traditional breakfast staple in the southeast U.S.
For a better description than I can give go here: http://www.grits.com/discript.htm
By the way, grits are traditional, but that doesn't mean I eat them. Fat Back is also common in southern households but I wouldn't touch that stuff either. I am proud of my southern heritage, but the foods people serve around here are appaling. (Ever heard of pickled pig's feet?)

Your profiteroles sounds kind of like what I would call a bear claw.
Yummy.

Grits.com!  Why didn't I think of that? 

Because you're stupid.*

*lie

Crap!  She's on to me! 

My favorite not-so-duh Website is the infamous WhiteHouse.com, causing third graders' eyes to pop out since 1986.

Yeah I got you covered mister.

That  DOES sound appalling. I mean, PICKLED pigs feet? That sounds terrible. Pigs' feet must be eaten while they're still FRESH.

Grits are yummy, especially with plenty of butter and pepper.  ;D

My stepsister came from Long Island NY and I'm from Georgia. We'd constantly debate the "correct" terminology--she'd get on line at McDonalds and I'd get IN line at McD's and online on my computer .  ;)

Terry Pratchett has a recipe for Strawberry Wobbler in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook which sounds really interesting, though the publishers made her take some of the ingredients out...

"him", Terry is a male name.

And it wasn't the actual planet earth publishers that made him take it out.  ;) It was the Discworld ones, added for comedic effect. After all, I doubt Earth has the ingredients that Nanny Ogg would consider 'exciting' and the discworld publishers call 'dangerous'.

(Also, wasn't it the chocolate dessert, and not Strawberry Wobbler? The editor's note on the Wobbler is a note about the moulds she recommended, not ingredients...)

Sorry, I meant the discworld publishers made Nanny Ogg take some of the ingredients out. So it was 'she', but not terribly comprehensibly...

As for the rest, you're dead right, it was the unavailable moulds for the strawberry wobbler that was the problem. They settled for champagne flutes in the end. The Chocolate Delight with Special Secret Sauce was indeed the more dangerous food item. I can only plead Alzheimers.

It was the Spotted Dick which made me think of Nanny Ogg.  8)

and a wizard's staff has a knob on the end...

I really must go dig out my pratchett novels and re-read them...

Ness

Actually Terry is both male & female. I know a female Terry who spells it Terry.

I'm not southern, but I've had grits. My dad used to eat them for breakfast a lot. Still likes them. He was an army brat, and I'm a coast guard brat, so neither of us really have a region of origin, but I guess his liking them might be because his parents are from the midwest.

They're not bad. One of the few breakfast foods I'll eat.

On the Coast Guard brat thing: moving every four years, you get to learn a whole new set of regional slang and cultural stuffs every time. Fun. Although the Coast Guard mostly stations its people on the coasts (gee, I never would have guessed) and coastal areas in general usually aren't as different as the midwest is from the northwest is from the southeast. Although people who have never lived in Northern California confuse it with Southern Californian culture, which is rather humorous, since they're different in a lot of ways.

Many male names are given to females. That doesn't make them female names, it just shows the gender preference of the parents. Must be fun growing up with a name like that, you might as well call your daughter "Wish you were a boy".

Could be worse. Could be the other way around.

And why would that be worse?

PS If a female has a name, then it is a female's name, is it not?