Incorrect, but that’s probably my fault cuz I’m not good at typing phonetically
Nivea skin lotion is: ni-VEE-YA
I’ll do it this way: The first syllable in Nickel, the last part of the jewish “oh vey”, and ending it with the classic filler sound “uh”.
Ni-VEH-uh
That better?
Now I understand! But no, it’s not better:p
Oy vey indeed.
*Brian
*Christopher
Grand Masta Sexxxay
oh wait, those are two separate names? my bad. Both just fairly normal, nodescript everyday names. Christopher, why not just Chris? A bit fussy are we?
*Sarah
Normal, nice girl
*Megan
This chick may be a little weird, but probably not too much
*Tiffany
Big ditz
*Daniel
Why not Dan? What are you hiding?
*Cheryl
Middle aged
*Nicholas
Should be Nick unless he’s a saint, also see Dan & Chris
*Candice
Could be a ditz, but not as likely as Tiffany was
*Brett
Too many T’s, also probably a bit of a brat (bratt?)
*Skyler
Parents were on something when naming them
*Alex (of either sex)
For a dude, just normal, for a girl, probably a tomboy or former tomboy who’s gotten hot
Brian: He is a self-absorbed, cheating jerk. Don’t date or marry him. He’s also a sociopath and will stalk you.
Yeah, my ex’s name.
The rest mostly sound generically middle-class to upper-middle class white.
***Christopher **-- This name is so popular that he could be anything from a garbage man (as Chris) to the director in a bank (Chris to friends, Christopher if formal).
***Sarah **-- possibly of Jewish heritage if over 45, or born to religious parents. If under 30, she may well have had “hip” parents who wanted a “different” name.
***Megan **-- white, in her 20s or 30s at the oldest. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Ditzy, but pleasant overall. She drinks white wine in the big balloon goblets because they’re cute. She married **Daniel **a couple of years ago.
***Tiffany **-- Tiffany’s parents were barely middle-class when she was born and the recession has not been kind to them or her. She has a degree in cosmetology, believes that the right skin treatment will “remove toxins”, likes decor in turquoise and chocolate brown, and has a teacup Yorkie that she puts ribbons and t-shirts on.
***Daniel **-- As a child, he was badly-behaved in public. Now he’s an average guy in an office, possibly a project manager or salesman. He’s married to Megan. He has brown hair and blue eyes and displays pictures of his children, if any, on his desk at work. If not, he has his wedding photo with his wife on his desk.
***Cheryl **-- white and in her 50s. Was a bit of a beach bunny and has some skin damage from the sun but doesn’t care. Middle-class.
***Nicholas **-- same as Daniel. If older, he’s married to Cheryl.
***Brett **-- lower-middle class/working class parents. Likes hunting and drives a truck. Wears a baseball cap at all times, possibly even when he’s making love to his wife, Tiffany. He hates her yappy little dog, but won’t ever tell her so. He just complains when he and the guys go out.
***Skyler **-- Spoiled princess of newly-middle to upper-middle-class parents. She has helicopter parents and was given her “own” credit card when she turned twelve.
*Alex (of either sex):
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[li]Male – A regular guy, in his 40s. Has an office job. [/li][li]Female – in her 20s to early 30s, was named Alexis by her parents and hates that there were 5 other girls with the same “cool” name in her school. Spoiled and demanding, she watches the “Real Housewives” and aspires to be like them. She is looking for a husband who let her not work. [/li][/ul]
I think we have a difference in linguistic usage here between your use and the US readers (“colored” was what we called blacks a few generations ago). Can you clarify?
**MrDibble ** – NM the question above, saw you answered it.
Brit here:
Skyler - American
Brett - a man of any origin going by his surname.
Cheryl, Tiffany, and Candice bespeak lower-class origins.
The rest could be anyone.
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*Brian-Middle-aged Irish-American working-class Reagan Democrat in South Boston. Divorced and considers himself Catholic although he infrequently attends Mass. Adores the Kennedys but thought the Democrats went downhill after the Hippies took it over and became terrorist-lovers and bused in the Negroes. Mildly socially conservative and economically populist-he will grumble about “welfare moochers” but agree with single-payer if someone actually asks about it and adores Social Security. Fairly good swing voter-votes for Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II. Probably voted for Obama in 2012 after wising up to the GOP and the current economic situation reminding him of what his father used to tell about the bad old Depression days.
*Christopher-Twenty-something Ivy League grad of WASP/Boston Brahmin stock working in some Manhattan investment bank. Religiously an agnostic and politically a Rockefeller Republican whose eager for “compromise” that involves legalizing gay marriage nationally and an AWB in exchange for raising the retirement age to 70. Probably still voted for Romney but finds Cuomo to be his “type” of Democrat.
*Sarah-A JAP hailing from Nassau County, New York. Currently attending some overpriced, social justice-oriented “historically Jewish” university in Massachusetts. Socially very liberal (muh abortion muh gun control muh gay marriage etc.) but very hawkish on Israel and utterly ignorant of economic issues. Adores Bibi and probably one of those Jewish voters who shifted GOP in 2012.
*Megan-A “white mutt” (English/German/Irish etc.) from a solidly middle-class Clinton Republican family in suburban Southern California. Attends one of the more SJW-ish campuses of the University of California system such as Santa Cruz or Berkeley. Considers herself a “fourth-wave feminist” after reading some Tumblr blogs and bell hooks articles online. Hardcore Social Justice Warrior who thinks Western Civilization is the worst thing to happen to mankind while the People of Colour ™ came up with feminism, socialism, environmentalism, gay rights etc. all of which got destroyed by the Evil European KKKristian Heteronormativepatriarchy. Thinks every TV show, book etc. is a manifestation of the evil mentioned above and blocks people on FB if they use the term “retarded” or point out that maybe the evidence at Ferguson is rather ambiguous. Regularly attends protests against Monsanto, police brutality, war etc and considers herself “pansexual” or whatever the hippest term on Tumblr is due to making out with a girlfriend at a party after one too many beers. Quite pretty naturally but dyed her neon purple and got a nose ring. Needless to say voted for Jill Stein or Roseanne Barr.
*Tiffany-A young woman of black ancestry living in the greater Atlanta metroplex. Comes from a working-class single-parent household and is a semiobservent member of a historically black denomination. Currently enrolled in a state university studying to be an accountant and join the ranks of the middle-class. Politically fairly boring-mostly has standard Democratic views, having fortunately avoided the worst tendencies of Afrocentrism and black nationalism. Voted for Obama needless to say.
*Daniel-A college student of Korean descent attending University of Washington in Seattle. Reasonably well assimilated having come over here at the age of five and is majoring in some cliche Asian major like engineering or biology. Attends a Korean Presbyterian church and is actually fairly religious in a new evangelical direction of Tim Keller and the like. Politically completely indifferent having been immersed in little but study and using recreation mostly to play video games. If he is even remotely politically conscious probably vaguely supports Obama due to the distastefulness of the GOP.
*Cheryl-A washed-up celebrity in her mid-40s who was born in small-town Iowa of Anglo-Scandinavian ancestry. Became rather famous in the 80s and 90s but rapidly lost her lustre after various drug abuse problems and the like. She is thrice-divorced, has two kids (and one adopted from Burkina Faso), and has had six abortions. Currently practices some vague Orange Chicken form of Oriental mysticism that combines tantric yoga with pretending to be the reincarnation of Cleopatra. An activist for numerous pseudoscientific causes like anti-vaxxer and anti-GMO movements. Supports her fellow washed-up actor Roseanne Barr in the last election.
*Nicholas-An Aspergerite born to a middle-class family of Greek descent who worked for defense contractors in Fairfax County, Virginia. His social timidity and awkwardness quickly made him be seen as a “creep” and stalker amongst the girls of his middle and high schools even landing him in trouble with the school administration a few times. He fortunately found an outlet for his frustrations when he came across the Men’s Rights movement on Reddit and 4chan, through which he quickly came to the realization that the real reason why women wouldn’t date him and instead went for all those stupid beta males was because of feminism. While initially a Libertarian like other /pol/ members, he soon became entranced by his own heritage which led him to become a neo-reactionary monarchist who supports some sort of a monarchist/fascistic regime. Dresses dapperly in a three-piece suit and fedora everyday and constantly reads and quotes Nietschze and Evola. Obviously didn’t vote in the plutocratic bourgeois elections of the ZOG.
*Candice-A fifty-something lady of Scots-Irish stock living in a small-town in Alabama. From a conservative Baptist family but rebelled in her youth before becoming “born again” and settling down. Divorced but nonetheless devoutly religious, regularly attending religious services at her local Baptist church as well as watching and giving money to televangelists like Joel Osteen or John Hagee. A hardcore Tea Party Republican who supports Mike Huckabee or Ted Cruz and regularly shares statuses on FB about how Obama actually is a Kenyan-born Moselm eager to establish a People’s Caliphate of America through such nefarious methods as Common Core and Agenda 69 to take away your guns as well as gaudy images of eagles, flags, Aryan Jesus, and combinations thereof. Thinks homosexuals are filthy AIDS-spreading perverts but that her divorce as well as the numerous adulteries in her congregation are forgive. Voted Romney ofc.
*Brett-Born to an upper-middle class locally prominent businessman’s family in a small city in Ohio. Nominally Methodist although its mostly a placeholder to mock the Muslims and atheists and certainly hasn’t stopped him constant alcohol use and fornication. Instilled into sports from an early age and became the football quarterback of his local high school. Briefly there were allegations of rape in his junior year but it soon happily came to be revealed that the girl was an ignorant slut anyways and she had the dignity to off herself. Went on to go to Penn State where he helped organize the raucous protests after the firing of Joe Paterno and additionally was a football player there. Afterwards joined the US Marine Corps in the hopes of killing a lot of brown people although he’s become thoroughly disillusioned with the timidity of the brass in not napalming entire Afghan villages and even his comrades expressing sympathy and friendship with the Afghan people who after all are a bunch of terrorist ragheads. Politically a neocon Republican whose hero is Newt Gingrich and in favour of letting the welfare bums starve to death.
*Skyler-From a “white mutt” middle-middle class family in non-Dixie Florida. Dropped out of high school and currently is a parasitical stoner still living with his parents at 25 and whose only job is occasionally working at local fast-food establishment from which he is regularly terminated due to rampant absenteeism. Does little but smoke pot, surf, go to parties, drink, fuck, or some combination thereof. Probably supports Ron Paul cause muh pot legalization.
*Alex (of either sex)-Or more exactly Alexander Hamilton Gonzalez. Born to an upwardly mobile middle-class Hispanic family of Mexican and Honduran mestizo stock in Long Beach, California. Is a fairly devout Catholic and has in particular been inspired by the social teachings of Pope Francis. Went to UC Berkeley and is currently in graduate studies as University of Virginia in politics. Has a fairly quiet though not boring social life. Politically a New Deal liberal/traditionalist social democrat who loathes political correctness and SJWism and complains about this (and of course the free-market Republican hacks) regularly on forums and in columns. Generally votes straight-ticket Democratic for the lake of any sane alternative.
As a Sarah, I’m enjoying the hell out of this 
You might want to change that to well over 60, at least for Cheryl Tiegs, Cheryl Ladd, and all the Cheryls I went to school with.
*Brian: I was supposed to have been named Brian, had I been a boy. white, middle management, drinks whisky on the weekend
*Christopher: white, working class, drinks beer
*Sarah; white, 40s sews her own conservativeish clothes, nice but boring
*Megan: white, 30ish, too many cats, nervous personality
*Tiffany kinda ditzy late 30s white, if she was prettier she might be a stripper
*Daniel white, late 50s, nice guy but resigned to his lot in life which is a factory worker
*Cheryl white, 60s, grows orchids, and wears sweaters in the office, brings treats regularly
*Nicholas 30s, overly precious if he goes by Nicholas, more laid back if he goes by Nick, white, hard worker but never gets anywhere
*Candice white, child of older parents who are half-surprised she is here, overly protected, but good student in school, she is a kindergarten teacher in her late 20s
*Brett white girl in her 20s, cadet branch of wealthy family, sweet, but winds up at state school, not one of the Ivies like her cousins
*Skyler. white boy, young parents, lower class. he’s in his 20s and can’t find a direction in life
*Alex (of either sex) Alex: male or female: self absorbed asshole,20s, can’t quite find a direction in life, and is secretly worried about it
Brian: No particular image, I can picture a boy or a 60 year old man with that name. White, black, etc. Bryan is more preferable, Brian always reminds me of brain.
Christopher: Same as above, many times shortened to Chris.
Sarah: No one image, a woman of any age can have this name.
Megan: I picture a younger woman, under 50. And white.
Tiffany: Could be any racial background, but most likely young. Can’t picture an elderly woman with that name.
Daniel: This name can fit any age, but younger people will mostly likely go by Daniel whereas if the person is known as Dan, I’ll think older. Not many young people go by Dan.
Cheryl: Also starts with an “S”, middle woman 40’s-50’s, not very young neither very old. Few mentioned that it was more popular among those born before 1965. I agree and realize as a 28 year born in the late 1980’s I have not met ANY woman my age or younger with that name. Never in school or anything.
Nicholas: No particular image again, just under 60 and most likely white. Also Nick.
Candice: I would guess like Cheryl this is more popular among women older than me, only famous person I can think of in my age group with that name is Candice Swanepoel, White South African supermodel known for Victoria’s Secret fame.
Brett: Any male under 60 can have this name.
Skyler: This is one those stupid trends that have been happening since I don’t know when, where a masculine name or last name is increasingly being given to girls. On it’s own Skyler is a stupid name, let alone for a girl. I knew a guy with that name and it was fine.
But this trend is stupid where girls are being name every random thing. Take Taylor Swift, firstly Taylor is mostly a surname, and when it’s a given name, originally it was meant to be for men.
So now Skyler would be for a girl born in 1990 and afterwards, her parents thought it cool to giver her a masculine name.
Alex: Just Alex I would guess a man, Alexander- man. Only Alexandra would fit a woman.
Thank God Michael and John have been spared the trend of being given to girls.
One name I do have an image of age wise is Jessica, this is a very young sounding name, under 40. Very rare among elderly women.
Gertrude, an ugly name suited to an old hag. :p;):rolleyes:
There you have it.