In Finland giving siblings the same first name is explicitly illegal.
This is no longer the case since 2019
Ok technically if “there are special reasons” they can make an exception, but the default is still that it’s forbidden.
what special reasons exist that have been accepted?
“they keep dying on me!”
“it’ll be funny”
I wanted to screw up the Social Security system
Is this the closest we’ve come to a real life Bobby Tables?
There’s a guy in
new yorkCalifornia that gets every ticket filled out incorrectly because his license plate isNULLEdit: Found a Wired article
Doing health care software, I’ve come across a patient with the last name Null.
With the last name what?
Their last name was an empty string. Pronounced:
I’m sorry, my ears and eyes are both bad, pronounced how?
Oh looks like you got it, right after your question ended.
Thanks for playing along 😝


