More things I'm begging people to do, this time with no apologies:

[conuly]

If you have any influence or control at all over the people who run a database with people's names, please please please do whatever you can to make sure they accept hyphens and apostrophes. This is 2022! You don't need to be so stingy with what are, in fact, pretty common aspects of a lot of people's names!

My sister should not have spent half this day arguing with the hospital over whether or not the name Anne-Marie properly contains a fucking hyphen.

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Obligatory xkcd

[conuly]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Little_Bobby_Tables

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/327:_Exploits_of_a_Mom

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[elf]

Bobby Tables grew up and got himself a car...

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[pauamma]

Reminded by some comments of that story about traffic tickets being issued all over Ireland, apparently to the same Polish driver. When Irish law enforcement highers-up asked the Poland embassy for help tracking that repeat offender, the answer was along the lines of: ... that says "driving license".