A six-year-old girl had her passport application rejected ahead of a dream holiday to Disneyland because she is named after a Game of Thrones character.
Whut?
Khaleesi Holloway's mother, Lucy, had to halt plans for the £2,000 trip after she was told her daughter's name broke trademark rules. The Passport Office said they were unable to issue a passport unless Warner Brothers agreed because it owned the trademark for the name Khaleesi. Officials told Lucy to contact the American film and entertainment studio to get permission to use it.
I can only imagine how Warner Brothers would have answered that call!
However the Home Office, which runs the Passport Office, has since confirmed that a mistake had been made and that the application is now being processed.
Is every single branch of the civil service now incapable of organising a fuck in a brothel?
Solicitors advised Lucy that although Warner Brothers own a trademark for Game of Thrones, it is for goods and services not a person's name.
Officials from the Passport Office later called Lucy to apologise, saying that the guidance staff had been given only applies to people changing their names.
So the guidance is STILL wrong!
The civil service may not be fit for purpose, but that poor childs mother deserves as much pain as she gets for calling her daughter such a stupid name.
ReplyDeleteDo these idiots not realise that their little peach is going to grow up one day and have to interact with the adult world? People like her really grip my shit
Yes, Warner Brothers are only interested in someone producing a "Khaleesi" doll. But the wider point is that it is no business of government agencies to intervene. Classic overreach.
ReplyDeleteSo, presumably, when this abused child grows up, she has to eat the raw heart of a horse (with or without a drink to wash it down), when she wants to get married?
ReplyDeletePenseivat
The probably support Labour and Hamas anyway so they can go fuck themselves.
ReplyDelete"...but that poor childs mother deserves as much pain as she gets for calling her daughter such a stupid name."
ReplyDeleteHey, we can just be thankful she didn't name it after one of the dragons!
"But the wider point is that it is no business of government agencies to intervene. "
I thought it was only foreign governments that did the name-objecting thing, like France?
"...when this abused child grows up, she has to eat the raw heart of a horse (with or without a drink to wash it down), when she wants to get married?"
Better stay single!