this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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Are The Straights OK?

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Is someone holding these poor souls hostage and forcing them to be together?

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's a tragedeigh of a keychain.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

You can tell by all the consummate v's.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s a great name for a baby.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

That's a trageighck perspective.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is my daughter, Ryvyrlynn Brynlyeichgh

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That just looks like Welsh.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Gotta remove a couple more vowels first.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

With a name like that I bet she’s a real bytch.

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Listen, as a straight, I get it were weirdos. But we're not all like this....

[–] DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is beyond normal straight. This is like, Mormon straight. That type of name can be found all over Idaho.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

That was my thought - this is white Mormon über-straight.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you're just expressing your strong need to disaffiliate with whatever is happening in that picture, you're fine. But yeah, the community is about those cases where people forcing themselves into monogamous, life-long relationships goes wrong.

And unfortunately, this is so common, that you can buy """humorous""" products like in the post, and that the community name just summarizes it as "the straights"...

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I was just making a joke

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So which is the crime, the idea of these horrible “trinkets” or the names they put on them?

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Nah I have some cool glow in the dark sperm shaped keychains that are merch for a fertility lab. Not a crime.

Reminding people you didn't pull out though is the crime.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago

Baby shower gifts are always funny. Here’s a dozen baby outfits, 4 tons of diapers, and a hairpin that could get you lynched

Inventing new, terrible names to impose on defenseless babies is what we're up to, and we're fucking great at it.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Brynlee? Brynlee?? What is she a brand of muesli or something? What kind of a name is that to give somebody

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Heyyy, it's Matt! We love Matt!

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Those names have to be a pisstake, surely?