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 52 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's a tragedeigh of a keychain.

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

You can tell by all the consummate v's.

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

That’s a great name for a baby.

That's a trageighck perspective.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is my daughter, Ryvyrlynn Brynlyeichgh

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That just looks like Welsh.

Gotta remove a couple more vowels first.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days 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 days ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days 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"...

I was just making a joke

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

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 days 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 days 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 days ago

Heyyy, it's Matt! We love Matt!

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

Those names have to be a pisstake, surely?