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[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yates, Yardley and Thatcher sounds like names a british gammon would give his dogs. Only one missing is Winston, and that might just be because it's such a stereotype.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

My dogs Jeffrey and Ghislaine

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My sister named her french bulldog winston angery

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

french bulldog winston

If you ever have to talk about or to her dog call/refer to it as "Vincent" and really push the French pronunciation. "Hes french! You ever hear of a French person named winston? Fucking racist. Its pronunced V^in^-SSS~on~ "

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Named my cats stalin and trotsky. they're both ladies

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Don't let them anywhere near an icepick

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] REgon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wanted to name one of them Fidel, but I liked the theme and if you're going to name a pet Fidel, then I feel like it's better suited for a dog or a bearded dragon. Lenin would be a parrot.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] REgon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That cat could be dressed like anyone, completely incidental. Your honor I move to strike the picture of the cat dressed as Fi- Uh as an caribbean revolutionairy- uh dressed in military fatigues from the court records

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Contrary to popular belief, Thatcher Kelly is not named after the British politician who fucked a bunch of people over, rather Megyn Kelly's hope was for nominative determinism to lead her child to literally become a person who builds roofs using dry vegetation as a profession, a low cost and ecologically friendly form of roofing.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm inclined to believe this since the other one is called Yardley. She really just wants her kids to RETVRN.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Yates" is an obsolete form of "gates", too.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

But I being poor have only my dreams

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Those are fake names. Nobody would actually name a child Yardley.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Yardley sounds like a word an Australian would make up for drinking 3/4ths a gallon of beer.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've got a bad news for you

It probably all originate from that parish in Birmingham, since it's over 1000 years old and a lot of people lived there over the years, so naturally other places, things and people were named after that.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Well that explains it. The birtish.

If I knew which emoji was the burning birtish flag I’d post that here.

[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yardley

cracker levels off the charts

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

I remember when people like this made fun of “black names.” The names of her children sound like the cast of a British drama set in the 18th century.

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mormon ass names, so incredibly white I'm actually blinded now. You blinded me Megyn rage-cry

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Like we really expected a lot from someone with a cracker-assed name like mEgYn

[–] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Okay but wait what the fuck kind of name is Yardley?

[–] Emanuel 9 points 1 month ago
[–] REgon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

now imagine doing it ironically. Does that feel better or worse?

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can i offer you a dethatcher, perhaps?

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Dethatch: (v) to kill a child of Megyn [sic]