Admittedly, America's very fucked up now, but what's going on in Peru?🤔

One of my friends once lived at a Peruvian farmer and his two sons Stalin and Donald (Trump not duck)

Sometimes parents make choices that are less empathetic towards the child facing the world they’ll inhabit. Hi. I’m Truman. I’ve not visited Japan.

I mean seriously this is too on the nose to be real

She stole my baby name

That's unfair. For all you know that could be a family name that was passed down.

It's fine, I'm over it. I went with my second name choice: Dumbledore Cumberbatch

Considering Cummerbund Bandersnatch as a unisex option for my next kid

It feels like watching a film you think will be about an eccentric character only to zoom out and slowly realize the entire world is insane.

What am I reading…

South America has some secrets. Lots of refugees from Nazi Europe. Josh Gates told me so; but tbf there is a lot of evidence for it.

most South American shit ever lol

What's in their water? It seems particularly stupid.

Okay but also that third paragraph.

real life is absurd

stick to the plan cowards!!!

Georgina Bush is a perfectly cromulent girl's name!

girlfriends rationalizing

Loved that show! Really too short lived.

Happy Endings mention wooo

BUT WHAT IS THE SISTER'S NAME

it's hard to find an accurate source, i've seen a couple that say Yorsh Bushina as well as Georgia Bush

If they wanted another despicable being they were silly not to go with Nancy Reagan.

That's a Latin America thing...

Getting the impression that this is a national passtime

Has anyone else noticed his birthday? Now he's got an unfortunate first name AND an unfortunate date as his birthday.

Shortening Osama to Sam would be a cinch Even just as a nickname, unofficial, if he's worried about his psycho father's reaction

That makes the parents of Maikull, Qathrynne, Sydknee, and Tragedeigh seem almost normal.

Lack of effort on his part. We had a mayor named Georgie Bushell

when your campaign slogan is "i'm the good hitler"

same energy

For a minute I thought the father was going to say he dropped naming his child "George Bush" because Bush was just too evil of a person, so it was a bridge too far. I mean, Bin Laden or Hussain is one thing, but Bush?!

remember that scene in Return of the Jedi when that rebel fighter loses control and takes out an entire star destroyer? that was awesome

Found this article the other day: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_b...

Admit it, Tim. You are the father.

Wow!

Adolf Titler, the porn star.....well you guessed it I checked it out and turns I was right! He's named after sigh.

That entry goes places, all right.

When the llamas start bleating in German.

This is like Johnny Cash's "Boy Named Sue" but...more.

Is South America the Upsidedown?

"I feel normal now." - Osama Vinladen

Mario and Osama are normal now

🤣

"V" is *not* pronounced as "b" in Spanish who the hell wrote this?

Ehmm... I'm native Spanish and it absolutely does

I grew up surrounded by native Spanish speakers, including my parents, it does not sound the same as "b."

Y yo he vivido prácticamente toda mi vida en España y rodeado de gente hablando español. Por norma "v" y "b" se pronuncian igual (y la "h" es muda) lo que provoca a veces problemas al escribir por no ser diferentes fonéticamente. Pero no dejes que sólo mi palabra te convenza, aquí tienes a la RAE

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IP...

It's funny that you're complaining about something "wrong" in a Wikipedia article and then try to counter it with a Wikipedia article xD but still the article doesn't prove me wrong in the slightest either (because I know my native language). So pls keep doubling down on being wrong

That sure is a list of names

If my parents gave me the first name Hitler I would go by my middle name

The League: Peru sounds like a hell of a show

Oh yeah check this one out Hitler Mussolini de Moura Pacheco - Biography - IMDb share.google/CVjNJ11WHpJH...

Writers of the simulation we’re in

This reality is so shitty that AI must be writing it.

I've met more than a few Latin American kids named after Vladimir Lenin etc. It seems to be more of a caudillo (strongman) thing than an actual endorsement of their politics.

The entire blurb below the highlighted section is complete insanity

bruh

"I thought about changing my name but now I like it, it was fashionable in its day.” FASHIONABLE www.sbs.com.au/language/spa...

I thought that link was one of these 💀

My name is *industrial drill sound* bin laden

😆

goairforcefalcons.com/sports/footb...

There's a story in Trevor Noah's book "Born A Crime" about how someone from his dance troupe as a young guy was named Hitler and that he knew a guy named Mussolini as well. The parents were fuzzy on what these dictators actually did and just knew their names as strong military leaders.

Noah went on to explain that although white people make Adolph Hitler the apotheosis of evil to Africans he was just another bad dude who probably killed far fewer people than Cecil Rhodes or King Leopold of Belgium. Yet no European would think it odd to name their kid Cecil or Leopold.

Yeah it's an interesting example of how Eurocentric we can be without thinking about it much of the time.

do the people at r/tragedeigh know about this

Let Terry go to Peru!

If you only knew the Stalins, Lenins, and more names born from something awful in South America there are. It goes deeper

Hold my caipirinha

No it's fine he's named after Roberts cats. @iwriteok.bsky.social

Hey Peru...y'all doing ok?

Now do paragraph 3

Crimony, why are Peruvians naming all of their kids after fictators? Is there a Mao we haven’t met yet?

You wrote this right?

Soccer is fun! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romano_...

That guy's different because he's related to THE mussolini as opposed to just being named after him

His birthday is october 7

Osama bin Diesel would like a word…

It just keeps escalating as you read.

"To avoid criticism, only his first name 'Osama' appears on his jersey." Yes, yes that should do the trick

Reminds me of this lady. Who is awesome.

That last paragraph is a masterclass in storytelling.

Wow! Would’ve been such a sick band name.

What is going on with Peru and names man, every sentence in that screenshot is bugfuck

When I lived in Brazil 20 years ago, my now ex showed me a website that listed some of the oddest or weirdest names registered in the country. Many of them were depraved. Vinladen has nothing on Porra na Buceta da Silva, for example. Porra is cum, and buceta is like cunt, but worse.

Sitting my white ass down and listening

it just...it just keeps getting worse and he's also not wrong

*Two Peruvian parents, looking at their newborn* "He's perfect" "Let's name him after a real piece of shit"

Peruvians are gamers

LatAm DGAF parents remaining undefeated

Wikipedia is the best website ever

That’s the funniest naming scheme I’ve ever seen. Also she could’ve been called Georgia😢

or Dubya 😭

Dubya Georgina 💀

There’s a successful singer of Mexican regional music named Lenin Ramirez.

Lenin seems to be a particularly common choice amongst the historical figure names. The President of Ecuador until recently was a guy named Lenin Moreno

That’s right!

And I thought “A Boy Named Sue” was a problem!

Beyond Peru-dy.

The edit history, my friend

What is the daughters name? Sure as hell isn't Martha.

In HK, I once had a student with the first name 'Wagner'. I was curious why, so he told me (with zero irony) they changed it from 'Adolfhitler, no space' because it turned out the first choice proved to be problematic. Father is a fan of WW2 militaria.

I lost my ability to handle that before I even got to the third twist.

Pretty sure this whole thing should be highlighted… Yikes

Hard agree.

There is a lot going on in those few paragraphs.

Sure does make working in satire even harder.

The Onion could only dream of writing copy this bizarre

WTF Peru?!

What did I just read!? I regret my own literacy having ingested the information in those few paragraphs.

Could someone tell them all that it is ok to name your progeny after decent humans, too?? Let little Marquis de Sade know, too.

There is a reason why the Onion couldn't happen in Latin America, the old maxim of Breton about Mexico applies to the whole region

Uh…

I mean, they were going to name their third kid George Bush. It sounds like Peru has a "random famous names from the news are good names to give babies - it's just about their PRESENCE in the news or history books, not the people who bore them" thing going on

Not to nitpick, but you really could have kept that highlight going…

Has anybody checked in on Peru lately? Are they okay?

Have asked the whole country in the last 24 hours... Apparently, they could be a bit better - but thanks for asking !!

Well, they put you out of a job.

Talk about burying the lede, tho….

I would appreciate it you could just stick to posting fake news and not this horrific display of reality. 😩

Parents taking Zero-worship to a whole new level.

Hey I guess I would kind of make my father talk to me about it. I think I would kind of insist he talk about it.

My dad would never fully admit that he named me after the antagonist of The Omen, but he did. He really did. Mom made him change the spelling.

When I was a kid in the 1980s, I liked to drive my tricycle up and down the block, so some of the neighbors nicknamed me "The Omen Kid" because with my brownish hair and bowl haircut, I did kinda look like Damien. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRkM...

That last paragraph too.

and I thought my parents were weird

The hell do they mean, "'v' is pronounced 'b' in Spanish"? Is the city called Balencia?

They actually mean that both V and B are pronounced the same in Spanish, but the B sound in Spanish typically sounds like this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_... rather than the English B (voiced bilabial plosive). For an English speaker it sounds like something between B and V.

Yes

Yes, if you are talking in Mexican Spanish

Spanish Spanish is the same. Or rather... Both v and b are pronounced somewhere between their pronunciation in English

B is just a voiced V, quite common for them to switch around forum.wordreference.com/threads/the-...

They sound the same, but are different letters and must be written correctly. The `H` is silent in most cases, but you can't just omit it when writing. `QU`, `K` and `C` can also sound identical in some cases. `G` and `J` sometimes.

They do *not* sound the same, I've heard Mexican, Panamanian, and Caribbean Spanish - none of them pronounce "v" as "b."

They **absolutely ** sound the same at beginning of words, and sound very similar (and nothing like an English V) in middle of words. The V sound from English words LITERALLY does not exist in Spanish. There is 0% chance a native Mexican, Panamanian, or Caribbean person spoke Spanish any other way.

Bilingual person from there speaking English, sure. Bilingual person from there speaking Spanish and saying a clearly English proper noun, maybe. Any person from anywhere speaking Spanish and using PEDs that have Vs in them: Will always sound like letter B, or maybe close but not like English v.

It doesn't sound like an English v or an English b, that's my point.

I can tell you it sounds distinct from b, you can even look at an IPA chart.

The first letters in bebé and viva are pronounced the same. The third letters in bebé and viva are pronounced the same, though different than the first letters. And you can look at an IPA chart, it’ll confirm this, it’s b vs. β on the chart.

Links confirming this specific IPA (besides, you know, the literal uncountable amount of audio available on the internet, and the unanimous of every link on a Google search): blog.collinsdictionary.com/ipa-pronunci... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IP... course.happyhourspanish.com/lessons/the-...

Yes they do. My husband is constantly experiencing the problem of people spelling his last name wrong because they think he is saying B instead of V.

I'm afraid b and v can both pronounced as a bilabial fricative where I'm at, making it a common source of spelling confusion. I get called "Reveca" all the time. This is actually so old in Spanish, the Romans had a joke about how beber es vivir.

LOL "Peruvian politician Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez, who won a mayoral election over the ironically-named Vladimir Lenin Rodríguez Valverde in 2018" Peruvian politics looks more fun

You aren't wrong: Peru's president in the 90s was a Japanese dude who dissolved Congress and Supreme Court, making himself a dictator. He fled to Japan, resigned by fax, went on the lam, and was finally sentenced to 25 years for human rights violations. Both his kids are currently Peruvian senators.

And there was a "birther" controversy around him...

Unless he started playing professional football at age 16, it's fake.

You don't need to be a legal adult to play professional football. It's actually pretty common for older teenagers to play professionally these days. Perhaps the most famous example rn is Lamine Yamal who won the Euro 2024 a day after turning 17.

Holy crap! I googled it. You are so right. I think I saw one player started at 10. That's crazy. Thanks for setting me straight in a polite, respectful way and not mean and condescending. ✌️

WHAT IS THE DAUGHTER'S NAME?!?

Nancy Regan

Georgia Bush was right there so i'm not sure what his problem was maybe they had a deal where mom got to name daughters and he just had remarkably good(?) luck

Margaret Thatcher

I was thinking Imelda Marcos

Marxy Marx would like a word

What’s happening in Peru with names?

The third paragraph hits hard.

The last para lmfao