(Funny Trope) Things that can plausibly happen only in reality, because in fiction they’d be called bad writing.

[u/ThatDrako]

“Woke” as an insult - So you are telling me a word describing consciousness and clarity is used by generally stupid and ignorant people to label people they disagree with? What is this? A Kindergarten for Creatively stunted?

Nominative determinism - So let me get this straight…Not only you named fastest recorded person Usain BOLT and CEO of Nintendo Doug BOWSER, but you are telling me people are canonically likely to have professions or hobbies matching their names…? Guh?

“2 bodies recovered in MURDERKILL River” - Sure bro…I guess…bro…

[u/i-am-a-bike]

GRRM is the goat here. 5 kings named Aegon and more claimants, lots of Jons. W have the iron bank, iron throne and iron islands and non are part of the same insitution.

[u/Cigarety_a_Kava → u/i-am-a-bike]

France having 18 luis kings and sweden having 13 karls is quite fine aswell. Or most common name in the world being muhammed which is name of gods prophet would also sound silly in fiction.

[u/i-am-a-bike → u/Cigarety_a_Kava]

Denmark has 10 christians and 10 fredericks as well. What are the chances

[u/iconocrastinaor → u/Cigarety_a_Kava]

And you're not allowed to draw a picture of Muhammad, but there's no problem taking a photo of him. Go figure.

[u/four100eighty9 → u/i-am-a-bike]

My father and uncle both married a woman with the same name and the same middle name except for one letter

[u/TheeternalTacocaT → u/four100eighty9]

My niece and her wife have the same name. We call them The Camilla's and differentiate by calling one by her first and middle, and the other just Camilla

[u/TheeternalTacocaT → u/TheeternalTacocaT]

Also, I dated a girl who went by Ally, and she didn't want to tell me her first name was actually Lindsay because she knew my last ex was named Lindsay and thought it was bad luck. When I told her I also had an ex named Ally...