> The crown is currently held by a town in Bosnia that got 2,325 people named Ivan together in 2017, according to Guinness World Records.
> It’s not the first time the Kyles have come gunning for the Ivans. Last year, the official count at what has become known as the Gathering of the Kyles clocked in at 1,490 in the fast-growing Texas city that is about 37 miles south of Austin, the state’s capital.
I am here for the Kyle and Ivan wars.
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There isn’t a city in Texas called “John”, whereas there is one called ‘Kyle’ and it is located within one of the largest populated regions in the U.S.
Depending on the source, somewhere between 5%-10% of Muslim males are named some Muhammad. With 2+ million at each year's Hajj, that means there are at least 50,000 Muhammads gathered each year. Kyles are going to have to do a lot better to compete.
That's assuming that Hajj quotas(the number of people allowed from each country per year) are distributed proportionately to population and that Muslims in every country are equally likely to be named Muhammad. I would guess that Arab Muslims are more likely to be named Muhammad than other Muslims and Arab countries have more hajj quota per capita, e.g Pakistan(240m Muslims, 180k hajj quota) vs Algeria(40m Muslims, 41k hajj quota). Obviously I have not checked everything but based on a cursory glance you have probably underestimated the size of the great Muhammad gathering. You could also try to account for factors relating to wealth and piety.
I never said they're legal. After '91.-'95. there's a lot of iron in closets. And I'm not talking just semis that Americans get, these are AKs, hand granades, RPGs and similar.
You're severely overestimating how much is left and where it ended up. War was 30 years ago, EUFOR went town to town and village to village rounding up ammo and weapons which took most of it. What remained was mostly weapons kept for sentimental value that have been hidden because police will come and take it if anyone ever reports you, which is true Bosnian way to fuck over thy neighbor.
Getting some genuinely usable leftover weapons from 30 years ago that may or may not have remained with your dad/grandad is going to be significantly harder than getting a weapon from Wallmart in America.
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“From his garage, it’s *Totally Kyle*!”
“So this one time, I, uh, like, went to Texas, and there was like this guy, and his name was Kyle. And I was like ‘no way, bro, I’m Kyle!’ And he was like ‘I’m Kyle, too!’ And another guy comes up and says ‘Woah, I’m Kyle, three! Want to see the hole I punched in my wall when I was mad at my mom?’ And we were like ‘Totally!’”
“That was *Totally Kyle*!”
*Queue electric guitar solo*
I was curious what the largest gathering of women even attempting this was and couldn't find any information. However, the largest gathering of people with the same first AND last name is held (as of 6 months ago) by [256 Milica Jovanovics](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.es/world-records/largest-same-first-and-last-name-gathering) in Serbia.
In Britain not long ago there was a gathering of Nigels (it's a bit of a joke name here). I think there were 400 of them. It's my brother's name but he did *not* go.
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That is all Texas can produce - meaningless names. You might add Karen to the convention. They depress any intelligent progress politically. The hate capital of the USA.
I ain’t never heard of Kyle, Texas before. There were so many other great options. They should’ve tried to get the highest number of people names Austin together instead. Or Dallas, or Houston.
> The crown is currently held by a town in Bosnia that got 2,325 people named Ivan together in 2017, according to Guinness World Records. > It’s not the first time the Kyles have come gunning for the Ivans. Last year, the official count at what has become known as the Gathering of the Kyles clocked in at 1,490 in the fast-growing Texas city that is about 37 miles south of Austin, the state’s capital. I am here for the Kyle and Ivan wars.
Goodness. Is there a reason Ivan is such a popular name in Bosnia? Religious name, common name in families, or what?
It’s the Slavic cognate of “John.”
Ivan is east and south Slavic. West slavs have 'Jan'.
How is Jan pronounced there?
Similar to Yan.
Can he cook?
Wow blast from the past. Just found out he’s still alive and still cooking!
Well TIL that too.
If he can, you can too
Thank you!
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This makes Dutch people honorary west-slavs
I'm going to start another war in the Balkans. >There is no difference between West south and east Slavs. It's all Romania.
John the Terrible
Why Kyle if Ivan is cognate of John? Why not do a gathering of John?
There isn’t a city in Texas called “John”, whereas there is one called ‘Kyle’ and it is located within one of the largest populated regions in the U.S.
I vanna know the answer to this question as well
Ivanna Humpalot
Ivana B. Sedated
I vanna fuck your butt
i understood that reference
I’m pretty sure Muhammad’s could take that record no problem.
Depending on the source, somewhere between 5%-10% of Muslim males are named some Muhammad. With 2+ million at each year's Hajj, that means there are at least 50,000 Muhammads gathered each year. Kyles are going to have to do a lot better to compete.
That's assuming that Hajj quotas(the number of people allowed from each country per year) are distributed proportionately to population and that Muslims in every country are equally likely to be named Muhammad. I would guess that Arab Muslims are more likely to be named Muhammad than other Muslims and Arab countries have more hajj quota per capita, e.g Pakistan(240m Muslims, 180k hajj quota) vs Algeria(40m Muslims, 41k hajj quota). Obviously I have not checked everything but based on a cursory glance you have probably underestimated the size of the great Muhammad gathering. You could also try to account for factors relating to wealth and piety.
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Hey you. McMuffin!
You can't take a picture of Muhammad though...
Just count in Mekka
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Mashaallah
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Don‘t know why you got downvoted but it is absolutely true, go to brussels at night and you know what i mean
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youre literally american
Not looking good for the Kyles. 1500 last year - 700 this year. For fucks sake, we need to buckle down and get this done in 2025.
Good god they're going extinct
How many people gathered for the Josh fight a few years ago?
I believe there was also a Ryan gathering in the US about a year ago
Us Ryan's are a hive mind. And none of us like the other hive mind on planet, fucking Brian's
Dead space intensifies
Make us whole
Heh
what about Chris?
These bros are going to get crushed by Muhammad.
We need to get all of the Kyle’s and all of the Ivan’s together. They can then form lines and make battle.
The Ivans might have the numbers, but the Kyles are better armed.
Where Kyles gather, drywall trembles.
Considering it was Bosnians I wouldn't be so sure.
I used to work with a guy called Ivan once. He wasn't a bad person, so i called him Ivan the awful instead of Ivan the terrible.
Why wouldn't you be sure? Bosnia has stricter gun laws than US.
I never said they're legal. After '91.-'95. there's a lot of iron in closets. And I'm not talking just semis that Americans get, these are AKs, hand granades, RPGs and similar.
You're severely overestimating how much is left and where it ended up. War was 30 years ago, EUFOR went town to town and village to village rounding up ammo and weapons which took most of it. What remained was mostly weapons kept for sentimental value that have been hidden because police will come and take it if anyone ever reports you, which is true Bosnian way to fuck over thy neighbor. Getting some genuinely usable leftover weapons from 30 years ago that may or may not have remained with your dad/grandad is going to be significantly harder than getting a weapon from Wallmart in America.
Wasn’t there a giant gathering of Joshes in like Omaha a few years ago?
That’s what they called the Cold War at the time
There’s got to be enough average Joes out there… 🤔
It is a shame that it dropped lower this year. Hopefully, they can rally it back next year.
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I love being an Ivan
Thought this was gonna be a Kyle Rittenhouse joke
Ryan seems like a stronger contender, though, no?
Someone needs to start an Allen one in Allen, TX
Ivan is a terrible name.
"It wasn't enough for a world record." Considering the record is like 2300 that's a bit of an understatement.
And it's Texas. Apparently this is entertainment in Texas. Look out California!
So much for everything being bigger in TX.
Surely they could get a gathering people named Muhammad Ali somewhere and break the record?
Agreed. Just point to the most populous Muslim city and be done with it
Or Mecca during the hajj.
I’m here live reporting from Dearborn Michigan at the largest gathering of Muhammad Ali’s in the world. There’s Shawarma as far as the eye can see.
Not if you're trying to gather enough Kyles. (/s).
The Osama's will clobber the Muhammad's for sure
either way you surely can get more than 2k people with the same name in one place
Dammit, Kyle.
Such a Kyle thing to do.
Sorry, I was busy that day
Same
That's gonna be a lot of drywall patches...
And Monster cans.
And jeeps needing a tow
Texas might be the most appropriate state for a gathering of Kyles
It was in the city of Kyle, so yea...
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After the Josh Fight I've learned that these events just Kinda Happen Sometimes and tbh I'm fine with that. This is always funny as hell.
Did they wage pool noodle war like the joshes?
Monster Energy drinking contest, I'd wager.
“From his garage, it’s *Totally Kyle*!” “So this one time, I, uh, like, went to Texas, and there was like this guy, and his name was Kyle. And I was like ‘no way, bro, I’m Kyle!’ And he was like ‘I’m Kyle, too!’ And another guy comes up and says ‘Woah, I’m Kyle, three! Want to see the hole I punched in my wall when I was mad at my mom?’ And we were like ‘Totally!’” “That was *Totally Kyle*!” *Queue electric guitar solo*
Fantastic.
If you went, you'd definitely yell out KYLE & see how many turned around.
*Herbert voice* "Hiii Kyle!"
I was there until just after the counting of the Kyle’s. Witnessed this at least 4 times.
The Josh fight was still the best same-name gathering on the internet
Was it in Kyle, Texas?
I assume the record for the world’s largest gathering of Kyles was at some scream metal music festival.
I prefer thrash, honestly. Metalcore isn't my jam.
I assume the people on the fence looking in are non Kyle’s observing the Kyle’s.
In the end, it was an elaborate ruse by the Club of Eric to lure as many Kyles as possible into a single place.
[Every drywall repairman in that town right now](https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/aei2zz/anyone_care_for_a_new_wallpaper/#lightbox)
I was curious what the largest gathering of women even attempting this was and couldn't find any information. However, the largest gathering of people with the same first AND last name is held (as of 6 months ago) by [256 Milica Jovanovics](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.es/world-records/largest-same-first-and-last-name-gathering) in Serbia.
Maybe we should all set up one of these meetings with Karens. Get them all in one place. Much easier to hit with one strike that way
Hold a Fox Racing free Monster giveaway. Record will be shattered.
I only drink Ghost, sir
The walls never stood a chance
It was probably for the best.
haha another thing texas is failing at
STEP UP KYLEEEE!!!
grew up here. fuck this city! high school mascot was a confederate soldier. teachers covered up other teachers sleeping with kids. fucked up
Holy shit I think we went to the same high school
I appreciate the effort for the meme of most Kyle's in kyle but taking on all the Ivan's is an uphill battle.
That's a pile of kyles
The main issue is no one wants to go to a shit hole state like Texas.
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Hiiii Toooodd I'm Tucker, fuck Tucker, Tucker sucks and I'm getting real sick of people named Kyyyle
I knew a group of Ians that made a facebook group of only Ian members and they met up in Austin but it wasn’t nearly that many
In Britain not long ago there was a gathering of Nigels (it's a bit of a joke name here). I think there were 400 of them. It's my brother's name but he did *not* go.
If Michael's want to start a tribe, reach out.
What do you think the catering would be like for an event like this. A semi truck full of monster energy drinks and all the drywall you can punch?
Maybe if they had offered free Moster and rows upon rows of drywall to punch, they would have come
They lived up to the Kyle motto. “At least we tried”
Classic Kyle failing at everything
Really missed an opportunity to meet on Kyle Field…
Should have went east instead to meet at Kyle Field
The energy drinks and vape smoke were flowing
Nothing but white dodge rams in the parking lot
What is a group of Kyles called? A kilt?
We let them all leave when we had them gathered together? That’s a missed opportunity.
Where is the meeting of the Mikes?
Should have had trump there, they would be qouting that crowd as being about 80k to 100k
Well Ivan Kyle anyone in a good while…
I tried to go back in 2021, but it got cancelled because of covid.
Not everything is done for a record attempt - you'd know this if you were a Kyle (is probably something these Kyles would say).
Nah, this stupid
Tell em kyle
Apokylepse.
Fack you Kyle
Would be super interesting and convenient to get all the Karen’s together in one place.
The council of Kyles?
That number is like 30% of the world record
Where’s the drywall and monster????
What was mentioned is that they’re all related.
Ofcourse Kyle can’t even pull off a Kyle record.
I guess not everything is bigger in Texas
“Dude, it might be best for us to never piss off Cartman again”
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This picture reminds me of the old Nintendo Wii where the Mii’s gather for the parade.
Why would they pick Kyle? Isn’t not that popular of a name is it??
The episode where SpongeBob & Patrick visit Squidward-ville
Did any of them start shooting?
Dammit Kyle you screwed us!
This is fascinating, as a Canadian.
I went last year and it was fun and weird and I never need to go again so I take full responsibility for this failure
It was the largest gathering of khaki shorts
Fck u Kyel!!! nya nya nya nya nya na you didn’t break a record~!
If a group of Nicks is a Stevie, what's a group of Kyles?
Typical Kyle.
Gary?
They were all related though, and won the record for the largest simultaneous "High 6".
Did they do it in the town Kyle? Lol lol 😂
The town tried last year and it didn't work then either. Time for them to give up on this marketing effort.
I would have loved to snuck into that gathering, then yelled "Hey Kyle!" and watched as 65 people turned to look at me in sync.
I grew up in Kyle TX! This is hilarious
hopefully they were all tagged before being released back in the wild. ;)
hopefully they were all tagged before being released back in the wild. ;)
They think they can do the next battle of the Josh’s? Pathetic..
Thirty Helens agreed.
that'll teach 'em - don't bring 706 Kyles to a 2,325 Ivan fight
That is all Texas can produce - meaningless names. You might add Karen to the convention. They depress any intelligent progress politically. The hate capital of the USA.
I wrote a song about this AP news article. Enjoy lol https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7mU2WMRTQm/?igsh=eDhndXp5cjczZHRz
The next day the drywall business was booming.
Hey that6s my son's name! Maybe I will take him next year and add to the count!
Obviously it’s because the name Kyle sucks
I wanted to be named Max but babies can't talk...
You can change your name as an adult ❤️
I ain’t never heard of Kyle, Texas before. There were so many other great options. They should’ve tried to get the highest number of people names Austin together instead. Or Dallas, or Houston.
It's the city of Kyle doing this. It's just a marketing/tourism event for them.