▲ 957 ▼ It's free real estate (thelemmy.club) submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/tenforward@lemmy.world 143 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 28 points 5 months ago (2 children) I live in NYC and no one is actually pushing to get rid of Columbus Circle. otoh, Trump has a Building right on Columbus Circle, so maybe we should ask Mamdani to rename it Obama Circle. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 child) Meanwhile, Amerigo Vespucci, America's namesake: permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago That's the part of the story I can find funny. Columbus made four trips to the New World, set up colonies, and explored. He never set foot on the American mainland but he saw it with his own eyes, sailing up and down the Mexican coast looking for the Singapore Straight, which he obviously never found because it was busy being on the other side of the planet. He went to his deathbed believing he'd visited Asia. It wasn't until Mr. Vespucci made it all the way to Argentina before going "Dudes...there's no fucking way we're in the Philippines. There isn't a landmass thousands of miles long in the Philippines." And he was right, which is why AMERICA! FUCK YEA! permalink fedilink source parent [–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago And then he'd sign an executive order, in the middle of shitting his pants, demanding it be renamed after him permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 child) Meanwhile, Amerigo Vespucci, America's namesake: permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago That's the part of the story I can find funny. Columbus made four trips to the New World, set up colonies, and explored. He never set foot on the American mainland but he saw it with his own eyes, sailing up and down the Mexican coast looking for the Singapore Straight, which he obviously never found because it was busy being on the other side of the planet. He went to his deathbed believing he'd visited Asia. It wasn't until Mr. Vespucci made it all the way to Argentina before going "Dudes...there's no fucking way we're in the Philippines. There isn't a landmass thousands of miles long in the Philippines." And he was right, which is why AMERICA! FUCK YEA! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago That's the part of the story I can find funny. Columbus made four trips to the New World, set up colonies, and explored. He never set foot on the American mainland but he saw it with his own eyes, sailing up and down the Mexican coast looking for the Singapore Straight, which he obviously never found because it was busy being on the other side of the planet. He went to his deathbed believing he'd visited Asia. It wasn't until Mr. Vespucci made it all the way to Argentina before going "Dudes...there's no fucking way we're in the Philippines. There isn't a landmass thousands of miles long in the Philippines." And he was right, which is why AMERICA! FUCK YEA! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago And then he'd sign an executive order, in the middle of shitting his pants, demanding it be renamed after him permalink fedilink source parent
