It's still called "the Gulf of Mexico."
Some dumb bully gave it a dumb nickname and they're acting like he legally changed it's birth certificate.
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What did I miss? I haven't heard anything about a new name.
Trump tried to rename the gulf of Mexico to the gulf of America.
What a fuckwad
It's pretty funny tbh, I'm waaaay too politically fatigued to get bent out of shape over things like that.
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It is not a country. So there is nothing like a UN defined name. So no one can force any country to name it the way they want. Don't think it's Trump decision. Maybe the U.S. Board of Geographic Names?
Like you call it Persian Gulf, other countries call it Gulf of Arabia, and Turkey actually even calls it Gulf of Basra. (Btw, you legally have to call it Türkiye nowadays. It actually "changed it's birth certificate" at the UN. Doubt you care about that.)
Do you call it the "Gulf of America"?
Nope. In non of my languages is that the official name. But tbf, I am not sure if I ever called it anything. It is quite far away from here.
Sears Tower
I came here specifically to comment this. Not even a Chicagoan but it will always be Sears Tower. I don't give a shit who owns the naming rights.
But you did at one point.
Yeah it’s funny the nostalgia that gets attached to the old sponsor. But I think it’s because you forget the company. Nobody gives a shit about Sears anymore so I think it’s one of the best examples. It’s just what people call it, and refusing the new name isn’t defending Sears’ honor, it’s taking a stand and claiming practical ownership over something in your community. It’s eschewing the idea that someone’s virtual monetary exchange that’s represented on a couple of spreadsheets and in a bunch of ~~advertisements~~ news articles somehow matters more than what the actual people call something
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I don't even know what it's "supposed" to be called now XD
You forgot Couch Fucker.
We all forgot couch fucker because they've made him sit quietly in the corner since the vp debate.
He must be seething over Elon taking his position.
*Trump
Elon took Trump's, Trump took Vance's
"Shut your fucking face, sofa fucker!
You're an armrest-biting bastard, sofa fucker!"
Facebook to Meta at least makes sense. They didn't change the product name; they just separated the company running the website from the website. And I mean, let's be real... Facebook is a stupid name for a conglomerate.
Facebook doesn't even let you do what it was originally intended for. Judging other people's worth solely on looks.
I think they moved that to Instagram
Everyone seems to forget that Google did exactly the same thing with Alphabet... And then continued to just keep putting all their products under the Google name anyway
For my yinzers: Carnegie Science Center
whatever is what is properly referred to as Metropol I will get arrested there calling it Metropol to the current occupamts
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what's Heinz field
Apparently Acrisure Stadium in Pennsylvania.
Here I was thinking someone renamed an obscure physics thing I didn't know about.
It's also the name for the force that keeps ketchup in the bottle. You've got to overcome the Heinz Field before it will come out, and that will inevitably end up with more ketchup than you wanted.
If someone calls it X I’ll call it twitter but if somebody still is on there calling it Twitter then I’ll insist on calling it X. You can’t fool yourself, you are still on Elon Musk’s X.
Shea stadium.
You know, I was going to shit on you because it was a completely different stadium. But then I realized I often call the new home of the NY Giants Giants Stadium.
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Skydome.
Don’t care who buys it, or if it’s been demolished or moved or replaced or whatever. It’s still Mile High Stadium.
How about the Tappan Zee bridge in NYC?
What are they trying to call it?
Triborough Bridge
The Pan Am Building.
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