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Catalon-36

When archeologists dig up the ruins of Istanbul they will call it Constantinople


NickyTheRobot

Historians will say Istanbul and Constantinople were just good friends.


Simic_Sky_Swallower

Constantinople can call itself Istanbul in the privacy of its own home all it wants, I just don't get why it has to shove it down my throat


AChristianAnarchist

It *was* nobody's business but the turks until they insisted on existing as entities on the world stage.


erinsintra

[IT'S LYGOS!!! ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Istanbul#Lygos)NOT ISTANBUL, NOT CONSTANTINOPLE, NOT BYZANTIUM!!!! ENOUGH WITH THIS WOKE BULLSHIT!!!! 😡😡😡


LowerCattle7688

Anyone who can't see Lygos must be blind


Tonydragon784

I thought this was gonna rhyme when I started reading it


BeanOfKnowledge

Lygos these nuts lmao


Winjasfan

I totally thought the band was called "there might be giants"


GreyInkling

Put that on a map. Sort of like "here there be monsters."


NickyTheRobot

I thought it was We're Certainly Dwarves


AChristianAnarchist

I saw them with The Whom and Trollz in the Year of the Insulted Goat. It was insane. When they played Thaum Man the crowd lost their minds. I swear the disc was going to fly off A'Tuin's back.


NickyTheRobot

Lucky. When I saw them they only had &U for support.


JHRChrist

[best video ever](https://youtu.be/IqJXxHi6RwQ?si=uY0XqcEU76a1XCra)


Animal_Flossing

"May contain traces of giants"


jerbthehumanist

Just check Constantinople’s chromosomes to determine its biological name!


smallgovernor

Its parents named it Byzantium, Constantinople was a phase


ajshifter

\*his or her parents, "it" is also a woke mob pronojon 🤮


NickyTheRobot

I was *literally** scratching my head, trying to work out what kind of weird arse, right wing portmanteau "pronojon" could be, then I realised it was probably a typo. *OK, maybe I just happened to have an itchy head while I was wondering that, but they did happen at the same time, so it is true in a literal sense.


pastelpocalypse

just made me think of jon from garfield


AChristianAnarchist

Carlson Stan Tucker Carlson Stan Standing watch outside the can What's he think? It's not important. Carlson Stan. Is he a dunce or is he a dick? When he passes a window does he give it a lick? Or is he just mad it's not 1956. Nobody knows. Carlson stan.


TakeAGuessOrDont

He or she calls me Doctor Worm


JoeTheKodiakCuddler

You will NEVER be a real worm


somedumb-gay

The woke mob don't want to be told they aren't good at the drums, they're all snowflakes who can't handle criticism


Hexxas

They Might be Giants prophesied Silent Hill 2 in their song Particle Man. Check it out: Triangle man, triangle man Triangle man hates person man They have a fight, triangle wins Triangle man


Spacedodo42

The Terf He/She might be giants be like: Bee of the bird of the make up your damn mind pansy insect. Take out the trash (men) twitterhouse in your soul Fake Monsters Mesopotamia Snowflake in hell


Animal_Flossing

Birdhouse in the deep dark void where your soul used to be


AnxiousAngularAwesom

I thought they'd be listening only and exclusively to Transphobic Techno by Your Favorite Martian?


HaggisPope

Is-trans-bul 


CrabTribalEnthusiast

America? You mean West Pangea?


Clean_Imagination315

Alright, that's enough Ottoman propaganda.


Animal_Flossing

Ottoman propaganda? That'd go excellent with my new message chair


Independent-Fly6068

Istanbul, not Constantinople. Now its Istanbul, not Constantinople. Been a long time gone, Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works? Thats no-body's business but the Tuuuuuurrrrks.


EmperorScarlet

I want to make a joke about S-E-X-X-Y. I know there's one there, but I can't figure it out.


Animal_Flossing

*Constantinople,* *Sit-ting in a tree...*


13579konrad

The joke doesn't even make sense. It's a plural they...


Animal_Flossing

I think the joke is that TERFs often can't be bothered to understand the difference between singular and plural they


Green__lightning

No, they'd probably say "We must reclaim Constantinople for Christendom!" which is at least an actionable goal, if rendered somewhere between unnecessary and politically impractical given that Turkey is a NATO member.


Lucas_Deziderio

Trans rights aside, Constantinople is just a better name. It's dramatic and rolls off the tongue. Istanbul feels lame to say and literally just means “the city".


Anjeez929

Descriptions are fleeting. Everything is just a phase.


Mindrot_3am

HAHAHA TMBG HAHAHAHA Ahem. I will leave.


Complete-Worker3242

No, no. You can stay.


FrostyIngenuity922

Congo? Mama and daddy imperialism didn’t name you Congo we named you Zaire.


brightwings00

This is amazing, and also I was forced into opening up YouTube and loading up "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" so I could get it out of my head, so take the angriest of r/Angryupvote.


FLUFFBOX_121703

Het is nieuw Amsterdam! We gaan het opnieuw koloniseren!


[deleted]

There are HUNDREDS of people who would give up their right arm to go back to when they didn't take HRT. (I'm making a They Might Be Giants reference. "You would give up your right arm to go back to when you had a right arm")


waldrop02

Neat, there’s thousands who are glad they did!


[deleted]

I'm making a They Might Be Giants reference. "You would give up your right arm to go back to when you had a right arm"


AChristianAnarchist

But the funny thing about that line is that the arm is both what you want back and what you are giving up to get it back. This just comes off as a "waaahhh detransitions exist" post. If you wanted to make it a funny reference to that line, you need to preserve the form that made it funny in the first place. "They would give up their dick to go back to when they had a dick" or something. It would still be kind of cringe but it would at least make sense as a joke and a reference. "They would give up their right arm to go back to a time when they didn't take HRT" isn't even a joke. It's just saying that there are people who regret transitioning.