• La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    I wanna know which dumb fuck came up with the name “Portland”.

    Not gonna hurt him; just wanna talk.

    Thousands of years of human civilization didn’t develop so some lazy fuck could come up with the driest, most boring ass name for a city that could possibly exist. May as well name a city “Rockville” or “Grassport” or “Treeland” smh.

    “Where you from?”

    “Oh I’m from Hilltown, Missouri.”

    Nah, man. Fuck off with that. KKKolonizers can’t name shit. Fake culture.

    • dazaroo@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      2 months ago

      What annoys me is when they say something like “I’m from Paris” and expect me to know they were talking about Paris, Iowa, population 20

      • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        There’s something like 90 places named “Washington” in America and I’m sure there’s some chucklefuck out there who thinks another 10 would be perfectly fine.

        • DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml
          11·
          2 months ago

          Some lib on reddit was going off about Stalingrad’s name and another person linked the wiki page for places named after Washington lol

          • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
            5·
            2 months ago

            i was going to write a joke about stalin being worse by pretending that stalin owned personal slaves like washington but in looking up some facts about george’s slaves i found this absolute gem of a sentence

            • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
              6·
              2 months ago

              for fifty six years of personally owning slaves, george washington wondered if this was unethical and passionately hungered to free the slaves he personally owned for fifty six years (which he did not, in fact, free)

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      2 months ago

      I’m gonna ruin your day. Townsville, Queensand, Australia. Not only is it the most stupid boring name it is also the most stupid boring human settlement.