I remember visiting Tbilisi in the early 2010s as a volunteer English teacher and being greeted with this stupid sign as we left the airport.
What other out of place, inappropriate, boot-licking or jusr plain dumb American or other Anglo landmarks come to mind for you?
[especially when they replace the much cooler names given by the indigenous/native peoples of the area]
georgian here, AMA
(yes, I want this street to be shelled)
Not a question, but I wanted to say I love Georgian wines and I would very much like to visit someday. Kbye
Have you ever been to Chiatura, the city of cable cars?
(yes I know there has been an upgrade in recent years but the rusty old cars look so much cooler)
i haven’t, and i’d love to go, but i don’t really have a way to justify a trip just for some cable cars. it’s a mining town, so there isn’t anything else interesting about chiatura. i still want to visit someday though
“Just” cable cars? Look at this place, it’s beautiful! It looks like the Huangshan Mountains of Georgia.
Gamarjoba!
I spent nine months in a small village near Signaghi and would love to visit Saqartvelo again someday.
My main barrier to this would be protecting my family against COVID.
How are things going with masking, vaccinations, measures to reduce transmission and the general public’s feelings over the past few years since 2020?
but how much clean power does this street generate by making stalin spin in his grave?
Denmark is currently having a culture war moment with a Square within the city, which by popular demand was to be named “Palestine Square”. Obviously the useless city government was against it for a while, with members of the county council going out and arguing that names for places in the city shouldn’t be used to make political statements.
A good one is Bobby Sands street in Tehran, renamed after the IRA activist who got starved to death in prison. The best part - it’s the street that the British Embassy is on.
Obvious answer would be the “Torres gemelas” (twin towers) song by Delfín Quishpe, a famous Ecuadorian singer. It’s honestly the best piece of unintentional dark humor I’ve seen. He also has a song called “qué bonito es Israel” (oh how beautiful Israel is) which says nothing about Israel or its people, instead making vague references to the fact that there too are stars and a moon above the Israeli sky.
