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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait until I tell you about Istanbul...

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Excuse me? Not to be rude, but that's nobody's business but the Turks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

From the ancient Turquoise?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Don't you tell me about Istanbul! I had a date in Constantinople once. Double-checked and everything. Turns out she was waiting in Istanbul.

Whatever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I prefer Miklagard, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Constantinople is a long time gone. I never knew why it got the works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I presumed Bulgarian.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Also, Jesus wasn't Christian.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I've actually heard people say he was the first Christian, which I guess means he worshipped himself?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

That doesn't sound very Jesusy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's just an honorary post humus title.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

For the record, I'm pretty sure it's "posthumous." I read that as "post hummus" and got very confused about what Jesus has to do with chickpea-based dips for a second.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

post hummus

Okay

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wasn't sure, so I leaned into the autocorrect suggestion. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You're totally good; I just have this compulsion to correct misused homophones. It makes me pretty insufferable to have in a text thread, but I can't help it sometimes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's fine but I'm not going to stop misusing homofones

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

No worries! I'm always up for learning!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The funny thing about your correction is that "posthumous" was created as a misspelling itself.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/posthumous

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

post humus

you can just say pre tabouli

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

He was Jewish but I guess you could also see him as the first member of the movement he started, which later became separately identified as Christian. But at the time they didn't have that distinction.

So, on the one hand, on the other situation. Jesus didn't identify as a Christian for sure though

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

Well, until someone creates a “stupidlypedanticfacebook” community I suppose this is the best place for this.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

Sushi was created in California. Hence, the name California Roll. Duh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Wasn't Khemet a completely seperate civilization than the Egypt in the same place today? I think it's totally reasonable to differentiate between them. We don't say Mexicans built Chichen Itza

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Even the ancient Egyptians said they where a legacy civilisation.

Honestly how the fuck do you get progressively worse at building pyramids.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Honestly how the fuck do you get progressively worse at building pyramids.

Look around you. We're getting progressively worse at building houses, infrastructure, cars, appliances, electronics and software.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Well, I also doubt Hackney chavs kicked off the industrial revolution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mexicans did build Chichen Itza. Mayans are Mexicans. They still live there. They still speak the language.

And genetically, the Egyptians who live there today have been shown to be the descendants of the ancient Egyptians. Where do you think they went?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (30 children)

Mexicans didn't build Chichen Itza, the ancestors of some Mexicans did. And those ancestors weren't called Mexicans. We say Mayans built Chichen Itza because that's the name of their civilisation. Their descendants can acknowledge that heritage by calling themselves Mayan, but what they call themselves isn't what determines what their ancestors should be called, much less their citizenship today.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wait, so calling past societies by an exonym completely invalidates all of the history that they were involved with?

Okay...?

[–] dragonlobster 13 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact, the aliens didn't build the first pyramids. It was in fact the work of extra terrestrial beings

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact, people named Jimmy Corsetti have been commonly known as Dipshittians.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Then there's this strange 'Misr' place that obviously doesn't exist and is made up. Doesn't even sound real.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The capacitor people?

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