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Don’t care who buys it, or if it’s been demolished or moved or replaced or whatever. It’s still Mile High Stadium.
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
what's Heinz field
Apparently Acrisure Stadium in Pennsylvania.
Here I was thinking someone renamed an obscure physics thing I didn't know about.
How about the Tappan Zee bridge in NYC?
What are they trying to call it?
I think they renamed it after Mario Cuomo?
Golf or rat penis?
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.
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.
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 on 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.)
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.
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!"
For my yinzers: Carnegie Science Center
Is it still a magical place? Have not been in many years.
whatever is what is properly referred to as Metropol I will get arrested there calling it Metropol to the current occupamts
is it no longer called that
No, it's now Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center after they made a $65mil donation last year.
fuck i wish i would have known i woulda done 70m and called it Mike Tomlin's Butthole Center
Also Starlake amphitheater
is it no longer called that either
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.
Right? Like, in my heart, the Mets play at Shea. They can put the stadium on the frigging moon, the Mets play at Shea!
Skydome.
Sears Tower
I don't even know what it's "supposed" to be called now XD
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
I think you've got the right idea. Sears Roebuck built the building but it's not about the company, which doesn't exist anymore anyway. It's an iconic Chicago landmark, a marvel of modern engineering, and one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. Just as impressive today as it was when it opened 52 years ago. Building naming rights change hands all the time but virtually none of them carry the history or status of Sears Tower.
On one hand, a name is just a name. On the other, a name can carry a lot of connotations. We live in a capitalistic society where even the moniker on a building has a price tag and skyscrapers are "disposable" if you have enough money. I think there's some collective resentment to the idea that decades of history and "tradition" can be erased by writing a big enough check. Not to mention the fact that people don't like change, in spite of the fact that everything around us is changing constantly. I suppose resentment over renaming such a well known landmark is easy for us to collectively resist as kind of a catharsis.
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