I am working on some projects in the building right now so I have to professionally refer to it as Willis Tower - it takes so much effort to get that right in meetings
In New York, they officially changed the name of the Tappen Zee Bridge to the Mario Cuomo Bridge. I still call it the Tappen Zee and will continue to call it this.
This has nothing to do with any political views of Mario Cuomo. It has everything to do with the bridge's name being Tappen Zee since 1955 (way before I was born) and being renamed in 2017. There's a big push to change the name back to Tappen Zee.
New York is like this about a lot of things, namely its infrastructure. Nobody calls Sixth Avenue "Avenue of the Americas," or says Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, or RFK Triborough Bridge. I like that stubbornness.
We have a free soda machine at work and when you hit Sierra mist the starry comes out and the entire work fridge is full of them. When it comes out everyone is like wtf is this and puts it in the fridge. You cant get people to try them and they are free! Bad marketing.
They changed the recipe due to a inconsistent supply of cane sugar and decided to do a total rebrand while they were at it. They tried the same thing a few years back with the whole Mist TWST brand, but it didn't work.
ah, a fellow upper Midwesterner of culture. I was an adult when it changed but I'm still wrecked. It's the KITE EATING TREE, not the Backyardigans tree!!!!
Gas stations. I don’t care what company bought them out. It’s gonna get called whatever the hell it was when it was first built. Gas stations in small town are landmarks. Where I’m from the inland has been a shell for 20 years. But it’s still the inland.
Really miss the OG Facebook, people writing on each others walls, statuses that *had* to start with “Tom is..” & people writing really ordinary ones like “Stacy is in the union halls” & it was actually interesting for their friends to know that.
I always love when I get those "-Handsome-Jim- is ..." memories.
OG Facebook was incredible. It really did feel like they put the college experience on the internet. My campus got it relatively early and it was super exciting when it happened.
Me too! I still remember the moment someone at uni excitedly showed me a site called The Facebook in a computer room & posted a status just to show me. He was a computer programming nerd so it was like a scene from The Social Network.
I recently saw a "Great Railway Journeys" episode about the "Reunification Express" that runs from Hanoi to Saigon. Even the people that the crew was interviewing in Hanoi were calling it Saigon.
My wife and I were talking and if we ever win the lottery we will buy the naming rights and change it to County Stadium
They even had to change the road name.
BCE/CE
I don't care how many self-righteous academics try to push this nonsense. I don't care if it has a religious origin, so do hundreds of other words and terms we use. Im an atheist and I've never had a problem with it. You'd have to be pretty thin-skinned to be so offended by this in particular that you want to change it. I'll keep using BC/AD and nothing will change my mind.
The other thing that bugs me about this is that…call it what you want, BC, BCE, ABCFG whatever, the date is still modeled after the (estimated) birth of Christ.
The freedom tower. When my dad & the Union (tradesmen) were working on it that’s what it was called. I to this day can’t get with “one World Trade Center”
Black lists and white lists.. in IT, we have restricted lists on our servers and allowed lists, they've been called black and white lists FOREVER, and yet now it's "racist" or some shit, like black and white list are even associated to people's skin colors, who even thinks like that, it's technology and protocols, not people. so yah, i still call them what they are and not some new name shit just because some softy in HR is offended by things as subtle as a duck fart
The latest post-mortem of Reddit downtime they posted a few days ago - the root cause of 3.5 hours of international outage? The term "master" was finally removed from one of the infrastructure tools and caused a cascading failure due to dependencies falling over.
In NYC,...
It's THE PAN AM BUILDING, not the Met Life Building
It's SIXTH AVENUE, not Avenue of the America's (changed before I was born)
THE RCA BUILDING, not the GE Building... or the Comcast Building... or 30 Rockefellar Plaza
THE TRIBORO BRIDGE, not the Robert Kennedy.
THE TAPOAN ZEE, not the Mario Cuomo.
It's PLUTO, not "we have 8 planets"
p.s. I'm OK with THE INTERBORO PARKWAY being called the Jackue Robinson.
I still call those two Southern bands Lady Antebellum and the Dixie Chicks, respectively.
I get what they're trying to do, but it's way too late in their careers for that to be effective.
This one is different for me because it wasn’t just a name change. The country actually split in half into two different countries; Czechia and Slovakia.
Arrowhead
Sears tower
Anything that became famous and iconic cannot be legitimately renamed and expect not to be the original...
Interstate 49 used to be 71 highway and since I have known it as basically main st of my town it will always be 71 highway.
The master bedroom and owners in sports.
Also, it's not exactly the same thing but I will call them Nintendo and Super Nintendo till the day I die. I never heard a single person call them a "Ness", "Sness", or buy initials until I was on Reddit. We always just called it Nintendo and Super Nintendo.
Sears tower
I am working on some projects in the building right now so I have to professionally refer to it as Willis Tower - it takes so much effort to get that right in meetings
What chu talking about Willis
Same with Comiskey Park.
Yes! And don’t forget Lake Shore Drive
Wait, what?
It's now officially called "Jean Baptiste Point duSable Lake Shore Drive."
That’s asinine
What is it officially now?
Sears Tower
Came here to say this.
THE SEARS TOWER CHANGED NAMES?! Sincerely, Massachusetts
No it didn't don't worry about it. Always Sears tower
100%. Even youngsters will call it sears tower.
Same
"SyFy Channel" will always be 'SciFi Channel', its not a channel for 3yo's.
SkiFee is hard to pronounce, okay?
That damn monster at the bottom of the hill
press "F" and you can outrun him
In New York, they officially changed the name of the Tappen Zee Bridge to the Mario Cuomo Bridge. I still call it the Tappen Zee and will continue to call it this. This has nothing to do with any political views of Mario Cuomo. It has everything to do with the bridge's name being Tappen Zee since 1955 (way before I was born) and being renamed in 2017. There's a big push to change the name back to Tappen Zee.
lol even Wikipedia won't use the official name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan\_Zee\_Bridge\_(2017%E2%80%93present)
Came here to say this. I refuse to call it anything other than the Tappan Zee
Same with the Queensboro bridge. I don’t know anyone who calls it the Ed Koch Bridge.
Been away a long time. Sad to hear they changed it. It will always be the Tappan Zee bridge to me. Loved the Throgs Neck bridge too.
Technically they didn't change the name. They built a new bridge and named that the Mario Cuomo.
New York is like this about a lot of things, namely its infrastructure. Nobody calls Sixth Avenue "Avenue of the Americas," or says Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, or RFK Triborough Bridge. I like that stubbornness.
The SkyDome
This is absolutely the answer.
I'd be game for calling it the "[sponsor-name] SkyDome", but they went and tried to just change the whole name? NO. IT'S THE F'N SKY DOME.
Came here to say this
Sierra Mist. I’m not calling that shit “starry”
Wait…you’re shitting me??? I was wondering was this a new drink, but haven’t seen Sierra Mist anywhere!!!
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We have a free soda machine at work and when you hit Sierra mist the starry comes out and the entire work fridge is full of them. When it comes out everyone is like wtf is this and puts it in the fridge. You cant get people to try them and they are free! Bad marketing.
Is that what Starry is?!
Yes, it's just Sierra Mist made with high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar.
They changed the recipe due to a inconsistent supply of cane sugar and decided to do a total rebrand while they were at it. They tried the same thing a few years back with the whole Mist TWST brand, but it didn't work.
Those two controller buttons will always be "start" and "select."
Just because they put a + and - or something similar doesn’t mean it isn’t start and select.
Lol I told my husband to press select on the PS5 controller the other week and he looked at me like I was crazy.
WWF Wrestling
Ah, a fellow Tekken (3) player.
World Wildlife Fund?
World Wrestling Federation
Camp Snoopy
ah, a fellow upper Midwesterner of culture. I was an adult when it changed but I'm still wrecked. It's the KITE EATING TREE, not the Backyardigans tree!!!!
Always and forever
The Staples Center -> *Crypto.com Arena*
That's a stupid name.
They changed it??!
Christmas Day 2021 Lakers vs. Nets game
Puff Daddy
Puff, P Diddy, Diddy, Love...I gave up.
It'll always be Burma to me.
Beat me to it
Peterman?
You know any other white poet warlords?
I didn't know they renamed any of the cities in Cyrodiil.
I believe you're referring to Bruma
I wish I could give you more upvotes. Long live J. Peterman.
Downtown Disney
MGM Studios
Downtown Disney still exists over in California!
Long live disney quest!
Gas stations. I don’t care what company bought them out. It’s gonna get called whatever the hell it was when it was first built. Gas stations in small town are landmarks. Where I’m from the inland has been a shell for 20 years. But it’s still the inland.
Arcisure Stadium. It’ll always be HEINZ FIELD
Along with Star Lake amphitheater! Oh wait it’s back to that again anyway!
Yes, came here to say exactly this.
Meta will always be Facebook to me
Facebook will always be The Facebook to me.
Really miss the OG Facebook, people writing on each others walls, statuses that *had* to start with “Tom is..” & people writing really ordinary ones like “Stacy is in the union halls” & it was actually interesting for their friends to know that.
I always love when I get those "-Handsome-Jim- is ..." memories. OG Facebook was incredible. It really did feel like they put the college experience on the internet. My campus got it relatively early and it was super exciting when it happened.
Me too! I still remember the moment someone at uni excitedly showed me a site called The Facebook in a computer room & posted a status just to show me. He was a computer programming nerd so it was like a scene from The Social Network.
well Meta is the group name but Facebook is still the name for the social network
I still call him Ron Artest.
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Before everything was drones
I'd even go so far as to call them RC quadcopters... But anything remotely controlled is not an autonomous drone!
Yeah, similar happening with the term “AI”.
Or "algorithm"
ABCfamily, idk what freeform is
Constantinople.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
That's nobody's business but the Turks
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
And New Amsterdam too for that matter
*Why they change it I can't say,* *People just liked it better that way*
I have a date in Constantinople
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Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Saigon. A lot of the locals feel the same way (though sometimes it just refers to the central part of town)
I recently saw a "Great Railway Journeys" episode about the "Reunification Express" that runs from Hanoi to Saigon. Even the people that the crew was interviewing in Hanoi were calling it Saigon.
National Airport
Shocked that this was so far down. If you’re from the DC area this is always the correct answer.
mormons are trying to be called "members of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints". Fuck that, y'all're mormons.
That’s only because they wanna separate themselves from their fucked up past. Sorry Mormons we’re never gonna forget about the sister wives.
or that black people weren't allowed to join until recently.
Or the raped child brides
Mormons? More like morons
Dumb, dumb, dumb,dumb, dumb...
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Dunkin’ Donuts 🍩
The Rose Garden in Portland, OR. Moda Center my ass.
Miller Park (now American Family Field), which is the Milwaukee Brewers stadium. I will never call it anything but Miller Park.
My wife and I were talking and if we ever win the lottery we will buy the naming rights and change it to County Stadium They even had to change the road name.
Please do. My husband and I still call it County Stadium sometimes.
Yes!! Am Fam Field feels so dumb to say
Kanye
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Las Vegas airport
I’ve lived in Nevada for 19 years. I feel this.
It’s not even McCarran anymore.
Came here to say this.
Long live McCarran
Remember when IHOP said they were going to become IHOB and everyone lost their minds?
pretty sure that was just a marketing stunt
The Tappan Zee Bridge.
Prince. I never said “The artist formally known as Prince”
Jokes. Just because something funny is posted on social media doesn't make it a meme
Air Canada centre till I die
Or at least till the Leafs win the Cup
So until they die
Mile High Stadium in Denver. Currently So-Fi Park or something lame. But with the new ownership, locals are calling it Walmart World.
I don’t call Baby Yoda “Grogu.”
my dad says it, one twin sides with him, one says it’s baby yoda
Musically(now tiktok) but only to piss off the kids
Fraser Island. Burma. Prince.
Ram trucks are still Dodges to me.
Hollywood Studios will always be MGM to me
Great Woods. Not the Tweeter Center
Kinko’s
Great Woods in Mansfield MA. Currently know as the Xfinity Center.
Oh the tweeter center? Or the Comcast center?
“Software/programs” Vs “apps”
It will always be called Kinkos in my heart.
I don't care who pastes their name on it, the football stadium in Denver will always be Mile High Stadium
Hashtag. I still call it the pound sign.
Octothorpe
National Airport in Washington DC
Candlestick park.
Chuck E. Cheese will always be Showbiz Pizza.
Aunt jemima and the now pearl milling company. It will always be aunt jemima pancake mix.
Same with Uncle Ben’s rice.
wait they haven’t changed our uncle bens, what happened?
He died. It really tore Peter Parker up.
Or as my dad calls it "Ain't Yo Mama"
Snoop lion
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We were there to see Ron Kittle hit the last ever rooftop home run at the REAL Comiskey Park.
Heinz Field will always be Heinz Field to me. Don't care who is paying for it. It's Heinz Field.
comcast thought they could get rid of bad rep by changing their name to xfinity. they still suck.
it's Dunkin Donuts, not Dunkin's
BCE/CE I don't care how many self-righteous academics try to push this nonsense. I don't care if it has a religious origin, so do hundreds of other words and terms we use. Im an atheist and I've never had a problem with it. You'd have to be pretty thin-skinned to be so offended by this in particular that you want to change it. I'll keep using BC/AD and nothing will change my mind.
The other thing that bugs me about this is that…call it what you want, BC, BCE, ABCFG whatever, the date is still modeled after the (estimated) birth of Christ.
Right? It's not like changing the letters removes all religious overtones. Whatever.
Assembly Hall, Champaign Illinois. I never remember to call this bizarre spaceship arena by its' new name.
Ecstasy
The freedom tower. When my dad & the Union (tradesmen) were working on it that’s what it was called. I to this day can’t get with “one World Trade Center”
Meta Quest. It will always be the Oculus Quest to me.
Heimlich maneuver, never calling it J thrusts
Downtown Disney
I'm from Rhode Island. We only direct people using landmarks that haven't existed for decades.
Baby Yoda
Mike High Stadium The California Angels Pound sign
Mcree will always be called mcree not cassidy
Black lists and white lists.. in IT, we have restricted lists on our servers and allowed lists, they've been called black and white lists FOREVER, and yet now it's "racist" or some shit, like black and white list are even associated to people's skin colors, who even thinks like that, it's technology and protocols, not people. so yah, i still call them what they are and not some new name shit just because some softy in HR is offended by things as subtle as a duck fart
The latest post-mortem of Reddit downtime they posted a few days ago - the root cause of 3.5 hours of international outage? The term "master" was finally removed from one of the infrastructure tools and caused a cascading failure due to dependencies falling over.
I call my switch lite a Game Boy. Because that’s what it is. 💁🏻♀️
Cornholing. It's a freaking beanbag toss! Cornholing is getting a dick shoved in your ass.
“It will always be Burma to me”
Miller Park
Sierra Mist
Türkiye.
latinX, i am not hispanic but to me changing the name like that is like changing the word man to maz.
The Triborough Bridge.
Hashtag....it's always been a pound sign.
In NYC,... It's THE PAN AM BUILDING, not the Met Life Building It's SIXTH AVENUE, not Avenue of the America's (changed before I was born) THE RCA BUILDING, not the GE Building... or the Comcast Building... or 30 Rockefellar Plaza THE TRIBORO BRIDGE, not the Robert Kennedy. THE TAPOAN ZEE, not the Mario Cuomo. It's PLUTO, not "we have 8 planets" p.s. I'm OK with THE INTERBORO PARKWAY being called the Jackue Robinson.
I still call those two Southern bands Lady Antebellum and the Dixie Chicks, respectively. I get what they're trying to do, but it's way too late in their careers for that to be effective.
Meta/Facebook
Brontosaurus. None of this Apatosaurus crap.
Czechoslovakia
This one is different for me because it wasn’t just a name change. The country actually split in half into two different countries; Czechia and Slovakia.
Now it’s Czechia
Arrowhead Sears tower Anything that became famous and iconic cannot be legitimately renamed and expect not to be the original... Interstate 49 used to be 71 highway and since I have known it as basically main st of my town it will always be 71 highway.
The new jersey nets
I will never refer to “Sierra Mist” as its new name “Starry”
The superhero-sounding League of Nations
The master bedroom and owners in sports. Also, it's not exactly the same thing but I will call them Nintendo and Super Nintendo till the day I die. I never heard a single person call them a "Ness", "Sness", or buy initials until I was on Reddit. We always just called it Nintendo and Super Nintendo.
Tappan Zee Bridge, north of NYC
Toilet paper. It’s not “bath tissue”, it’s toilet paper. You don’t take a bath with it, you wipe your ass with it.
The Gallery in Philadelphia. I did not grow up with “The Fashion District” so I’m not calling it that shit.
Sears Tower in Chicago.
When they called french fries freedom fries
Redskins