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Tombili, stray cat immortalized in Istanbul (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombili

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[-] Tyoda@lemm.ee 51 points 1 week ago

Gorgeous! You can see people keep touching his little paws!

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 week ago

wear patterns on statues is my favourite thing

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

You'll love this then: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tourists-love-to-rub-the-bronze-balls-of-wall-streets-charging-bull-statue-why

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Or this statue of Juliet in Verona.

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

In fair Verona, where we cop a feel

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm sorry, I'm really sorry... I love the tribute, it's very sweet, but I really can't stop seeing the cat version of the Ronaldo bust.

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago

I see the sculptor was flattering, and portayed him as in his younger and less chubby days.

[-] moon@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Without access to the meme, this is going to be so confusing for people in the future

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.run 22 points 1 week ago

Most statues are confusing to people who know nothing about them.

[-] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Go place a plaque that says "Mustafa Ataturk" and watch people's heads expose that he was actually a very small cat and not a normal sized human.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

... how happy is he who calls himself a cat?

[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I think if I saw a statue of a cat just chilling, I'd get the vibe. Humans have been entertained by animals doing human-like stuff since we first developed the brains to recognize it.

[-] BurnedDonut@ani.social 8 points 1 week ago

I know for a fact the name is Dombili. There is no such thing as tombili and I don't know why the wiki page says Tombili is Turkish for fatty.

There is Tombilik which is a small tuna fish and there is Tombik which is similar to Dombili but it's used for cuter things. While Dombili is more like slang in way you would jokingly say fatty. To sum up there is no such thing as Tombili. I wish you all a great life.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Turkish wiki also says Tombili, and these Turkish articles also uses Tombili?

[-] BurnedDonut@ani.social 4 points 1 week ago

Well I'm Turkish and used to live in Kadıköy. I never heard anyone calling this cat Tombili. It was always Dombili. It seems someone made a mistake and it stuck with it.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago

Maybe this is how you find out you've been switched to an alternate universe.

[-] BurnedDonut@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago

Is there a help line I can call or support website? Help me please.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Contact your local Foundation outreach center, where you can be logged and contained.

[-] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe you were making the mistake?

[-] BurnedDonut@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago

Well anyone can make a mistake. But for this kind of a mistake I should be first forgetting my mother tongue so that I wouldn't know if the word "Tombili" is in the language and secondly I would have to start having memory problems about this very cat and where I've been living at the time. So yeah anything is possible.