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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]

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, they aren't using his spinning body to generate power. They instead decided to attach a guitar pick to a pole affixed to his head, and have used that to play "Misirlou" on loop for years on end.