I mean I'm sure every country has stuff named after people, but it feels like it's done to the extreme here in the US. Seems like every city has a "Jefferson Street" and a "Washington Avenue". Every school I attended was named after a person. I mentioned in the megathread how my nice local park named after a flower got a name change after a pig got shot near it, so they named it after him.
Just seems like God forbid we have generic names for our roads, schools, parks, bridges, etc. Nope, gotta name it after someone. Even then, it's almost always either a politician, capitalist, or cop. Never like, a good teacher that people liked or otherwise good person except MLK Jr.
I think it's reflective of our hyper-individualized culture. And then there's how everything else that isn't named after a person is "Veterans Memorial", but that's a different discussion.
I was driving one time and there was some shitty overpass that had a sign "In memory of officer Pig Lee Wiggly, died in the line of duty."
Which was weird enough they dedicated some shitty overpass to him, but when I googled it he actually just died of a heart attack he wasn't like even shot or anything.
There's a lot of bridges named for cops who died in the line of autoerotic asphyxiation and other things unrelated to being a meter maid with a gun.
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It was somewhere in the American south. I want to say Atlanta? But I can't remember exactly which one.
This pig died of running into a parked car
LMAO how much do your parents have to hate you to name you SHAFT HUNTER?!?
And why would you not change it?