D•Scribe
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
PugJesus@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前

Tombili, stray cat immortalized in Istanbul

lemmy.world

message-square
23
link
fedilink
682

Tombili, stray cat immortalized in Istanbul

lemmy.world

PugJesus@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前
message-square
23
link
fedilink

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

alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • Tyoda@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    51
    ·
    2 年前

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

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      2 年前

      wear patterns on statues is my favourite thing

      • chetradley@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 年前

        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
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          9
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          2 年前

          Or this statue of Juliet in Verona.

          • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukdeleted by creator
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            2 年前

            In fair Verona, where we cop a feel

  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    2 年前

    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
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    2 年前

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

  • moon@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    edit-2
    5 个月前

    He knew it was going to be a bad day when he saw mountain lions roaming the streets.

    • Eggyhead@kbin.run
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      2 年前

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

    • NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 年前

      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.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 年前

        … how happy is he who calls himself a cat?

    • Codex@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      2 年前

      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
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 年前

    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.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 年前

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

      • BurnedDonut@ani.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 年前

        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
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          12
          ·
          2 年前

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

          • BurnedDonut@ani.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            2 年前

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

            • Daxtron2@startrek.website
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              2 年前

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

        • Nfamwap@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 年前

          Maybe you were making the mistake?

          • BurnedDonut@ani.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            2 年前

            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.

            • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              2 年前

              I believe you, be the change

  • jittery3291@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 年前

    Is this not an insane tripping hazard?

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      2 年前

      hahahaha the whole city is an obstacle course

cats@lemmy.world

cat@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !cat@lemmy.world

Typical internet cats. Videos, pics, memes, and discussion welcome!

Rule 1) Be kind

Rule 2) Follow the lemmy.world rules

other cat communities

midwest.social cats

cats with jobs

birds, some cats

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1.2K users / day
  • 3.34K users / week
  • 5.66K users / month
  • 12.5K users / 6 months
  • 20 local subscribers
  • 29K subscribers
  • 7.02K Posts
  • 45.8K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • skyler@lemmy.world
  • dillis@lemmy.world
  • skyler@lemmy.ml
  • m3t00🌎🇺🇦@lemmy.world
  • UI: unknown version
  • BE: 0.19.18
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org