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lemm.ee

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

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

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lemmy.ml

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

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

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lemmy.world

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.

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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.

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ani.social

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.

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ani.social

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.

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startrek.website

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

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ani.social

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

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ani.social

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.

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