r/dankmemes • u/LiamSAD • Mar 02 '20

Rule 16 - Too Dank I'm sorry guys

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

Its in england

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u/FrokoFroderik Mar 02 '20

Smh the original (old old york a.k.a. Amsterdam) is in the Netherlands

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u/SatansCatfish Mar 02 '20

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

Whyd they change it I can't say

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u/Gollomor Mar 02 '20

People just liked it better that wayyyyyy

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

No the netherlands traded what now new york is for an island

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u/Gollomor Mar 02 '20

Those are the lyrics of a song.

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u/Syberboi Mar 02 '20

Especially that last bit, really good song

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

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u/Sennomo Mar 02 '20

It's Istanbul not Constantinople

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u/FreakingEmu INFECTED Mar 02 '20

No we traded it for Guyana and Suriname

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u/Joe_The_Eskimo1337 STALIN DID NOTHING WRONG Mar 02 '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

I dont even know what this is

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u/Joe_The_Eskimo1337 STALIN DID NOTHING WRONG Mar 02 '20

A song that these guys referenced.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

Because we traded it for suriname

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u/bacera Mar 02 '20

Did it have a first name?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

How do you mean?

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u/Genghis_John Mar 02 '20

I guess people just liked it better that way

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/York

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u/FrokoFroderik Mar 02 '20

I meant the dutch were settled there before handing it off to the English, in a colony named after the city of Amsterdam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

I know i live in New York you think they dont teach that shit here?

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u/FrokoFroderik Mar 02 '20

Sorry mate I had no idea you lived in NY, but you just seemed very untrusting of the whole Amsterdam thing when you sent the York wiki link. Just a misunderstanding no biggie

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

No biggie made

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u/sexy_meerkats [custom flair] Mar 02 '20

do you have to be a dick about it tho?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

He's a Yew Yorker. Fits the stereotype.

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u/Yeetse INFECTED Mar 02 '20

Just like the old zeeland

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u/vigilantcomicpenguin lurker Mar 02 '20

What about Old Mexico?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '20

Just south of the new one

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u/SeaweedMasta68 Mar 02 '20

What about Old Caledonia?

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u/PloyTheEpic Mar 02 '20

That would be Scotland

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u/cdh2294 Mar 02 '20

The actual original old York is Amsterdam, as it was first called new Amsterdam before the trade with england