pathetic piss kitten (@kitten)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

if you think your job sucks, imagine the one of the guy who has to get up there every day to change the date

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Hannes Tydén 🦆 @pht@mastodon.xyz

@kitten I do appreciate that this is a joke, but I wanted to know why the hospital was named this way, and did.

Years after the death of the dictator, on 12 October 1988, the name was changed to "12 de Octubre".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Universitario_12_de_Octubre

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@pht oh but like, name changes aside, it's clearly a reference to Spain's national day

Hannes Tydén 🦆 @pht@mastodon.xyz

@kitten Ah, I didn't know that was Spain's national day.

National Day of Spain commemorates the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus for Spain on 12 October 1492.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Spain

By chance or destiny I just saw this in my fedifeed:

quarteredcircle.net/@LexPendragon/115362382415602569

Maybe it's time to change that date ...

... but keep the name of the hospital.

Hannes Tydén 🦆 @pht@mastodon.xyz

@kitten ... or keep the date, but explicitly change what it commemorates. (Might be tricky.)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@pht I don't even wanna keep the country!

Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk@mstdn.mx

@pht @kitten A number of countries have indeed redefined the event. Among the other definitions, California has sought to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@pht yeah not particularly proud of that day

Hannes Tydén 🦆 @pht@mastodon.xyz

@kitten yeah, national days are weird.

m0 @carlolehmann@kinkycats.org

@pht @kitten I first read this as "Franco died on October 12 and the hospital's name is meant to celebrate that" which would be remarkable for a hospital